🦄 Police, Protest & Direct Action, Social Control

Federal and State Police Raid Three Homes in Atlanta Leading to One Arrest Amid ‘Cop City’ Investigation

Atlanta, GA — A multi-agency task force raided three homes in Atlanta early Thursday morning as part of an ongoing investigation surrounding resistance to ‘Cop City.’

At around 6:00 a.m., law enforcement agents with the Atlanta Police Department, Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Georgia State Patrol,…

🦄 Eco, Police, Protest & Direct Action

One Year Since Tortuguita’s Killing: A Reflection on our Coverage of the Movement Against ‘Cop City’ and the First Eco-Activist Killed in the US

Thursday, January 18, 2024, marks one year since Manuel “Tortuguita” Esteban Paez Terán was killed by police in the South River Forest outside Atlanta. A 26-year-old queer anarchist, Tortuguita had been an active participant in the movement against “Cop City” for months before Georgia State…

🦄 Eco, Police
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…

🦄 Eco, Police

‘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…

🦄 Eco, Police

‘Cop City’ Protesters Visit Nationwide Insurance

Scottsdale, AZ — “I’m here in an official capacity, representing Nationwide,” said a protester in a blue wig and a skintight blue acrylic body suit. She wore placards strung across her shoulders with hand-painted replicas of the Nationwide logo on the front and back of…

🦄 Land & Housing, Police, Prison

Atlanta Solidarity Fund Organizers Granted Bond

DeKalb County, GA — Three Atlanta Solidarity Fund organizers arrested Wednesday were awarded bond in DeKalb County Magistrate Court Friday afternoon.

Marlon Kautz, Adele Maclean and Savannah Patterson were arrested in Atlanta on May 31 after the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Atlanta Police Department…