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
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
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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
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
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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.
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.
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At 5:30 am, following almost 15 hours of public comment overwhelmingly against Cop City, the Atlanta City Council has voted to go forward with the police militarization process. The crowd in City Hall is shouting "Cop City will never be built!"
The fight is not over.
For everyone determined to #StopCopCity, here is a start-to-finish guide to employing direct action to pursue positive social change:
https://crimethinc.com/directactionguide
The fight is not over.
For everyone determined to #StopCopCity, here is a start-to-finish guide to employing direct action to pursue positive social change:
https://crimethinc.com/directactionguide
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
At 5:30 am, following almost 15 hours of public comment overwhelmingly against Cop City, the Atlanta City Council has voted to go forward with the police militarization process. The crowd in City Hall is shouting "Cop City will never be built!" The fight…
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.
Atlanta City Council has shown clearly that they function as a front group to channel money to police in outright defiance of the public.
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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
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
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Media is too big
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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
Background on the movement:
https://crimethinc.com/ForestintheCity
Update on the most recent round of repression:
https://crimethinc.com/AtlantaSolidarity2023
#StopCopCity
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Due to forest fires driven by climate change, the air itself throughout large swaths of northeastern North America has become dangerous to breathe.
The end of the world is not ahead of us—it’s already here. It is the inevitable consequence of our disconnection from the environment and the natural processes that support our lives.
When we talk about climate change and the un-natural disasters it is inflicting on us, remember: for decades, anarchists and other radicals did everything we could to forestall this catastrophe and the authorities did everything they could to force it on us.
Our only hope is to return to a more rooted way of inhabiting the world, in which we identify with the other living things around us and take responsibility for the ways we impact them. Another end of the world is possible.
https://crimethinc.com/stickers/its-already-here
We're fighting for our lives.
The end of the world is not ahead of us—it’s already here. It is the inevitable consequence of our disconnection from the environment and the natural processes that support our lives.
When we talk about climate change and the un-natural disasters it is inflicting on us, remember: for decades, anarchists and other radicals did everything we could to forestall this catastrophe and the authorities did everything they could to force it on us.
Our only hope is to return to a more rooted way of inhabiting the world, in which we identify with the other living things around us and take responsibility for the ways we impact them. Another end of the world is possible.
https://crimethinc.com/stickers/its-already-here
We're fighting for our lives.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
Due to forest fires driven by climate change, the air itself throughout large swaths of northeastern North America has become dangerous to breathe. The end of the world is not ahead of us—it’s already here. It is the inevitable consequence of our disconnection…
Today, New York City reportedly has the worst air quality of any city in the entire world.
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Wherever we are situated in this society, our future boils down to two options: accept our fate and try to reduce the harm to our bodies and the environment on a piecemeal basis—or actively resist in order to interrupt the disaster and implement our own solutions. If we resign ourselves to the future implied by catastrophic climate change, widespread pollution, and ecological collapse, sooner or later, the disaster will come for us.
If we do not accept the destruction of our lives, our land, our food, and everything that connects us with each other and the biosphere as a whole, we have to fight to regain control over the conditions of our lives and the decisions that determine our survival. In a world of police, prisons, surveillance cameras, we will have to wear masks that conceal who we are so we can fight for what we really want.
https://crimethinc.com/posters/one-way-or-another
If we do not accept the destruction of our lives, our land, our food, and everything that connects us with each other and the biosphere as a whole, we have to fight to regain control over the conditions of our lives and the decisions that determine our survival. In a world of police, prisons, surveillance cameras, we will have to wear masks that conceal who we are so we can fight for what we really want.
https://crimethinc.com/posters/one-way-or-another
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This week marks 10 years since the June 2013 uprisings in Brazil. What started as small protests in a few cities against rising transit fares spread into a nationwide popular revolt against the cost of living under capitalism.
The uprising of 2013 was initiated by autonomous and anti-capitalist movements. A decade later, however, the ruling PT, the Workers Party—now that they are back in an alliance with the center and sectors of the right wing—along with corporate media and pundits are trying to frame that uprising as the supposed origin of the extreme right that came to power in 2018 with Jair Bolsonaro. This is a new phenomenon: for the first time, the traditional left is not trying to co-opt the uprising, but rather to associate street protest and autonomous mobilization with fascism in a dishonest attempt to blame the oppressed for the reaction of the oppressors.
The uprising of 2013 was initiated by autonomous and anti-capitalist movements. A decade later, however, the ruling PT, the Workers Party—now that they are back in an alliance with the center and sectors of the right wing—along with corporate media and pundits are trying to frame that uprising as the supposed origin of the extreme right that came to power in 2018 with Jair Bolsonaro. This is a new phenomenon: for the first time, the traditional left is not trying to co-opt the uprising, but rather to associate street protest and autonomous mobilization with fascism in a dishonest attempt to blame the oppressed for the reaction of the oppressors.
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To remember those events as they were, we invite everyone to read the reports we published about the uprising of 2013 and the subsequent protests against mega-events (the World Cup and the Olympics), the evictions of poor communities, the increase in incarceration, and the criminalization of protest organized by the PT and intensified by the right wing that came to power later.
https://crimethinc.com/JuneBRI
https://crimethinc.com/JuneBRII
https://crimethinc.com/fightinginbrazil
https://crimethinc.com/podcasts/the-ex-worker/episodes/7
https://crimethinc.com/JuneBRI
https://crimethinc.com/JuneBRII
https://crimethinc.com/fightinginbrazil
https://crimethinc.com/podcasts/the-ex-worker/episodes/7
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This is June 11—the global day of action expressing solidarity with long-term anarchist prisoners. You can read about the history of this day here:
https://crimethinc.com/June11
Today, our thoughts are with Marius Mason. Our passion for freedom is stronger than their prisons.
Support Marius:
https://supportmariusmason.org/
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https://crimethinc.com/June11
Today, our thoughts are with Marius Mason. Our passion for freedom is stronger than their prisons.
Support Marius:
https://supportmariusmason.org/
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