atlanta is a city in a forest

we have uh the largest tree canopy of

any major city in america you can find

hiking trails wherever you are there's

wildness growing in your backyard and it

really creates a kind of magic of living

in a big city and being able to be close

to nature

so the backdrop to this is that the

atlanta police foundation city council

blackwall studios want to level 400

acres of this forest destroy the tree

canopy and accelerate development

accelerate gentrification and they want

to replace this with a mock city for

cops to be able to practice their

particular brand of urban terrorism so

that what happened in the george floyd

rebellion in 2020 never happens again

to that end the atlanta city council has

created the biggest increase in police

budget

of any city in america and we're just

not going to let that happen defend the

forest is an autonomous grassroots

movement

it is a kind of struggle that's blending

the really smart

techniques that land defense struggles

have

discovered and refined in recent years

to actually win environmental movements

and we're taking those techniques and

we're mixing it with the sort of mass

dynamic participatory possibilities of

city-based struggles we will make it

take as long as possible and make it as

expensive as possible for them to copy

and paste their dead world onto a zone

of life

if you hate the fugly ass condos

everywhere you should be out here in the

forest if

sitting in traffic for an hour every day

is killing your soul come spend time in

the forest

basically if you hate the police and you

love atlanta come out here and defend

the forest

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