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."

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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

Defending Abundance Everywhere: A Call to Every Community from the Weelaunee Forest

https://crimethinc.com/WeelauneeAbundance

A collection of essays from participants in the movement to defend Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta, reflecting on how to embody values of abundance as we weave ourselves into the web of life that surrounds us.

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We've prepared a zine version of "Balance Sheet: Two Years against Cop City," the follow-up to "The Forest in the City," evaluating the various strategies that people have employed in the movement to defend Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta:

https://crimethinc.com/zines/balance-sheet

Please print these out and distribute them!

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#DefendtheAtlantaforest

From Bolsheviks to right-wing conservatives, many different currents have spread falsehoods about who participated in the Kronstadt uprising and what their goals were. Fortunately, you can see for yourself by reading their own words.

This is the third issue of the Izvestia [news] of the Provisional Revolutionary Committee of Sailors, Soldiers, and Workers of the Town of Kronstadt, in the original Russian and as an English facsimile.

El bosque en la ciudad
Dos años de defensa forestal en Atlanta, Georgia

https://crimethinc.com/2023/02/22/el-bosque-en-la-ciudad-dos-anos-de-defensa-forestal-en-atlanta-georgia-1

Los participantes en el movimiento para defender el bosque en Atlanta exploran el último año de lucha en detalle, reflexionando sobre sus fortalezas y los desafíos que enfrenta.

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La revuelta popular en Perú

Anarquistas discuten la revuelta contra la violencia policial y el estado de emergencia

https://crimethinc.com/2023/02/21/la-revuelta-popular-en-peru-anarquistas-discuten-la-revuelta-contra-la-violencia-policial-y-el-estado-de-emergencia-1

El 18 de enero, movimientos populares del sur del Perú marcharon hacia la capital en una movilización conocida como “Tomada de Lima”. Estudiantes y sindicatos les dieron la bienvenida, sumándose a las protestas para exigir nuevas elecciones presidenciales y legislativas. En respuesta, la policía mató a más de 60 personas e hirió a miles.

Hablamos con participantes de Periodico Libertária, una publicación anarquista que surgió como parte de la resistencia al régimen peruano. Su objetivo, como dicen, es “la liberación total de los Andes y de todo el territorio dominado por el estado asesino llamado ‘Perú’”.

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