Originally published May 18, 2022
It’s approaching summertime and things are heating up in so-called Atlanta. Forest defense continues as bold as ever, and my friends and lovers are putting their bodies and freedom on the line to stop the encroachment of development and the police into the forest. Around the city and even outside of it, we are bringing the struggle to those that would prefer to quietly profit from destruction, we are laying aside the machines that kill the forest. People are starting to pay attention. Ecofascists are starting to pay attention. I have cried tears of joy at the mass movement my friends have made, the diversity of tactics fostered, and the huge number of people brought in. But this movement can only exist if we remember that we are engaged in a three way fight (http://threewayfight.blogspot.com/p/about.html). Fascists are engaged in their own fight with the state as well as their own eliminationist campaign against all they deem as deviant, especially those with Black and trans identities. Rather than simply serving as a tool for the state, fascists are seeking to overthrow the state to create their own murderous regime, and will try to use us, to co-opt our movement. The movement to Stop Cop City has already seen attempted fascist creep (https://dirtysouthrightwatch.org/2021/boogaloo-in-atlanta/). Not everyone who hates the cops and hates that state is our friend. As our movement continues to grow, ecofascists will see us as a useful tool for their own goals. After all, they like trees, we like trees, we hate the state, they hate the state. But that’s where the similarities end. In their calls to action, they will tell us to protect a specific “people” rather than all people, who we stand for. They will throw around words like us being “slaves” to technology – as we fight to remember the lives lost of enslaved Black people. They will evoke spirituality, but they will ignore the spirituality of the Muscogee people whose land we are on. Most importantly of all, they will publicly call on us to take action that will directly lead to our friends and lovers being jailed, being beaten, and potentially being killed. We are a militant movement for sure, but we are avoiding undue risk as we continue this joyful struggle. To the ecofascists, we are just another tool, and they would see us locked up and dead if it meant supporting their cause. Just this past weekend, a self-described ecofascist who cited Kaczynski killed 11 people in so-called Buffalo, New York in an explicit attempt to murder as many Black people as possible. We reject all calls to violence for a “people”. AS THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES, WE CALL FOR A REJECTION OF FASCIST CREEP IN THE MOVEMENT TO STOP COP CITY WE CALL FOR A REJECTION OF FASCIST CREEP IN THE WELAUNEE FOREST WE CALL FOR A REJECTION OF THE EMBRACE OF FASCIST AETHETICS WE CALL FOR VIGILANCE AGAINST THESE THREATS TO OUR FRIENDS AND LOVERS WE CALL FOR A COMMUNITY BASED ON LOVE AND PROTECTION OF THAT WHICH WE HOLD DEAR
Received anonymously over email
Category: Calls to Action
THE APOCALYPSE
Around the country tonight, solidarity attacks against the police in response to the call for a “night of rage” are expected. Even after the night has ended, we cannot forgot what Tortuguita died fighting for. We must pick up the mantle in its stead.
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It’s late. The sun is setting. We are running out of time.
Wherever you are, destroy the property of the contractors that make this project possible. Make it absolutely impossible for them to justify maintaining a relationship with the Atlanta Police Foundation. Make the Cop City contract a financial disaster for them.
Alternatively,
Come to Atlanta. Defend the forest with us. Participate in the proud tradition of activists that have traveled to Atlanta, Georgia in order to fight police-enforced repression. Bring a group of friends that you trust. Live in the forest. Live on your own terms.
We have the numbers, but our advantage will slip without immediate support from comrades around the country and around the world.
The walls are closing around Weelaunee. We cannot win this battle alone.
This is the apocalypse.
Submitted anonymously over email.
A CALL FOR RETALIATION
The worst has come to pass.
An unnamed forest defender has been shot and killed in Weelaunee.
Consider this a call for reciprocal violence to be done to the police and their allies. On Friday, January 20th, wherever you are, you are invited to participate in a night of rage in order to honor the memory of our fallen comrade.
Love and rage
Defend the Atlanta Forest
Submitted anonymously over email
WEEKEND OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE ATLANTA FOREST DEFENDERS TO #STOPCOPCITY: JANUARY 13-16th.
call for a weekend of solidarity with the Atlanta Forest to #StopCopCity. January 13-16th.
