FUCK YOUR FAR RIGHT ENTRYISM
FUCK YOUR RED BROWN ALLIANCE
FUCK YOUR DOGWHISTLES
FUCK YOUR BOOGALOO
WE SEE YOU AND WE KNOW WHO THE FUCK YOU ARE
NO FUCKING FASCISTS IN THIS MOVEMENT
WE ARE IN A THREE WAY FIGHT
WE WILL FIND OUT WHO YOU ARE, WE WILL RUN YOU THE FUCK OUT OF TOWN, WE WILL BEAT THE FUCK OUT OF YOU IF WE HAVE TO
WE KEEP US SAFE
YOUR VOLKISH CONCEPTIONS MAKE US FUCKING SICK
WE SEE THROUGH YOUR COVER
YOU WILL NEVER BE SAFE IN ATLANTA
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Forest Creatures descend on Atlas Technical Consultants office in Minneapolis, Minnesota demanding that they drop their contract to build Cop City. https://t.co/gPg4cUSmll
Watch: pic.twitter.com/vP2QXeMr6R— Scenes from Weelaunee (@ScenesWeelaunee) January 19, 2023
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From Atlanta Community Press Collective:
We are devastated by the loss of our friend who was killed by the police. Tortuguita was a kind, passionate, and loving person, cherished by their community
They spent their time between Atlanta, defending the forest from destruction and coordinating mutual aid for the movement and, and Florida where they helped build housing in low income communities hit hardest by the hurricane. They were a trained medic, a loving partner, a dear friend, a brave soul, and so much more. In Tort’s name, we continue to fight to protect the forest and stop cop city with love, rage, and a commitment to each other’s safety and well-being.
Many people have reached out with memories and accounts of Tortuguita. They are remembered and cherished by many friends, loved ones, and people
who they supported with mutual aid.
“They loved all life and people -especially their qtpoc community — deeply.“
“Tortuguita was a very kind person. They were always willing to help and take care people in need around them, especially the qtbipoc community. They were always attentive to others needs and offer always the best of them. A truly warriors for the forest and the people! I miss them so much.”
We don’t know what happened yesterday, but we know that the police killed them while they were defending the forest. Please reach out with accounts of Tortuguita to honor their memory to RememberTort@protonmail.com
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In the late afternoon hours of Tuesday, November 8 (Election Day), another tow truck entered the parking lot of the Weelaunee People’s Park with the intention of carrying away the charred remains of Ryan Millsap’s tow truck, which was burnt back in July. The latter truck has become a monument to the power of this movement, and had already been defended from extraction at least once before. So when this new truck came–its driver saying that he had already called the cops, and he’d be towing our truck as soon as they arrived–forest defenders were quick to respond. The police, on the other hand, were not. When it became clear to the driver that the cops were too lazy, overextended, and scared to come to his aid, he abandoned the vehicle with the keys inside. When DKPD did finally arrive on the scene, they were too scared to even enter the parking lot, let alone the forest. Forest defenders drove the truck to the RC field in an attempt to block the path where a bulldozer had entered last May. Then they set it ablaze, taking great care to ensure that the surrounding grass didn’t catch.
Meanwhile, those Americans that still believe in the ritual of voting were casting their ballots for the maintenance of one or the other version of the status quo. They think of this as freedom, as though the choice between 100 brands of cereal were the same as choosing how to live. We chose another route. We chose to defend a territory that has been claimed by the people, for the people–where the police do not dare to go because they have seen what happens to enemy vehicles. We elected a raging fire beneath a full moon!
Sincerely,
The Committee to Elect Stacey Abrams
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NS EXCAVATOR BURNT ADJACENT TO RAILROAD TRACKS, WELAUNEE WOODS, ATL.
This excavator belonged to Norfolk Southern, a supporter of the proposed Cop City Project in ATL. It was decommissioned by fire. Fire heals all. Fuck northfolk southern railways.
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We chopped down the surveillance camera at the landfill part of the old prison farm; we originally thought it was a 5 G tower, & didn’t realize until halfway through it was just a surveillance camera….but oh well! Those are evil too!
In the name of our lord and savior, Jesus Christ, we pray for all the forest defenders fighting to protect the forest from deadly police, and we promise to continue to hap hazardly do solidarity actions with you. It looks like it took authorities about a week to fix it anyway, but the pole is still in pieces… It also looks like people added a black flag later… That is groovy!
