For Tortuguita and the Trees: Stopping Cop City / Rachel Garbus

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🗓️ 28 January 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Recorded Monday, January 30th 2023, we speak with Rachel Garbus, a writer and editor based in Atlanta. Rachel discusses her piece recently published on Welcome to Hell World titled, "Stopping Cop City, the murder of Tortuguita, and the trees that got us here". This episode also includes a new Question from Hell! and this week's Hangover Cure. https://www.welcometohellworld.com/stopping-cop-city-the-murder-of-tortuguita-and-the-trees-that-got-us-here/ Rachel Garbus is a writer, editor and oral history maker in Atlanta, GA. She writes for Atlanta Magazine, covering politics and arts & culture for print and digital. She is the culture editor at WUSSY Mag, with writing and podcasting about all things queer with a Southeast lens. She is the co-founder of Out Down South, a multimedia history project and podcast celebrating the stories of LGBTQ+ Southerners. She's on Twitter @rachel_garbus Manufacturing Dissent since 1996: https://thisishell.com/pages/support

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0:00.0	Oh, oh, oh, oh, and no, this is true.
0:05.0	That is true that it is.
0:08.0	Big a jerk. Picketer! This is hell.
0:34.0	manufacturing descent since 1996. 96 this is hell and you have been helping us do just that for a very very long time
0:49.1	including listeners like Thai S who sent us a guest suggestion this past weekend.
0:53.6	Ty writes to us at Chuck at this is hell.com saying hi Chuck I seem to remember a brief
0:58.4	discussion on a past show about finding a guest who could speak about the
1:02.1	stop cop city and defend the Atlanta
1:05.0	forest movements. So I want to recommend you interview Rachel Garbus who wrote
1:10.9	about the forest defenders for Luke O'Neill's Welcome to Hell World newsletter.
1:16.0	It's a great piece of reporting that delves into the history and context of the land
1:20.0	as well as the recent police murder of a forest activist.
1:24.2	Ty then sends us a link to an article by Rachel posted at welcome to Hellworld.com,
1:29.5	titled Stopping Cop City, the murder of Tortugita and the trees that got us here,
1:35.8	which is about the killing of the person who some say was the face of the Stop Cop City
1:41.2	defend the Atlanta Forest Movement.
1:43.0	Following the killing of Tortugita, Georgia Governor Brian Kemp declared a state of emergency and called in a thousand National Guard troops. So we took tie up on his recommendation. We
1:56.0	start this week by trying to figure out what is happening in the Defend the
1:59.6	Forest campaign with Atlanta-based writer editor. Rachel Garbus, who posted the
2:05.1	Welcome to the Hellhold article stopping Cop City, the murder of Tortugita
2:09.2	and the trees that got us here. Rachel is a writer at Atlanta magazine culture editor at
2:15.0	Wussi Mag a queer art and pop culture by annual print rag which can find at
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