During Jack's bond hearing today, the prosecutor made special mention of books and materials authored by "The Invisible Committee." These books, he claimed, are authored by anonymous French activists. Who are they and why does the State of Georgia care? 🧵 It is odd that of all the materials ostensibly in Jack's house, the prosecutor found special interest in these. For some unclear reason, he seemed to insinuate that possession of these books, which can be bought at any corporate bookstore, was reason to deny bond.

At Jacks arraignment, the State dedicated 15 mins to analysis, debate, and denunciations of the Zapatistas, a Mexico-based movement Jack is said to have visited in January. The prosecutor went so far to threaten war with the indigenous group. Who are they and why does GA care? 🧵 On Jan 1, 1994, thousands of Maya campesinos and students rose up in arms in Chiapas, MX against the famously corrupt Mexican government and the newly-signed NAFTA agreements which would impoverish and endanger their communities.

The third time this year that activists have locked themselves to construction equipment at Brasfield & Gorrie job sites to fight Cop City. But none of them are in the Weelaunee Forest. What's the logic? We will explain. 🧵 Since the beginning of the movement, some activists have pursued the strategy of an anti-corporate pressure campaign. This was done by mapping the "support structures" of Cop City: it's clients, it's funders, it's insurers, contractors, subcontractors, affiliates, etc.

Sad to see @MotherJones publish disinformation about the movement to #StopCopCity. We don't normally respond to random blog posts and op-eds about our movement. But it's a sleepy Friday afternoon. Let's look at this one closely and clear up the gossip. 🧵motherjones.com/politics/2024/… FALSE: "state troopers killed Manuel Esteban Paez Terán...who had taken up residence at the planned facility’s wooded site"

TRUE: Tort was killed in a public park adjacent to the site, in broad daylight, during legal park hours.

BREAKING: Community member locked themselves to construction equipment at a Brasfield & Gorrie construction site in downtown Atlanta this morning. Construction was disrupted,and a support rally gathered on the street. Peachtree St was closed at rush hour by police. Read more 🧵

Atlanta residents continue to resist the "cop city" project, 100 million dollar militarized police training facility that has already cleared acres of trees in one of the last remaining urban forests in the country.

On Jan 18, the Day of the Forest Defender, activists and people of conscience across the country, and some in other countries, mobilized and came together to honor the memory and courage of those martyred defending the Earth, on the anniversary of Tortuguita's death. A🧵 In NYC, a few dozen ppl gathered to listen to heartfelt speeches by Steve Donzinger, Belkis Teran, and forest defenders. Activists hung banners.

The most important story of the #BlockCopCity action is not the police aggression, which was expected.

It is the methods and tactics used by protesters to keep one another safe, effectively preventing any arrests or injuries. Let's take a closer look. 🧵 Clothing: many protesters wore matching white coveralls. Many others wore muted or neutral colors. By blending in with one another, activists make it more difficult for police to target vulnerable people in the crowd.

A roundup of rallies, disruptions, and protests from the last few days to #StopCopCity and defend the Weelaunee forest 🧵 On Tues, Rochester activists visited Invesco, Cop City backers. "Their investment in Cop City follows past investments in for-profit prisons + youth-detention facilities. Oppression has no home in our community. Invesco’s continued support of this project must stop immediately!”

Your welcome guide to Weelaunee! 💚🕊️☮️🌳🌲
What's up with the movement to #StopCopCity?

A thread 🧵 What is #Weelaunee Forest?

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

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

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

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. "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. "

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

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.