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On October 31st, a mischievous banner drop was spotted at Florida State’s Student Union. The banner was adorned with a vengeful Hannya displayed menacingly across the canvas, while the text read ‘Haunt Cop City’, #StopCopCity, and #DefendWeelaunee as it loomed overhead…
We hope that this Halloween spirit haunts the dreams of every Tallahassee Police member who trained with Eddie Gallagher at Stronghold SOF Solutions earlier this year. And to every remaining cop, politician, and DeSantis for the signing of HB 1 and SB 484 a year prior, which cemented their monopoly on violence and emboldened police aggression and militarization for days to come.
There is no coincidence that the banality of evil begins at the top. Where warrior culture permeates at every level until the terms ‘Protect’ and ‘Serve’ are indistinguishable to domination. Whatever is left of community, is now in the hands of ‘community’ policing that expand the carceral state’s walls to our neighborhood doorsteps. For these reasons we stand in solidarity with the Defend the Atlanta Forest movement in Georgia, and oppose the construction of Cop City everywhere.
Trick what Treats you like sh*t <3 Happy Talloween!
dear m miller buttface, chairman and ceo of brasfield & buttface,
as you know, some of your jerkface colleagues have been visited by crowds of attractive noisy rabble rousers during the daytime. we thought you might benefit from a nighttime visit instead. your ugly tacky house @ 54 country club blvd mountain brook, al 35213 caught our attention and we redecorated just a bit… the walls looked better with a little pink so did that creepy statue. the lexus and mercedes in your driveway also screamed poor taste so we splashed them with a gallon of laquer thinner and etched “stop cop city” and a dick with circle A balls into the windshields and driver’s side window. much better! on the driveway we left a message: c u soon. it’s up to you if we make good on this promise… if your dumb company drops the cop city contract then stylish people like us wouldn’t feel so compelled to visit you ever again. if not, we’re looking forward to something even hotter and sexier!
-fey (un)painter’s union
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As the sun was setting on August 24th a group of about ten made their way, masked and chanting, down the sleepy side road that leads to Keith Johnson’s house. The low exterior wall to his gated community didn’t slow them down. As they approached an off-duty police officer acting as private security exited the vehicle. After a brief standoff the camo-clad group left, leaving leaflets across the road and lawn.
Ten minutes later a car was pulled over nearby and three people were arrested under suspicion of participation in this peaceful demonstration.
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Around midday on Friday August 26th about 30-40 people met at a park in the Summerhill neighborhood before marching two blocks to a Brassfirled and Gorrie job site at the corner of Fulton and Hank Aaron Drive, chanting as they approached the building. They quickly piled into the building before the site manager knew what was going on.
The group wandered around the building continuing to chant before a short speech was given, directed at B&G. As the group left, chanting “Will be back”, the site manager (identified by his Brassfiled and Gorrie hard hat) followed them, antagonizing members of the group and filming. As the group left the building a brief scuffle broke out at the doorway. A lone police officer ran up but the crowd stayed together and continued to safely make their way back to the point where they met to disperse. The crowd left before backup arrived.
In the following hour the police made 8 arrests in the surrounding neighborhood under suspicion of participation in this demonstration.
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How do we tell time? It could have been sometime in May, sometime in Spring, sometime between the 3rd and 4th Week of Action, all of these are correct.
Suffice to say the actual day on the Gregorian Calendar can no longer be recalled by us. However, we are confident that Keith Johnson, the Eastern Regional President of Brassfield and Gorrie, recalls the specific date.
Do you know the Keith Johnson? Who lives on Gordon Combs Rd NW? Specifically at 1268 Gordon Combs Rd NW, Kennesaw, GA 30152?
Well ten or so people do. They came and greeted Mr. Jonhson with smoke bombs, spray paint, and a megaphone. And none of them were arrested.
Mr. Johnson why don’t you just stop Cop City already? Don’t you think your wife Mrs. Johnson would like to be able to relax and not have to deal with people making noise outside your house?
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On the evening of August 24th Justin Rannick was trying to leave his mansion in his car but was surprised by a crowd of 10-20 waiting in the bushes just on the other side of his gated driveway. They chanted and yelled at him for a few minutes before leaving. No arrests were made.
Justin Rannick you have two major faults. One you’re the Division Manager at the Atlanta office of Brassfield and Gorrie who are the general contractor for Cop City. Your second fault is you’re on the board for the Atlanta Police Foundation.
Corporate nepotism aside, work on these faults and stop being involved in the Cop City project. We believe in your ability to improve yourself.
