Critical Resistance joins protestors to stop Cop City in Atlanta
Stop Cop City: Cop City Must Not Be Built!
CR Newsletter, June 2023
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Dear Friends of Critical Resistance,
Resistance to Cop City in Atlanta (ATL) has ramped up once again, this time after ATL police raided a house of ATL Solidarity Fund activists ([link removed]) providing direct legal support to arrested protestors last week. After over 450 ATL residents mobilized to City Hall to urge City Council to reject a $67 million funding proposal to construct the over 350-acre police training and militarization fortress known as "Cop City", early this morning at 5:30am EST on Tuesday June 6 the Atlanta City Council voted against the wisdom and will of the people, approving the proposal to fund Cop City using tax payer dollars.
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Critical Resistance (CR) has joined the fight by supporting organizers on the ground in ATL including Community Movement Builders ([link removed]) , Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative (SNAPCo) ([link removed]) , and a broad base of Stop Cop City protestors and activists ([link removed]) defending ATL's Weelaunee Forest for the last several months. At this week's mobilization, CR’s Rehana Lerandeau delivered public comment yesterday:
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CR's Rehana Lerandeau giving public comment to ATL City Council.
CR also delivered a statement of solidarity with the Stop Cop City movement, uplifting the following demands:
1. The city of Atlanta drops all charges against Cop City protestors and cease all proceedings against all people closely or loosely affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement.
2. The city of Atlanta immediately releases people who are detained in relation to Stop Cop City efforts
3. The city of Atlanta expunges all arrest records related to resisting Cop City
4. And that the City of Atlanta stands with the overwhelming majority of ATL residents— roughly 98% of whom are-- in strong opposition to the proposal to build the facility known as Cop City, denying any and all funding for this facility that is designed to train police to terrorize our communities around the world.
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This unfortunate vote will not stop the momentum of people power to stop Cop City. As campaigns like the Stop Urban Shield coalition ([link removed]) effort have shown us, which successfully ended in 2018 the world’s largest police militarization training & weapons expo, police training and militarization facilities like Cop City work to expand the violence of policing on international scales. The fight to stop Cop City is not only a concern of Atlanta, but a concern of all of our communities. Critical Resistance urges all of our supporters and comrades--new and old, near and far--to join the fight until it is won: Cop City will not be built.
Onward, for a world without policing -
-Critical Resistance
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