6 people are charged with domestic terrorism for tree-sitting, as police kill more people in 2022 than any year before, & the climate crisis rages.
We can all take action for our future.
Submitted anonymously over email
Solidarity With 5 Arrested Forest Defenders Charged With Domestic Terrorism In Atlanta
5 people have been arrested and charged with Domestic Terrorism for
their alleged connection to Defend The Atlanta Forest movement in USA.
These arrests were notoriously brutal, included the deployment of
chemical weapons repeatedly, and placed unfounded charges against them
in an effort to torture, terrorize, and brutalize.
We want every prison to burn, every prisoner to be free, and the
violence of the state to be destroyed. We must stand in unflinching
solidarity with all those arrested, and be committed to absolute
resistance to any current or future state investigation, no matter what
it requires of us. Anything less is unconscionable.
Send them mail here:
Francis Carroll – #X2210240
Dekalb County Jail
4415 Memorial Drive
Decatur, GA 30032
Nicholas Dean Olson – #X2210239
Dekalb County Jail
4415 Memorial Drive
Decatur, GA 30032
Serena Hertel – #X2210242
Dekalb County Jail
4415 Memorial Drive
Decatur, GA 30032
Arieon Robinson – #X2210252
Dekalb County Jail
4415 Memorial Drive
Decatur, GA 30032
Voiselle Leonardo – #X2210238
Dekalb County Jail
4415 Memorial Drive
Decatur, GA 30032
Mail must be a pre-stamped postcard, letters/envelopes are not allowed.
Photo postcards are allowed but no obscene or violent images.
Books must be softcover, shipped from a reputable supplier (Amazon,
Barnes & Noble, etc.), Nothing “violent, pornographic, or obscene”
…
In the days following the arrests of Atlanta forest defenders a San
Francisco Wells Fargo Bank was attacked in solidarity.”Mitch Graul, a
Lead Business Execution Consultant at Wells Fargo, sits on the Board of
Trustees of the Atlanta Police Foundation.”
www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/12/15/18853422.php
From the West Coast, love and rage to the imprisoned Atlanta 5,
In solidarity with with Marius Mason and Jessica Reznicek and all other
environmentalist prisoners,
supportmariusmason.org/
supportjessicareznicek.com/
In solidarity with Alfredo Cospito, Juan Sorroche, Ivan Alocco, and Anna
Beniamino against the 41 bis regime,
darknights.noblogs.org/post/2022/10/21/italy-anarchist-alfredo-cospito-started-a-hunger-strike-october-20-2022-en-it-gr/
darknights.noblogs.org/post/tag/juan-sorroche/
darknights.noblogs.org/post/tag/ivan-alocco/
darknights.noblogs.org/post/tag/anna-beniamino/
In solidarity with Giannis Michailidis in their hunger strike for their
release,
darknights.noblogs.org/post/2022/06/02/greece-giannis-michaildis-announcement-of-a-hunger-strike-for-my-release/
In solidarity with Toby Shone who is being held in prison for 8 drug
offenses from 2021 after terrorism charges were dropped,
darknights.noblogs.org/post/2022/10/28/imprisoned-anarchist-toby-shone-fights-new-battle-against-fascist-uk-state/
For anarchy.
For more info: https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/Stop Reeves Young: https://stopreevesyoung.com/
Cops Of Cop City: https://copsofcopcity.noblogs.org/
Stop The Atlanta Police Foundation: https://stopapf.noblogs.org/
Scenes From The Atlanta Forest: https://scenes.noblogs.org/
Bail fund:
https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/contribute-to-the-atlanta-solidarity-fund
Submitted anonymously over email
Call to Support the Welaunee Forest Defenders
The leaves and the temperature are falling in the Welaunee forest, but we are still here, still defending the forest from the imminent threat of destruction by APD and Blackhall Studios. We have delayed their projects, but they will attempt to resume their ruinous development at any time. We need more based-ass people to come to the Old Prison Farm (No Cop City side of the woods) as soon as possible!
We have an extensive list of needs and ways for allies to plug in. For locals we need solidarity actions and creative and effective distractions when construction begins. Those who are unable to come to the forest can support us by donating anonymously to our Monero fund that is specifically for OTG forest defenders on the OPF side. View our guide for donating using Monero here: https://ghostbin.me/6356ba1202a38.
