Making Media for Weelaunee Summer:

A Virtual Stop Cop City Teach-In

resources + readings
Ways to support the Stop Cop City/Defend the Atlanta Forest
movement:
- Donate to Atlanta Solidarity Fund to support people arrested at
Stop Cop City protests and the three Atlanta Solidarity Fund
organizers currently in Dekalb County Jail (hosted by the National
Bail Fund for the near future)

- Donate to the family of Manuel Esteban Paez Terán or

"Tortuguita," the 26-year-old queer, non-binary Indigenous-
Venezuelan organizer shot and killed by cops while defending the
Weelaunee Forest

- Engage with the Stop Cop City Syllabus

- From Community Movement Builders’ Stop Cop City website

- Tell Mayor Dickens to End the Lease with Atlanta Police
Foundation.
- Tell the City Council to take another vote it’s possible for the
Mayor and City Council to reverse the decision. Keep up the
pressure and call/email City Council and Mayoral incumbents
and candidates! See call script & more here.
- Put pressure on investors in the project to divest from Cop
City.

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 - Sign the Petition Demanding corporations divest from Cop
City.
- Pressure builders of the project to drop their construction
contracts.
- Participate and Organize in solidarity events where you live.
Rallies, Banner Drops, Creative Civil Disobedience, Petition
Drives, etc. Send us pictures of what you did
info@communitymovementbuilders.org.
- Donate to CMB – CMB has been the leading Black
organization on the ground fighting to StopCopCity since its
construction was announced.
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- From StopCopCity.city website
- Find the corporations and institutions that are responsible
for the Cop City project near you and take action:
stopcopcitysolidarity.org
- Demand District Attorney Sherry Boston drop domestic
terrorism charges against Stop Cop City protesters:
bit.ly/3nGYXd3
- Autonomously organize your community to put pressure on
contractors to pull out of the project: stopreevesyoung.com
- Plan actions to pressure Atlanta Police Foundation funders
to divest. (ex: protests, call-in campaigns, letter writing,
boycotting, etc.)

- From StopCopCity.net website

- Send an automatically generated email to either the funders,
contractors, or local officials (or all three!), urging them to
withdraw their support for the project (click link above)

- From Stop Cop City Solidarity website

- Mobilize
- Free the Weelaunee political prisoners

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 - Action support
- Make calls now

Research:
- The Real Outside Agitators by Mapping Atlanta (May 30, 2023)

- PE Profits from Destroying the Atlanta Forest Uncovering private

equity connections to Cop City and Blackhall Studios by K
Agbebiyi, Azani Creeks & Amanda Mendoza for the Private Equity
Stakeholder Project

Articles:
- Atlanta Is Trying to Crush the Opposition to “Cop City” by Any
Means Necessary by Hannah Riley for The Nation (June 7, 2023)

- APD, GBI raid bail fund, arrest three organizers by Atlanta

Community Press Collective (May 31, 2023)

- ‘Don’t Forget Us’: Forest Defenders Confront Horrors of Life in

DeKalb County Jail by Ryan Fatica for Unicorn Riot (May 30, 2023)

- Out Loud on the Gate City Front: A report from the frontlines of
ATL’s ‘Pack City Hall’ event by Tea Troutman and Da’Shaun
Harrison for Scalawag (May 22, 2023)

- Detained “Cop City” Journalist Sues Atlanta Police, Alleges

Intimidation by Zane McNeill for Truthout (May 17, 2023)

- ‘We Do Not Need a School for Assassins’: Hours of Public

Comment Unanimously Against ‘Cop City’ by Alex Binder for
Unicorn Riot (May 16, 2023)

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- Judges uphold domestic terrorism charges against activists by the
Atlanta Community Press Collective (May 8, 2023)

- Three Face Felonies for Allegedly Flyering Near Home of One

Georgia Trooper Tied to Killing of Forest Defender by Ryan Fatica
for Unicorn Riot (May 8, 2023)

