Atlas Technical Project Manager: “Atlas is no longer involved [in Cop City]…because you guys are fucking nightmares and you broke all of our fucking windows”
July 2nd- Dozens of protesters visited Atlas Technical Consultants’ homes demanding they drop the contract with the Atlanta Police Foundation’s Cop City project. Activists showed up with instruments, chants, and banners to the houses of Atlas employees in Minnesota. We marched down the street, knocked on the doors of the consultants—handing them a letter of demands— and canvassed their neighbors. We left sidewalk chalk art telling them to stop cop city and drop the contract. Two high-level Atlas consultants claimed Atlas was no longer funding Cop City; meaning they were either lying, or Atlas has not yet publicized that they’ve dropped the contract.
Highlights of the house visits included:
– Atlas’s technical project manager claimed the firm was no longer in the project because of activism: “Atlas is no longer involved… because you guys are fucking nightmares and you broke all of our fucking windows” (For added context: back in January, someone smashed windows at Atlas’ offices in Minnesota.)
– One consultant’s husband got so angry he turned his back to us, squatted down, and mooned the whole street. Protesters and neighbors saw his pale suburban ass for several seconds.
– Atlas consultants themselves said they were against cop city and disliked cops.
– We had many kind, receptive neighbors engage in good conversation about Cop City with us. They all disliked the project. One neighbor even gave us a 6-pack of gatorade.
– One consultant pretended not to be home, but we saw her filming us through the window.
You can recreate this action anywhere in the country! Go to https://www.stopcopcitysolidarity.org/ and find subcontractors like Atlas, insurers like Progressive, or bankrollers like Wells Fargo. Use Tor and a VPN (or even TAILS) to look employees up; either those already researched on this website, or find more on white pages. Gather a big group of comrades! Make signs and art! Print out letters for the targets and for the neighbors! Caravan around to their houses with silliness and rage.
If Atlas has indeed dropped the contract this marks a huge win for activists. Protest works, direct action works: stay in the streets!
Submitted Anonymously Over Emai
