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WOA ANARCHIST BINGO~ DTF ! STOP COP CITY! Fight Blackhall!

Posted on July 24, 2022 - July 24, 2022 by scenes

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

Weelaunee People’s Park Opening And Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

Posted on July 23, 2022 - July 24, 2022 by scenes

Cops, at Milsap’s orders, attempted to close the park to the public. Today, forest defenders kicked off the @defendATLforest Week of Action by re-opening it as Weelaunee People’s Park, ribbon-cutting ceremony and all. https://t.co/Dy5vQHAlBN pic.twitter.com/0jWR5QyqA9

— Atlanta Community Press Collective (@atlanta_press) July 23, 2022

Climate activists chained themselves to the doors of a Charlotte office building Friday morning

Posted on July 23, 2022 - July 24, 2022 by scenes

Protesters on Friday left a poster that reads “Stop Cop City. Drop the Contract” on the doors of an office buliding in Charlotte Climate activists want construction company Brasfield & Gorrie to end its contract which Atlanta for a police training facility in a forest home to an indigenous tribe.
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article263729833.html

-Received Anonymously Over Email

RC Field Barricaded

Posted on July 22, 2022 - July 22, 2022 by scenes

A Banner that reads "BECOME UNREMOTECONTROLLABLE" "FUCK BLACKHALL"
“BECOME UN-REMOTE-CONTROLLABLE, FUCK BLACKHALL” reads the banner in front of the new tire-and-brush barricade in front of the Remote Control Airfield at Intrenchment Creek Park, where police entered the forest twice this week after barricading the ICP parking lot shut last Friday. The cops gleefully stepped into their role as the hired henchmen of corporate elites, and “closed the park”—which is still legally a public park—at the behest of Blackhall Studios CEO Ryan Millsap, sworn enemy of all things good in this world. The cops put up private property signs which were swiftly taken down, and the cement barricades autonomously swung open.

The time has long passed to choose a side. You are either with the forest or against it. We know where the cops stand, we know where Blackhall Studios stands, and we will no longer let them into these woods without a battle.

OUR WOODS NOT HOLLYWOOD’S! NO HOLLYWOOD DYSTOPIA! FUCK RYAN MILLSAP! FUCK BLACKHALL STUDIOS! BECOME UN-REMOTE-CONTROLLABLE!!!

-Received Anonymously Over Email

“We Will Not Be Intimidated” – statement from a squirrel

Posted on July 22, 2022 by scenes

The continued militarized response to treesitters in the south Atlanta forest shows very blatantly how willing the state is to use violence and intimidation to repress our movements.

To the state we say this “We will not be intimidated.” Your “aggressive posturing” will not scare us away. While you depict us as almost mythical creatures capable of terrifying things, skulking through the woods, we enjoy a world filled with relationships built on trust and intimacies deeper than you can imagine. group meals, music around the fire, real talk, a life richer than most anything to be found in civilization, built with the scraps of your world. There are many of us, with many different analyses, but we hold one thing in common, we have seen what is possible, and we stand in total opposition to this world and its cops. For a world without police or prisons or asylums, a world without gender, a world without civilization

-squirrel

-Received Anonymously Over Email

New Website Launched: Cops Of Cop City

Posted on July 21, 2022 - July 22, 2022 by scenes

copsofcopcity.noblogs.org

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Ant gang moves 2 ton barricade of public park

Posted on July 21, 2022 - July 22, 2022 by scenes

It takes 100 cute little ants working together to type a communique. Imagine how many ants it takes to move a 4,000 lb concrete barricade! That’s what we accomplished last night, the evening of the 19th. Ryan Milsap wanted to close Intrenchment Creek Park to the public and thought that some 2 ton concrete barricades would do the trick. But he just had no idea how many ants love to come and go from the park and love to work together to make a nicer place for the whole community. Fuck Milsap, Fuck Blackhall, and FUCK THE COPS!

