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Defend the Atlanta Forest/Stop Cop City
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Defend the Atlanta Forest/Stop Cop City
@defendATLforest
- This is your permission slip for continuing to fight.
- 🚨 Georgia State University, an institution with deep ties to Israel by way of the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE) program, as well as to Cop City, is having graduating students wearing keffiyehs dragged off campus and is threatening to rescind degrees.
00:00 - These kinds of tactics, which are both confrontational and participatory, remain necessary in all struggles for liberation.NYC: "F*** The NYPD" - Protesters shout as they Jump Subway Turnstiles EN MASS at Union Square to protest police shooting on a subway in Brooklyn, that left a fare evader in critical condition. Video by @olgafe_images @FreedomNTV [email protected] to license
00:00 - why did georgia state patrol continuously taser a black protester on emory campus and what are you going to do about it?
- Police killed a forest defender today, someone who loved the forest, someone who fought to protect the earth & its inhabitants. This is why we organize to stop Cop City. And we will. In honor of their life, and the lives of everyone killed and imprisoned by the police.
- “Am I scared of the state? Pretty silly not to be. I’m a brown person. I might be killed by the police for existing in certain spaces. [But] fear is the mind killer ... you can’t let the fear stop you from doing things, from living, from existing, from resisting.” - Tortuguita
- The most important story of the #BlockCopCity action is not the police aggression, which was expected. It is the methods and tactics used by protesters to keep one another safe, effectively preventing any arrests or injuries. Let's take a closer look. 🧵
- the people at the front are doing 100% the correct thingProtestors here at Emory are pushing in on officers near the theology school. Things are starting to escalate here.
00:00 - They killed someone so that they could have a place to teach grown adults how to drive cars.CHECK THIS OUT: The City of Atlanta no longer has to rely on others for training! We are excited about the new facilities at the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center to include a driving skills pad. @TEAMATL911 @ATLFireRescue @CityofAtlanta @ATLWatershed @ATLPublicWorks
00:00 - Manuel Teran, AKA Tort, was murdered by police yesterday. They were camping in a public park to defend the Weelaunee Forest. They are the first environmental protester we know to be killed by US police. This is a big thread of submissions to love and mourn Manuel.
- your enemy is not hiding in tunnels. he is tackling students on campus.