If anyone wants to encourage Justin to make these improvements he lives on a one way street full of mansions at 247 Trenton Lane, Canton, GA 30115.
We’re all rooting for you JR.
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SEPTEMBER 28TH 6PM AT THE MEADOWS! Defend Atlanta Forest / Stop Cop City Tour Presentation In the wake of the 2020 George Floyd rebellion, Atlanta-area officials have planned to build the largest police training compound in the country — by bulldozing the largest urban tree canopy in the country! Meanwhile, film-industry executives plan to clear-cut what remains in order to build “the largest soundstage complex on Earth.”
Join us for an in-depth overview and conversation with on-the-ground activists involved in the historic movement to Stop Cop City and Defend The Atlanta Forest.
Accessibility: The picnic grove is a short walk from the parking lot via a paved pathway with some incline/decline. The picnic area is grassy and/or mulched. Picnic tables and restrooms are available; please bring snacks and water. ADA restrooms are available while the clubhouse is open/staffed.
Location: Meadows Picnic Grove at FDR, 1954 Pattison Ave
Enter the Meadows from the 20th street parking lot by walking west through the community gardens and past the clubhouse.
This event will be a part of many for Meadow Fest. A Gathering to stop the destruction of the Meadows. For the full schedule of events go to: http://savethemeadows.com/events
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A few months ago Fairmount Park Conservancy put up 3 4-sided plastic strucures along the trail parallel to MLK BLVD. The signs advertise the park with a website, twitter, QR and IG, and feature a list of shows/activities people can get involved with. Prior to this there were no obvious signs along the trail specifying what the space “was”, who it was being maintained by or what it was for.
Early Friday morning we wrote anti-development, anti-colonization and FDR meadows solidarity graffiti on the structures. We also covered up the QR codes and some of the social media handles. Beyond the message in the graffiti we hope the paint ruins the signs.
These signs, the cutting of trees in Cobbs Creek, the development in FDR Park are all forms of domesticating the land and those who move across it. Domestication runs counter to how we want to relate to spaces, ourselves and each other. We want to live wild lives beyond the control of any authority and for that we need wild spaces.
The development and domestication of wild spaces makes them less hospitable to wildlife, plant life, people wandering and living outside and anyone who wants to enjoy a space in autonomous, unorganized and illegal ways.
We dislike the Fairmount Park Conservancy because we’re not interested in conserving spaces, freezing in time spaces that would otherwise grow and change. Despite their name, the conservancy has a clear objective of designating spaces for certain kinds of activities, for certain kinds of people, in a topdown manner. The clearest example of this is their contribution to the destruction of the FDR meadows.
Development and domestication are inseparable from issues of race, colonization, gentrification and class. Check out https://edgeeffects.net/green-gentrification/ for a way these things interact in spaces outside of residential neighborhoods.
Solidarity with the saboteurs at FDR, Cobbs Creek, the Atlanta Forest and everyone trying to widen the cracks!
This cross-post from Philly Anti-Capitalist was submitted anonymously over email
To the cops, arborists, contractors, ceo’s, and anyone else who dares to continually endanger the lives and well-being of the forest defenders in the Weelaunee forest alongside their destruction of non-human animal life and plant life:
We know where you live. We are watching you. You should think about that before endangering the lives and well-being of forest defenders. We may not care to be precise as to which exact cop, which exact arborist, which exact construction worker, which company caused the specific harm.
Our actions may even discomfort your loved ones and those close to you and we have no intention of mercy. Your reign of brutalization, control, and terror is accustomed to a quiet passivity that no longer exists. You should not feel safe. We want you to be afraid. We want to hurt you.
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Various construction machines were torched on a property owned by the city Atlanta- Just north of Intrenchment Creek Park, at Key & Bouldercrest.
All further so called ‘Development’ and ‘Improvement’ of the South Atlanta Forest will be resisted.
Solidarity with warriors and saboteurs!
All power to the Defenders of Weelaunee!
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Banners went up in the trees in South Philly’s FDR Meadows, where nearly 200 acres of wetlands and meadows, which serve as habitat for endangered migrating monarch butterflies and many other species of wildlife, are threatened by the city’s plans to bury the earth in astroturf for more sports fields and other capitalist ventures. Public outcry in Philadelphia has already forced the city to compromise on their original plans, but we will accept no compromise in defense of the meadows and monarchs. Solidarity from Philadelphia to Atlanta. We live here.
