BREAKING: Most of Atlanta has no access to water right now. The mayor + city council are sending over $110Mil to build Cop City and the areas surrounding it cannot even pour themselves a glass of water in the middle of a Georgia summer. This is the epitome of a police state.
BREAKING: It appears the city clerk is refusing to begin the the @CopCityVote signature verification process, citing the recent 11th Circuit Court ruling
Metadata from the .pdf file where the city lays out its update on how it will validate the referendum shows that the author of the document is Robert L. Ashe III, the lead attorney representing the City in federal court against the referendum.
BREAKING: Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens – who claims the mantle of the city's historic civil rights movement – is desperately trying to block a popular vote on the "Cop City" training center that is likely to sink the project.
Dickens is a hypocrite governing as an autocrat.⬇️
well, there it is. in their most boldly anti democratic move yet the City of Atlanta announces that they intend to use signature matching — widely understood to be purely a voter suppression tactic — to validate every single signor of the Cop City petition.
"Judge Cohen has once again rightfully dismissed the City’s attempts to disenfranchise its own residents... We continue to call on Mayor Dickens to end his attempts at voter suppression and look forward to submitting our petitions."
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Cop City Referendum — the City of Atlanta filed its response to a lawsuit over a city law that limits referendum signature gathering to be witnessed only by city of Atlanta residents. In their filing, attorneys argue that even if successful, “the ballot initiative is invalid”
Cop City Referendum — After 14 days, the Office of the Municipal Clerk officially approved the Cop City referendum petition that seeks to put the cancellation of the land lease by the city to The Atlanta Police Foundation on the Nov. 7 ballot.
Cop City Referendum — once again the Interim Municipal Clerk, Vanessa Waldon, rejected the referendum petition, for a new list of reasons. More details to follow when we have them.
This morning, @NPR claimed that the Atlanta City Council is listening to its constituents, evidenced by the "reforms" to the Cop City funding package they made. The ones that nobody asked for.
War is Peace.
Freedom is Slavery.
Ignorance is Strength.
Stop Cop City Movement activists will announce plans for a referendum on the Public Safety Training Center on Wednesday.
Per their media advisory:
“The time has come to settle the debate…once and for all. The people of Atlanta will and must decide the future of Atlanta.”
It's now confirmed by the DeKalb Examiner's office that there was no gunshot residue on the hands of Manuel Paez Terán.
Activists have long maintained that the State's claim Tort fired first was a lie, and this autopsy supports activist claims.
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