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Stop the harassment, intimidation, lies, trumped-up false charges, arrests, and even murder of citizens who support Defend the Forest and Stop Cop City. Now, the GBI and Atlanta police have arrested three organizers of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, a seven-year-old, non-profit Atlanta fund that provides bail and legal support for arrested protesters.  Organizers of the … Continue reading Free All Stop Cop City Political Prisoners

The Atlanta Police Foundation (APF), Dave Wilkinson, DeKalb County CEO Michael Thurmond, Mayor Andre Dickens, and the majority of the Atlanta City Council don't understand we are in a Climate emergency. If they did, they would not allow APF to clear-cut the trees on the Old Prison Farm (OPF) property, which are part of the … Continue reading Police Are Clear-Cutting The Lungs of Atlanta

We are in a climate emergency. At current rates of greenhouse gas emissions, we have less than seven years left in our global "carbon budget" to stay under the critical threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius, according to Science and the Climate Clock https://climateclock.world/science.  Before we began burning fossil fuels, our atmospheric carbon level was at … Continue reading Code Red Climate Emergency

Atlanta has a serious police violence problem that politicians choose to ignore. Instead, they say Atlanta has a crime problem, and more police and jails are the answer. But too many innocent and unarmed people of color are dying at the hands of the police. Police rarely are held accountable because of qualified immunity, which … Continue reading Cop City Is The Problem, Not The Solution To Crime

This issue of Ukraine is dividing everyone; people who are pacifists, nonviolent, and even Quakers are divided on Ukraine. "We must come from a place of trying to stop the pain and suffering of the Ukrainian people and the soldiers from both sides. The U.S., European Union (EU), Ukraine, and Russia must start talking to … Continue reading War Is Not The Answer! Peace Talks Must Begin Now!

After Christmas 2022, Ryan Millsap, the Hollywood grifter, destroyed the parking lot of Weelaunee People Park (WPP) (formerly  Intrenchment Creek Park), the bike and walking path, and cut down dozens of trees in violation of a stop-work order. Millsap is the guy who conned the DeKalb County Commissioners into swapping 40-plus acres in beautiful wooded … Continue reading Forest Defenders Reoccupy Weelaunee to Stop Cop City

The South Atlanta Forest, also called Weelaunee Forest, is where so many issues converge, environmental, human rights, racial justice, environmental racism, gentrification, the militarization of the police, police violence, the expansion of the police state, pollution, criminalizing protest, and climate change.  People are joining the movement to stop cop city and defend the forest for … Continue reading City Hall Listens To Money, Not the Public On Cop City

This information was written and distributed by STOP COP CITY ATL ATLANTA -- About 300 people gathered at Little 5 Points in remembrance of Tortuguita (tor-too-ghee-tah), the forest defender who was shot and killed by the police on Wednesday, January 18. Organizers are outraged at the police killing of yet another person of color.  People … Continue reading Rest in Power Tortuguita

Their banner says it all:  TREES GIVE LIFE, POLICE TAKE IT. Hundreds of forest defenders and their supporters held a vigil in Little Five Points on Wednesday night, January 18, to grieve and honor their comrade who the police killed today. The police called it self-defense, but we have all heard that story too many … Continue reading Atlanta Forest Defender Shot and Killed By Police