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

We've prepared a zine version of our article, "The Forest in the City—Two Years of Forest Defense in Atlanta, Georgia."

Please print these out and distribute them in your community!

https://crimethinc.com/zines/the-forest-in-the-city

#StopCopCity
#DefendtheAtlantaForest

To our joy, people are already pasting these posters up on the walls. This photo is from the streets of New York City.

To download the poster:

https://crimethinc.com/posters/defend-the-forest

To learn about making wheatpaste for postering:

https://crimethinc.com/wheatpasting

#DefendtheAtlantaforest
#StopCopCity