Anonymity is the name of the long game in Land Defense when the Turtle Island is repressed by the most insidious terrorist group in the world, the United Snakes. Email us at opfforestdefendersotg@riseup.net (use a VPN/tor and an anonymous email address) for more ideas about how to support us.
The fallout from their failing empire is all around us. We feel it everywhere and they do, too. The Hollywood fatcats think they can pacify and distract us with their bullshit movies about fake heroes and empty consumer lives. The kkkops think they can crush us with their training facilities designed for urban warfare. At this stage in colonialism we are fighting for a forest full of tires and trash because it is collectively ours. It needs to heal, we and other animals need to eat its wild fruits and nuts. We need the forest. Their soundstages and cop cities are only the ashes of the old mindless order.
Just as the forest has been unable to rest under the relentless assault of their machines and their trash, we will not rest. We will continue to barricade their roads. We will continue to halt their machines. We will continue to thwart their surveillance and prevent their destruction of the forest.
We are not defending nature, we are nature defending itself.
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Call to Action to Defend the Meadows. Stop A. P. Construction!
DEFEND THE MEADOWS! A. P. Construction INC. has been given a permit by the City of Philadelphia to Destroy and Gentrify over 100+ Acres of Lenni-Lenape Land at so called “FDR” Park in South Philly.
The Lenni-Lenape name for the unceded area is “Pahsayunk” and “Chingsessing” Pahsayunk translates to ” A place between the hills.” Chingsessing translates to “A place where there is a Meadow”.
The Proposed $20+ million dollar development would devastate and privatize the unceded Autonomous land with plastic “Astro-Turf” sports fields and over-priced shops.
This would ruin the habitat and life of thousands of sacred animals, trees, mushrooms, plants, and insects such as the endangered Monarch Butterfly!
For all life we must stop this and all Ecocidal development by any means necessary!
Please take Direct Action and contact A. P. Construction Inc. to demand that owners and the management drop the contract and cancel the “1954 Pattison Ave.” development.
A. P. Contruction Inc. – Philadelphia Office – Phone Number: *67 (215) 922-2323 – Address: Navy Yard Corporate Center, 1 Crescent Drive, Suite 104, Philadelphia, PA 19122
Main Office in New Jersey – Phone Number: *67 (856)227-2030 – Address: 915 S Black Horse Pike, Blackwood, NJ08012
Send an anonymous email to: Mailbox@APConstruction.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/apconstructioninc
Instagram: @APConstructionInc
Twitter:@APConstruction_
-Submitted anonymously over email
WINNEMUCCA INDIAN COLONY DA REPORT BACK
The Winnemucca Indian Colony, on Paiute and Shoshone land in so-called Winnemucca, Nevada, is under attack from self-appointed tribal chairperson Judy Rojo and her crooked council, none of whom even live on the colony or in Nevada. Judy is not recognized by the residents and elders of the Winnemucca Indian Colony. Although the colony was part of a forced removal project intended for “homeless Indians,” Judy Rojo charges the residents rent and began demolishing their homes and forcefully evicting them in November of 2021. The 20 acres of land where the WIC residents live today was purchased in 1928 by the government from the Central Pacific Railway. Many of the elders have lived on this land for decades and are second generation residents. Judy Rojo and her contracted goon, Bob McNichols of REZBuilders, have demolished 8 structures and homes on the colony so far without the consent of the residents.
Judy Rojo has also stolen 320 acres that has ‘legally’ belonged to the Winnemucca Indian Colony since 1918 under colonial law. She is building homes and a tribal building, which has not been approved by the colony residents. On the 320, Judy built and is using the Water Canyon Dispensary to steal and launder millions of dollars from WIC residents. The dispensary is currently expanding to increase their profits. This is a land grab. The identity of the non-native dispensary owner collaborating with Judy to launder money is unknown.
In April of 2022, machines were destroyed and two buildings, the tribal building on the 320 acres, and a deceased elder’s home that Judy seized to turn into a Bureau of Indian Affairs office, burned down, totaling approximately 1.3 million dollars in damages.
