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Category: Communiques

ATLAS OFFICE ATTACKED WITH POWERFUL STENCH AGENT

Posted on February 1, 2023 - February 1, 2023 by scenes

LAST WEEKEND WE SMASHED ALL WINDOWS AND THE GLASS DOORS OF THE ATLAS OFFICE IN HIGHLAND, IN, AND ATTACKED THE INTERIOR WITH A POWERFUL STINK BOMB, LEAVING THE OFFICE PERMANENTLY INOPERABLE. SIX ATLAS VEHICLES PARKING OUTSIDE OF THE OFFICE WERE ALSO VANDALIZED.

UNTIL THE MURDER OF TORTUGUITA, NO COP OR CONTRACTOR WAS INJURED AS A RESULT OF ACTIONS IN DEFENSE OF THE WEELAUNEE FOREST. NOW, THE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT MAY HAVE TO CHANGE. ATLAS TECHNICAL CONSULTANTS, AS WELL AS ITS SUBSIDIARY LONG ENGINEERING, HAS PHYSICALLY ATTACKED THE WEELAUNEE FOREST AND IS STILL COMMITTED TO BUILDING COP CITY. UNTIL ATLAS PUBLICLY ANNOUNCES THAT IT WILL NO LONGER WORK ON THE PROJECT, THE COMPANY, ITS EXECUTIVES. AND ALL OF ITS PROPERTY ARE LEGITIMATE TARGETS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST COP CITY AND THE HOLLYWOOD DYSTOPIA.

THERE ARE THREE ADDITIONAL ATLAS OFFICES WITHIN AN HOUR DRIVE OF THIS ONE. THERE ARE ATLAS OFFICES IN EVERY STATE. THE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF ATLAS EXECUTIVES, AS WELL AS OTHER COMPANIES IMPLICATED IN COP CITY AND THE MURDER OF TORTUGITA, ARE LISTED ON STOPREEVESYOUNG.COM.

THE ENEMIES OF THE WEELAUNEE FOREST ARE TERRORISTS WHO DO NOT DISTINGUISH BETWEEN PEACEFUL AND MILITANT PROTESTORS, NON-HUMAN AND HUMAN LIFE. WE WILL NOT CEDE A SINGLE INCH OF THE FOREST AND WILL NOT NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS, BUT THEY HAVE THE POWER TO STOP THIS TRAGIC AND UNNECESSARY ESCALATION OF FORCE BY SIMPLY DROPPING THE PROJECT.

WE WILL NOT STOP UNTIL YOU DROP COP CITY. EXPECT US.

-TORT’S REVENGE
Submitted anonymously over email

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US BANK AND WELLS FARGO SMASHED FOR TORTUGUITA AND TYRE NICHOLS

Posted on January 30, 2023 by scenes

1/29/2023

In response to the murders of Tyre Nichols and Tortuguita by fascist pigs, militants from occupied Dakota/Lakota/Anishinaabe land -so called Minneapolis- attacked two banks on the south side. US Bank and Wells Fargo were chosen due to their funding of “cop city” in the Weelaunee forest.

Militants tagged bank windows with “defend the forest”, “fuck 12”, “eat shit Frey” and “rest in peace Tortuguita and Tyre Nichols”.

Our message of solidarity extends past written words to the shattered windows and broken ATMs in our wake.

We appreciate the work of the bloc tonight in Minneapolis. Drawing the attention of and keeping distracted an entire city’s pig department is no easy task in these freezing temperatures. Your bravery is radiant.

Long Live the Forest
Rest in Power Tyre Nichols and Tortuguita
Eat Shit Frey
This is only the beginning <3

Submitted anonymously over email

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Posted on January 29, 2023 by scenes

from across the false border separating the land and people in struggle, we commemorate TORTUGUITA in the streets of so-called mexico city.

and on this day, January 28, 2023, as so-called justice progresses in her absence, we also remember EMILIA BAU, defender of the earth and animals in Walmapu, executed by hired hands of the company she dedicated her life to resisting.

from across ABYA YALA, we honor our trans comrades stolen from us by the state and its agents – we honor the earth and the animals they defended.

For them – not a moment of silence but a lifetime of struggle!

Desde otro lado de la frontera falsa que separa la tierra y el pueblo en lucha, los conmemoramos TORTUGUITA en las calles de la “ciudad de méxico.”

