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Tag: apf

New Website Launched: Cops Of Cop City

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

copsofcopcity.noblogs.org

-Recieved Anonymously Over Email

Posted in General, NewsTagged apf, police

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

Posted in Communiques, GeneralTagged apf, direct action, ecodefense, sabotage

Flyers About stopapf.noblogs.org

Posted on July 2, 2022 by scenes

Empire Communities is a contributor to the Atlanta Police Foundation and a real estate housing development company  that develops primarily in areas experiencing rapid gentrification and destroys forested land and multi-generational affordable homes to do so.  They own planned developments, active construction sites, offices, and model homes located in Atlanta GA, Austin, TX,Houston, San Antonio, TX, North Carolina, Ontario Canada. Learn more at stopapf.noblogs.org  The "At Promise Center"'s are one of the Atlanta Police Foundation's projects that serve as youth probation and furthering community policing in the areas they are built. In a City Council Meeting in July 2021 Dave Wilkinson (President and CEO of the Atlanta Police Foundation) said that "At risk youth of the "At Promise Center"'s could go and work" when asked about the motivation, vision, or reasoning for the "urban farm site" at the planned Cop City. Learn more at stopapf.noblogs.org Norfolk Southern is a contributor to the Atlanta Police Foundation and is rail and real-estate owner/operator that serves every major container port in the eastern United States.   Norfolk Southern is a major transporter of industrial products, including agriculture, forest and consumer products, chemicals, and metals and construction materials, and is a principal carrier of coal, automobiles, and automotive parts. Learn more at stopapf.noblogs.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-Recieved Anonymously Over Email

Posted in Community Building, General, NewsTagged apf

Atlanta Police Foundation’s “At Promise Center” Set On Fire

Posted on May 27, 2022 - June 1, 2022 by scenes


“The “At Promise Center” is a “youth center” funded by the Atlanta Police Foundation. According to a report in corporate media, a window of the building was smashed, and the side of the building was set on fire. The following is a communiqué, submitted anonymously by email:

On the morning of the 27th we set fire to the Atlanta Police Foundation’s Westside “At Promise Center”.

This was the day before the two year anniversary of the burning of the third precinct in Minneapolis.

Fuck The Police.”

reposted from:
https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2022/05/30/atlanta-police-foundations-at-promise-center-set-on-fire/

Posted in Communiques, GeneralTagged apf, direct action

A Home Associated With Dodd Drilling LLC vandalized

Posted on May 16, 2022 - May 16, 2022 by scenes

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

Posted in Communiques, GeneralTagged apf, blackhall, home demo

200 Protesters Marched Through Atlanta To Stop Cop City

Posted on May 14, 2022 - June 17, 2022 by scenes

The RC airfield in the forest with a smoke grenade, police officers, a bulldozer, an overturned car, and a banner in the background. In the foreground: Week of Action 3: May 8-14 2022 in the Atlanta Forest.
This is part of a series on the 3rd Week of Action.

200 Protesters Marched Through Atlanta Yesterday To #StopCopCity

The Atlanta Police Foundation wants to destroy much of the remaining forest in the city to build a giant police training complex. Officers are very aggressive against protesters who oppose their favored project. pic.twitter.com/EgSWfzTNCY

— Unicorn Riot (@UR_Ninja) May 15, 2022

Posted in NewsTagged 3rd Week of Action, apf, protest

People Gather At The Atlanta Office Of Brasfield & Gorrie To Ask Them To Drop The Contract With The Atlanta Police Foundation

Posted on May 12, 2022 - June 17, 2022 by scenes

The RC airfield in the forest with a smoke grenade, police officers, a bulldozer, an overturned car, and a banner in the background. In the foreground: Week of Action 3: May 8-14 2022 in the Atlanta Forest.
This is part of a series on the 3rd Week of Action.