Under Judy Rojo, these development projects on the 320 will not benefit the colony residents. The BIA police have been terrorizing, arresting, and physically assaulting elders, residents, and invited protectors since November 2021 when demolition began and before. One officer, Charlie Etheredge, even murdered someone on the Fort McDermitt reservation and gave an invited protector a black eye. Since REZBuilders put up a barbed wire fence around the entire colony, with contracted BIA patrolling as prison guards, reporting to Judy and Bob and referring to them as their bosses, the colony has functionally been a prisoners-of-war camp. Because of the blockade, the residents have often been unable to receive the care and mutual aid they need, including house repairs, medical support, and food donations. Even residents’ families have been barred from entering the colony. BIA arrested elders whose homes have been demolished for trying to return. Currently the elders are being coerced into attending virtual fake hearings in a false court made by Judy and her council.
In response to this violence, the suppliers of Judy’s 320 building projects were targeted. On 7/7/22 Western Nevada Supply Company headquarters in Sparks, NV was vandalized. Multiple project trailers in a supply yard had electrical wires cut, tail lights removed, and messages of: “end contracts with Judy Rojo”, and “stop colonizing Winnemucca” spray-painted in black and red. On 7/8, a similar action occurred against Western Nevada Supply Company in Winnemucca. Bike locks were used around entrances/gates, the door locks filled with super glue, windows were blacked out and a message of “End contracts with Judy Rojo,” was spray-painted. On 7/9, Arnold Machinery in Elko, NV, who supplies some of the heavy equipment to Judy, was vandalized. Windows were blacked out and a message of “End contracts with Judy Rojo,” was spray-painted. Arnold Machinery is likely not the only company supplying heavy equipment to Judy. Attempts were made to smash windows at both Western Nevada Supply Company targets, but be warned, the glass proved to be thick.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of targets carrying out colonization and genocide in so-called Winnemucca, Nevada. If any of the people and companies listed below do not want to be targeted, they can stop colonizing Paiute and Shoshone land.
Judy Rojo
12717 Kumquat Ave
Chino, CA 91710
Other Council (incomplete)
Misty Morning Dawn Rojo-Alvarez
9845 3rd Ave, Hesperia, CA, 92345-3154
Shannon Evans
Merlene Magiera
Eric Magiera
Judy’s legal team (incomplete)
Norberto John Cisneros
1367 Panini Dr, Henderson, NV, 89052-3180
Treva Jean Hearne
8140 W 54th Pl, Arvada, CO, 80002-3514
Bob McNichols/REZBuilders
BobMcNichols@Rezbuilders.com
2175 Seneca Street, Kingman, AZ 86401
Bureau of Indian Affairs offices (incomplete/Nevada only)
311 E Washington St, Carson City, NV, 89701-4065
2719-4 Argent Ave, Elko, NV, 89801
Winnemucca Tribal Council office
595 Humboldt Street, Reno, NV, 89509-1603 (listed on BIA website)
433 West Plum Ln, Reno, NV, 89509 (listed on WIC website)
BIA Officer: Charles David Etheredge
6203 Forest Grove Dr, Fredericksberg, VA 22407-6378
Western Nevada Supply Company (for full list of addresses visit website)
950 South Rock Blvd, Sparks, NV 89431
5445 South Carson Street, Carson City, NV, 89701
1225 Water Street, Elko, NV, 89801
3245 West Potato Rd, Winnemucca, NV 89445
2141 James Ave, South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150
10990 Industrial Way, Truckee, CA, 96161
Michael White, WNSC Winnemucca branch manager
personal email: philomath101@gmail.com
WNSC email: mwhite@goblueteam.com
Arnold Machinery (incomplete, multiple locations)
4550 E Idaho St, Elko, NV 89801
-Received Anonymously Over Email
WOA ANARCHIST BINGO~ DTF ! STOP COP CITY! Fight Blackhall!
It’s officially the Week Of Action to collectively Defend the Forest BY HELPING Stop Cop City, & Fight Back Against Black Hall Studios!
There’s a bunch of folks in town & what better way to spend our time than collectively, and with a diversity of tactics fight our enemies both INSIDE & OUTSIDE the forest, and spread the resources of the cops & Black Hall thin…
Please help us gitr’ dun by trying to complete at least one “BINGO” line of A-team comrade tasks while so many folks are in up in this bish!