- Scalawag Week of Writing: #StopCopCity (May 1-5, 2023)

- Why Atlanta College Students and Professors are Chanting, ‘Stop

Cop City’ by Madeline Thigpen for Capital B Atlanta (April 27,
2023)

- Atlanta shuts down strategic park in ‘Cop City’ protest movement

by Timothy Pratt for The Guardian (April 26, 2023)

- ‘Cop City’ activist’s official autopsy reveals more than 50 bullet

wounds by Timothy Pratt for The Guardian (April 20, 2023)

- How the Stop Cop City Movement Inspired Angela Davis by

Madeline Thigpen for Capital B Atlanta (April 14, 2023)

- Behind Georgia’s Authoritarian Crackdown on ‘Stop Cop City’

Protests by Aja Arnold for The Appeal (April 3, 2023)

- Youth Organizers Are Uniting Marginalized Communities to Stop

Atlanta’s Cop City by Ngakiya Camara for Truthout (March 28,
2023)

- We Asked All 16 Members of the Atlanta City Council About ‘Cop

City.’ Two Responded. by Madeline Thigpen for Capital B Atlanta
(March 27, 2023)

- Exclusive: We Spoke to ‘Stop Cop City’ Activists Facing Terrorism

Charges by Ella Fassler for VICE (March 24, 2023)

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 - Mvskoke protesters deliver eviction notice to stop “Cop City” on
Georgia homelands by Braden Harper for Mvskoke Media (March
21, 2023)

- Yes, Black People Are Protesting Cop City, Too by Madeline

Thigpen for Capital B Atlanta (March 9, 2023)

- ‘This is how I’m going to die’: police swarm activists protesting

‘Cop City’ in ‘week of action’ by Timothy Pratt for The Guardian
(March 7, 2023)

- The fight to Stop Cop City has decades-old roots by Micah

Herskind for Prism (March 2, 2023)

- Fact-checking the City of Atlanta's Claims on "Cop City" by Alex Ip

for The Xylom (February 16, 2023)

- Atlanta Activists at 'Stop Cop City' Aren’t Backing Down After

Police Kill Protester by Aja Arnold for VICE (January 26, 2023)

- Police Killing of Protester Brings Grief, Urgency to Atlanta’s ‘Stop

Cop City’ Movement by Aja Arnold for The Appeal (January 20,
2023)

- Atlanta community members warn of environmental damage from

‘Cop City’ by Ray Levy Uyeda for Prism (June 15, 2022)

Podcasts:
- Cop City will never be built with Kei and Leila for Cosmopod, a
Cosmonaut Magazine podcast (June 5, 2023)

- Cop City Is Only the Beginning, Unless We Fight by Kelly Hayes for
Movement Memos, a Truthout podcast (June 1, 2023)

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 - What is Cop City? by the Podcast for Social Research for the
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research (May 12, 2023)

- Kamau Franklin on the Extreme Charges for #StopCopCity

Protestors (RICO Part 1) for The Cocktails & Capitalism Podcast
(March 7, 2023)

- The Death of a Forest Defender at “Stop Cop City” by Kelly Hayes

for Movement Memos, a Truthout podcast (January 26, 2023)

Videos:
- STOP COP CITY: Atlanta's Militant Forest Defenders by Rose
Warfare (September 11, 2022)

Media outlets covering Stop Cop City:

- Atlanta Community Press Collective

- Black Agenda Report

- Capital B Atlanta

- Decaturish

- Democracy Now

- Grassroots Thinking

- Prism

- Scalawag

- The Appeal

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 - The Mainline

- The Xylom

- Truthout

- Unicorn Riot

Where to pitch Stop Cop City stories:

- Prism

- Salon

- Scalawag

- Teen Vogue

- The Appeal

- The Guardian

- The Intercept

- The Mainline

- The New Republic

- The Xylom

- VICE

- YES!

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