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A colorful bouncy castle house with pointy cone tips in its four corner columns sits on the basketball court at Brownwood Park in southeast Atlanta. To its right snacks and a popcorn machine sit on a folding table. Behind the snack table a banner hangs from trees reading “We End Police Terror Together” with a painted image of a clenched green fist emerging from an overturned and smashed police car - brown roots feeding into the green fist can be seen growing into the ground through the smashed windshield of the upside down cop car.

6th ‘Stop Cop City’ Week of Action – Unicorn Riot Coverage

Atlanta, GA — During the week of June 24 – July 1, activists, organizers, and community members opposed to ‘Cop City’ are converging in Atlanta for a “Week of Action” against the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. People gathered in and around Atlanta to mobilize…

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‘Stop Cop City’ Week of Action Begins: Day 1

Atlanta, GA – The sixth ‘Week of Action’ against the Atlanta Police Foundation’s proposed urban warfare training center, currently under construction in the Weelaunee Forest but facing mounting legal challenges and public opposition, is beginning on Saturday with a kick-off rally in Brownwood Park in…

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Georgia State Troopers making arrests after storming the Stop Cop City music festival in the "RC Field" clearing in the South River Forest near Atlanta on March 5, 2023. On the left, one arrestee is pinned down my two officers in dark blue kneeling on them. In the middle-left of the shot, a person sitting down can be seen sitting and about to be arrested. On the right center part of the image, a man in a neon green National Lawyers Guild legal observer hat is lying down on the ground with his hands out to the sides - presumably having done so on orders by an arresting officer. A Georgia State Patrol higher-up is seen striding towards the prone NLG observer with black leather gloves on his hands; other officers in frame do not appear to be wearing gloves.

Behind the #StopCopCity Domestic Terrorism Warrants

Atlanta, GA — The Georgia Bureau of Investigation, in collaboration with several other law enforcement agencies, charged 23 more people with ‘domestic terrorism’ for their alleged involvement in the ongoing effort to stop ‘Cop City’ and to defend the Weelaunee Forest in unincorporated DeKalb County…

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Supporters of ‘Cop City’ Opponents Rally in Philly

Philadelphia, PA – Protests around the U.S. have increased recently against the proposed Public Safety Training Center near Atlanta. At the Philadelphia City Hall on around noon on Friday, Feb. 24, opponents held a rally.

Full livestream of the protest on Feb. 24, 2023.

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New Documentary on Late Sixties Civil Unrest is a ‘Rosetta Stone’ for Decoding the Modern Day Police State

In the late 60’s, the American police state opened a Pandora’s Box of lurid paranoia, laying the groundwork for decades of authoritarian control in order to clamp the lid shut on the near- revolutions of 1967-68. This history featured in the new documentary “Riotsville USA” suggests that the increasing authority police gifted themselves may ultimately be a curse on society.