Remember your op sec & tech sec skills & training & get out there to start tallying off items on your to-do list for the cause!
The forest won’t defend itself from the oppressive regimes of law enforcement, & clearly petitions & shit are not enough!
*NO PASSIVE PARTICPANTS IN THE FINAL BATTLES FOR EARTH & FREEDOM.
TOTAL LIBERATION MEANS MAKE TOTAL DESTROY– so we can build the world we want to live in from the ashes of the old!
On the above A-TEAM BINGO Sheet, you have to utilize some deductive reasoning, be creative, & show us what you got!
All fires are sacred. Everything wild is better. Earth destroying equipment, their operators & people who guard them fearing to enter forest is one of many noble goals…
– Received Anonymously Over Email
Visit Stop The Atlanta Police Foundation Website
Stop The Atlanta Police Foundation
Visit https://t.co/sKJ6xltLVb for information.
— stopapf (@stopapf) July 1, 2022
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:
“We 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 humanity’s future for a Cop City.”
-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!
– Received anonymously over email
A CALL TO REJECT FASCIST CREEP IN THE WELAUNEE FOREST
It’s approaching summertime and things are heating up in so-called Atlanta. Forest defense continues as bold as ever, and my friends and lovers are putting their bodies and freedom on the line to stop the encroachment of development and the police into the forest. Around the city and even outside of it, we are bringing the struggle to those that would prefer to quietly profit from destruction, we are laying aside the machines that kill the forest. People are starting to pay attention. Ecofascists are starting to pay attention. I have cried tears of joy at the mass movement my friends have made, the diversity of tactics fostered, and the huge number of people brought in. But this movement can only exist if we remember that we are engaged in a three way fight (http://threewayfight.blogspot.com/p/about.html). Fascists are engaged in their own fight with the state as well as their own eliminationist campaign against all they deem as deviant, especially those with Black and trans identities. Rather than simply serving as a tool for the state, fascists are seeking to overthrow the state to create their own murderous regime, and will try to use us, to co-opt our movement. The movement to Stop Cop City has already seen attempted fascist creep (https://dirtysouthrightwatch.org/2021/boogaloo-in-atlanta/). Not everyone who hates the cops and hates that state is our friend. As our movement continues to grow, ecofascists will see us as a useful tool for their own goals. After all, they like trees, we like trees, we hate the state, they hate the state. But that’s where the similarities end. In their calls to action, they will tell us to protect a specific “people” rather than all people, who we stand for. They will throw around words like us being “slaves” to technology – as we fight to remember the lives lost of enslaved Black people. They will evoke spirituality, but they will ignore the spirituality of the Muscogee people whose land we are on. Most importantly of all, they will publicly call on us to take action that will directly lead to our friends and lovers being jailed, being beaten, and potentially being killed. We are a militant movement for sure, but we are avoiding undue risk as we continue this joyful struggle. To the ecofascists, we are just another tool, and they would see us locked up and dead if it meant supporting their cause. Just this past weekend, a self-described ecofascist who cited Kaczynski killed 11 people in so-called Buffalo, New York in an explicit attempt to murder as many Black people as possible. We reject all calls to violence for a “people”. AS THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES, WE CALL FOR A REJECTION OF FASCIST CREEP IN THE MOVEMENT TO STOP COP CITY WE CALL FOR A REJECTION OF FASCIST CREEP IN THE WELAUNEE FOREST WE CALL FOR A REJECTION OF THE EMBRACE OF FASCIST AETHETICS WE CALL FOR VIGILANCE AGAINST THESE THREATS TO OUR FRIENDS AND LOVERS WE CALL FOR A COMMUNITY BASED ON LOVE AND PROTECTION OF THAT WHICH WE HOLD DEAR
-Received anonymously over email
We have received concerned emails and other forms of contact regarding two submitted videos and a statement that contained fascist imagery and covert fascist ideology hidden under a thin veil of radical language and identity politics which was hosted on our site. We believe that this was possibly an effort to incorporate the “fascist creep” subtly to normalize and spread fascism. After being made aware we promptly took it down and we thank everyone who reached out to us, and to the above person for writing this statement which we agree with and can assume is in response and reference to the previously mentioned released statement and videos. We will work better to identify threats and bad actors in the future. We apologize for having shared it in the first place.
