DoomsdaysCW<p>This seems like a no-brainer. More <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenSpace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenSpace</span></a> helps to ground and calm folks! </p><p>Eastern <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Kentucky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kentucky</span></a> residents debate <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/rewilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rewilding</span></a> former <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mine</span></a> or turning it into a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a></p><p>WBUR, February 12, 2025</p><p>"Residents of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RoxanaKentucky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RoxanaKentucky</span></a>, are battling it out over whether to transform a piece of land, which formerly housed a strip mine, into a federal penitentiary or to rewild it and let the bison roam free.</p><p>"Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd speaks with Grist's Katie Myers about the activists who want to keep the land from becoming another industrial hazard to the area."</p><p>Listen:<br><a href="https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/02/12/kentucky-prison-rewilding-land" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/02/12</span><span class="invisible">/kentucky-prison-rewilding-land</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarPunkSunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SolarPunkSunday</span></a> <br>More <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenSpaces" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GreenSpaces</span></a>! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LessPrisons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LessPrisons</span></a> (and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopCities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CopCities</span></a>)!<br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopCopCitiesEverywhere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopCopCitiesEverywhere</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheForest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendWeelauneeForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendWeelauneeForest</span></a></p>
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DoomsdaysCW<p>Dozens indicted on Georgia racketeering charges related to ‘Stop Cop City’ movement appear in court</p><p>by Kate Brumback, Nov 7, 2023 </p><p>ATLANTA (AP) — “Nearly five dozen people indicted on racketeering charges related to protests against a planned police and firefighter training facility near Atlanta appeared in court on Monday as their supporters rallied outside the courthouse.</p><p>“Protests against the proposed training center — dubbed “Cop City' by opponents — have been going on for more than two years. Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr obtained a sweeping indictment in August, using the state’s anti-racketeering law to target the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/protesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protesters</span></a> and characterizing them as 'militant <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anarchists</span></a>.'</p><p>“Demonstrators and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> organizations, including the American Civil Liberties Union (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACLU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ACLU</span></a>), have condemned the indictment and accused <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Carr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Carr</span></a>, a Republican, of levying heavy-handed charges to try to silence a movement that has galvanized <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmentalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environmentalists</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antipolice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antipolice</span></a> protesters across the country.</p><p>“All 61 people indicted were scheduled to be arraigned Monday, that is to have the charges against them formally read in court. Fifty-seven of them appeared, called in small groups before Fulton County Superior Court Judge Kimberly Esmond Adams over a three-hour period, and each waived arraignment.</p><p>“Four defendants failed to appear. One was believed to be in France and prosecutors didn’t have a good address for him. One was in federal immigration custody. Another who is not American and who had left the country tried to return twice in recent days to attend the hearing but was denied entry to the country, her lawyer said. A fourth simply didn’t show.</p><p>“Most of the people who appeared had not yet surrendered at the Fulton County Jail to be booked on their charges. Some had recently reached agreements with prosecutors on a bond amount and conditions and others were still in the process of doing so.</p><p>“Adams told them they had until 10 a.m. Tuesday, 24 hours after the start of the arraignment proceedings, to turn themselves in. If they fail to do so, she warned, a warrant for their arrest could be issued and any bond would be rescinded.</p><p>“Adams instructed defense attorneys to provide the attorney general’s office with hard drives by Friday so they can receive copies of evidence in the case, known as discovery. Prosecutors are to finish copying and distributing that evidence to defense attorneys by the end of the year.</p><p>“A final plea hearing will be set no later than the end of June, Adams said. She explained to the groups of defendants that if they want to reach a plea agreement with prosecutors they must do it by that date.<br>“A couple of hundred supporters of the ‘<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopCopCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopCopCity</span></a>' effort rallied outside the courthouse in downtown Atlanta on Monday morning singing, chanting and waving signs.</p><p>“Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens and other supporters say the 85-acre, $90 million facility would replace inadequate training facilities, and would help address difficulties in hiring and retaining police officers. Opponents have expressed concern that that it could lead to greater police <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/militarization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>militarization</span></a> and that its construction in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SouthRiverForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SouthRiverForest</span></a> will worsen <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> damage in a poor, majority-Black area.</p><p>“Protests against the project, which have at time resulted in violence and vandalism, escalated after the fatal shooting in January of 26-year-old protester Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, known as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tortuguita" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tortuguita</span></a>. A prosecutor last month said he would not pursue charges against the state troopers who shot Paez Terán, saying he found that their use of deadly force was ‘objectively reasonable.'</p><p>“Most of those indicted in August had already been charged over their alleged involvement in the movement. RICO charges carry a sentence of five to 20 years in prison that can be added on top of the penalty for the underlying acts.</p><p>“Among the defendants: more than three dozen people who were previously facing domestic terrorism charges in connection to the protests; three leaders of a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BailFund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BailFund</span></a> previously accused of money laundering; and three activists previously charged with felony intimidation after authorities said they distributed <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/flyers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>flyers</span></a> calling a state trooper a <br>'murderer' for his involvement in Paez Terán’s death.</p><p>“Prosecutors have alleged a conspiracy that includes a wide variety of underlying crimes that range from possessing fire accelerant and throwing Molotov cocktails at police officers to being reimbursed for glue and food for activists who spent months camping in the woods near the construction site.”