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"To Push the Struggle Forward" - The Fight to Stop Cop City Continues

"To Push the Struggle Forward" - The Fight to Stop Cop City Continues

FromMillennials Are Killing Capitalism


"To Push the Struggle Forward" - The Fight to Stop Cop City Continues

FromMillennials Are Killing Capitalism

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Length:
71 minutes
Released:
Jun 27, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this episode we welcome on multiple activists and organizers involved in the struggle to stop cop city. For this discussion Kamau Franklin from Community Movement Builders, and Micah Herskind return to the podcast, and K from Unity and Struggle, and Matthew Johnson from the Stop Cop City Faith Coalition join them to talk about various facets of the movement to stop cop city current strategic and tactical questions and concerns. They each provide brief introductions during the show itself. We catch folks up on some of the important recent events in this struggle since our conversation on the movement last Fall. We discusss the repression of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, the use of domestic terrorism charges, and against firm and nearly unanimous public opposition the Atlanta City Council’s recent allocation of the funding for the building of Cop City.  We also get into the new referendum initiative and some of the tactical and strategic debates around that effort. Further all of our guests offer up multiple ways that people can get involved and plug into the struggle against cop city wherever they are. This week is a week of action in the struggle to Stop Cop City so we will include links with more information on ways people can get involved in that as well. UPDATES which occurred after the recording (which are relevant to some discussions within the episode): The referendum effort is now underway, the county clerk approved the ability of organizers to begin collecting signatures a couple of hours after we recorded this conversation. Dekalb County DA Sherry Boston has withdrawn her office from the prosecution of 42 cases against stop cop city activists due to movement pressure.  And we are almost at the end of the month, this is our 7th and final episode for the month of June. We are unlikely to hit our goal for new patrons of the month, as we are still over new 10 patrons away from reaching it. But any support you can offer is very much needed and appreciated. You can become a patron of the show for as little as $1 a month at patreon.com/millennialsarekillingcapitalism Links: Week of Action in Atlanta June 24 - July 1  Contribute to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund Referendum Effort - Cop City Vote (thread on helping with referendum) stopcopcitysolidarity.org communitymovementbuilders.org's Stop Cop City Page Unity and Struggle's Three Theories of Victory in Atlanta This is the Atlanta Way: A Primer on Cop City by Micah Herskind defendtheatlantaforest.org atlpresscollective.com Our prior episode on the movement to Stop Cop City
Released:
Jun 27, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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