To accompany our history of the fight to defend the forest in Atlanta, "The Forest in the City," we've prepared a poster celebrating forest defense. Please print these out and paste them up!
If you're organizing solidarity events where you are, there's a space at the bottom where you can add those.
The poster:
https://crimethinc.com/posters/defend-the-forest
Background on the movement:
https://crimethinc.com/ForestintheCity
If you're organizing solidarity events where you are, there's a space at the bottom where you can add those.
The poster:
https://crimethinc.com/posters/defend-the-forest
Background on the movement:
https://crimethinc.com/ForestintheCity
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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
Please print these out and distribute them in your community!
https://crimethinc.com/zines/the-forest-in-the-city
#StopCopCity
#DefendtheAtlantaForest
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When Russian troops invaded Ukraine a year ago, it took many people by surprise—especially Putin apologists, who had been insisting that reports about Russian military preparations were just saber-rattling from the United States government.
It didn't take us by surprise, because we had been corresponding with Russian and Ukrainian anarchists for years.
We still believe that it is most important to listen to anarchists from the region rather than commentators thousands of miles away.
For Russian anarchist perspectives, you could start here:
https://avtonom.org/en
For Ukrainian anarchist perspectives, you could start here:
https://libcom.org/tags/assemblyorgua
For Belarusian anarchist perspectives, you could start here:
https://pramen.io/en/
It didn't take us by surprise, because we had been corresponding with Russian and Ukrainian anarchists for years.
We still believe that it is most important to listen to anarchists from the region rather than commentators thousands of miles away.
For Russian anarchist perspectives, you could start here:
https://avtonom.org/en
For Ukrainian anarchist perspectives, you could start here:
https://libcom.org/tags/assemblyorgua
For Belarusian anarchist perspectives, you could start here:
https://pramen.io/en/
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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
To download the poster:
https://crimethinc.com/posters/defend-the-forest
To learn about making wheatpaste for postering:
https://crimethinc.com/wheatpasting
#DefendtheAtlantaforest
#StopCopCity
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Punk – Μια επικίνδυνη Ουτοπία
Επανεξετάζοντας τη σχέση του πανκ με τον αναρχισμό
https://crimethinc.com/2022/12/13/punk-mia-epikindune-outopia-epanexetazontas-te-skhese-tou-pank-me-ton-anarkhismo-1
Πώς προέκυψε το πανκ μέσα από τις αντικουλτούρες της δεκαετίας του 1960 που ισχυριζόταν ότι απέρριπτε; Γιατί έπαιξε τόσο κεντρικό ρόλο στην αναζωπύρωση του αναρχισμού σε όλο τον κόσμο στα τέλη του 20ού αιώνα; Πώς προεικόνισε τα συμμετοχικά μέσα της ψηφιακής εποχής; Και τι μπορεί να μας διδάξει η κληρονομιά του σήμερα;
#Ελληνικά
Επανεξετάζοντας τη σχέση του πανκ με τον αναρχισμό
https://crimethinc.com/2022/12/13/punk-mia-epikindune-outopia-epanexetazontas-te-skhese-tou-pank-me-ton-anarkhismo-1
Πώς προέκυψε το πανκ μέσα από τις αντικουλτούρες της δεκαετίας του 1960 που ισχυριζόταν ότι απέρριπτε; Γιατί έπαιξε τόσο κεντρικό ρόλο στην αναζωπύρωση του αναρχισμού σε όλο τον κόσμο στα τέλη του 20ού αιώνα; Πώς προεικόνισε τα συμμετοχικά μέσα της ψηφιακής εποχής; Και τι μπορεί να μας διδάξει η κληρονομιά του σήμερα;
#Ελληνικά
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Transphobic vultures pretend that they have children's best interests at heart while attempting to dictate everything that children can dream or become without any consideration for their needs or their well-being. It is plain to see that transphobes don't actually care about children or anyone else—they are simply trying to consolidate their power, to control our lives through state oppression and censorship. They want everyone to be subject to patriarchy, confined by constrictive gender roles. They won't stop at attacking children—they will go on assaulting everyone who doesn't fit their narrow-minded scheme until we stop them.
https://crimethinc.com/GenderSelfDetermination
https://crimethinc.com/GenderSelfDetermination
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On the Looming RICO Case in Atlanta
According to a prosecutor in Georgia, state prosecutors are preparing to charge local activists who oppose Cop City and the destruction of Weelaunee forest as a “criminal organization” under the RICO statute:
https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/atlanta-activists-say-prosecutors-plan-to-indict-them-on-rico-charges/
The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) was introduced in order to target illegal capitalist operations. However, corporations and police have repeatedly used RICO charges to intimidate perceived adversaries. The nonprofit organization Greenpeace faced RICO charges from 2016 to 2019, for example.