Love to you all,
Ant Gang

-Received Anonymously Over Email

BEAVERS GNAW DOWN 40 FT WOODEN SURVEILLANCE POLE IN WELAUNEE FOREST installed by APD & City of ATL:

Posted on July 7, 2022 by scenes

…We noticed that police escorted a white work truck with boom lift affiliated with The City of Atlanta to install a very large & approximate 40 foot wooden pole on Key Road near the prison ruins in south Atlanta yesterday, for what appeared to be a high altitude surveillance tower…
Us beavers just so happen to LOVE a good hardwood pole, & will surely gnaw down more if you bring them!
Thanks for the snack APD!
Downed wooden pole on the edge of a forested road
We saved some leftovers for you on the side of the road in what also appears to be a mounting pile of broken surveillance cameras…

In Solidarity with Forest defenders holding it down in the South Atlanta Forest,
The Beaver Gang

-Received Anonymously Over Email

Springfield Massachusetts, Atlas Technical Consultants Office Has Windows Smashed And Vandalized

Posted on July 4, 2022 - July 4, 2022 by scenes

june 15, night, more shattered glass windows and paint at an office of atlas technical consultants. their office located at 73 william franks dr west springfield, massachusetts 01089 was the latest in a spree of similar attacks across the country. so many of their offices have been hit, with many more to come until they drop ties with long engineering and its plans to help build cop city. drop the contract, save weelaunee forest! until then, expect more resistance…

-Received Anonymously Over Email

Flyers About stopapf.noblogs.org

Posted on July 2, 2022 by scenes

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Visit Stop The Atlanta Police Foundation Website

Posted on July 1, 2022 - July 1, 2022 by scenes

Stop The Atlanta Police Foundation

stopapf.noblogs.org

Visit https://t.co/sKJ6xltLVb for information.

— stopapf (@stopapf) July 1, 2022

North Gate Barricaded Shut to Protect Forest from Cops with Chainsaws

Posted on July 1, 2022 by scenes

Barricaded gate with sign that read "Give Up" This last week, barricades were erected to protect the South Atlanta Forest from police incursions with chainsaws.
The north gate was sealed off to the OPF (Old Prison Farm) on Key Rd. with an array of concrete, thick wood, broken glass, & cunning!
To make matters worse for the police, a lovely bucket of shit was chained to the gate as well!
In conjunction, a banner reading, “Give Up,” was aptly placed on the front of the Barricade to rightfully celebrate the WITHDRAWAL of subcontractor Reeves Young from the Cop City project, as well as what appears to be (but not yet confirmed!) Main contactor Brasfield & Gorie.
Barricades will continue to be constructed as long as the South Atlanta Forest is threatened by cops, & in any danger of clear- cutting & the likes to build Cop City.
If the cops keep trying to enter the forest on UTV’s with hopes of terrorizing forest defenders, abusing non-human animals, or killing trees with evil tools, they will be consistently met with treacherous roadblocks…
Consider this your warning, APD.

-Received Anonymously Over Email

Road blocked by protestors today near the Charlotte, NC offices of Brasfield & Gorrie

Posted on June 30, 2022 - July 1, 2022 by scenes

Road blocked by protestors today near the Charlotte, NC offices of #CopCity construction firm @BrasfieldGorrie. Residents of Charlotte call on B&G to drop the contract and stop Cop City! pic.twitter.com/4RZXY0DXSB

— Defend the Atlanta Forest (@defendATLforest) June 30, 2022

More Trees Spiked in the Welaunee Forest

Posted on June 29, 2022 - June 29, 2022 by scenes

Last night we randomly inoculated dozens of trees with steel and ceramic spikes to protect against felling by chainsaw. Signs were posted in English and Spanish to alert workers. This process is harmless to the trees, but poses a serious danger to machinery and workers should they choose to ignore the warnings. Cops have been seen in recent weeks entering the forest with chainsaws, ignoring the stop work order and cutting down trees in an unskilled and dangerous manner at the site of current and former treesits. They should stop.
Since we know the tree-sits ALONE that have been publicized may not prevent logging by themselves, we have taken it upon ourselves to go the extra mile…
“The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.”–Utah Phillips
The draws of “society” & the “civilized” & ‘developed’ world cannot surpass the sounds of swallows in trees, humming of insects & bees, & the liberation of laying under the starry skies.

