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Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

Because this is hell last month.

We began a series of interviews with the co-editors of and contributors to the new collection,

No Cop City, No Cop World, Lessons from the Movement, which was published by Haymarket Books.

We began by speaking with linguist and cultural strategist Mariah Parker, aka Linguafranca, about her essay, Boss Terror, how the capital of the South funded Cop City.

Mariah provided the much-needed historical context of capital and the role it has always contributed to in creating, sustaining, and expanding Atlanta's

white supremacist police state. A few weeks later, we spoke with abolitionist movement organizer

Micah Herskind, whose piece, Why Cop City, Why Here, Why Now? Explained, among other things,

how Cop City revealed the ways in which the wealthy and powerful

will react when their power is challenged by the public, which is what Cop City is, the elite's

response to a public uprising against violent policing following the murder of George Floyd.

The wealthy doubled down on violence and expanding the police state that protects them.

Today we wrap up our series of conversations on Cop City with community organizer Kamau Franklin,

who, like Mariah and Micah, is a co-editor and contributor to No Cop City, No Cop World.

Kamau's essay in the collection is titled,

Is This Enough Black Folks for You, Andre Dickens,

which is a reference to the current Atlanta mayor,

who suggested the Stop Cop City movement was run by white outside agitators

and not members of the community where the movement started.

Blaming social upheaval on outside agitators and not members of the community where the movement started. Blaming social upheaval on outside agitators is the kind of remark you would expect from a white supremacist back in the 1960s during the civil rights era.

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