#1586 Cop City is the Backlash to the Backlash Against Police Brutality and Murder, the Atlanta Community is Fighting Back and Creating a Blueprint for Change in the Process
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🗓️ 4 October 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 10/3/2023
The Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta is the current tip of the spear of the police accountability movement but the instinct of elected officials to lean into building more and bigger policing facilities is likely to spread as part of the backlash to the backlash against police violence which calls for defunding and redistributing resources to programs that actually help people.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 2: The Struggle to Stop Cop City - On the Nose - Air Date 6-22-23
Joining to discuss Stop Cop City, Micah Herskind, a community organizer and writer; Keyanna Jones, a reverend and organizer; and Josie Duffy Rice, a writer who covers criminal justice.
Ch. 3: Is America becoming Cop City - The Police Accountability Report - Air Date 4-10-23
We went on the ground in Atlanta, GA to find the truth behind the Cop City protests, the police shooting death of Manuel "Tortuguita" Tehran and the dark money funding the creation of the Atlanta Public Safety Center.
Ch. 4: The Struggle to Stop Cop City Part 2 - On the Nose - Air Date 6-22-23
Joining to discuss Stop Cop City, Micah Herskind, a community organizer and writer; Keyanna Jones, a reverend and organizer; and Josie Duffy Rice, a writer who covers criminal justice.
These new and unprecedented arrests are a clear attack on “the infrastructure of the movement,” says Kamau Franklin, founder of the organization Community Movement Builders and a vocal Cop City opponent.
Ch. 6: Stop Cop City with Atlanta DSA - Revolutions Per Minute - Air Date 8-23-23
Tonight we’ll hear from Atlanta DSA member Gabriel Sanchez about the chapter's effort to stop Cop City through a ballot referendum and the terrifying tactics police, the city of Atlanta and the state of Georgia have used to in order to crush opposition.
"They are choosing to use the legal process in an essentially violent way to target protesters," says attorney Devin Franklin with the Southern Center for Human Rights, which is organizing legal representation for the defendants in the case.
Ch. 8: Stop Cop City - Keyanna Jones - Air Date 9-17-23
Sam talks with Keyanna Michelle Jones, an organizer with Community Movement Builders. They discuss the ominous and illegitimate RICO indictments "Cop City" opponents face and the fascist assault on the right to protest there.
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
Ch. 9: Stop Cop City Part 2 - Keyanna Jones - Air Date 9-17-23
Ch. 10: Stop Cop City with Atlanta DSA Part 2 - Revolutions Per Minute - Air Date 8-23-23
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 12: Final comments Final comments on understanding the movement cycle
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Description: Protesters walking in the street in NYC hold a large banner that says “Stop Cop City: NYC Supports Atlanta Forrest Defenders” with images of trees.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast in which we shall |
| 0:07.3 | take a look at the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, which is the current tip of the |
| 0:12.6 | spear of the police accountability movement. |
| 0:15.9 | But the instincts of elected officials to lean into building more and bigger policing facilities |
| 0:21.4 | is likely to spread as part of the backlash to the backlash against police violence. |
| 0:26.9 | So be on the lookout for similar plans in your neck of the woods. |
| 0:31.4 | Sources today include rattling the bars on the nose, the police accountability report, |
| 0:37.7 | democracy now, revolutions per minute, and activist Kiana Jones with additional members |
| 0:43.8 | only clips from Kiana Jones and revolutions per minute. |
| 0:53.5 | Comrade George Jackson stated in one of his writings that the criminal injustice system |
| 0:58.3 | itself is the enemy of any type of resistance to fascism. |
| 1:02.0 | Throughout this country's history, we see the use of the criminal injustice system to |
| 1:06.8 | suppress any type of resistance to fascism. |
| 1:09.8 | Jager Hoover stated that the goal of the counterintelligence program, Cornel Pro, was to prevent |
| 1:16.3 | the rise of a black Messiah who would be capable of organizing black people and the fighting |
| 1:22.0 | fascism. |
| 1:23.0 | Given our history, it's no surprise that in 2023, we're talking about an attempt to |
| 1:28.6 | build a military style complex for training police in Atlanta, also known as cop city. |
| 1:36.7 | Cop city itself will be a monument to our criminal injustice system. |
| 1:40.7 | And the fastest response to people protesting cop city shows what this project is all about. |
| 1:46.8 | As we speak, the state of Georgia is pursuing recoil charges for over 60 cop city protests. |
| 1:53.9 | Before the crackdown on cop city protestors, the LA police department criminal conspiracy |
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