The Battle Over Cop City
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🗓️ 27 May 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
OA1161 - Micah Herskind is an activist, Harvard law student, and most recently a co-editor of the essay collection No Cop City, No Cop World with Mariah Parker and Kamau Franklin. We welcome Micah on to discuss his experience with Atlanta’s Stop Cop City movement and the lessons which activists and advocates around the US can learn from it in these times of mass dissent in the face of American authoritarianism.
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No Cop City, No Cop World, ed. Micah Herskind, Mariah Parker, & Kamau Franklin (2025)
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Cop City RICO Indictment, Fulton County Superior Court (8/29/2023)
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“The Tools of Repression,” Hanah Riley & Micah Herskind, Inquest (4/24/25)
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| 0:00.0 | You must never ever give out or give in. You must keep the faith and keep your eyes on the prize. |
| 0:07.6 | That is your calling. That is your mission. That is your moral obligation. That is your mandate. |
| 0:13.4 | Get out there and do it. Get in the way. Change happens because people care. |
| 0:26.6 | You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. |
| 0:36.6 | I still believe with all my heart, America can't. free and beautiful to make this life a wonderful adventure. |
| 0:48.3 | I still believe with all my heart, America can be a place where no child is left hungry, no community is left behind, and no one gets told they don't belong. |
| 0:55.0 | The fight for our country is always worth it. |
| 1:11.4 | Hello and welcome to opening arguments. This is episode 1161. I'm your host Thomas Smith, and we've got another really good interview for you. This one is something that folks have been wanting us to cover for a very long time. I can't believe we're only just now getting to it, but there's so much in the world. And that is Cop City, something that |
| 1:17.4 | though you might not believe me, is worse than it sounds. But we've got a guest, Micah Herskin, |
| 1:22.2 | who was there, who was on the ground, and is going to take us through the basics and talk about this fight that got |
| 1:29.1 | really authoritarian and fashy, to put it mildly. But it's a really interesting story. So much to it, |
| 1:35.0 | and so much to learn from the fight over Cop City. So with that said, we'll take our usual break |
| 1:41.2 | and then get on over to our interview with Micah Herskind about Cop City. |
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| 1:59.9 | After this break, we'll be on with Micah. |
| 2:04.7 | So our guest today is Micah Herskind, who's a law student and activist, best known for his work with Stop Cop City Movement, |
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