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Today is Thursday, June 1st, 2003.

Thank you so much for joining me.

I begin with the Cop City protest in Atlanta, Georgia,

with updates, troubling updates. city protest in Atlanta, Georgia with

troubling updates from what is going on in that city.

We've been covering it since the original arrest of 42 protesters who were

charged with domestic terrorism, which was itself an affront to free speech in an attempt to make way and pave way for the building of this 90 million dollars some 300 acre facility.

That was only the beginning according to the Associated Press.

Police on Wednesday arrested three Atlanta organizers who have been aiding protesters

against the city's proposed police and fire training center striking at the

structure that supports the fight against what opponents call Cop City.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced its agents in Atlanta police

had arrested three leaders of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund,

which has bailed out protesters and helped them find lawyers.

You heard that right.

Police and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, along with Governor Brian Kemp,

who released a statement, will read that momentarily.

They have targeted and arrested the organizers behind a Bell Fund, which is a staple in American

political action, social action, and organizing the ability to

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