The majority of the people of Atlanta -- and their allies around the world -- want to stop the construction of the enormously destructive and expensive Cop City project, and the Mayor and City Council of Atlanta seem to know it.

RootsAction is now teaming up with a huge coalition to petition the City Council to play fair and stop cheating the public.

Activists have collected signatures to create a public vote, but the city is proposing to review those signatures through a highly dubious process of comparing the details of each signature to signatures on voter rolls. A study in Ohio showed that 97 percent of signatures rejected under such a process were likely authentic. 

Sign here to be part of an effort to tell the Atlanta City Council that the whole world is watching!

About Cop City

Earlier this year, police in Georgia shot and killed activist Manuel "Tortuguita" Páez Terán. Tortuguita was one of many forest defenders occupying the Muscogee Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta, where the Atlanta Police Foundation is bankrolling the bulldozing of 381 acres of beautiful forest to develop a $90 million training center for the city’s police.

Cop City will destroy the city’s forest — Atlanta’s main defense against flooding, during a period of rapidly intensifying climate crisis! Instead of safeguarding the city’s infrastructure and protecting essential green space, elected officials are prioritizing the continued militarization of the police.

Click here to tell Atlanta's mayor and city council to honestly count the signatures collected to create a public vote.

The shooting was unprecedented in the history of U.S. environmental activism, according to experts. “Killings of environmental activists by the state are depressingly common in other countries, like Brazil, Honduras, Nigeria, but this has never happened in the U.S.,” according to Keith Woodhouse, professor of history at Northwestern University.

Police raids on the forest have continued to intensify. More than a dozen forest defenders have now been arrested and charged with “domestic terrorism” under state law – another unprecedented development in U.S. environmental activism, according to Lauren Regan, founder of the Civil Liberties Defense Center. On September 5, Geogia's rightwing attorney general went even further by bringing RICO charges against 61 anti-Cop City activists.

Atlanta needs to hear from around the country and the world to stop Cop City and to stop treating nonviolent advocates for environmental and human protection like criminals or military enemies. Click here.

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Please also consider donating to Tortuguita's family’s GoFundMe and to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund as they work to free forest defenders and stop Cop City.

Thank you!

-- The RootsAction.org team

Background:

>> Progressive Hub: "Will Atlanta City Officials Disqualify The Stop Cop City Petition?"
>> Progressive Hub: "Stop Cop City Protesters Are Being Hit With RICO Charges"
>> Talk World Radio: "Keyanna Jones: Stop Cop City"
>> Stop Cop City
>> The Guardian: "‘Assassinated in cold blood’: activist killed protesting Georgia’s ‘Cop City’"

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