Elsewhere in the Southeast, North Carolina police brought RICO charges against members of the Latin Kings and Queens who were working to organize gang truces in their community:
https://alkqnsupport.wordpress.com/paradigm-shift/
According to a prosecutor in Georgia, state prosecutors are preparing to charge local activists who oppose Cop City and the destruction of Weelaunee forest as a “criminal organization” under the RICO statute:
https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/atlanta-activists-say-prosecutors-plan-to-indict-them-on-rico-charges/
The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) was introduced in order to target illegal capitalist operations. However, corporations and police have repeatedly used RICO charges to intimidate perceived adversaries. The nonprofit organization Greenpeace faced RICO charges from 2016 to 2019, for example.
Elsewhere in the Southeast, North Carolina police brought RICO charges against members of the Latin Kings and Queens who were working to organize gang truces in their community:
https://alkqnsupport.wordpress.com/paradigm-shift/
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Georgia prosecutors have used the same RICO statute to charge rappers Young Thug and Gunna, among others.
Atlanta police have already been trying to terrorize activists in the #StopCopCity movement, killing one and bringing terrorism charges indiscriminately against others.
We recall how in 2017, DC prosecutors attempted to send over 200 people to prison for decades just for participating in a march at Trump's inauguration. They were seeking to open the Trump era by setting a new precedent for how conspiracy charges could be used to crush movements. They ultimately failed, thanks to the solidarity and collective organizing of the defendants and their supporters.
That case is a useful reference for what could take place in Atlanta:
https://crimethinc.com/J20legal
Atlanta police have already been trying to terrorize activists in the #StopCopCity movement, killing one and bringing terrorism charges indiscriminately against others.
We recall how in 2017, DC prosecutors attempted to send over 200 people to prison for decades just for participating in a march at Trump's inauguration. They were seeking to open the Trump era by setting a new precedent for how conspiracy charges could be used to crush movements. They ultimately failed, thanks to the solidarity and collective organizing of the defendants and their supporters.
That case is a useful reference for what could take place in Atlanta:
https://crimethinc.com/J20legal
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Las w mieście
https://crimethinc.com/2023/02/22/las-w-miescie-dwa-lata-obrony-lasu-w-atlancie
Kampania w obronie lasu w Atlancie stała się jednym z najbardziej żywiołowych ruchów ery po-trumpowej, przeplatając ekologizm z abolicjonizmem i walką z gentryfikacją. Jednak gdy policja przeszła do stosowania potencjalnie śmiercionośnych metod i zbiorowych oskarżeń o terroryzm, ruch znalazł się w punkcie krytycznym. W poniższym tekście uczestnicy analizują rozwój tej walka się w ciągu ostatniego roku, zastanawiając się nad praktykami, które dały jej siłę i analizując stojące przed nią wyzwania.
#Polski
https://crimethinc.com/2023/02/22/las-w-miescie-dwa-lata-obrony-lasu-w-atlancie
Kampania w obronie lasu w Atlancie stała się jednym z najbardziej żywiołowych ruchów ery po-trumpowej, przeplatając ekologizm z abolicjonizmem i walką z gentryfikacją. Jednak gdy policja przeszła do stosowania potencjalnie śmiercionośnych metod i zbiorowych oskarżeń o terroryzm, ruch znalazł się w punkcie krytycznym. W poniższym tekście uczestnicy analizują rozwój tej walka się w ciągu ostatniego roku, zastanawiając się nad praktykami, które dały jej siłę i analizując stojące przed nią wyzwania.
#Polski
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Balance Sheet: Two Years against Cop City
http://crimethinc.com/AgainstCopCity
Starting in April 2021, a bold movement set out to defend Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta, Georgia, where local politicians and corporate profiteers want to build a police training compound known as Cop City. In the following assessment, participants evaluate the strategic hypotheses that the movement has produced and tested over the past two years and reflect on the risks and possibilities of the next phase of the struggle.
This is a sort of balance sheet concluding the history of the movement that we published last week, "The Forest in the City."
#StopCopCity
#DefendtheAtlantaForest
http://crimethinc.com/AgainstCopCity
Starting in April 2021, a bold movement set out to defend Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta, Georgia, where local politicians and corporate profiteers want to build a police training compound known as Cop City. In the following assessment, participants evaluate the strategic hypotheses that the movement has produced and tested over the past two years and reflect on the risks and possibilities of the next phase of the struggle.
This is a sort of balance sheet concluding the history of the movement that we published last week, "The Forest in the City."
#StopCopCity
#DefendtheAtlantaForest
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The government of New York City has agreed to pay $21,500 to each of hundreds of demonstrators who were penned in by the police in the Bronx during protests in June 2020.
This is only the latest example of something that has been happening for decades. Police systematically engage in millions of dollars worth of illegal activity on a regular basis. To the authorities, it's worth breaking their own laws and throwing millions of taxpayer dollars into settlements if it means that they can maintain control.
Nobody believes in the sanctity of law less than the cops and those who control them. No wonder anarchists don't, either.
https://crimethinc.com/texts/prizes
This is only the latest example of something that has been happening for decades. Police systematically engage in millions of dollars worth of illegal activity on a regular basis. To the authorities, it's worth breaking their own laws and throwing millions of taxpayer dollars into settlements if it means that they can maintain control.
Nobody believes in the sanctity of law less than the cops and those who control them. No wonder anarchists don't, either.
https://crimethinc.com/texts/prizes
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