People Gather At The Atlanta Office Of Brasfield & Gorrie To Ask Them To Drop The Contract With The Atlanta Police Foundation pic.twitter.com/pIqJZMszib

— Scenes from the Atlanta Forest (@scenesatl) May 16, 2022

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

Posted in Report BacksTagged 3rd Week of Action, apf, protest

Our enemies will not rest

Posted on March 19, 2022 - March 19, 2022 by scenes

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

Posted in Calls to Action, Communiques, GeneralTagged apf, direct action, ecodefense, reeves young

Cop City and the Prison Industrial Complex in Atlanta

Posted on February 8, 2022 - February 9, 2022 by scenes

“How cops, corporations, local government, and the media fueled an undemocratic process to build a massive police training center one year after #DefundThePolice uprisings”
Photo Credit: Atlanta Police Foundation Official Twitter Account.https://www.mainlinezine.com/cop-city-and-the-prison-industrial-complex-in-atlanta/

Posted in General, NewsTagged apf, police, source:mainline

Stop Cop City Report Back of Jan 28th

Posted on January 31, 2022 by scenes


https://www.instagram.com/p/CZTPhisu0m1/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Posted in General, Report BacksTagged apf, direct action, ecodefense, police, protest

The fight for the forest continues!

Posted on January 31, 2022 - January 31, 2022 by scenes

Early stages of construction began last week and forest defenders quickly responded. Report from the January 28th march for the forest. The fight is everywhere, the forest is everywhere 🌳

https://www.instagram.com/p/CZZkZ4VuaAO/

Posted in General, News, Report BacksTagged apf, direct action, events, police, protest, reeves young

Defending The Atlanta Forest – Background and Reportback

Posted on January 28, 2022 - January 28, 2022 by scenes
   Since Summer of 2021 there has been an active effort to prevent the development of the South River Forest. This effort is intersectional and has been supported by a wide variety of groups for several reasons.

SOME HISTORIC BACKGROUND

    The South River Forest is historically one of the regions where the Mvskoke people lived prior to their forced removal from the land. Following that the land was used for a plantation that was worked by enslaved peoples. Then, after the civil war, it was the site of one of the first transitions from chattel slavery to prison slavery. The prison on the land was where residents of the surrounding areas were detained and pressed into forced farm labor.
    Once the prison was closed, the South River Forest was treated as a dumping ground. When Atlanta’s first public library was destroyed, pieces were left on the land, dead zoo animals were buried on the land, and the old structures of the prison fell into ruin. As the forest sits at the base of Atlanta’s water shed, the combination of the misuse of the land, the pollution of Atlanta, and the mistreatment of the land left the water and soil badly contaminated.
    The South River Forest now houses Intrenchment Creek Park, the Atlanta Radio Control Club, a private police officer shooting range, and a system of trails that are used by the community.
   Now, two entities are planning to destroy the forest for their own purposes. One is Blackhall Studios, which plans to build an enormous sound stage, and the other is the Atlanta Police Department, which wants to build a facility that has become colloquially known as “Cop City.”
    The surrounding neighborhoods are primarily populated by lower-income residents, so the construction of the Blackhall sound stage will result in gentrification that will displace the local residents.
    The construction of Cop City has wide ranging implications. It is meant to be an urban warfare training facility for the region and would drive militarization of police across the southeast. Its construction will create a precedent for urban warfare training facilities across the United States and the world. We have historical precendence of this as seen with the School of the Americas. https://www.grunge.com/338237/the-messed-up-history-of-the-school-of-the-americas/.
    All of this comes before even considering the ecological and environmental relevence of protecting this forest. The South River Forest is one of the largest urban forests in the United States. It is populated by diverse species such as coyotes and beavers, and is home to multiple trees that are centuries old.