– scenes
CALLING ALL TO THE FOREST: THE TIME IS NOW
ON APRIL 21st, FOREST DEFENDERS OVERHEARD WORKERS STATE THAT FOREST DESTRUCTION AND EVICTION IS EXPECTED TO BEGIN MAY 3
This is a CALL-TO-ACTION for eco-warriors worldwide to come help defend the forest from any further police intrusion and destruction! The kkkops would train here to militarize against those resisting all systems of oppression; in the name of abolition we must take action!
We have over 500 acres to defend between fighting off the police and staving off Hollywood from clear-cutting the forest for their bullshit movies.
If you come to make a stand against the long arm of the law, know that autonomous action is encouraged!
Go feral! Build pirate ships! Dance with us! Don’t bring your hierarchical shit here. Leave your clocks.
Bring your art and your fury! Let’s supplant the slimy fingers of the police and oppressive systems they make possible.
If you are interested in throwing down and joining our funky feral brigade, hit us up on the riseup at:
dtfatlotg@protonmail.com
See you in the Forest!
With Love and Rage,
-Camp Deadnettle-
– Recieved anonymously over mail
Campaign Against cop city and it’s Subontractors
http://stopreevesyoung.com
“APF is unable to build Cop City alone. They have contracted Reeves-Young to build it for them. Reeves-Young cannot complete this project without its subcontractors. SRY is a campaign to urge these subcontractors to stop participating in the construction of Cop City and/or divest from their dealings with Reeves-Young.
The subcontractors have many other contracts. As service providers, they do not depend on the completion of the Cop City to continue their business operations. Reeves-Young represents just one of their many contracts, just as APF is only one of Reeves-Young’s many contracts. Everyone involved in this project is complicit in some way with the destruction of the forest, the militarization of the police, and the development of a racist and violent project. The fact is that they have economic incentives to move forward with this project. We must create disincentives.
Through this campaign we seek to educate the subcontractors and ask them to drop this single contract. These companies only care about their bottom line: making profits and securing more contracts. By pressuring companies that do not have a commitment to the APF, but do have a commitment to Reeves-Young, we believe we can get them to drop their contracts without incurring significant economic risks. When Reeves-Young realizes that it is not worthwhile to keep the Cop City contract if it means jeopardizing all of their other projects, we believe they will cancel the APF agreement as well. One by one, as subcontractors drop out, we will cause delays and budget increases until it becomes logistically, economically and politically impossible to move forward with the destruction of the forest or the construction of the Cop City.
SRY is a media clearinghouse, providing journalistic updates on the movement. We provide information and updates about the campaign, contextualized within the broader struggle to defend the South Atlanta forest. We maintain this site for educational and journalistic purposes, and are not responsible for the acts or deeds that we report on.”
– From the website
FUNDRAISER: Support Muscogee Summit in Atlanta
Muscogee community members from across the country will be gathering this April to discuss land, environmental justice and current events in Weelaunee ( so called South River Forest) and unceded Muscogee homelands. Funds will be used for travel, food, lodging, and honorariums for participants. Please donate generously to support this historic gathering. Any excess funds will go toward future travel of Mvskokvlke Migration to homelands.
Library of the Commons is working with Muscogee people to make this event as successful as possible. Any donation will help make an impact. Thanks in advance for your contribution to this cause that means so much to the Muscogee people and Atlantans.
Support the fundraiser here.
Our enemies will not rest
To Reeves Young:
You will have noticed by now that several of your machines have ceased to function, their arteries corroded from within. Last week, we sabotaged six Earth-raping machines——including two large excavators and a bulldozer——at a Reeves Young construction site in Flowery Branch, Georgia. So long as you continue to contract with the Atlanta Police Foundation for the destruction of the South Atlanta Forest, and the construction of a Cop City in its place, know that your equipment is not safe. Your offices are not safe. Your homes are not safe.