Y en este día de 28 de enero, 2023, mientras avanza la “justicia” en su ausencia, nos recordamos EMILIA BAU, defensora de la tierra y los animales en Walmapu, asesinado por los manos contratados del impreso que ella dedicó su vida a resistir.

De todo ABYA YALA, nosotrxs honramos nuestrxs compañerxs trans robada por el estado y sus agentes – honramos la tierra y los animales que defendieron.

Por ellxs – ni un momento de silencio, sino una vida de lucha!

(submitted anonymously – XO)

On a gray barricade in a busy city street, "TORTUGUITAN VIVE" is tagged next to an anarchist circle-A symbol and above two other unrelated tags in black spray paint.

On a white wall covered with old wheatpasted flyers and other tags, "PARA EL BOSQUE Y LA TIERRA" - then a heart with an A inside of it in the style of an anarchist circle-A symbol - "TORTUGUITA PRESENTE!!!" is tagged in black spray paint.

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Forest Creatures in Milwaukie, OR Descend on Cushman & Wakefield Office

Posted on January 27, 2023 by scenes

On Tuesday 1/24, a flock of angry forest creatures descended on the Milwaukie, OR office of Cushman & Wakefield to disrupt the corporate monotony within their lifeless office building. One of Cushman & Wakefield’s executives, John O’Neill III, sits on the board for the Atlanta Police Foundation. In solidarity with forest defenders in Atlanta, and in remembrance of Tortuguita, we stuffed flyers under doors and threw them in the air like confetti while chanting “Stop Cop City!” Although our action was brief, it succeeded in convincing the businesses in the office building to close for the next day, lock the lobby entrance doors, and consider hiring expensive security guards. Corporate allies of the police and Cop City should be afraid, and no amount of precaution will keep them safe from the wrath of the forest creatures. From Portland to Atlanta, we’re all united in the fight to stop Cop City.

A facebook post in a group called CCCW made by someone named Tocs Ben-teen 3 hours ago states the following: “HERE IS THE ORIGINAL POST I DELETED EARLIER:
the person that posted it will remain unanonymos for their safety.. And then more info
explaining the post below:
‘So anyone have experience with run ins with antifa? What's the best way to interact with
them if it isn't avoidable? Do they hurt people? Just information in general one way or the
other would help.’
Additional info:
‘Hi, I've been in the cccw group for a long time now. The guy that posted the antifa
question is one of my long time friends, and I work with his wife. Yesterday after we left
work, antifa stormed the building and made threats about coming back. We work on lake
road off 224. His question, without giving too much info about what happened, was valid.
I don't have a lot of information about what happened. I don't know yet if they caused any
damage or what they did. The building manager did call the cops and they came out. We
closed today for safety, but will find out more information tomorrow. Please don't post my
name, but I wanted to give you some more information about why he asked. He is
concerned for his wife and wanted opinions on how to handle if/when Antifa comes back. I
know we will be on edge at work for awhile. Thank you!’” The post has 51 likes and 21 comments.

Tuesday afternoon a group of activists marched in memory of Tortuguita, and in solidarity with Atlanta's forest defenders, into the offices of Cushman & Wakefield in Milwaukee, Oregon. Inside the office complex they marched around chanting "Stop Cop City" and distributed flyers. pic.twitter.com/gVqjuF8coX

— Daniel V. Media (@danielvmedia) January 27, 2023

Submitted anonymously over email

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Durham Wells Fargo Tagged

Posted on January 26, 2023 - January 27, 2023 by scenes

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

A brick wall next to a glass door with a Wells Fargo logo is tagged "STOP COP CITY" in black spray paint.

Two glass doors with wells fargo logos and a brick wall are absolutely covered in splattered paint.

Submitted anonymously over email

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Alta Vista Office Attacked in Lenapehoking

Posted on January 26, 2023 by scenes

In the early hours of January 25th, the New York City office of Alta Vista, a subsidiary of Cop City collaborator Atlas Technical Consultants, was attacked in revenge for the killing of a beautiful queer Afro-Indigenous revolutionary some of us knew by the name Tortuguita. Alta Vista’s glass lobby doors got smashed—we hear for the second time—and messages were left in spray paint: Avenge Tort, Stop Cop City

Tortuguita should be here. It is unbearable that they are not—biking through the forest; cracking jokes about kratom; excitedly debating anarchist theory; organizing to sustain life in their communities; meeting all power and borders with unwavering hostility. We will never forget how these monsters took our friend’s precious life. We will make sure they never forget either.

