Brazilian artwork from 2020 in solidarity with the George Floyd Rebellion: "Fire to the racists"

https://crimethinc.com/2020/06/02/international-solidarity-with-the-minneapolis-uprising-demonstrations-graffiti-hacking-and-riots-on-six-continents

#Português

Erdoğan's victory in the Turkish elections is another gain for autocracy in the Mideast and worldwide. We have to study the roots of Turkish fascism, understand how it relates to the steady gains of authoritarians around the world, and strategize as to how to stop them everywhere. Voting is not enough.

https://crimethinc.com/2019/11/12/the-roots-of-turkish-fascism-and-the-threat-it-poses

Atlanta Police and Prosecutors Target Legal Support Activists

https://crimethinc.com/AtlantaSolidarity2023

Seeking to protect their cash cow, Cop City, Atlanta police have arrested three legal support organizers connected to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, charging them with “money laundering” and “charity fraud.” This comes less than a week before Atlanta City Council will decide whether to allocate additional millions of dollars to fund Cop City.

This marks a new low for Atlanta police and prosecutors in their descent into totalitarian tactics. Since December, in addition to murdering one protester, they have pressed trumped-up domestic terrorism charges against practically every defendant they have arrested. Now, in order to ensure that defendants in the movement to protect the forest cannot get proper legal defense, they are attacking activists who help to raise bail and provide legal support.

We discuss the precedents and implications of this attack on all forms of solidarity organizing.

#StopCopCity

In today's bond hearing for the organizers from the Atlanta Solidarity Fund that Atlanta prosecutors are charging with “money laundering” and “charity fraud,” the defense emphasized that the charges are baseless:

"The allegations include $37.11 to make yard signs... They have receipts for all of these expenses. [One of them] gets reimbursed for her travel expenses, and that is being misrepresented as charity fraud."

Contrary to the demands of the prosecutor, who is trying to make it a crime to provide basic legal support to arrested activists, the judge set bond for the arrestees, saying:

"I'm concerned about some of the same things that the defense attorney mentions about the line between legitimate free speech and illegal violent acts... Paying for camping supplies and the like—I don't find it very impressive. There's not a lot of meat on the bones of the allegations that thousands of dollars are going to fund illegal activities."

Background:

https://crimethinc.com/AtlantaSolidarity2023

#StopCopCity

A massive crowd has turned out at the Atlanta City Council meeting today to take a stand against the Cop City facility. City officials been trying to prevent hundreds of people from spreaking, but the pressure is building.

Watching the public comment, it is clear that the authorities are not caught flat-footed this time: they seeded the beginning of the speaking list with people to represent their own interests. But interestingly, that isn't just cops listlessly reading pro-cop-city speeches; rather, several speakers have focused on defending the integrity of the mayor. In other words, the authorities now recognize the fight over Cop City as a crucial battlefield determining which politicians will retain legitimacy.

After the first few speakers on the podium, though, the remainder of the speakers are unanimously against Cop City.

It's been a long fight and it's not over yet.

Background:

https://crimethinc.com/ForestintheCity

#StopCopCity

In Atlanta, where the City Council is taking comment before a vote on whether allocate tens of millions of dollars towards a police militarization facility, they've just gotten to the 86th speaker—with over two hundred more scheduled behind them. They are going to be at it all night.

After the first few speakers, some of whom were plants supporting the agenda of the police, every single speaker has argued passionately against Cop City.

Chants of "Stop Cop City!" are resounding within the chamber. Outside the hall, hundreds have been chanting "If you build it, we will burn it."

The power is not in the hands of the police, nor the representatives they extort—it is in the hands of those who organize together in defiance of their oppressors.

More background on the movement:

https://crimethinc.com/AgainstCopCity

#StopCopCity

It's 11:30 pm and people are still in City Hall lambasting the Atlanta City Council about why everyone should resist Cop City.

The person speaking right now is a doctor who began by declaring "If you build it, we will burn it."

https://crimethinc.com/ForestintheCity

#StopCopCity

It's now 1:22 am, and a whole hall full of #StopCopCity activists at the Atlanta City Council meeting is chanting "Let us speak!"

The hundreds of courageous people who have spoken out against the police militarization project are not going to give up and accept defeat, however the politicians vote.

Hundreds of people spoke out against Cop City. Despite reports that people were paid to speak in favor of it, only something like four people did.

Atlanta City Council has shown clearly that they function as a front group to channel money to police in outright defiance of the public.

The first secret police organization in fascist Italy—the precursor to the German Gestapo—was the OVRA, the Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism.

Those who fear-monger about "Antifa" are walking directly in Mussolini's footsteps.

Background:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OVRA

Anti-Fascism is self-defense handbill:

https://crimethinc.com/posters/antifascism-is-self-defense

Just one of the hundreds of people who spoke out against Cop City at the Atlanta City Council meeting yesterday.

Background on the movement:

https://crimethinc.com/ForestintheCity

Update on the most recent round of repression:

https://crimethinc.com/AtlantaSolidarity2023

#StopCopCity