Thread by @BONH_Coalition

When thousands of Atlantans took to the streets during the nationwide uprisings of 2020, they were responding decades of social disinvestment, displacement, and police violence, and calling for change.

What was the City's answer? Cop City.
#StopCopCity

@safeboulder @DenverAuroraCAC @LakewoodLeft @DSAdenver @BoulderDSA @littlereadbooks @DenJustPro @surjdenver @CPUSAColorado @Springs_DSA Cop City is backed by the Atlanta Police Foundation, and its corporate patrons like Coca-Cola, Delta, the Koch brothers, and Home Depot.

The CEO of Atlanta's biggest newspaper is spearheading the corporate fundraising for the project, which receives a only positive coverage.

@safeboulder @DenverAuroraCAC @LakewoodLeft @DSAdenver @BoulderDSA @littlereadbooks @DenJustPro @surjdenver @CPUSAColorado @Springs_DSA @JVPColorado @bswc_lca @HRAC_Denver @SwingBySupply "Making sense of the drive to build Cop City requires understanding the shifting dynamics of class and racial domination in Atlanta... the retreat from social welfare & the interrelated build up of policing & imprisonment to manage inequality’s outcomes." mainlinezine.com/this-is-the-at…

Atlanta has the highest level of income inequality in the U.S. and policing already accounts for 1/3 of the city budget.

Cop City is further investment in organized violence as the primary solution to the crisis created by organized abandonment.

Six days ago, an investigation uncovered that the city will pay MORE THAN DOUBLE the proposed $30 million share of the cost to build Cop City: $67 million.

Next Monday, the City Council will vote on the funding.

foxnews.com/politics/publi…

On Weds May 31 at noon, and on Sun June 4 at 11am, we'll be hosting ✨Action Hours on Zoom✨, calling Atlanta City Council members together to tell them to vote NO.

You can also make calls on your anytime before June 5th!

We make it easy: bit.ly/TakeSoloAction