diy – Scenes from the Atlanta Forest

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

“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

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

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

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

A poem to be read by two people:

Posted on June 22, 2022 by scenes

Everyone has a name and an address.

We live in your walls.

Can the company face the financial burden?
Every day a new set of windows, cleaning up paint, fixing smoke damage, loss of assets.

Will employees stay when faced with increased pressure.
Rumors around the office that there’s a list of addresses and information, then someone wakes up to protestors outside their house, someone else’s car stops working but they’ve had it for awhile and they don’t maintain it, but they freak out, someone has their neighborhood flyer-ed with their face. name, address, their cellphone number, and where they work, someone else has their church visited, someone else gets confronted at a restaurant, and someone else their grocery store run at 2pm on Monday after Yoga and before their therapy appointment.
People start quitting and the pay raises can’t soothe their anxieties. One day you arrive to the office and the windows are broken and the office covered in paint. The company has to close it’s office while repairs are made. Your companies files get leaked online and the bank account gets drained from an anonymous hacker.

This is happening all over the country. Whoever is doing this… they’re everywhere. Will it stop?
Only if you drop the contract

-Received anonymously over email

Boyette Brothers Equipment Rental Service Machines Set On Fire

Posted on June 7, 2022 by scenes

The Earth destroying machine that entered the forest yesterday, along with a few others, has been torched. To Boyette Brothers (rental service) + anyone who tries to help build cop city, our message is simple: “If you build it, we will burn it.”

– Received anonymously over email

A Message From A Tree sitter

Posted on June 3, 2022 - June 3, 2022 by scenes

They destroyed our camp, & sawed one of our platforms apart, but we still got up into same tree in opf near juvy to defend the forest, & we left a message for our oppressors & our tree sitter comrade has issued a statement:

“We are here today to stop the development of a police militarization facility, where police would train in tactics of repression and violence against the civilians of Atlanta. We are here today to stop a beautiful forest from being destroyed, to stop countless animals and plants from being exterminated from this place. Two incredibly important topics are at stake here today. Climate change and police violence are two of the most pressing issues affecting our society today, and they will only worsen if this facility is built. We cannot stand by as we sacrifice humanity’s future for a Cop City.”
-Wish

– Received anonymously over email

BULLDOZER STOPPED IN ATL FOREST BY HORDE OF FOREST DEFENDERS- CALL TO ACTION

Posted on June 2, 2022 - June 5, 2022 by scenes

On June. 2nd, a horde of forest defenders were able to stop a bulldozer on the edge of the woods (that was being escorted by kkkops) from destroying the forest by throwing rocks, deploying fireworks, & shouting scary words!

However, cops are destroying forest defense infrastructure & we need all hands on deck to CONTINUE STOPPING THE CONSTRUCTION of cop city, & allow this scarred forest to heal.

Another tree sit has also gone up in the path our enemies plan to destroy for their racist training facility, & we need help both supporting & defending that zone!

We are welcoming ALL the tactics. Kate Bush flash mob when kkkops arrive? Fuck yeah. Frontline Action to stop machines of destruction? Fuck yeah. Please just get your sweet fucking feral ass down here.

Your house sitting gig & coffee shop job can wait– come occupy the forest, & if you got privilege, use it to throw down, as trees, community members & non-human animals are better than a clear cut lot with a militarized police training center.

The stakes are high & the forest is calling!

Come for the blackberries & community, & stay for the chaos!

Week of Action is June.2nd- till the Forest is safe!

Interested in rolling with Camp Copperhead?Drop a line to:

campcopperhead@proton.me

& We’ll get back to you soon!

– Received anonymously over email

Forest Defenders fire fireworks, throw rocks, and attack construction machine

Posted on June 2, 2022 - June 2, 2022 by scenes

Work stopped today, Thursday June 2, as a group of 10 forest defenders confronted a bulldozer in the forest just west of the juvy today. Forest defenders launched rocks and fireworks, yelling ‘get the fuck out of the woods’ as the machine was attacked. 4-5 workers, likely with Long Engineering, hid behind the bulldozer while one APD officer stood idly with his hands on his hips. Forest defenders retreated into the woods howling. No arrests were made.

We call upon anyone who wants to defend the forest and stop cop city to support the struggle by sowing chaos along the perimeter: plan a slow-moving car caravan on Constitution Rd, or a rally at the juvy.

Workers and pigs, we repeat: Stay the fuck out the woods.