May Tortuguita’s smile be the flame we carry to set this civilization on fire, and may it be the light that reminds us to love each other over the ashes.

A gold door with a glass window is shattered.

Several gold-framed glass windows are spray painted. The first two are tagged "AVENGE TORT!" in red spray paint. The second two are tagged "STOP COP CITY" in black spray paint.

Submitted anonymously over email

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Atlas Offices Redecorated in Novi

Posted on January 24, 2023 by scenes

From so-called Novi, MI:

On the Night of Rage (January 20) the Detroit MI Atlas offices were artfully decorated with acid-etching paint. Hope you had fun discovering that your windows are totally fucked, you shitheads. Atlas, until you stop supporting Cop City, there will be no safe corner for you on Turtle Island.

We did this in Tortuguita’s name. We love you, friend, and will never stop fighting. Love and rage to all those fighting in Atlanta.

-Your friends up north

On a black window, white paint spells "JUSTICE 4 TORT" on one pane, and "RIP TORT" with an anarchist circle-A symbol on the other pane.

On a black glass door of a UPS/FedEx office, white paint spells "NO COP CITY." On a glass window right beside it, white paint spells out "JUSTICE 4 TORT."

Submitted anonymously over email

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KPMG Office Vandalized in Boulder

Posted on January 24, 2023 by scenes

Over the weekend, forest defenders vandalized the Boulder, Colorado office of KPMG, one of the financiers of the destruction of the Atlanta forest. Messages of “Stop Cop City” “Viva Tort” and “KPMG: Divest From Cop City” were left on the office windows in self-etching paint. A nearby UPS box was also hit.

¡Viva Tortuguita!

Submitted anonymously via email

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FIRE TO THE EARTH DESTROYERS

Posted on January 23, 2023 by scenes

Answering a call for retaliation against the murder of Tortuguita, we burned a large excavator in Portland yesterday night.
Tortuguita died trying to kill a cop in defense of the Weelaunee forest. Never let this be forgotten.
With these flames we honor their bravery. With smoke we send a prayer into the night that the next cop won’t be so lucky.
We attack the same machines that threaten the forest in Atlanta and everything wild.
FIRE TO THE EARTH DESTROYERS
Until every cop is dead and all they defend burnt to ashes.

Submitted anonymously over email

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REPORTING FROM NYC

Posted on January 22, 2023 by scenes

It looks like Atlas received a visit from some disgruntled little forest bunnies and had to close down shop for the weekend. We wonder what possibly could have happened to their glass front doors…

Atlas isn’t safe even in the center of the so-called police state of NYC. They aren’t safe anywhere. We do this so comrades everywhere feel empowered to act with swiftness, creativity, and freedom. We are taking our revenge for the life that was stolen from us.

Atlas Engineering – drop the contract now. This is only the beginning. We are coming for you …

TORTUGUITA VIVE

Onto a concrete wall, "STOP COP CITY ATLAS = KILLERS" is tagged in blue spray paint. On the sidewalk, "FUCK ATLAS" is also tagged in blue spray paint. A door next to the wall is covered in plywood and caution tape.

Onto a concrete wall, "JUSTICE FOR TORT" is tagged in blue spray paint. A door next to the wall is covered in plywood and caution tape.

Submitted anonymously via email

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Vengeance from Oakland – ¡Viva Tortuguita!

Posted on January 21, 2023 by scenes

On the night of January 20th 2023, 30 mournful anarchists took vengeful action against our enemies for the murder of Cami/Tortuguita in the Atlanta Forest two days prior. We shattered dozens of windows along the glass facade of a Bank of America building in downtown Oakland, destroyed the ATM’s, and repainted the walls with people’s messages of love, memory, solidarity, and rage at the assassination of our comrade before lighting the place up with molotov cocktails.

Bank of America is an enemy of the people and life itself. They currently fund the construction of cop city in Atlanta, the same project that threatens the forest that Tortuguita died defending. They deserve no place in our landscape. We destroyed quickly but tirelessly. Like the peasants in the Jacquerie, the Luddite wreckers, or the Haitian revolutionaries, we seek liberation in the most obvious way: the destruction of what we know is the cause of our suffering. And if we destroy much, it is because we have suffered much. “Vengeance! Vengeance!” is our war-cry.

