West Coast tour!
Come out to learn about Cop City and the movement to defend the ATL forest đđ˛đł pic.twitter.com/25VWGdEiNl
— Defend the Atlanta Forest (@defendATLforest) June 21, 2022
Atlanta Solidarity Fund
If you are an activist in Atlanta who has been approached for questioning by law enforcement, get in touch with us. We can help you understand your rights, and connect you to legal experts. You don't have to face police intimidation alone!
— Atlanta Solidarity Fund (@ATLSolFund) June 18, 2022
A poem to be read by two people:
Everyone has a name and an address.
We live in your walls.
Can the company face the financial burden?
Every day a new set of windows, cleaning up paint, fixing smoke damage, loss of assets.
Every day a new set of windows, cleaning up paint, fixing smoke damage, loss of assets.
Will employees stay when faced with increased pressure.
Rumors around the office that there’s a list of addresses and information, then someone wakes up to protestors outside their house, someone else’s car stops working but they’ve had it for awhile and they don’t maintain it, but they freak out, someone has their neighborhood flyer-ed with their face. name, address, their cellphone number, and where they work, someone else has their church visited, someone else gets confronted at a restaurant, and someone else their grocery store run at 2pm on Monday after Yoga and before their therapy appointment.
People start quitting and the pay raises can’t soothe their anxieties. One day you arrive to the office and the windows are broken and the office covered in paint. The company has to close it’s office while repairs are made. Your companies files get leaked online and the bank account gets drained from an anonymous hacker.
Rumors around the office that there’s a list of addresses and information, then someone wakes up to protestors outside their house, someone else’s car stops working but they’ve had it for awhile and they don’t maintain it, but they freak out, someone has their neighborhood flyer-ed with their face. name, address, their cellphone number, and where they work, someone else has their church visited, someone else gets confronted at a restaurant, and someone else their grocery store run at 2pm on Monday after Yoga and before their therapy appointment.
People start quitting and the pay raises can’t soothe their anxieties. One day you arrive to the office and the windows are broken and the office covered in paint. The company has to close it’s office while repairs are made. Your companies files get leaked online and the bank account gets drained from an anonymous hacker.
This is happening all over the country. Whoever is doing this… they’re everywhere. Will it stop?
Only if you drop the contract
Only if you drop the contract
-Received anonymously over email
4TH WEEK OF ACTION JULY 23-30
If not now, then when?
If not us, then who?July 23-30
ATL pic.twitter.com/EY6UXKMDQ6— Defend the Atlanta Forest (@defendATLforest) June 16, 2022
Kansas City Atlas Construction Office Attacked
On 6/12 we smashed every window and door of the Atlas construction office in Kansas City area in solidarity with the Atlanta forest defense. We will continue this path of destruction until cop city is stopped and the forest can exist in peace. Atlas be warned, much more is coming.
Sending love to the forest,
-some anarchists-
-Received anonymously over email
Atlas Technical Branch in Tallahassee Attacked
On 6/10, windows were smashed in and graffiti was scrawled all over the entrance of Atlas Technical in Tallahassee at 2528 Barrington Circle under the cover of darkness. We spray painted ‘Stop Cop City, Drop the Contract’ and ‘Fuck 12!’ before breaking the front windows across the building.
We cannot stand idly by while our friends in Atlanta do whatever they can to save the forest. In the face of extinction resistance is everything against the state and their perpetual war towards our spontaneity and community. Solidarity means attack! The worse has yet to come for these pigs and their construction enablers. Nothing can contain us.
Solidarity to those defending the forest. Peace and love from Tallanasty <3
-Received anonymously over email
Noise Demo Outside NYC Atlas Office
Noise Demo Outside NYC Atlas Office pic.twitter.com/oLj3hOyflV
— Scenes from the Atlanta Forest (@scenesatl) June 8, 2022
— Scenes from the Atlanta Forest (@scenesatl) June 8, 2022
– Received anonymously over email
Boyette Brothers Equipment Rental Service Machines Set On Fire
The Earth destroying machine that entered the forest yesterday, along with a few others, has been torched. To Boyette Brothers (rental service) + anyone who tries to help build cop city, our message is simple: “If you build it, we will burn it.”
