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It Could Happen Here

The Forgotten History of the Old Atlanta Prison Farm: Part Three

It Could Happen Here

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News, Daily News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.06.5K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This episode we discuss the question of unmarked grave sites at the Old Prison Farm property, and propose methods of carrying out further historical research.

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0:00.0

My name is Joshua Topolsky and I have a new podcast called What Future.

0:04.5

But I want to tell you that I'm being forced by my producer to record a promo telling you about my show.

0:10.1

And I'm not trying to force you to listen to it.

0:12.6

And maybe you're not interested in internet culture and the future of life on planet Earth.

0:18.1

And why John Carpenter movies are so good.

0:20.6

You may just want to listen to a podcast about, I don't know, sports or whatever Joe Rogan talks about.

0:26.6

And that's fine, you know, no judgment.

0:28.4

But if you like what you're hearing and I know that you do, you can listen to all of what future on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:58.4

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1:19.4

Join cast members Kevin MacKale and Jenna Uschkewitz for never before heard stories from the cast, crew, celebrities and you, the fans from McKinley High to New York City, from the choir room to nationals and from the Super Bowl to a world tour.

1:32.9

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1:39.4

Welcome, this is it could happen here. The podcast about how it feels like everything is kind of falling apart and maybe what we can do to put stuff back together.

1:55.4

I'm Garrison Davis your host for this episode. And this is the third and final part of our mini series on the history of the old Atlanta prison farm produced in collaboration with the Atlantic.

2:08.4

Community press collective. We're actually going to start this episode with a little update on what's been going on in Atlanta as a part of the defend the Atlanta forest and stop cop city movement.

2:22.4

Considering the Atlanta police foundations cop city project is very much a direct continuation of the authoritarian and carceral oppression of the prison farm that occupied the very same section of land.

2:36.4

Here's an audio clip of one of my conversations with members of the Atlantic community press collective from right before the recent July 2022 week of action.

2:49.4

And this is about the status of construction on the South River or willani forest.

2:56.4

So for the past month or so. It's kind of been a waiting game like if you refer to the construction timeline of whenever open records were pushed revealed like construction really should have started an arrest by now like they last time I saw figure they want to have this open by fall of next year.

3:19.4

And they are now on that timeline and that's not all necessarily due to the movement.

3:27.4

So I think between just the general supply chain havoc that's happening across different industries right now definitely the construction industry.

3:38.4

I think they did mention this during one of the recent community stakeholders committee meetings when they're like oh yeah by the way we are kind of having so much supply chain issues.

3:51.4

So in addition to I don't think APD and the police foundation really expected to have any kind of continued resistance on the ground or any kind of continued public bad. So I don't think they think they thought they passed the legislation on the public would kind of move on.

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