To our enemies who seek to liquidate our lives and the earth: you will not murder us with impunity! We will strike back, each time more fiercely than before. The more you take from us, the more we have to fight for—the less we have to lose.

To our fallen comrades: your deaths will never be in vain! We will avenge you one thousand times over! Your blood is our blood. Your lives light the path of our struggle, and this is only the beginning.

We support Tortuguita whether they shot at the pigs or not. A shot fired at police is an act of liberation.

TORTUGUITA VIVE, LA LUCHA SIGUE

MARTYRS NEVER DIE

THE FLAME OF ANARCHY BURNS BRIGHT

COP CITY WILL NEVER BE BUILT

FOR A WORLD FREE OF MONEY, COPS, AND PRISONS

FOR A WORLD FILLED WITH TREES, ANIMALS, AND LIFE

WEELAUNEE PEOPLE’S FOREST FOREVER

Onto a wall with two workers in yellow vests standing aside it, several messages are tagged in spray paint. From left to right: A three arrows symbol is tagged in black. "For every 1" (remainder of the tag is covered by grass.) "TORTUGUITA RIP" is tagged in black, and a red circle-A symbol next to it. "FTP" is tagged in white. "ACAB" is tagged in black. "MARTYRS (remainder covered by grass) is tagged in red. "FUCK OPD" is also tagged in red. "NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR" is tagged in black. "FUCK" (remainder covered by grass.) is tagged in black below it. "BE GAY DO CRIME (remainder covered by grass) is tagged in pink. "FOR" (remainder covered by grass) is tagged in red. A light blue message is tagged next to it, but it is too blurry to make out.
Onto the sign for a Bank of America bank, "KILL COPS" is tagged in gray spray paint.
Onto a wall, "Tortuguita RIP" and "ACAB" are tagged in black spray paint. "FTP" is tagged in white spray paint. "ACAB" and an anarchist circle-A symbol are tagged in red spray paint.Onto a wall, "FUCK OPD", "FOR TORT", and an infinity sign is tagged in red spray paint. "NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR" and "FUCK YOU" are tagged in black spray paint. An anarchist circle-A symbol and "BE GAY DO CRIME KILL COPS BE FREE" are tagged in pink spray paint. "FUCK COP CITY" is tagged in white spray paint.
Onto a glass door and several windows, "Little turtle lives" is tagged in light blue spray paint. "FTP" is tagged in black spray paint directly below it.Onto a concrete wall, "FTP" is tagged in red spray paint. "no war but class WAR," "KKKOPS KILL," and "KILL COP CITY" is  tagged in black spray paint.Onto a concrete wall in front of grass, A LIFE LIFE FOR A LIFE" is tagged in red spray paint.Onto several smashed glass doors, "Little turtle lives" is tagged in light blue spray paint.

Submitted anonymously over email

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CHICAGO ABOLITIONISTS SHUT DOWN BANK OF AMERICA ATM BY GLUING ACCESS POINTS

Posted on January 21, 2023 - January 21, 2023 by scenes

CHICAGO, IL — Friday night, January 20th, Chicago abolitionists in solidarity with the movement to Stop Cop City and Defend the Atlanta Forest glued shut the card reader and keyhole at a Bank of America ATM and “Virtual Banking” facility in Chicago’s affluent Lincoln Park neighborhood (2428 N Lincoln Ave). They also left messages, including STOP COP CITY, DEFEND THE ATLANTA FOREST, and ACAB on the ATM windows and door. The incident was in response to the murder of a forest defender by police in Atlanta on January 18th, 2023.

Bank of America is a top funder of police foundations across the US, in particular the Atlanta Police Foundation, which is funding the destruction of Weelaunee Forest in “Atlanta” to build “Cop City.” The intended facility would be a militarized police training compound, including a mock city for cops to practice urban warfare on Atlanta’s residents, particularly the Black and Brown and poor communities adjacent to the forest. In 2020, BOA gave at least $50,000 to the foundation; tax data from 2021-22 is not yet available.

Bank of America also bankrolls the Chicago Police Foundation, with BoA Senior Vice President Patricia Provenzano sitting on its board.