– Received anonymously over email
Church of Michael Keller Regional Pre-Construction Director for Brasfield & Gorrie Visited
On June 5th, Pentacost Sunday, a few activists visited the Kairos Church
on Riverside Drive in Atlanta, GA. The occassion of this visit was to
bring awareness to the congregation that their fellow congregant,
Michael Keller, is engaged in unconscionable destruction of His Creation
for his role as Regional Pre-Construction Director in Brasfield &
Gorrie, the general contractor of the Atlanta Police Foundation’s
unpopular “Cop City” project in southeast Atlanta. Michael Keller and
his wife Mary Stansfield Keller appear to be devout believers, which is
why we visited the church with fliers, rather than simply their private
residence at 2325 Dellwood Dr NW, Atlanta Ga. It is our sincere hope
that Michael, with the support of his community, accept responsibility
for the destruction and unjustifiable cycle of harm and police armament
he is helping to construct, in the Cop City project. We are sure that he
will do his best.
We all want a safer community and future. The Cop City is not making
Michael safer, it will not make any of us safer.
Brasfield & Gorrie, please drop the contract with the Atlanta Police
Foundation.
Matthew 18:15-19
“15 âIf your brother or sister[b] sins,[c] go and point out their fault,
just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them
over. 16 But if they will not listen, take one or two others along, so
that âevery matter may be established by the testimony of two or three
witnesses.â[d] 17 If they still refuse to listen, tell it to the church;
and if they refuse to listen even to the church, treat them as you would
a pagan or a tax collector.
18 âTruly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be[e] bound in
heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be[f] loosed in heaven.
19 âAgain, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about
anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.
20 For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.â
-Received anonymously over email
New Truck Blockade In Atlanta Forest
A new truck blockade has been placed and liberated from it’s machinic existence on one of the cops favorite paths south of their firing range into the forest. ALL ROADS ARE THE BEGINING OF THE END. FIRE TO THE MACHINES!!!
**Defend the Forest**
-Received anonymously over email
ATLAS office in Columbus, OH smashed up
On 6/2/22, we smashed up an ATLAS office in Columbus, OH on 685 grandview ave. Long engineering, a subsidiary of ATLAS, continues to be involved in the Cop City project in Atlanta, recently attempting to show up and destroy the forest. ATLAS/Long Engineering, break all ties with Brasfield and Gorrie and the cop city project or you will face more vandalism and work disruptions.
-Received anonymously over email
A Message From A Tree sitter
They destroyed our camp, & sawed one of our platforms apart, but we still got up into same tree in opf near juvy to defend the forest, & we left a message for our oppressors & our tree sitter comrade has issued a statement:
âWe are here today to stop the development of a police militarization facility, where police would train in tactics of repression and violence against the civilians of Atlanta. We are here today to stop a beautiful forest from being destroyed, to stop countless animals and plants from being exterminated from this place. Two incredibly important topics are at stake here today. Climate change and police violence are two of the most pressing issues affecting our society today, and they will only worsen if this facility is built. We cannot stand by as we sacrifice humanityâs future for a Cop City.â
-Wish
-Wish
– Received anonymously over email
BULLDOZER STOPPED IN ATL FOREST BY HORDE OF FOREST DEFENDERS- CALL TO ACTION
On June. 2nd, a horde of forest defenders were able to stop a bulldozer on the edge of the woods (that was being escorted by kkkops) from destroying the forest by throwing rocks, deploying fireworks, & shouting scary words!
 However, cops are destroying forest defense infrastructure & we need all hands on deck to CONTINUE STOPPING THE CONSTRUCTION of cop city, & allow this scarred forest to heal.
  Another tree sit has also gone up in the path our enemies plan to destroy for their racist training facility, & we need help both supporting & defending that zone!
