a banner drop happened showing:
– the diffuse spread of solidarity actions in NYC
– that midtown manhattan, with its militarized police presence
Black Men Build stands in solidarity with our comrades in Atlanta #StopCopCity https://t.co/7sfPA7zbI3
— Black Men Build (@blackmenbuild) March 9, 2023
Submitted anonymously over email
On March 5th, around 5:30pm, just over 300 people marched to the North Gate, located on Key Road. This is the site of ongoing “erosion control” by Brent Scarborough Company, a subcontractor of Brasfield & Gorrie. In this area, police have staged around-the-clock for over a month, spending $41,500 per day to protect the area from protestors. They have used vehicle headlights and two large floodlights to illuminate the tree line surrounding the powerline cut.
The 300 of us damaged the silt fencing on both the east and west sides of the cut. Using box cutters as well as our hands and feet, we destroyed a high percentage of the work done by the Police Foundation contractors in the past month. That work needs to be re-done in order to meet the standards set by law (a standard we do not know much about, as that is not our primary concern).
We easily pushed police away from the area around the North Gate using just stones and some fireworks. Some people closed the gate while others lobbed stones, fireworks, and Molotov cocktails at officers on the other side, in order to prevent them from rushing in and harming us. Meanwhile, the two floodlights were destroyed. Two UTVs were destroyed. A piece of heavy machinery used to disturb the earth was destroyed. A trailer used as a make-shift office, provided to the Police Foundation by United Rentals, was destroyed. All of the porta potties were overturned. The security gate built inside of this zone, which is affixed with barbed wire at the top, was damaged and partially torn down.
Because of this action, most or all of the work conducted since the murder of Tortuguita was undone. Those assembled used shields to defend against possible police munitions, but there were none. The group dispersed into the woods without a trace. None of us were arrested or detained.
Rest in peace, Tort.
Cop City will never be built.
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Post script:
The Molotov cocktails seemed to differ from a classic recipe. This simple tool seemed to be only a small amount of flammable material, such as rubbing alcohol with dish soap added as a thickener, and a small firecracker taped to the side. Made in this way, forest defenders do not depend on the ground to break the bottle, as they would with a typical glass bottle. In the future, maybe this is helpful information for anyone fighting in the forest, desert, or places without a hard surface beneath their feet.
Submitted anonymously over email
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
defend the ATL forest! May 8-15 pic.twitter.com/pELLt0tMJk
— Defend the Atlanta Forest/Stop Cop City (@defendATLforest) March 12, 2022
