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Mar 23 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Your welcome guide to Weelaunee! 💚🕊️☮️🌳🌲
What's up with the movement to #StopCopCity?

A thread 🧵 Image
What is #Weelaunee Forest? Image
What is #CopCity? Image
What is the Hollywood Dystopia? Image
Who is Tortuguita? Image
Why are there people who want to #StopCopCity participating all over the world? Image
Who are the forest defenders? Image
Why is the state cracking down so hard on the #StopCopCity protest movement? Image
In 2022, Tortuguita spoke about the future of the movement, prior to their murder by Georgia State Patrol in January.

Read more of their words here: bittersoutherner.com/feature/2023/l… Image
Where can we learn more about the movement? Image

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Jan 22
If Cop City is built, the forest will die. And police from all over the world will come here to train to murder protests.

But the movement to stop Cop City has become an international movement.

(Thread on global protests for the forest, and for Tortuguita.)
UPCOMING VIGIL: Los Angeles, CA

Sunday, January 22, 7 p.m., LA City Hall
UPCOMING VIGIL: Cleveland, OH
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Jan 21
NOW in downtown Atlanta: the march has taken the streets in both directions.

"They wanna kill the movement, we won't let them"

#JusticeForTort #StopCopCity
Dozens more, we are told, congregating in Minneapolis right now
Fireworks as the crowd cheers on in #Atlanta

"Whose streets? OUR STREETS"
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Defend the Atlanta Forest Profile picture
Jan 20
THREAD: Demonstrations and vigils have been announced across the country in honor of
Tortugita, activist murdered by police in Atlanta, GA.

Atlanta, Saturday 1/21 @ 5pm
Oakland, CA
Thursday 1/19 @ 8pm Image
Miami, FL
Saturday 1/21 @ 7pm Image
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Jan 19
Manuel Teran, AKA Tort, was murdered by police yesterday. They were camping in a public park to defend the Weelaunee Forest. They are the first environmental protester we know to be killed by US police.

This is a big thread of submissions to love and mourn Manuel. Photo of Tort at ICP Trailhead in Weelaunee. Text on green bText: Many people have reached out with memories and accountText scattered around photo of Tort: "we continue the f
"They loved all life and people - especially their QTPOC community - deeply"

"I've trusted Tort with my life, and they'd trusted me with theirs, facing off against extremists and cops and a world resistant to those fighting to make it better. "
"Manuel was a kind, passionate, and loving person. They were cherished by our community, and their kind, upbeat personality will be deeply missed. We are inspired by their dedication to mutual aid. They spent the last 6 months of their life between the forest of Atlanta,
Read 9 tweets
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Jan 18
Police killed a forest defender today, someone who loved the forest, someone who fought to protect the earth & its inhabitants.

This is why we organize to stop Cop City. And we will. In honor of their life, and the lives of everyone killed and imprisoned by the police.
In Atlanta tonight Image
Please give to @ATLSolFund to support arrestees & legal action. actionnetwork.org/fundraising/co…
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May 14, 2021
what’s happening in the Atlanta Forest: a brief thread
Right now the city of Atlanta and Dekalb county are working together with the police and Hollywood corporations to destroy the largest remaining contiguous piece of forest in Atlanta - nearly 1000 acres on the South River. Image
in 2021 mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced they have plans to build a massive police training center, funded by the Atlanta Police Foundation & other big corporate donors, at the site of the old Atlanta Prison Farm. The plans include a mock city- likely to train crowd control.
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