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Defend the Weelaunee Forest @stopcopcity.bsky.social · Aug 14

⚠️ Jamie defeated her "Domestic Terrorism" charges! Dekalb Co court acknowledged the AG's office deliberately delayed the case. Soon, the RICO will collapse. Jamie's decision to push against the charges serve as an inspiration to us all. Were we all so courageous, nothing could stop us.

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fireantmovement.bsky.social @fireantmovement.bsky.social · Jul 19

ICE is training dogs for raids at ATL public schools

Defend the Weelaunee Forest @stopcopcity.bsky.social · Jul 17

This morning, dozens of US Customs and Border Enforcement vehicles assembled at Carver High School in southeast Atlanta. School administration says that the federal officers are training Atlanta police K9 units at the low income school. Cop City has been open just a few months.

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Defend the Weelaunee Forest @stopcopcity.bsky.social · Jul 23

the president deployed the marines to LA in order to clampdown on grassroots resistance to ICE. two days ago, they left--after more than a month on the ground. authoritarian clampdown aside, this was also a trial run for a coup d'etat.

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Defend the Weelaunee Forest @stopcopcity.bsky.social · Jul 17

This morning, dozens of US Customs and Border Enforcement vehicles assembled at Carver High School in southeast Atlanta. School administration says that the federal officers are training Atlanta police K9 units at the low income school. Cop City has been open just a few months.

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Defend the Weelaunee Forest @stopcopcity.bsky.social · Jul 15

Repression is not something that comes "after" the movement. It is not a custodial task. Building police centers and concentration camps, rounding up workers on a farm, are also all acts of repression that we resist. They fight us, we fight them back. It's as simple as that.

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Timothy Pratt @onofftherecord.bsky.social · Jul 5

ICYMI: Atlanta exporting surveillance tech across co. thru revolving door bet. police, police foundation, private corp. – a blueprint for policing future. How does it work?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

@prisonculture.bsky.social @neonflag.bsky.social @stopcopcity.bsky.social

Top Atlanta cop consulted for tech firm providing surveillance software to city

Marshall Freeman promoted software and owned stake in company while working for police, violating disclosure laws, says ethics office

www.theguardian.com

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Defend the Weelaunee Forest @stopcopcity.bsky.social · Jun 12

A large number of sophisticated discourses have convinced some people that the concept of solidarity does not serve them, that the fight between federal agents and undocumented people is not a universal struggle effecting the entire society. This is "divide + conquer" rebranded.

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Defend the Weelaunee Forest @stopcopcity.bsky.social · Jun 12

The movement against deportations is not destructive or disruptive enough, actually. Every single day, federal authorities are ruining peoples lives and destroying families. This cannot be resolved by the Democratic party, who helped to build these policies and infrastructures.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · Jun 8

This is the ICE facility in Portland that was the site of an Occupy ICE encampment in 2018. People are camped there again tonight.

Whether or not this takes off, the best way to support those defending their communities in LA is to find a pressure point where you are and act.

crimethinc.com/ICEage

John Thelefty @johnnthelefty.bsky.social · Jun 8

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Defend the Weelaunee Forest @stopcopcity.bsky.social · Jun 8

No matter how brave, how righteous, the people of Los Angeles are, they can't defeat ICE all by themselves. This is the first real resistance of the new era, a resistance we tried to catalyze in the fight against Cop City. It is right to rise up and to rebel against police, borders, and deportation.

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Defend the Weelaunee Forest @stopcopcity.bsky.social · May 14

61 people facing RICO charges for their alleged involvement in stop Cop City appear in court today. They have been forced to come to Atlanta for the new judge. A crowd will rally outside the courthouse to support the accused. Call Georgia AG Chris Carr, demand he drop the charges: 4046578733

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Defend the Weelaunee Forest @stopcopcity.bsky.social · Apr 29

They built it. What next?

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Defend the Weelaunee Forest @stopcopcity.bsky.social · Apr 16

Rest in peace Cooper Schoenke (19).
He was killed in a high speed chase initiated against another motorist by the Georgia State Patrol.
The chase not only took place inside of City of Atlanta limits.
It took place in Little 5 Points.
Georgia State Patrol out of Atlanta!

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Defend the Weelaunee Forest @stopcopcity.bsky.social · Mar 14

This essay provides, among other things, a close look at the April 2024 Gaza solidarity protests at Emory University. Almost a year later, this may be the most extensive overview of those events published from the vantage point of the participants.

