Category: General
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
Attack on Bank of America in Minneapolis In Solidarity With Arrested Forest Defenders
We smashed up the windows of the Bank of America on Hennepin Ave in MPLS, and painted the front to read “DEFUND COP CITY.”
Our attack was in solidarity with those arrested in the recent raid on the forest, and we pray for the safe return of our comrades and a continuation of the fight for life against cop city and hollywood dystopia. Bank of America will need to end their sponsorship of the Atlanta Police Foundation or they will continue to be under threat from our friends across the so-called united states.
a toast to the nights we gave ’em hell.
FUCK COP CITY
FUCK HOLLYWOOD DYSTOPIA
FREE THE FOREST DEFENDERS
TRUST GOD, FUCK 12
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
Call Brasfield & Gorrie today!
THE PRESSURE IS MOUNTING
Call Brasfield & Gorrie today! Tell them they have the power to Stop Cop City https://t.co/fRKgSw6UnA for more info pic.twitter.com/qSN9uvqRFf
— Stop Reeves Young (@stopreevesyoung) May 16, 2022
A Home Associated With Dodd Drilling LLC vandalized
EARLY MONDAY MORNING A HOME ASSOCIATED WITH DODD DRILLING, LLC WAS PAINTED WITH SLOGANS INCLUDING “DODD DRILLING STAY OUT”, “STOP COP CITY”, AND “DROP APD” TO THE DODD DRILLING JERK: LAST MONDAY, A BULLDOZER WITH YOUR LOGO FORCED ITS WAY INTO WEELAUNEE FOREST AND LEFT A 100-FT TRAIL OF DESTRUCTION IN ITS WAKE. FOREST DEFENDERS RESPONDED QUICKLY WITH ROCKS AND RAGE, BUT SOME DAMAGE WAS ALREADY DONE. DESPITE HAVING NO PERMIT, YOU ALLOWED ATLANTA POLICE TO USE YOUR EQUIPMENT TO INTIMIDATE AND INJURE THE FOREST AND ITS RESIDENTS. TODAY, YOU KNOW WHAT IT’S LIKE TO HAVE YOUR SPACE INVADED. YOU CAME TO OUR HOME SO WE CAME TO YOURS. ALL FORESTS ARE CONNECTED–YOUR PRIVATE PROPERTY IS NOT AS PRIVATE AS YOU MAY THINK. WE DEMAND YOU STAY OUT OF WEELAUNEE FOREST AND STOP WORKING WITH ATLANTA POLICE AND COP CITY CONTRACTORS. TO ALL OTHERS WHO WOULD SUPPORT COP CITY: IT MIGHT HAVE MORE COSTS THAN YOU ANTICIPATE, FINANCIAL AND OTHERWISE. MANY CREATURES CARE DEEPLY ABOUT THIS FOREST AND ARE PREPARED TO DEFEND IT. ANY PARTNER OF THE APD OR CONTRACTOR FOR COP CITY IS OUR ENEMY AND POTENTIAL TARGET. TO OTHER INTERESTED PARTIES: THE PRINCIPAL ADDRESS OF DODD DRILLING, LLC IS A SUBURBAN HOME IN A CUL DE SAC LOCATED AT 64 TIMBER WALK DAWSONVILLE, GA 30534. THE BACKYARD INCLUDES A LOVELY FOREST WHICH IS EASY TO VISIT. THE WEELAUNEE FOREST IS NOT DYING; IT IS BEING KILLED AND THOSE WHO ARE KILLING IT HAVE NAMES AND ADDRESSES. A LIST OF LOCAL ATLANTA EVIL-DOERS IS AVAILABLE AT STOPREEVESYOUNG.COM. ~SOME SEXXII FOREST FAIRIES
-Recieved Anonymously Over Email
BRASFIELD & GORRIE CORPORATE HQ IN ALABAMA ATTACKED
ON THE MORNING OF THE 13TH, THE WINDOWS AND GLASS DOORS TO THE BRASFIELD & GORRIE CORPORATE HQ AT 3021 7TH AVE S, BIRMINGHAM, AL 35233 WERE SMASHED. THE WORDS “DROP COP CITY OR ELSE” WERE SPRAYPAINTED ON THE WINDOWS. PAINT WAS APPLIED TO THE FRONT SIGN.LET IT SERVE AS A WARNING TO THE EXECUTIVES AT BRASFIELD & GORRIE; WE KNOW WHERE YOU WORK AND WE KNOW WHERE YOU SLEEP. YOUR HOUSES COULD BE NEXT. KEITH JOHNSON, MILLER GORRIE, JAMES GORRIE, YOU WILL DROP THIS CONTRACT EVENTUALLY, WHY WAIT TO SEE HOW FAR WE WILL GO?
– IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE STRUGGLE IN ATLANTA
-Received anonymously over email
Atlanta Police Believe That An Organized Group Is Tracking and Targeting Officers
This is police scanner audio displaying Atlanta Police’s ignorance, cowardice, and paranoia related to what they believe is a group called “Black Flag Atlanta”.
The so-called “group” “Black Flag Atlanta” is likely referring to a hobbyist website here,(with a telegram here ) collects ground reports and police scanner intelligence.
The website is a resource for anyone and everyone.
They cops mention that they are afraid because of the actions of anonymous comrades who surrounded a Parks and Rec vehicle and attacked it while officers were inside and served the same to a juvenile detention facility vehicle: read about it here
The cops believe that “Black Flag Atlanta” is a group that tracks and monitors cops and their locations around the forest and works to attack them. This is laughably wrong. Rather than understanding that our power comes from open source intelligence, horizontal organizing, and transparency, they have conjured up a shadowy organization that organizes hits on police officers… and publishes their targets right beforehand.
-Received anonymously over email
ATLAS office windows smashed, vandalism in Albany NY
On the evening of may 10th I smashed 7 windows at the office building where the northeast offices of ATLAS are located in Albany, NY. I also tagged “ATLAS – STOP DESTROYING THE ATLANTA FOREST.” Destroying hundreds of acres of forest during the 6th greatest mass extinction of species to build a police training facility following one of the largest anti-police uprisings in decades is fucking disgusting. With this vandalism I urge ATLAS to do the right thing and drop any contracts with Brasfield and Gorrie and the Cop City project.
-some anarchist-
-Received anonymously over email
Brasfield & Gorrie the general contractors for Cop City have Atlanta office covered in graffiti
This is a part of a series on the 3rd Week of Action.
We're probably going to hear more about this later, but you know what they say: "Fucking their shit up is worth a thousand words"… or something pic.twitter.com/O84WBhAAQb
— Scenes from the Atlanta Forest (@scenesatl) May 12, 2022
WEEK OF ACTION RAVE 5/14/2022 10:30PM
This is a part of a series on the 3rd Week of Action.
Email grasslabyrinth@protonmail.com for location
MULTIPLE POLICE CARS DAMAGED IN WEELAUNEE
This is a part of a series on the 3rd Week of Action.
Just after 10am on Wednesday, May 24th (the 4th day of the Third Week of Action) 2 DeKalb County park police entered the forest to inspect the path created by bulldozers on Monday in the RC field. As they were exiting, forest defenders ambushed them by throwing rocks and bottles their cars, smashing windows. It seems they aren’t so formidable when they aren’t alongside DeKalb County Police assisting in encampment sweeps, as they did last December at the behest of Blackhall Studios following the “Witch Bloc” hexing.
At Noon, a van with “LAW ENFORCEMENT – DEPARTMENT OF JUVENILE JUSTICE” superimposed in a seal over a silhouette of Georgia printed on the door pulled into the parking lot of Intrenchment Creek Park by the gazebo. Around an hour later, the van was attacked suddenly by a barrage of rocks and multiple tires were slashed. The van attempted to escape but was left stranded in the parking lot until DeKalb Police were able to escort it out. Police were nervously walking backwards in order to keep their eyes on the tree line where they knew forest defenders would be watching them at every moment.
Multiple police vehicles were damaged. Nobody was detained or arrested. Juvenile justice was served, but probably not in the way they meant. Atlanta will remain a forest.