FOREST OCCUPATION AND DEFENSE

    Occupation began in late 2021 with a camp on the Blackhall side of the forest. It was built by those who we will call “forest defenders” for the rest of this document. This includes everyone from those sitting in the trees, to the local public. These people are comrades, but many of us do not even know each other. Entities within this broad term act autonomously of one another, even if they have similar goals.
    Following the eviction of the original camp, a new camp was established on the side of the forest designated for the building of Cop City. Over the course of several weeks, two tree-sits were built. As the two tree sits on the Cop City side of the forest were being completed, construction began.
    Construction started on January 18th, 2022. Early in the morning, forest defenders noticed the presence of surveyors touring the forest. We had been alerted that there were going to be soil tests in order to prepare for building, so we were unsurprised. We also knew that the APD hadn’t acquired the appropriate permits to remove trees from the forest, which has been confirmed by the Dekalb Land Development manager. We were also unsurprised by the arrival of a bulldozer.
    The workers used the bulldozer to rip new paths through the forest, destroying countless trees and saplings. Their plan was to create these new paths so that they could bring in their soil borer. Forest defenders converged on the bulldozer, and safely escorted the workers out of the forest. Afterwards, the windows of the bulldozer were smashed.
    Police came to the forest to stop the forest defenders. Some retreated while others remained. A police officer pointed a gun at one forest defender, who was subsequently detained but not arrested. Construction didn’t resume for the rest of the week, giving forest defenders time to prepare. During this time, a few visitors came to the forest including a state surveyor, but  things remained largely quiet.

THIS PAST WEEK OF ACTION

    On Monday the 24th, a new group of construction workers came to the forest including surveyors and underground utility workers. Police escorted these workers through the forest while forest defenders played cat and mouse with them. Undercover cops surrounded the forest intimidating those who would park nearby. As such, outside support showed up, but not enmasse.
    On Tuesday the 25th, surveyors, a bulldozer, and a police escort arrived in the morning. Yet again, the bulldozer was used to destroy trees. It is important to note that this activity was still illegal due to the lack of permits. Thankfully, work was delayed by barricades and a lack of survey markers. Forest defenders played cat and mouse, and were pursued by the police. Two people were detained and served criminal trespass warnings, but not arrested.
    That night, a meeting was called. Two protests were planned: a “March for the Forest” for Friday the 28th, and another for two weeks from the date of the meeting. Community supporters coordinated with each other in order to ensure that everyone would know where to go. With a plan in place, we went into the next day more confident.
    On Wednesday the 26th, forest defenders managed to block the bulldozers. The Atlanta Police Department and the Dekalb Police Department collaborated in pursuing them. This time the police brought ATVs that they could use to chase people, and a drone for surveillance. Tools were brought to destroy the barricades, and all but one were destroyed. Soil bores were successfully taken, but there were no detentions or arrests.
    On Thursday the 27th, workers and police were on-site, dismantling barricades and placing survey stakes. The cat and mouse continued.
    On Friday the 28th, 60+ forest defenders and community members gathered to march together. This group marched through the Intrenchment Creek Park side of the forest, took the streets for a time, then entered the forest. Forest defenders confronted cops and workers operating boring machinery. An estimated 4-6 forest defenders were arrested, and a noise demo was organized to support them from inside.
    All in all, we are humbled by the love and support of our communities. Many have volunteered their time and talents to help defend the forest. We are holding out, but there is still more that we can and will do.
    At this point we are in need of two main things: More people to help support tree sits and defend the forest from destruction, and legal attempts to delay construction. Please, join us, support us, and protect your community!
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.
Love and Rage,
The Forest Animals
-Submitted anonymously over email
Posted in Community Building, General, Report BacksTagged apf, direct action, ecodefense, encampment, events, police, protest

FUCK COPS//JOIN US IN THE FOREST

Posted on January 27, 2022 - January 28, 2022 by scenes


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

Posted in Calls to Action, Community Building, GeneralTagged apf, direct action, ecodefense, encampment, events, police, protest

Destruction Scheduled Monday – Friday at 8AM in the Old Atlanta Prison Farm. We must stop them!!

