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With Love From Minneapolis

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

Employees arriving to work this morning at the Fridley office of Atlas Technical Consultants found a mess. Every window of the building had been smashed out, buckets of paint had been thrown inside the office, and the front was redecorated to read “FUCK COP CITY, DEFEND THE ATL FOREST.”

This attack was carried out in response to a call for a May 1st day of action, put out by our friends in Atlanta. Atlas Technical Consultants is the owner of Long Engineering, who are active participants in the ill-fated attempt at the destruction of the Atlanta forest.

Brasfield & Gorrie, as well as their subcontractors, should take note that there will be consequences for encroachment on the forest in the service of cop city and Hollywood dystopia. Atlas should realize that this endeavor *will not* be worth the trouble.

To our friends in Atlanta, we’re inspired by your bravery and resourcefulness. We want you to know whatever you’re with, Minneapolis is with it. You’re showing the world what a decentralized composition of struggle can accomplish, and developing the force required to confront cop city and whatever is next. Atlanta will remain a forest.

With love,
Murderapolis

– Recieved anonymously over Email

Posted in Communiques, GeneralTagged direct action, reeves young, solidarity

Campaign Against cop city and it’s Subontractors

Posted on April 9, 2022 - April 9, 2022 by scenes

http://stopreevesyoung.com

“APF is unable to build Cop City alone. They have contracted Reeves-Young to build it for them. Reeves-Young cannot complete this project without its subcontractors. SRY is a campaign to urge these subcontractors to stop participating in the construction of Cop City and/or divest from their dealings with Reeves-Young.

The subcontractors have many other contracts. As service providers, they do not depend on the completion of the Cop City to continue their business operations. Reeves-Young represents just one of their many contracts, just as APF is only one of Reeves-Young’s many contracts. Everyone involved in this project is complicit in some way with the destruction of the forest, the militarization of the police, and the development of a racist and violent project. The fact is that they have economic incentives to move forward with this project. We must create disincentives.

Through this campaign we seek to educate the subcontractors and ask them to drop this single contract. These companies only care about their bottom line: making profits and securing more contracts. By pressuring companies that do not have a commitment to the APF, but do have a commitment to Reeves-Young, we believe we can get them to drop their contracts without incurring significant economic risks. When Reeves-Young realizes that it is not worthwhile to keep the Cop City contract if it means jeopardizing all of their other projects, we believe they will cancel the APF agreement as well. One by one, as subcontractors drop out, we will cause delays and budget increases until it becomes logistically, economically and politically impossible to move forward with the destruction of the forest or the construction of the Cop City.

SRY is a media clearinghouse, providing journalistic updates on the movement. We provide information and updates about the campaign, contextualized within the broader struggle to defend the South Atlanta forest. We maintain this site for educational and journalistic purposes, and are not responsible for the acts or deeds that we report on.”
– From the website

Posted in Calls to Action, Community BuildingTagged events, reeves young, source stopreevesyoung.com

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

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

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

Home of Dean Reeves visited

Posted on December 21, 2021 - December 25, 2021 by scenes

The front of Dean Reeves houseBanner in treeline that says "REEVES YOUNG OUT OF THE ATLANTA FOREST"

Banner in treeline that says "ANYBODY HOME?" Banner in treeline that says "REEVES YOUNG OUT OF THE ATLANTA FOREST" The rear of Dean Reeves house

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

 

Posted in CommuniquesTagged dean reeves, direct action, reeves young

WATCH: Protest at Reeves Young

Posted on November 18, 2021 - December 25, 2021 by scenes
@defendatlantaforest

Reeves Young are contracted by ATL Police Foundation to destroy the ATL Forest & build Cop City. Call RY @ 7702711159 to drop the contract

♬ original sound – defendatlantaforest

Call-to-action: Call Reeves Young at +1 (770) 271 1159 and demand they drop their contract to build Cop City.

Posted in Report BacksTagged direct action, reeves young

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