On January 18th, police in Atlanta murdered a forest defender, Manuel “Tortuguita” Teran, as they attempted to force people out of the forest to allow the destruction to proceed. This violence is further proof that police only serve and protect the interests of the wealthy and powerful – bankers and capitalists who will happily have people murdered and ecosystems destroyed to continue hoarding wealth.

From @defendtheatlantaforest @stopcopcity on Instagram, friends said: “Tortuguita was a kind, passionate, loving person cherished by their community. They spent their time between Atlanta, defending the forests from destruction and coordinating mutual aid, and Florida where they helped build housing in low income communities hit hardest by the hurricane. They were a medic, a loving partner, a dear friend, a brave soul, and so much more.”

Chicago activists echo the calls of Atlanta forest defenders to immediately stop the attacks on the forest and abandon plans to build Cop City.On a city street, a Bank of America bank has tags that say "Defend the Forest" and "Stop Cop City" in black spray paint.

The debit card scanner used to open the door of a Bank of America bank is sealed with glue and unusable. "NO COP CITY" and "DEFEND THE FOREST" flyers are wheatpasted to the door.

A door is covered in a tag that says "ACAB", and the ground says "NO COP CITY" in black spray paint.

A Bank of America window with tasteless marketing for online banking is covered in flyers that say "NO COP CITY" and "DEFEND THE FOREST".

A window with marketing material for Bank of America's stupid app is covered in a tag that says "DEFEND THE FOREST" in black spray paint.

Submitted anonymously over email

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Logging Trucks Destroyed in Ozarks

Posted on January 15, 2023 by scenes

Happy New Year to the crew of the 4 tree-killing machines in Ozark. For days the noise was the only goddamn thing you could hear in the forest. We emerged from our nests and holes and severed the infernal racket with tooth and claw. We found all machines unlocked with keys still in their ignitions!

We chewed through wires and cables, filled fuel tanks with sand and soil, drained the machines dry, and restored the forest to perfect winter silence. It was a beautiful night, just right for stargazing (and sabotage :))

In solidarity with the Atlanta Forest (STOP COP CITY!!!) and forests under siege everywhere. You woke us up and there’s more to come!

– Pissed-off locals

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Brasfield & Gorrie Offices Attacked by Forest Defenders in South Florida

Posted on January 11, 2023 - January 11, 2023 by scenes

Under the light of the full moon on Thursday Jan. 5, 2023, we anarchists in so-called South Florida (colonized Tequesta, Seminole, and Miccosukee land – struck the contractors Brasfield and Gorrie at their office inside Hotel Colonnade and at their construction site next to the Nicklaus Children’s Hospital. We attacked them with revenge in our hearts for the Forest Defenders in Atlanta arrested and caged as “domestic terrorists.” In these past weeks, this upcoming weekend of action, and going forward, we will demonstrate that we truly have the numbers. From Portland to Miami to Atlanta, the forest defenders are everywhere!
We permanently closed down a construction site. While we love to see that the addition to the children’s hospital is all but completed, B&G shall not profit from this contract. We sabotaged their vehicles, we painted their trailer, we defaced their logo with the anarchist A, and we locked the gate behind us with a bike lock. The cowards, in their defeat have since listed the site as “permanently closed” on Google maps. See for yourself: Brasfield & Gorrie NCH Trailer Offices SW 30th St., Miami FL
From there we took to the canopy, climbing above the police and their watching eyes. The downtown of so-called Coral Gables, around the corner from their police station, ha! They think that they’re in control.
We dumped the blood of industry and capitalism down the front facade of the hotel: black paint to represent oil, polluting their sanctuary for once. We dropped a banner for passing, curious pedestrians yearning for a new world. As for the office building, we climbed ever higher into the canopy to remind them that we have the numbers to stop cop city and we intend to win.
To Brasfield and Gorrie, we have one question: is it worth it? This one contract in Atlanta, is it worth it? The Police and FBI care not for your safety; they will not be able to find us but we also know that they will not even try. Furthermore, if peaceful tree sitters are charged with terrorism why should we not retaliate with direct action? We shall be called terrorists either way. As long as you keep this contract, you are at the top of our list and we are everywhere.
We attacked because we know that Cop City is not just a single training facility. The oligarchs are plotting; they saw the uprising of 2020, they believe in the climate catastrophe that they created, they know that their greed is killing us all and that the people will soon rise up!
Cop city is the answer for these megalomaniacs: obedience or death. Cop city is how white supremacy withstands the rage of BIPOC communities. Cop city is how corporations can continue to steal from the land and the peoples who have tended it for time immemorial. And when cop city is defeated, the death-cult of capitalism will fall soon after. We keep us safe.
Abolish the police! Abolish their jails and prisons! Abolish capitalism! Anarchy! Autonomy! Liberation!
Ⓐ