Posted on January 27, 2022 - January 31, 2022 by scenes

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CZOI0ctgEVE/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Posted in Calls to Action, GeneralTagged apf, direct action, diy, ecodefense, police, protest, reeves young

Alan Williams, the Atlanta Police Foundation project manager for Cop City, lead a bulldozer into the Atlanta Forest

Posted on January 25, 2022 - January 27, 2022 by scenes

ALERT: Alan Williams, the Atlanta Police Foundation project manager for Cop City, is leading a bulldozer into the Atlanta Forest right now.

More forest defenders are needed to stop work near the ponds on the Old Atlanta Prison Farm land. pic.twitter.com/EDBzVio0GN

— Defend the Atlanta Forest (@defendATLforest) January 25, 2022

Posted in Calls to Action, General, NewsTagged apf, direct action, ecodefense, police, protest, reeves young, source:dtf-twitter

WATCH: Protesters escort Reeves Young out of The Forest

Posted on January 19, 2022 - January 20, 2022 by scenes

January 18th: Work Stops, Treesit Starts in the Atlanta Forest

Reeves Young Led Out Of Forest And Machinery Attacked.

1/18/2022
Submitted Anonymously Over Email
uploaded to Twitter due to size pic.twitter.com/VTuidGii7a

— Scenes from the Atlanta Forest (@scenesatl) January 19, 2022


This video is about a series of autonomous actions that took place on Tuesday, January 18th in response to Reeves Young’s use of machinery to harm the forest. Read more >>

Posted in Report BacksTagged apf, direct action, ecodefense, jan182022, protest, reeves young

COMMUNIQUE: Reeves Young Machinery Attacked

Posted on January 19, 2022 - January 20, 2022 by scenes

January 18th: Work Stops, Treesit Starts in the Atlanta Forest

Today a bulldozer and three employees (One being Alan WIlliams, the project manager with the APF) attempted to destroy the forest.
A group gathered to stop the destruction under the call of “Not One Blade Of Grass!”.
The group approached the construction workers and some led them  outside of the forest while the machinery was attacked leaving broken windows and mangled machinery entrails.
The group escaped with zero arrests.

1/18/2022

-Received Anonymously Over Email
This communique is part of a series of autonomous actions that took place on Tuesday, January 18th in response to Reeves Young’s use of machinery to harm the forest. Read more >>

Posted in CommuniquesTagged apf, direct action, ecodefense, jan182022, police, protest, reeves young

Ongoing Protests From Survival Resistance Against AT&T’s Funding Of The APF

Posted on January 15, 2022 - January 20, 2022 by scenes

#StopCopCity protestors at @ATT earlier today, demanding that they divest from APF and the unpopular #CopCity project, which faces criticism for being ecologically destructive, undemocratically planned, and historically irresponsible. @survivalresist @stopcopcity @defendATLforest pic.twitter.com/BqdDR4rNjI

— Autonomous News: Atlanta (@AutonomousATL) January 15, 2022

Posted in Report BacksTagged apf, att, protest, source:dtf-twitter, survival resistance

Atlanta Police Foundation planning to enter woods in the next two to three weeks

Posted on January 12, 2022 - January 20, 2022 by scenes

Atlanta Police Foundation will be “investigating” the Atlanta Forest at the old prison farm for the next 2-3 weeks. https://t.co/NpmISuMkAl

— Defend the Atlanta Forest (@defendATLforest) January 12, 2022

Posted in NewsTagged apf, source:dtf-twitter

Survival Resistance Protest Infront of AT&T

Posted on January 9, 2022 - January 20, 2022 by scenes

@survivalresist and other supporters of @stopcopcity movement came out to spread awareness about @ATT sponsoring #CopCity in unincorporated Dekalb. #GeorgiaPolitics #StopCopCity #DefendtheForest #DekalbPolitics #GeorgiaNews #NotOneBladeofGrass pic.twitter.com/gS6zAWMNYV

— Autonomous News: Atlanta (@AutonomousATL) January 9, 2022

Posted in Report BacksTagged apf, att, protest, source:dtf-twitter, survival resistance

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