ATLANTA, GA —
After the largest march to date through the Atlanta Forest, police have mobilized near an anti-Cop City music festival along Constitution Road, near the R.C. Field. Police are awaiting, one armed with rifle, zip ties ready to go. At the music fest there are about 500 people.
Atlanta-area forest defenders, community activists and their allies from around the country and the world are initiating a “week of action” against a proposed “Cop City” urban warfare campus and a movie industry facility that would demolish much of the largest urban forest in the USA.
The upcoming week of protests and direct actions comes less than two months after Georgia State Patrol shot and killed Manuel ‘Tortuguita’ Terán in suspicious circumstances at a defense encampment near the proposed site on January 18, 2023.
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