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
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!
& We’ll get back to you soon!
– Received anonymously over email
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
— Scenes from the Atlanta Forest (@scenesatl) June 2, 2022
-Received anonymously over email
welaunee forest
“may 19”
daylight
earth-killer oil and steel
rips root tears tree
destroy life for progress
land scarred
night falls
silence
“may 20”
yellow moon watching
soft steps searching
i hunt
stalking
quick
spark
flame growing dancing
run
slip into shadow
fuel tank explodes
echoes
a smile
joy
sun rises
scorched steel beast broken
fire from life
life from fire
forever
the wild always has its revenge
swift sudden silent
beware
-a coyote
-Received Anonymously Over Email
Over the past month or so many construction vehicles(lost count) in so called Lane County had their windows smashed in. Many more will be smashed in the future. These actions are being done in solidarity with forest defenders in so called Atlanta GA. Not only must Cop City be stopped but all construction everywhere. Construction projects anywhere are a threat to living things everywhere. We will not stop until there are no more windows to smash or excavators to operate. Defend The Forest!
-Received anonymously over email
This is part of a series on the 3rd Week of Action.
https://unicornriot.ninja/2022/police-raid-atlanta-forest-occupation/
– article by Unicorn Riot
This is part of a series on the 3rd Week of Action.
On May 11, 30-40 people visited the home of Keith Lanier Johnson Jr. at 1268 Gordon Combs Rd NW, Kennesaw GA 30152.
Keith is the Eastern Regional President of Brasfield & Gorrie (B&G). B&G are the current general contractor for the Atlanta Police Foundation’s Cop City project in southeast Atlanta.
Now that Keith is no longer busy on the board of the Mount Paran Christian School, it seems he is managing the $142,327 of fines levied against his employer for safety and wage theft violations. He is also overseeing the destruction of grave sites, the leveling of a vital tree canopy, and the militarization of the American police force. It is for these reasons that community members went to his home at 6am.
The low-barrier fencing did not seem to deter assembled protesters from approaching the home directly in order to deliver fliers to Jr. Neighbors did not seem overly concerned with the assembled group when they approached the four building estate set back from the road. Hopefully Carolyn Paige Woodruff Johnson, Sarah E. Johnson, or Keith the younger were not bothered too much by the blow-back resulting from the decisions of Keith’s employers.
We hope that Keith is able to convince the two Magnus’s, currently sitting comfortably back home in Birmingham, that the current APF contract is untenable, and that there is an urgent need to cancel it. It could turn out that Keith personally is carrying to brunt of pressure for his bosses decisions.
Brasfield & Gorrie will eventually drop the Cop City contract. Anonymous groups are developing new methods for disincentivizing the project.
And they are getting closer.
-Received anonymously over email
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
This is part of a series on the 3rd Week of Action.
At 9:30am today, people inhabiting the Weelaunee Forest woke to the sounds of destruction.
A bulldozer marked "Dodd Drilling LLC" accompanied by 2 Dekalb Co cops had bulldozed a destructive path thru Intrenchment Creek public park, threatened by Blackhall Studios development. pic.twitter.com/GRDe74Dqa5
— Defend the Atlanta Forest (@defendATLforest) May 9, 2022
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
Innumerable trees within a 300 yard radius were spiked to prevent clear-cutting in the South Atlanta Forest on Muscogee lands on April 1st.
The forest and other wild spaces are the origin stories for all life on Earth. Whether it be logging and construction for a police training facility, new subdivisions, or yet another unneeded bank or coffee shop, we oppose it’s existence and choose life over destruction.
“Reclaim skills, master them through practice, and share their power. Reach out to people who have capabilities you want everyone to have… Prepare for the new normal. Learn to [forage], to code, to heal: increase your collective strength.” -Inhabit, INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTONOMY, pg.38
Defend the Forest! Defend Yourself!
-Spikey Boiiiiiiiis
-Received Anonymously Over Email
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
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
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
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