-Received anonymously over Email
Bank Attacked in Solidarity with Yintah Land Defenders and Atlanta Forest Defenders in Pittsburgh, USA
POLICE RETREAT FROM FOREST
On Wednesday May 4th police cut the a poop bucket contraption locked to the gate, by using a ladder to get it from over the fence, however they didn’t get much farther then that. According to scanners, they encountered a flaming barricade as soon as they opened the fence. They eventually cleared the barricade and drove into the forest a little ways. Then promptly backed off when met with a barrage of rocks and smoke bombs. It is not clear what the objective of the police was that day, but they definitely did not achieve it. It was also observed that barricades and the Atlanta steamer were restored by the next day. Nature is healing
Keep Up The Good Fight
Happy May Day from Highland, IN. Gave the local Atlas office a
face-lift, I think it looks much prettier now.
-Recieved Anonymously over Email
With Love From Minneapolis
Employees arriving to work this morning at the Fridley office of Atlas Technical Consultants found a mess. Every window of the building had been smashed out, buckets of paint had been thrown inside the office, and the front was redecorated to read “FUCK COP CITY, DEFEND THE ATL FOREST.”
This attack was carried out in response to a call for a May 1st day of action, put out by our friends in Atlanta. Atlas Technical Consultants is the owner of Long Engineering, who are active participants in the ill-fated attempt at the destruction of the Atlanta forest.
Brasfield & Gorrie, as well as their subcontractors, should take note that there will be consequences for encroachment on the forest in the service of cop city and Hollywood dystopia. Atlas should realize that this endeavor *will not* be worth the trouble.
To our friends in Atlanta, we’re inspired by your bravery and resourcefulness. We want you to know whatever you’re with, Minneapolis is with it. You’re showing the world what a decentralized composition of struggle can accomplish, and developing the force required to confront cop city and whatever is next. Atlanta will remain a forest.
With love,
Murderapolis
– Recieved anonymously over Email
Bay Area ATM’s Sabotaged in solidarity with land defenders in the Atlanta Forest and across occupied land.
A Fearful Conversation over dinner
The first of hopefully many fictional accounts of the Defend The Atlanta Forest Movement. This is a one scene play. Please perform this in any of the following locations: the forest, the front lawn of the High Museum, or in front of the Atlanta Police Foundation office.
Characters: Dean Reeves. Patty Reeves
Scene
Patty is standing by the table with two plates full of meat. Dean enters from stage right.
Dean: I just got off the phone Heinrich and MuchoMachoMan will start being given round the clock secuirty starting next week.
The two sit down at the table.
Patty: Oh Dean I haven’t been able to eat in days and I don’t think today will be any different.
Dean: Didn’t you hear what I just said? MuchoMachoMan is safe now.
Patty: How can you think secuirty makes him safer? Was there security when Forest Defenders went to your office? Was there security when Forest Defenders sabatoged those machines at your work site?
Dean stands up from the table fists clinched.
Dean: Now you listen to me Patty. In May Reeves Young is supposed to start chopping those trees down; this is going to get worse before it gets better. Who knows what Forest Defenders will do when we try to cut the trees down.
Patty stands up, tears in her eyes.
Patty: Do you hear yourself Dean? How could it get worse? Forest Defenders already have beencto our house and put that banner up. I can’t live in fear anymore Dean. The Forest Defenders they know our names. They know our addresses. We don’t even need the money; we’re millionaires and your business has plenty of other contracts.
Dean falls to his knees.
Dean: Fine Patty you win, the Forest Defenders win. The Forest Defenders will just have to stop another company like they did us.
Patty and Dean both sit down at the table.
Patty: Oh Dean thank you so much. Now I can eat this horse meat for dinner
Dean: It’s delicious honey. MuchoMachoMan’s children are the tastiest horses imaginable.
End scene.
Portland Bank of America attacked in solidarity with Atlanta Forest defenders
“Portland, Oregon”, Earth Night:
The doors,windows and ATMs of Bank of America financial center were broken and the building was painted with messages against the destruction of Atlanta forest.
Bank of America was attacked because of its funding of the Atlanta Police Foundation and the cop city project attempting to replace the forest with police infrastructure.
Fuck cops
Fuck banks
From the west coast, solidarity with those defending the forest.
Plan, prepare, attack!
Carpe noctem friends
-Received anonymously over email
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