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/Stop Cop City (@defendATLforest) January 25, 2022
Tag: direct action
WATCH: Protesters escort Reeves Young out of The Forest
https://twitter.com/scenesatl/status/1483865779950997511?s=20
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 >>
NEWS: Work Stopped, Treesit Starts in the Atlanta Forest
Land defenders are occupying trees in the Atlanta Forest!
While people answered the call for rapid response today and kicked bulldozers out of the forest, multiple trees were occupied.
Take action to support the occupation and stop cop city!🌲🌳 pic.twitter.com/2HGW7RVO0G
— Defend the Atlanta Forest/Stop Cop City (@defendATLforest) January 19, 2022
Thank you for showing up to defend the forest today. Work was stopped thanks to the bold actions of responders! #stopcopcity pic.twitter.com/SN9heY0W7R
— Defend the Atlanta Forest/Stop Cop City (@defendATLforest) January 19, 2022
The Mainline: #StopCopCity resistance continues as bulldozing ensues in Atlanta forest
It’s Going Down: Resistance To ‘Cop City’ In Atlanta Heats Up As Construction Is Halted, Trees Occupied
These updates are 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 >>
COMMUNIQUE: Reeves Young Machinery Attacked
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 >>
“Our Woods Not Hollywood’s”: Atlanta Forest Defenders Disrupt Blackhall Studios
Witch Bloc Disrupts Blackhall Studio’s Business As Usual to Defend the Atlanta Forest
“Early on the dewey morning of Friday Dec. 17th, 2021, an affinity group of various Land Defender’s comprised of festive folk in witche’s hats, a reindeer costume, & comrades clad with drums, colorful smoke, & a banner reading, “Our Woods Not Hollywood’s” stormed the gates of Blackhall Studios with the express purpose of shattering their sense of security, blocking their entrance with fiesty folly, & sending a message to them that if they do not rescind their plans to “swap” approximately 53 acres of their land with the publicly owned Dekalb County Intrenchment Creek Park & thus clear cut the forest to build what would be the World’s largest (& most Unnecessary!) sound stage, that they would be met with the utmost resistance!
Iconic spells for destruction were loudly chanted in Black Hall’s general direction, as the witch-block held hands, cackled,& Skipped in a Sun-wise direction blocking Blackhall Studio’s main entrance, smoke torches were lit, Dancing Reindeer burned Amerikkkan flags, parking cones were thrown in the middle of the road, all the while Land Defenders demanded that workers, “Bring Forth Ryan Millsap!” The (recently ex) CEO of Blackhall Studios…
If nothing else be remembered of this damp & dubious morn, let it be known a spell cast to create havoc FOR Blackhall was sworn!
“Our Woods Not Hollywood’s,” means Blackhall needs to back the fuck off & get the fuck out of the Southside Atlanta Forest & Intrenchment Creek Park, as the woods belongs to the people, the amphibians, the migratory birds, the snakes & fish– & they will eat Milsap as a holiday dish, he if neglects the forest creatures’ wish!
Furthermore, approximately one hour post Witch-block antics, Dekalb County Police responded to a call made by Blackhall Studio’s stating that they, “followed the protestors into the woods, & deduced an encampment they came upon must belong to the apparent witches, & thus the police worked in TANDEM with Blackhall Studios to have the Forest Defense Encampment REMOVED from “their” land… Obviously the land is Muscogee Land ancestrally, not Blackhall’s, & currently a lawsuit exists to uphold an agreement stating that Intrenchment Creek Park was left in perpetuity for the people…
Though no arrests were made, & moving items from the encampment was eventually negotiated by Land Defenders, let it ALSO be known that this is farrrrr from the end of the struggle, for it has just begun! And remember that one can often gauge the effectiveness of their actions by measuring the police response & repression to it, so it can be safely said the Witch Block action of Dec. 17th DEFINITELY shattered the sense of security at Blackhall Studios, as it should!
We are here to stop BOTH Blackhall & Atlanta police from destroying the forest to further create the fake metaverse Hollywood glamorizes, & fake cities the kkkops build to train murdering in…
We are a strong movement thousands deep, & we ain’t going anywhere!
#DefendTheForest #StopBlackhallStudios
#StopCopCity”
Home of Dean Reeves visited
In late December we decided to pay a visit to district one to the home of Dean and Patty Reeves. Dean Reeves is the Chairman of Reeves Young construction company, a company contracted to destroy part of the South Atlanta forest to build Cop City. Their home at 4682 Blackwater Way in Suwanee, GA is part of a purportedly high security gated community but it turns out it’s quite easy to get in with just a little bit of ingenuity 😉 We left them a small message in the trees behind their home to encourage them to do the right thing. We hope this action gives them but a minuscule does of what the creatures in the South Atlanta forest they want to bulldoze might feel: unsafe in the place they call home. Feels bad don’t it…
-Received anonymously over Email
Video-communique: Blackhall Landswap Site Hit Again
https://twitter.com/scenesatl/status/1463050748938407938?s=20
Received anonymously over email, uploaded to Twitter dot com because of size
WATCH: Protest at Reeves Young
@defendatlantaforest Reeves Young are contracted by ATL Police Foundation to destroy the ATL Forest & build Cop City. Call RY @ 7702711159 to drop the contract
Call-to-action: Call Reeves Young at +1 (770) 271 1159 and demand they drop their contract to build Cop City.
Demo To Stop Construction
Atlanta protesters arrested while City Council passes lease agreement with police foundation
https://www.mainlinezine.com/atlanta-protesters-arrested-council-passes-lease-police-foundation/
March To Stop Cop City
Photos of what was left of the Machinery Destroyed on May 17th 2021
wanted to see the reality of the destruction talked about in the communique from May 17th, so went walking with my camera.
-Received anonymously over Email