"B&G! STOP COP CITY" is sprayed on the side of a building with several windows in red spray paint. Several people standing nearby appear to be attempting to clean the paint with little success.

A white banner that reads "STOP COP CITY" hangs in front of a building. The banner has an anarchist circle-A symbol.

"B&G! STOP COP CITY" is sprayed on the side of a building with several windows in red spray paint. The words are accompanied by several anarchist circle-A symbols, and "fuck 12" is spray painted above it in black spray paint.

On the side of a large building, "WE HAVE THE NUMBERS" is sprayed in black and red spray paint. The beginning appears to have been partially washed off, as would happen in a fruitless attempt to clean the paint.

Originally posted by Tequesta Black Star.

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Bank of America set on fire in Portland

Posted on January 1, 2023 by scenes

Last night I broke into a Bank of America in Portland, Oregon and started a large fire. According to news reports, the fire grew quickly and took firefighters more than an hour to extinguish.

I attack for revenge against capital for the hell it creates, to break the illusion of police control that usually protects it, and just because I can.

Bank of America funds the Atlanta Police Foundation and a thousand other projects of control. Earlier that day, the six friends in Atlanta charged with “domestic terrorism” were released from jail. May this fire bring them some warmth in winter.

Long live anarchy!

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Banner Drop in Asheville

Posted on December 27, 2022 by scenes
On the morning of December 27th, two banners were dropped over interstate 40 in so called Asheville, North Carolina to show unwavering support and solidarity with 6 comrades in Atlanta Georgia that were arrested and charged, most notably, with domestic terrorism while defending Weelaunee forest from capital development and state violence. We stand militantly against capital interest to further the rapid gentrification of South Atlanta and development of the entertainment industry. We stand militantly against the states interest in providing tactical training to its agents (as well as international agencies) to repress growing opposition movements that will be forthcoming as a by product of the disintegration of capitalism and state legitimacy. We hope this small act of solidarity kindles a fire and rage in others to stare into the eyes authoritarians, fascists, and oligarchs alike, and to negate them by any means necessary.

Cop city will never be built.
A white banner with black text hangs on a bridge that reads "STOP COP CITY ACAB FROM AVL to ATL" with an anarchist circle-A symbol. A white banner with black text hangs on a bridge that reads "STOP COP CITY FREE THE ATL 6" with an anarchist circle-A symbol.
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MANHATTAN: Atlas VP’s Apartment Building attacked in solidarity with the ATL 6

Posted on December 21, 2022 by scenes

Atlas VP’s Manhattan apartment building (330 3rd Ave) attacked in solidarity with arrested Weelaunee forest defenders.

6 comrades were arrested without bail on bullshit inflated charges. they were initially denied running water and essential medications.

We stand in solidarity with their brave and kind defense of the trees of the Weelaunee forest. The state does not love and doesn’t understand nor allow it- not for the earth, not for each other, not at all. But we as people do. And we speak our love for our suffering friends and the suffering land through this attack, in the language of our shared struggle, and hope its echoes join the reverberations of all the love and courage born of this movement.

Rami boundouki is the VP of AtlaVista a part of Atlas Technical Consultants, one of the contractors trying to build cop city- what would be the largest cop training facility run by the private Atlanta pig foundation, where pigs across the globe seeking to repress and imprison people would come to train.

We reject this world order of prisons and pigs and dead forests, we reject their false peace, we reject the state in its entirety!

As rami’s redecorated apartment building now agrees, DROP COP CITY!

COP CITY WILL NEVR BE BUILT!
FREE THE ATL 6!

A window on a brick wall is spray painted "FOREST DESTROYER" in green.

