On the night of Tuesday, January 24th, some willful vandals visited the Hope Valley branch of the Wells Fargo in Durham, NC. Both entrances were covered in paint, both ATMs and the drive-thru covered and clogged, and the phrases “Stop Cop City” and “RIP Tort” left on the walls.
Wells Fargo is one of many investors in Cop City, a massive counter-insurgency playground for the country’s police forces, planned to be built in the Atlanta Forest.
We do this for Tortuguita, a forest defender murdered by police while defending the forest, and for Keenan Anderson, Tyree Williams, and Tyre Nichols, all recently murdered by police in LA, Raleigh, and Memphis, respectively. If Cop City is built, police departments will be even more capable of terrorizing black and brown communities, and even better at crushing our movements for liberation.
We do this out of rage and sadness, but also gratitude and joy for life. We have all experienced so much loss these last few years. While we mourn, it can sometimes be easy to forget: action is the antidote to despair. In a crowd of thousands or a team of two, the right time is now. The right person is you.
Stick around to fight and to love and to see what happens.
We can stop this.
In anarchy,
anons
Submitted anonymously over email