by Aja Arnold

Last month, the City of Atlanta and the Atlanta Police Foundation held two virtual sessions regarding the newly proposed 150-acre police training facility that would occupy 381 acres of forested land in unincorporated DeKalb County. The land is historically known as the Old Atlanta Prison Farm, where Black people criminalized by the state were forced to work in the Jim Crow era following the Civil War. Residents in both Atlanta and DeKalb have been growing in an opposition towards the city’s plans to authorize a ground lease of the land to APF — as slated in a June 7 ordinance by Councilmember Joyce Sheperd that would sell the land to the police foundation for $10 a year.

While APF say they have hosted two “public input sessions,” residents were met with a 30-minute virtual slideshow and a 30-minute one-sided Q&A segment. You can listen to a straight recording of the Q&A segment provided by The Mainline here. Residents have shared they have not received a follow-up email containing a recording of the session.

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WE'RE MOBILIZING to dismantle the racist systems that, by design, perpetuate violence and continue to destroy our communities. Atlanta City Council is planning to erect a massive, privately funded cop training facility on hundreds of acres of historic forest so WE’RE ORGANIZING to stop it and need all hands on deck! 

• Come out and canvass with us to #STOPCOPCITY this Saturday from 10 AM – 1 PM. We’ll be meeting at the Southside Park Trail.
• Make some noise at the #STOPCOPCITY People's Town Hall TODAY, August 5, from 6:30 - 9 PM at the Neighborhood Church in Candler Park
• Sign up for a phonebank session with our comrades from Sunrise Movement on August 10 from 7 – 8:30 PM 

Fulton Books is publishing and promoting Milton Tambor's memoir, A Democratic Socialist's 50 Year Adventure. Check it out and support our comrade here!

"Milt was instrumental in founding DSA's Atlanta chapter in 2006 and rooting it in the workplace and community struggles of poor and working class Atlantans, whether through anti–forclosure, anti–gentrification, or workplace struggles, using tactics from public education, to electoral organizing, to direct action. In his memoir, Milt details how the chapter's work contributed to the building of a vibrant progressive movement in Atlanta."

–Maria Svart, national director, Democratic Socialists of America

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