-Railroad Workers Union Local 1312

-Received Anonymously Over Email

JUNETEENTH TREESITS ERECTED TO BLOCK JUVENILE DETENTION CTR annexation & STOP COP CITY, ATL GA:

Posted on June 28, 2022 - June 28, 2022 by scenes

Over the last 2 weeks, actions both inside the forest & out have managed to stop construction& keep it at bay!
On Juneteenth (Jun. 19th), a very important day commemorating the freeing of slaves in the so-called U.S. from slavery, we erected a new treesit named Tower 7 in solidarity with youth prisoners currently being held in the juvenile detention center on Constitution Rd.
Gilligan’s Island is another new tree- sit that is connected to the infamously named & effective, “Haha Lol.Fuck You,” treesit (rightfully named because the kkkops destroyed the first platform, & cut part of a tree that was tied together in hopes of injuring forest defenders). Gilligan’s Island, Tower Seven, & many other trees have been connected together with ropes which has successfully deterred cops and workers from chainsawing down trees when they arrived in the forest with that intention. No more trees have been cut in this area since then! We plan to keep it that way & greatly appreciate your ongoing support! The flood of support pouring into the forest has meant a lot to those who are here defending the woods with our lives, both materially and emotionally as we get the sense of how many people are cheering us on. Much love and thank you all!
We believe all the tools for defending the forest & stopping cop city are important and that a diversity of tactics is most valuable!
Occupy the trees! Stop the Machines!
Defend the Forest with your heart!
Fight back against the oppressive arm of the law & police!

-Received Anonymously Over Email

StopCopCity/DefendAtlantaForest east coast tour!

Posted on June 26, 2022 - June 28, 2022 by scenes

#StopCopCity / #DefendAtlantaForest east coast tour!

6/30 NYC @ Our House 1pm
7/1 Philly @ Greys Ferry Skatepark 7:30pm
7/2 Richmond @ Lamplighter 8pm
7/3 Durham TBA pic.twitter.com/QYuyBQBBe5

— Defend the Atlanta Forest (@defendATLforest) June 26, 2022

West Coast Tour

Posted on June 22, 2022 by scenes

West Coast tour!

Come out to learn about Cop City and the movement to defend the ATL forest 💚🌲🌳 pic.twitter.com/25VWGdEiNl

— Defend the Atlanta Forest (@defendATLforest) June 21, 2022

Atlanta Solidarity Fund

Posted on June 22, 2022 by scenes

If you are an activist in Atlanta who has been approached for questioning by law enforcement, get in touch with us. We can help you understand your rights, and connect you to legal experts. You don't have to face police intimidation alone!

— Atlanta Solidarity Fund (@ATLSolFund) June 18, 2022

4TH WEEK OF ACTION JULY 23-30

Posted on June 17, 2022 by scenes

Week of Action! July 23-30. Send questions and flyers to dtfweekofaction@riseup.net

If not now, then when?
If not us, then who?

July 23-30
ATL pic.twitter.com/EY6UXKMDQ6

— Defend the Atlanta Forest (@defendATLforest) June 16, 2022

Kansas City Atlas Construction Office Attacked

Posted on June 13, 2022 - June 13, 2022 by scenes

On 6/12 we smashed every window and door of the Atlas construction office in Kansas City area in solidarity with the Atlanta forest defense. We will continue this path of destruction until cop city is stopped and the forest can exist in peace. Atlas be warned, much more is coming.

Sending love to the forest,
-some anarchists-

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