Unless your company chooses to pull out of the APF’s Cop City project of its own volition, we will undermine your profits so severely that you’ll have no choice but to drop the contract. A recent article in the AJC estimated that forest defenders already “have done hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage to utility equipment.” Our conservative estimate places you now hundreds of thousands deeper in the red. Though we fight in defense of the forest, against Cop City, our struggle is not contained there. Wherever you are, we will find you. All fields are battlefields. All machines are targets.
To our friends:
Solidarity means attack. If you hate the cops and love the forest; if you feel as we do that they have already taken too much from us——venture into the night and fight back. Sabotage and vandalize. Don’t get caught. By bleach, sand or fire, you can destroy the Earth destroyers. (Read Chapter 5 of “Ecodefense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching” for details——practice good security if searching online.) We will not sit idly by as they desolate one of our last wild spaces, all to sharpen their tools of mass domestication. The logic of death ends with us. We choose life.
We do not need more training centers for the police to practice killing us. We do not need more Amazon warehouses for two-hour delivery of fleshlights and Quest bars. What we need is what we already have, what Reeves Young aims to ruin: spaces free from Empire; soil, roots and water, mutually healing; trees bending in the wind; a friend’s eyes shining in the light of the fire.
We will not rest, so neither will our enemies. In solidarity with all those locked in cages; in solidarity with all those combating Russian and Amerikkkan imperialism——let us strike without fear at everything which confines and assails us. May the flame that burns inside us burn everything around us.
With burning heart,
Anonymous Drivers of the Nomadic War Machine
– Received Anonymously Over Email
Spring 2022 Week Of Action
defend the ATL forest! May 8-15 pic.twitter.com/pELLt0tMJk
— Defend the Atlanta Forest (@defendATLforest) March 12, 2022
Defend the Barricades; Calling Feral Anarchists to Atlanta Forest!
“No Forest? No Peace! Truck the Police!”, reads a banner hanging from a skypod attached to an overturned truck blocking the ONLY Bridge crossing the little creek between the police construction staging ground and the main part of the forest which they intend to destroy. This is a CALL-TO-ACTION for eco-warriors worldwide to come help defend the forest from any further police intrusion and destruction! The kkkops would train here to militarize against those resisting all systems of oppression; in the name of abolition we must take action!
We need ingenious comrades to help person and support the skypod (the “Truck Stop”), as well as help maintain the TEN existing barricades around the Camp Deadnettle areas (& forge new ones!)
Deadnettle is a virulent plant that grows in disturbed soil, in this it is akin to our rag-tag crew of rowdy comrades who gather in places of disruption to stand against the machines.
This is OUR forest and will NEVER become the mock kkkop training city they intend it to be!
We have over 500 acres to defend between fighting off the police and staving off Hollywood from clear-cutting the forest for their bullshit movies.
If you come to make a stand against the long arm of the law, know that autonomous action is encouraged!
Go feral! Build pirate ships! Dance with us! Don’t bring your hierarchical shit here. Leave your clocks.
Bring your art and your fury! Let’s supplant the slimy fingers of the police and oppressive systems they make possible.
The main gate police and earth destroying machinery use to enter the forest has been barricaded shut– help us keep it that way!
If you are interested in throwing down and joining our funky feral brigade, hit us up on the riseup at:
See you in the Forest!
With Love and Rage,
-Camp Deadnettle-
– Received Anonymously Over Email
FUCK COPS//JOIN US IN THE FOREST
The time is now! This is a call from some of us living in the Atlanta Forest; We invite you to join us in its defense. The forest, which is stolen Muscogee land, is slated to become a mock-city for police training. We have no intention of allowing this, nor of limiting our efforts to tree sits and lockdowns (already there have been 2 arson attacks, damaged machinery, home and office visits, barricades, etc.). The more people there are staying in the forest, the more options are open to us. Living in the forest gives us ability to immediately respond to any threat the forest faces. We must not allow them an inch without meeting opposition. Not one blade of grass. As it stands, the forest feels autonomous and the police are reluctant to go deep within it. Help us keep it that way. Come now to defend the forest, in struggle against the police and the civilization that needs them. Check out https://scenes.noblogs.org/ for more info/past communiques and email atldtf@riseup.net to get in touch if you’re interested in coming.
-Submitted anonymously over email