The Battle for 'Cop City'

The Battle for 'Cop City' - Rolling Stone

In an Atlanta forest slated for development, an activist movement has built a community — and they're vowing to defend it by any means necessary.

5 things you need to know about Cop City

Cop City” would be one of the largest militarized police training centers in the country—all built by clear-cutting Atlanta's largest green space ...

The Battle Over “Cop City” | The New Republic

The years-long fight over a planned police training center in an urban forest near Atlanta has pitted community, climate, ...

The Fight Against Cop City - Dissent Magazine

The protests in Atlanta build on a history of organizers challenging prison construction as a force for environmental destruction.

Stop Cop City - Wikipedia

Stop Cop City (SCC), also known as Block Cop City and Defend the Atlanta Forest (DTF), is a decentralized movement in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, ...

Atlanta's 'Cop City' and the relationship between place, policing, and ...

But for the past two years, the South River Forest has also been a site of contention and protest over what has become known as “Cop City”—a ...

What the Fight Over Atlanta's 'Cop City' Reveals About Policing of ...

This week, activists seeking to halt construction on the training facility they've dubbed “Cop City” successfully launched a petition campaign ...

Cop City Fight Escalates With Ballot Initiative Effort - Time

Protesters against Cop City plan to submit signatures to force a ballot initiative that could prevent the police training facility from ...

Stop Cop City – Defend the Atlanta Forest

The City of Atlanta has leased 381-acres of Weelaunee Forest, stolen Muscogee land, to the Atlanta Police Foundation for a police military facility funded by ...

The fight over 'Cop City': Inside the protests against Atlanta's new ...

Cop City” is what opponents call a proposed $90 million police and fire training facility in Atlanta — a plan that has embroiled the city in ...

The Cop City Defendants Are Done Being Silent | The Nation

The Cop City Defendants Are Done Being Silent. Sixty-one people are facing RICO charges from the state of Georgia for their activism. Here's ...

The Struggle to Stop Cop City—By Any Means Necessary | The Forge

A decentralized, autonomous movement that has worked since the spring of 2021 to stop the destruction of the Weelaunee Forest and the creation of a more than $ ...

This is the Atlanta Way: A Primer on Cop City - Scalawag Magazine

In January 2023, Cop City claimed its first life when a joint task force of local and state police officers marched into the Weelaunee Forest ...

What's at stake in Atlanta's 'Cop City' protests - NPR

The clash over plans to build a police training center on a large tract of land has brought at least one death, a state of emergency, and domestic terrorism ...

Cop City Is Only the Beginning, Unless We Fight | Truthout

In this episode of Movement Memos, host Kelly Hayes talks with authors Alex Vitale and Stuart Schrader about the frightening trajectory of policing in the ...

The Battle Against Cop City in Atlanta - Twin Cities DSA

It has been systematically invaded by combined police forces intent on building a $90 million training and “morale” facility.

Stop Cop City Protesters Are Facing Felony Charges As Atlanta ...

In Atlanta, protesters with the Stop Cop City Movement are facing years in prison on RICO and domestic terrorism charges.

Cop City - Wikipedia

The Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, commonly known as Cop City, is a police and fire department training campus under construction in the South River ...

Police and protesters clash at Atlanta training center site derided by ...

More than 400 people marched about 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) from a park to the site in suburban DeKalb County, chanting “stop Cop City” and “ ...

What we know about Atlanta's "Cop City" and the standoff between ...

What is "Cop City"? For years, Atlanta police have trained officers in temporary facilities, but in 2021 the police department and partners ...