2023-09-10: News Headlines

Matt Scott, Nolan Huber-Rhoades, Lev Omelchenko, Atlanta Community Press Collective. (2023-09-09). Construction Work Stopped Briefly As Cop City Protesters Enter Site. popularresistance.org Thursday morning a group of Cop City activists invoked a "people's stop work order" and chained themselves to equipment at the construction site for the proposed Atlanta Safety Public Training Center, more commonly known as Cop City. | "This is a war happening against protesters," Ayeola Omolara Kaplan, one of the five activists arrested, said via written statement. "If we don't stand up for our right to protest now, standing up in the future will be vain. Cop City is in the process of being built, and this can only continue if we allow it." | Kaplan, a self-described Atlanta based revolutionary artist, was joine…

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