This body cam footage is from the police raid on the forest in Atlanta on January 18.

Moments after police opened fire and killed Tortuguita (at 0:47 in this video), an Atlanta Police officer can be heard saying, "You fucked your own officer up" in reference to the trooper who was shot that day.

For weeks, Atlanta politicians and police have denied that there was body cam footage relevant to the killing. They still maintain that Tortuguita was the one who shot the trooper—though other forest defenders have denied that from the beginning.

For more news from Atlanta:

https://linktr.ee/atlpresscollective

For more on body cams:

https://crimethinc.com/bodycams

Today's new episode of our podcast—the sixth in two weeks—includes an up-to-the-minute interview with an Italian anarchist regarding the hunger strike of the prisoner Alfredo Cospito and the protests supporting him in his demand to be released from permanent solitary confinement.

https://crimethinc.com/podcasts/the-ex-worker/episodes/90

Today, Alfredo Cospito has been on hunger strike for 113 days. His life hangs by a thread.

We Remember Jen Angel: A Eulogy

https://crimethinc.com/JenAngel

We mourn the passing of Jen Angel, a tenacious anarchist organizer whose efforts spanned the better part of four decades. We were fortunate to know Jen. In this eulogy, we review some of Jen’s many contributions over the years and share some memories from those she inspired.

While the Italian prison system seeks to bury the anarchist Alfredo Cospito both figuratively and literally, the fascists who hold power in the Italian government want to purge Italian archives of documents relating to resistance throughout history.

https://centrostudilibertari.it/en/comunicato-attacco-asfai-eng

Here are some of the stickers we have published over the two and a half months since Elon Musk banned us from Twitter to curry favor with fascists.

Help us keep reaching people! Make the streets speak our name!

https://crimethinc.com/store

Today, it has been three years since Aragorn! passed away—a tireless polemicist and a fierce partisan of anarchist infrastructure. His absence still haunts us.

https://crimethinc.com/Aragorn

Please read Leona's and Klee's eulogies and Aragorn!'s text "Locating An Indigenous Anarchism," all here:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/various-authors-black-seed-issue-8

Injury against Erasure, Damage against Time—Two Stories about Love and Death

https://crimethinc.com/injury

Two retellings of a classic story, the tale of the lovers who secure a single night together before one of them is to be executed. The one who is to go free urges her partner to leave marks on her body by which she might remember him, yet try as they might, she comes away bare.

Alle deutschsprachigen Updates von und über CrimethInc. findet ihr nun auf Mastodon!

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Since we published our classic text about the relationship between love and revolt—back in 1997—it has only become more difficult to imagine a life guided chiefly by joy and shared desire, a form of collective rebellion animated by the same passion that inspires romantic love.

As far as we're concerned, that only makes it more pressing.

https://crimethinc.com/fallinlove

"Falling in love is the fundamental revolutionary act, the prerequisite for resistance to today’s tedious, socially restrictive, culturally constrictive world."

Why is Norfolk Southern, the company responsible for the environmental catastrophe in East Palestine, Ohio, one of the donors to the Atlanta Police Foundation, which is trying to destroy the forest in Atlanta in order to build Cop City?

It makes sense, if you think about it: corporations like Norfolk Southern depend on police violence to suppress protests that might otherwise force them to minimize the risks that their profiteering exposes others to. Police are an essential element in their strategy of raking in profits while offloading the costs onto forests, small towns like East Palestine, and ordinary people like us.

We need an ecological movement that can defend our communities. Otherwise, we will end up ruled by oligarchs in an uninhabitable world.

https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/2023/02/16/pressure-mounts-against-cop-city/

For over a decade, the pundit Chris Hedges has been a weathervane for bad politics. In 2011, he devised a divisive narrative that the FBI used to target participants in the Occupy movement, famously calling the black bloc "The Cancer in Occupy." Under Trump, he joined the President in demonizing "Antifa," accusing anti-fascists of "violence" at the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville and asserting that the neo-Nazis who carried out a lethal car attack there were "victims." Today, he will be participating in a supposed "anti-war" protest in Washington, DC along with white supremacists who attended that rally in Charlottesville—on the premise that "The left has become largely irrelevant in the US because it is incapable of working with the right."

Consult It's Going Down for a full list of the fascists, authoritarians, and conspiracy theorists participating:

https://itsgoingdown.org/neo-nazis-claim-anti-war-protest-dc/

The one thing that seems to link all these people is the desire for Vladimir Putin to have a free hand in Ukraine. Even Medea Benjamin—who celebrated Trump giving Erdoğan permission to invade Rojava and called that "anti-war"—was persuaded at the last minute not to speak by her organization, Code Pink, for fear that doing so would associate her with an anti-gay, anti-trans, anti-feminist, Islamophobic and white nationalist agenda.

Our debate with Hedges in 2012:

https://cwc.im/postdebate

Say no to red-brown alliances.

Some background about the upcoming week of action scheduled in Atlanta to defend the forest, starting March 4:

https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/2023/02/16/pressure-mounts-against-cop-city/

President’s Day observes the birthday of George Washington. For our part, we observe this day by remembering the courageous enslaved people and indentured servants who sought to escape from captivity under George Washington and the Native Americans who defended themselves against his attacks.

https://crimethinc.com/Washington

Artwork in the burned metro station of downtown Santiago, Chile, depicting President Gabriel Boric, who emerged from the student movement but turned against it as soon as he arrived in the halls of power.

https://crimethinc.com/ChilePlebiscite

The Forest in the City

https://crimethinc.com/ForestintheCity

The fight to defend the Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta has become one of the most vibrant movements of the post-Trump era, interweaving environmentalism, abolitionism, and the struggle against gentrification. Yet as police begin employing lethal violence and indiscriminate terrorism charges, it has reached a critical juncture.

In this comprehensive history of the past year of struggle, participants reflect on the practices that have given the movement strength and analyze the challenges that face it.

This is a follow-up to last year's article, "The City in the Forest," which traced the first phase of the movement.

#StopCopCity
#DefendtheAtlantaForest