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atlanta is a city in a forest

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we have uh the largest tree canopy of

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any major city in america you can find

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hiking trails wherever you are there's

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wildness growing in your backyard and it

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really creates a kind of magic of living

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in a big city and being able to be close

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to nature

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so the backdrop to this is that the

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atlanta police foundation city council

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blackwall studios want to level 400

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acres of this forest destroy the tree

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canopy and accelerate development

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accelerate gentrification and they want

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to replace this with a mock city for

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cops to be able to practice their

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particular brand of urban terrorism so

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that what happened in the george floyd

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rebellion in 2020 never happens again

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to that end the atlanta city council has

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created the biggest increase in police

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budget

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of any city in america and we're just

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not going to let that happen defend the

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forest is an autonomous grassroots

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movement

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it is a kind of struggle that's blending

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the really smart

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techniques that land defense struggles

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have

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discovered and refined in recent years

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to actually win environmental movements

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and we're taking those techniques and

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we're mixing it with the sort of mass

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dynamic participatory possibilities of

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city-based struggles we will make it

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take as long as possible and make it as

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expensive as possible for them to copy

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and paste their dead world onto a zone

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of life

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if you hate the fugly ass condos

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everywhere you should be out here in the

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forest if

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sitting in traffic for an hour every day

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is killing your soul come spend time in

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the forest

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basically if you hate the police and you

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love atlanta come out here and defend

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the forest

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