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In Atlanta, Georgia, the city government intends to destroy large swaths of what remains of the South River Forest—also known by the Muskogee name for the river, Weelaunee. In place of one stretch of woods, they aim to build a police training compound; they have sold the neighboring part to Blackhall Studios executive Ryan Millsap, who intends to build a giant soundstage. Yet for more than a year now, activists have protected the forest against their plans. In a previous article, we chronicled how this campaign got started and the strategies that have driven it; in the following collection of narratives, participants in the movement describe their experiences and explain what makes this fight meaningful to them.
The fight to defend the forest brings together locals whose neighborhood will be gentrified by the developments, environmentalists who recognize the importance of the forest in mitigating the impact of climate change, forest defenders who have been occupying the trees for months, abolitionists who oppose the expansion of racist policing in Atlanta, and young people who desperately need a free space to build community outside the high prices and profit imperatives of Atlanta corporate nightlife. These are not discrete issues, but aspects of a coherent whole.
The destruction of the tree canopy and the gentrification of neighborhoods are stages in the same process: the former paves the way for the latter. Forcibly displacing Indigenous peoples, carving up the natural world into private property, burying the fertile earth under concrete, and terrorizing the inhabitants with police violence are all expressions of the same logic. Catastrophic climate change is the large-scale consequence of a series of smaller steps that are no less catastrophic in the lives of individual human beings.
The defense of the forest in Atlanta is only one of many such struggles over land and housing across the continent, including People’s Park in Berkeley, Echo Park in Los Angeles, and the camp defending the UC Townhomes in Philadelphia. As investment capital floods the real estate market, it has become increasingly difficult for to afford housing, let alone maintain collective space in which to experiment and build a common context. These movements have responded by defending a shared space of life and struggle.
Most of the following accounts describe the events of the week of action at the end of July 2022, when people from around Atlanta and other parts of the United States gathered for a week of discussions, protests, and concerts. The week of action culminated with a festival during which DJs, bands, and speakers performed, showing how the forest serves as an autonomous zone beyond the constraints of the capitalist economy.
The forest is not just a particular concentration of trees; we can also understand it as a network of relationships between living creatures of all species. Life flourishes when it is liberated from control. This was palpable in the festival at the conclusion of the week of action. In a club, a breakdown or a breakbeat functions as a kind of lubricant to grease the gears of exploitation, bringing in business and (at best) advancing the career of a particular DJ or band. In a liberated zone, the collective experience of music can signify shared power, the joyous realization of potential, showing how each person’s creativity can contribute to the liberation of all.
The South River Forest is not an old-growth forest. If anything, this makes the movement to defend it more inspiring. This land was already brutalized—yet, given a few years of peace, it became a wilderland capable of sustaining spaces of freedom. Any patch of flowers growing out of the cracks in the concrete could become a forest if we defend it. The possibility of freedom awaits all around and within us, even in the most repressive environments.
The forest—which is to say, the web of life—extends beyond the bounds of any designated park, into each of our bodies. This web is what sustains our lives, not the extraction industries that are currently destroying the basis of existence for countless species.
Two decades ago, the authors of Fighting for Our Lives suggested that “The best reason to be a revolutionary is that it is simply a better way to live.” As state violence accelerates the catastrophes resulting from capitalist industrialism, it may turn out that it is also the only way to live.
Read the full article on CrimethInc: https://crimethinc.com/2022/08/09/beneath-the-concrete-the-forest-accounts-from-the-defense-of-the-atlanta-forest
Graffiti in Solidarity with Welaunee Forest Defenders from the Meadows of Lenapehoking ( South Philly ) for the Week of Action that reads “From Welaunee Forest to the Meadows Defend Mother Earth Without Compromise!”
As our Friends and Comrades are fighting against the “Cop City” that is proposed to destroy the Welaunee Forest in Atlanta, We are connected in struggle here in the Lenni-Lenape meadows of so called “FDR” Park in South Philly. Over 100+ Acres of Meadows that that has rewilded is under threat of development by “astro-turf” sports fields and yuppie tourist shops. A large coalition of over 20+ groups and many autonomous people are resisting and will fight to defend the Meadows without compromise. The whole planet is under attack by colonial capitalist developers and the state and we are on the verge of runaway climate change! We need a global eco-revolution for our collective survival before it’s too late! So Destroy capitalism and the state! WHEREVER YOU ARE REVOLT FOR MOTHER EARTH!
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