</p><p><a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/dozens-indicted-on-georgia-racketeering-charges-related-to-stop-cop-city-movement-appear-in-court" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pbs.org/newshour/politics/doze</span><span class="invisible">ns-indicted-on-georgia-racketeering-charges-related-to-stop-cop-city-movement-appear-in-court</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheForest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ACAB</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendWeelauneeForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendWeelauneeForest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Censorship</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateJustice</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DirectAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DirectAction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JusticeForTort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JusticeForTort</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JusticeForTortugita" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JusticeForTortugita</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AtlantaGeorgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtlantaGeorgia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalRacism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopCopCitiesEverywhere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopCopCitiesEverywhere</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeAllForestDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeAllForestDefenders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Police officers won't face charges in fatal shooting of protester Manuel Teran at Atlanta's '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CopCity</span></a>'</p><p>Six troopers fired shots that resulted in Teran's death in January.</p><p>ByMark Osborne and Kiara Alfonseca<br>October 6, 2023</p><p>"None of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Georgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Georgia</span></a> State Police troopers involved in the fatal shooting of Manuel '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tortuguita" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tortuguita</span></a>' Teran will face charges, according to Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney George R. Christian.</p><p>"Teran, who used they/them pronouns, was shot and killed by police on Jan. 18 as officers raided campgrounds occupied by environmental demonstrators who had allegedly been camping out for months to protest the development of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, dubbed '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CopCity</span></a>' by critics.</p><p>"According to an autopsy of Teran sent to ABC News, they did not have gunpowder residue on their hands. Officials claimed Teran fired the first shot at a state trooper. Officers then responded with gunfire.</p><p>"In Friday's announcement that no charges would be filed, Christian wrote that Teran responded to officers firing 'less lethal' pepperball rounds by 'shooting four (4) times his 9 mm pistol through the tent striking and seriously injuring a Georgia State Trooper. Six Troopers returned fire resulting in the death of Teran.'</p><p>"'The use of lethal (deadly) force by the Georgia State Patrol was objectively reasonable under the circumstances of this case,' Christian wrote. 'No criminal charges will be brought against the Georgia State Patrol Troopers involved in the shooting of Manuel Perez Teran.'</p><p>"Teran had at least 57 gunshot wounds in their body, according to the autopsy, including in the hands, torso, legs and head.</p><p>"An independent autopsy from the family found that Teran’s hands were raised during the fatal shooting, however, the DeKalb County autopsy stated, 'There are too many variables with respect to movement of the decedent and the shooters to draw definitive conclusions concerning Mr. Teran's body position.'</p><p>"The DeKalb County Medical Examiner's Office had ruled the death a homicide.</p><p>"The Georgia Attorney General's Office is conducting its own investigation into the shooting."</p><p><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/police-officers-face-charges-fatal-shooting-protester-manuel/story?id=103782565" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abcnews.go.com/US/police-offic</span><span class="invisible">ers-face-charges-fatal-shooting-protester-manuel/story?id=103782565</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopCopCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopCopCity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheForest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ACAB</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendWeelauneeForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendWeelauneeForest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateJustice</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DirectAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DirectAction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JusticeForTort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JusticeForTort</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JusticeForTortugita" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JusticeForTortugita</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AtlantaGeorgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtlantaGeorgia</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Don’t Stop: Continuing the Fight against <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CopCity</span></a></p><p>Six More Months in the Movement to Defend the Forest<br>2023-12-12</p><p>"Starting in April 2021, people in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AtlantaGeorgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtlantaGeorgia</span></a> set out to defend <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WeelauneeForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WeelauneeForest</span></a>, where politicians and profiteers are attempting to build a police training compound known as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CopCity</span></a>. Over the past two and a half years, this movement has given rise to one of the fiercest struggles in North America. Opponents of Cop City have repeatedly destroyed equipment and forced contractors to withdraw from the construction project, while the authorities have killed one <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForestDefender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ForestDefender</span></a> and pressed outlandish <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racketeering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racketeering</span></a> charges against 61 more, including the members of a legal support collective."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://crimethinc.com/2023/12/12/dont-stop-continuing-the-fight-against-cop-city-six-more-months-in-the-movement-to-defend-the-forest" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">crimethinc.com/2023/12/12/dont</span><span class="invisible">-stop-continuing-the-fight-against-cop-city-six-more-months-in-the-movement-to-defend-the-forest</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopCopCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopCopCity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheForest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ACAB</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendWeelauneeForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendWeelauneeForest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Censorship</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateJustice</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DirectAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DirectAction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JusticeForTort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JusticeForTort</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JusticeForTortugita" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JusticeForTortugita</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a></p>
Freedom Press<p>Atlanta (USA): In solidarity with the movement to Stop Cop City and Defend Weelaunee Forest<br>We call on all people of good conscience to stand in solidarity with the movement to stop Cop City and defend the Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta.</p><p>O<br><a href="https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/01/21/atlanta-usa-in-solidarity-with-the-movement-to-stop-cop-city-and-defend-weelaunee-forest/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">freedomnews.org.uk/2023/01/21/</span><span class="invisible">atlanta-usa-in-solidarity-with-the-movement-to-stop-cop-city-and-defend-weelaunee-forest/</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Activism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Atlanta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Atlanta</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/climatebreakdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climatebreakdown</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/copcity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>copcity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendWeelauneeForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendWeelauneeForest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Protest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Protest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Solidarity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopCopCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopCopCity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WeelauneeForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WeelauneeForest</span></a></p>
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