NEW from DSM: Yesterday, about 30 activists gathered in downtown #Eugene to march in protest of Atlanta's proposed #CopCity and the killing of forest defender #Tortuguita.
They were met with a heavy #police presence and dispersed.
Once again, on April 29, Eugenians took to the streets to protest the development of “Cop City”—the $90 million police training facility in Atlanta, Georgia’s Weelaunee Forest—and the killing of en…
Today in #Atlanta, just as the family of Manuel #Tortuguita Teran was giving a press conference about how an independent autopsy reveled that Teran was executed in a barrage of over 13 bullets on January 18th, a vast army of various law enforcement agencies was deploying into the Weelaunee forest.
One journalist reported, it "looks like a war zone right now. Heavily-armed members of law enforcement are clearing out the forest and have escorted in construction workers to make way for the facility."
Calls for solidarity and 'weeks of action' have been broadcast over movement media accounts like @defendATLforest.
Also the movement claimed another victory, as Quality Glass Company has officially dropped out of the project and cut ties with Brasfield & Gorrie, one of the major contractors tasked with building cop city. Read here: https://www.srycampaign.org/2023/02/06/quality-glass-co-drops-bg/