-Received anonymously over email

Video Submission

Posted on June 2, 2022 by scenes

pic.twitter.com/2DlNDD7PEB

— Scenes from the Atlanta Forest (@scenesatl) June 2, 2022

-Received anonymously over email

BRASFIELD & GORRIE CORPORATE HQ IN ALABAMA ATTACKED

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

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

ATLAS office windows smashed, vandalism in Albany NY

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

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

UPSIDE DOWN BLACK SEDAN BARRICADES SOUTH POWER LINE CUT PATHWAY TO ATLANTA FOREST

Posted on May 9, 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.
… A black sedan barrelled it’s way into the south power cut blocking off a MAJOR entrance to the woods off Constitution Road across from Black Hall Studios Sunday night, May.8th, accompanied by a banner that states, “Fuck this World And It’s Cops”– kicking off the, “Week of Action,” to, “Defend the Forest,” in south Atlanta…
A huge ass bonfire along with a vast array of fireworks & feral friends silhouetted & serenaded the break in the forest that has now come to be one of the main zones to defend against police incursion into the woods so many people & non-human animals call home.
Cop City & Black Hall Studios will NEVER be built as long as Forest Defenders occupy these 500 or so collective acres of woods & comrades continue to engage in the practice that, “solidarity means attack,” in regards to fending off the kkkops, impending industrial & suburban sprawl into wild areas, & the generalized evil, “machines”.
“Fuck this World & It’s Cops,” denotes that we can build a better world than the brainwashed, authoritarian, colonized & greedy ass scum that aim to destroy anything they cannot easily destroy, subjugate, imprison, or pave over….
Stay Wild! Help keep/get your comrades & loved ones free!
Bring the War home & Make total destroy– for it is a “privilege” to be able to “choose” when some people “fight” the powers that be, as the poor, the houseless, the marginalized & disenfranchised must fight this battle EVERY DAY to merely keep existing ….
The kkkops won’t stop killing us & our friends unless we fight back! The Hollywood elite won’t keep clear cutting & destroying the earth unless we fight back! Focus on the shit that unifies our resistance & Fight Back!
“Fuck this World And It’s Cops,” means we fight back, & don’t go quietly into the night & we do NOT acquiesce to non-, consensual tyranny.
Destroy what you can & build what you must– in every sense of the words…Abolition on multiple levels!
May the upside down black sedan in the powerline cut pathway to the forest serve as a big-ass, “Fuck you & the cogs that help you operate,” to the Atlanta Police Foundation, APD, Dekalb County Police, Black Hall Studios, all their investors & sympathizers,& of course, Georgia Fucking Power.
FUCK THIS WORLD AND ITS COPS.

-Received anonymously over Email

CONCERNING THE DESTRUCTION OF LONG ENGINEERING VEHICLES, ATLANTA GEORGIA:

Posted on March 1, 2022 - March 8, 2022 by scenes

On Mar. 1st, 2022, FIVE large Long Engineering trucks used to do
survey work to help delineate destruction in the South Atlanta Forest
were destroyed in solidarity with eco-defenders currently protecting the
forest from being clear-cut to build cop city and more Hollywood
infrastructure for Black Hall Studios.
There will be NO peace for any subcontractors involved with the
planning or destruction of the south Atlanta Forest until ALL contracts
with the Atlanta Police Foundation & Black Hall Studios have been
withdrawn, & the Forest is safe from any and ALL destruction. We do NOT
differentiate “pre-construction ” & “construction “…
It is EASY to approach vehicles and machinery sitting like ducks in
subcontractor parking lots and simply pour gallons of bleach into their
gas tanks and render any and all of their equipment used to subjugate
the land completely dead and inoperable!
This is a CALL-TO-ACTION for more eco-warriors to replicate these
actions in the name of Defending the Forest and ALL creatures wild and
Free!
Save the South Atlanta Forest! Destroy all of the machines! Tear up
all of the roads! There is no “perfect moment” to act on the horizon,
the time is ripe!
Fuck your ego and use the cover of darkness to go out and get shit
done, for we need more faceless saboteurs to help bankrupt all of these
companies from being able to function.
It only costs $1.00 for a gallon of bleach and it costs them
$50,000.00 (or more!) Per vehicle…
DEFEND THE FOREST! FIGHT THE COPS! OUR WOODS NOT HOLLYWOODS!

Bite the Hands of Greed,
-The Wolvez-

– Received Anonymously Over Email

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

Resources For Food And Legal Support

Posted on December 25, 2021 - December 25, 2021 by scenes

FOOD DISTROS FROM FOOD4LIFE:
https://atlsurvival.org/food/

Lakewood:
Location: Corner of Lakewood and Rhodesia
Every Saturday 12-12:30
Bankhead:
Location: 1060 Donald Lee Hollowell
Every Saturday 1-1:30
Edgewood:
Location: Corner Mayson and Hardee
Every Sunday 1-3:00
Clarkston:
Location: Corner of E Ponce de Leon and Brockett
Every Tuesday 4-5:30
Westlake:
Location 1616 Joseph E Boone
Every Thursday 2-2:30

FREE99 FRIDGES: https://free99fridge.com/index.php/locations/

ATLANTA SOLIDARITY FUND: https://atlsolidarity.org/

Atlanta Solidarity Fund “provide[s] support for people who are arrested at protests, or otherwise prosecuted for their movement involvement”

-Received anonymously over Email and formatted for ease of reading

Tip Line Created

Posted on September 19, 2021 - January 31, 2022 by scenes

https://www.instagram.com/p/CUAwp9Npz2z/