Defend the Weelaunee Forest @stopcopcity.bsky.social · Mar 14

🌳 JUST PUBLISHED: an in-depth report on the movement to #stopcopcity and defend the Weelaunee Forest, covering the period of December '23 to March '25. The latest, and final, chapter in the long narrative history of the movement. crimethinc.com/CopCIty2025

Cop City Is Everywhere

The movement to stop Cop City was one of the most important social struggles of the Biden era. Its trajectory tells us a lot about the challenges we confront today.

crimethinc.com

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Andrew J Douglas @ajdouglas.bsky.social · Mar 14

“The arrival of the second Trump era has vindicated the decision to focus on resisting police militarization. Every repressive policy that Trump decrees will be imposed by police and other state mercenaries. The opposition that emerged in Atlanta sets the template...”

Important piece.

Defend the Weelaunee Forest @stopcopcity.bsky.social · Mar 14

🌳 JUST PUBLISHED: an in-depth report on the movement to #stopcopcity and defend the Weelaunee Forest, covering the period of December '23 to March '25. The latest, and final, chapter in the long narrative history of the movement. crimethinc.com/CopCIty2025

Cop City Is Everywhere

The movement to stop Cop City was one of the most important social struggles of the Biden era. Its trajectory tells us a lot about the challenges we confront today.

crimethinc.com

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Defend the Weelaunee Forest @stopcopcity.bsky.social · Mar 14

🌳 JUST PUBLISHED: an in-depth report on the movement to #stopcopcity and defend the Weelaunee Forest, covering the period of December '23 to March '25. The latest, and final, chapter in the long narrative history of the movement. crimethinc.com/CopCIty2025

Cop City Is Everywhere

The movement to stop Cop City was one of the most important social struggles of the Biden era. Its trajectory tells us a lot about the challenges we confront today.

crimethinc.com

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Defend the Weelaunee Forest @stopcopcity.bsky.social · Mar 5

🚨 OIG refers 8 counts of fraud and corruption to DOJ. ATL Mayor Dickens awarded contracts to campaign donors and used charitable funds for unjustifiable reasons. We have been saying this for 4 years. www.ajc.com/news/atlanta...

Atlanta inspector general staff refers 8 criminal investigations to DOJ, FBI

Workers requested whistleblower protections in investigations involving high-ranking advisers in Mayor Andre Dickens' office, department heads and public safety leaders.

www.ajc.com

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Defend the Weelaunee Forest @stopcopcity.bsky.social · Feb 14

the entire left is about to meet the police we have come to know so well.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · Feb 14

Can never forget how much of what we’re going to see in the next four years was road-tested and normalized by the last four years.

stop cop cities everywhere @micahh.bsky.social · Feb 14

Atlanta police have set up secret surveillance cameras outside of Stop Cop City activists' houses and gathering spots––and they refuse to answer any questions about the cameras
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Defend the Weelaunee Forest @stopcopcity.bsky.social · Feb 14

trumps dystopia armed with the democrats' surveillance regime.

stop cop cities everywhere @micahh.bsky.social · Feb 14

Atlanta police have set up secret surveillance cameras outside of Stop Cop City activists' houses and gathering spots––and they refuse to answer any questions about the cameras
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Cameras have appeared outside homes of Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ activists. Why are they there?

Cameras are hidden in unmarked boxes on utility poles in a move residents and advocates call ‘creepy’ and ‘corrosive’

www.theguardian.com

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Defend the Weelaunee Forest @stopcopcity.bsky.social · Feb 11

trumps storm troopers are going to train at cop cities built by democratic municipal governments. we cannot get swept up in their partisan drama. we have to pursue our own agenda: finish reconstruction, destroy the racial state, abolish the police.

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Sharing the Good News @thegoodnews.bsky.social · Feb 11

in Atlanta, a new collective in the movement to @stopcopcity.bsky.social is hosting a campaign-launch event this saturday. specifically, this event aims to orient the community around movement defense against the RICO cases and other felonies, now in the Trump era.

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Defend the Weelaunee Forest @stopcopcity.bsky.social · Feb 5

we both know

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Defend the Weelaunee Forest @stopcopcity.bsky.social · Feb 5

This is a blitzkrieg. It's not going to stop automatically.

We need to focus on our agency, not our oppression.

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Sharing the Good News @thegoodnews.bsky.social · Feb 5

BREAKING:

After several hours of public comment in Eureka, CA, city council has voted AGAINST implementation of draconian "FLOCK Safety" cameras in the Humboldt County town. FLOCK has been a major asset for the Atlanta Police Foundation/Mayor Dickens' dystopian Cop City project.

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Defend the Weelaunee Forest @stopcopcity.bsky.social · Jan 30

Looking back, almost all of this seems undeniably true.

Sharing the Good News @thegoodnews.bsky.social · Jan 30

From "States of Siege," published anonymously by participants in @stopcopcity.bsky.social almost a year ago just days after police and federal agencies raided 4 houses in Atlanta.

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