Submitted Anonymously over Email

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Atlas Office in Michigan Attacked in Solidarity With Arrested Forest Defenders

Posted on December 18, 2022 by scenes

Solidarity With Struggle In Atlanta And Comrades Denied Bail For Their Nonviolent Direct Action Of Tree Sitting

If The State Responds To Nonviolent Protest With Violence, What Motivation Do We Have To Remain Peaceful? Over The Past Ten Years And Especially Since The Uprising In Summer ‘20 Protestors Have Been Met With Increasingly Militarized Police Repression. The Explicit Purpose Of Cop City Includes Training For Suppression Of Mass Protests By Physical Violence And Chemical Warfare. Instead Of Funding A Live-Able Social Safety Net, Atlanta Politicians Voted Against Public Interest To Create A Cop Playground. Atlas Technical Consultants Is One Of The Private Companies Propped Up By This Corrupt Scheme.

Last Night We Visited An Atlas Office In Novi Michigan. We Smashed Their Front Windows And Poured Paint At Their Doorstep. Unfortunately The Double Reinforced Panes Were Chalenging To Get Through—We Heard Someone Else Successfully Shattered Them Some Months Ago—But Damage Was Done Despite This.

No Cop City In Atlanta, No Cop Cities Anywhere! Violent Dranged Bastards From All Over The Country Would Travel To Atlanta For Training So We Must Travel To Defend Against Their Active Threats. This Fight Affects All Of Us, Coast To Coast And Around The World. From Grayling To Atlanta, Love And Rage.

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Philadelphia Banner Drops in Support of Arrested Forest Defenders

Posted on December 18, 2022 by scenes

On Saturday the 17th we hung a banners in solidarity with our friends jailed in Atlanta for defending the Weelaunee Forest against developers and cops. We hope that our action although small inspires others to act in solidarity with the arrested and against the system that arrests free life.

The struggle against cop city is not over!

From Philly to Atlanta let’s spread and intensify the struggles against police, gentrification, and the destruction of nature!
A white banner with "Solidarity with Forest Defenders" next to a Circle-A hangs over a highway overpass

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San Francisco Wells Fargo Attacked In Solidarity With Atlanta Forest Defenders

Posted on December 16, 2022 by scenes

Five windows and an ATM were smashed at the Wells Fargo at 24th Ave and Irving St in retribution for the arrest of five Atlanta forest defenders on bullshit “domestic terrorism” charges.
Mitch Graul, a Lead Business Execution Consultant at Wells Fargo, sits on the Board of Trustees of the Atlanta Police Foundation. Atlanta Police Foundation supports the construction of a massive police training facility in Atlanta’s Weelaunee Forest on the land of the Muscogee Creek peoples. The site was a plantation and then a prison farm. The bones in the land demand a reckoning. Anyone who supports Cop City is a target everywhere. Solidarity means attack!

For more info: https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/
Bail fund: https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/contribute-to-the-atlanta-solidarity-fund
Atlanta Police Foundation board members: https://atlantapolicefoundation.org/about-the-atlanta-police-foundation/#board-members

Via https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/12/15/18853422.php

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This is our place to share what we're up to in the Forest.

And it's a submission-based platform, so you should send us

  • Upcoming events
  • Art & photos
  • Recipes
  • Maps & trails
  • Writing
  • Natural remedies
  • Communiques
  • Songs & poetry
  • Report backs
  • Whatever else

Pretty much all forest-related content is more than welcome. Please don't send any personally-identifying photos or videos.

Send submissions by email to scenesatl@protonmail.com (please encrypt with our PGP key) or head to the submissions page.

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A word of advice

Cops & feds are out here (on the interweb). You should practice good security culture by only submitting to this site or the email while using a secure network like Tor, ideally on top of a secure operating system like Tails or Whonix. If you are sending to the email use an end-to-end encrypted email service like Protonmail, or a single use, throwaway email like tempr.email.
Learn more about digital security culture from CrimethInc, the NAALPO, or the EFF.

  • (RE-POST:) A CALL TO REJECT FASCIST CREEP IN THE WEELAUNEE FOREST
  • ATLAS OFFICE ATTACKED WITH POWERFUL STENCH AGENT
  • NO FASH IN THE FOREST
  • US BANK AND WELLS FARGO SMASHED FOR TORTUGUITA AND TYRE NICHOLS
  • MARCH/VIGIL IN VANCOUVER, CANADA
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