New strategy launched to fight Cop City
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Atlanta Within a day of the massive community turnout at the June 5 Atlanta City Council meeting — where, despite 16 1/2 hours of public comment opposing the over $67 million of taxpayer money to build the militarized police training center in the Weelaunee Forest, the Council approved the expend

Representatives of multiple organizations, including Community Movement Builders, the NAACP Legal Fund, Movement for Black Lives, Working Families Party and Black Voters Matter, described the referendum process to allow the people of Atlanta to vote on the fate of Cop City. The first step was taking place as their press conference was occurring. A representative of the Union of Southern Service Workers delivered the wording of the petition, which was admitted by the close of the press briefing to the City Clerk.

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Now that Cop City is voted in, now that it is “branded,” now that they hope once it is built and operational, almost half the trainees will be from other U.S. cities and the world, our own tactics can only be unity between ground zeroes, unity between cities of resistance and unity between our respective liberation movements.

(Emphasis original.)

  • Lemmy_Mouse@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    The only real question is what is this movement willing and ready to do when (not if) the bourgeois state’s electoral/voting system (yet again) rejects the needs of the people?

  • r8bit@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I’m glad this kind of mobilization is possible. i just hope most of these people don’t stop their political activity and go on to further engage in the american, or even global, political sphere. events like these are important to recruit “normal”/more apolitical people to our side.