 We are welcoming ALL the tactics. Kate Bush flash mob when kkkops arrive? Fuck yeah. Frontline Action to stop machines of destruction? Fuck yeah. Please just get your sweet fucking feral ass down here.
 Your house sitting gig & coffee shop job can wait– come occupy the forest, & if you got privilege, use it to throw down, as trees, community members & non-human animals are better than a clear cut lot with a militarized police training center.
  The stakes are high & the forest is calling!
 Come for the blackberries & community, & stay for the chaos!
 Week of Action is June.2nd- till the Forest is safe!
  Interested in rolling with Camp Copperhead?Drop a line to:
& We’ll get back to you soon!
â Received anonymously over email
Forest Defenders fire fireworks, throw rocks, and attack construction machine
Work stopped today, Thursday June 2, as a group of 10 forest defenders confronted a bulldozer in the forest just west of the juvy today. Forest defenders launched rocks and fireworks, yelling ‘get the fuck out of the woods’ as the machine was attacked. 4-5 workers, likely with Long Engineering, hid behind the bulldozer while one APD officer stood idly with his hands on his hips. Forest defenders retreated into the woods howling. No arrests were made.
We call upon anyone who wants to defend the forest and stop cop city to support the struggle by sowing chaos along the perimeter: plan a slow-moving car caravan on Constitution Rd, or a rally at the juvy.
Workers and pigs, we repeat: Stay the fuck out the woods.
-Received anonymously over email
Video Submission
— Scenes from the Atlanta Forest (@scenesatl) June 2, 2022
-Received anonymously over email
Erie Pennsylvania Atlas office covered in graffiti and windows smashed
Door window smashed and building tagged at the northeast office of Atlas (Atlas Technical Consultants) at 2126 filmore ave in Erie, PA.
Stop cop city! Defend the atlanta forest and forests everywhere.
– Received anonymously over email
Atlanta Police Foundationâs âAt Promise Centerâ Set On Fire
“The âAt Promise Centerâ is a âyouth centerâ funded by the Atlanta Police Foundation. According to a report in corporate media, a window of the building was smashed, and the side of the building was set on fire. The following is a communiquĂŠ, submitted anonymously by email:
On the morning of the 27th we set fire to the Atlanta Police Foundationâs Westside âAt Promise Centerâ.
This was the day before the two year anniversary of the burning of the third precinct in Minneapolis.
Fuck The Police.”
reposted from:
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2022/05/30/atlanta-police-foundations-at-promise-center-set-on-fire/
Attack on Atlas Subsidary Office in Oakland
Windows smashed at Atlas child engineering firm CEL in solidarity with Atlanta Forest Defenders. NO COP CITY.
We smashed windows at Consolidated Engineering Laboratories in Oakland, an Atlas company, cause smashing is fun, engineers suck, and they smashed our camp in Atlanta. Feel free to complete our work (534 23rd Ave) or copy-paste on your local engineering office (all engineers are bastards!)
We didn’t need a reason, but the hydra of industrial society has many heads and construction firm Atlas is one. They own Long Engineering, a familiar face in the attack on the Atlanta forest. They want to build a “cop city’ to train pigs to put down urban insurrections, and erect souless soundstages to make shitty movies. They’ve buddied up with the FBI and a clusterfuck of police agencies to unsuccessfully drive forest defenders out of the woods.
We hope they don’t succeed, but our eternal hostility remains. Let’s see how long these monuments to liberal society stand.
reposted from:
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/05/26/18849976.php
WANTED POSTER
-Received anonymously over email
Poem By An Animal In The Weelaunee Forest
welaunee forest
“may 19”
daylight
earth-killer oil and steel
rips root tears tree
destroy life for progress
land scarred
night falls
silence
“may 20”
yellow moon watching
soft steps searching
i hunt
stalking
quick
spark
flame growing dancing
run
slip into shadow
fuel tank explodes
echoes
a smile
joy
sun rises
scorched steel beast broken
fire from life
life from fire
forever
the wild always has its revenge
swift sudden silent
beware
-a coyote
-Received Anonymously Over Email