In Defense of Black Lives Atlanta Coalition

In Defense of Black Lives Atlanta is a Black-led coalition of leaders, activists, and organizations in Atlanta, GA who are united to defend Black life.

[Free Rodney Hinton 🇸🇳 @onlineva_]

several organizers heard what y’all said about 5/15 and worked with orgs like @idblatl and @scalawagmag to get PPE, covid tests, and air purifiers.

cops spread covid. community spreads care. wear ur mask! stop cop city.

hey bae @DaShaunLH

[ACPC_Live @ACPC_Live]

Wednesday Abeeku has 8 minutes due to yielded time. Abeeku is likening Cop City to black mold. She is speaking largely on the sacredness of life.

[ACPC_Live @ACPC_Live]

Atlanta City Council Full Council Meeting on Cop City budget Jun 5, 2023 live tweet thread 🧵

[ACPC_Live @ACPC_Live]

Here is the livestream link, which will begin at 1: https://t.co/TmAcHiv9Vg

[Scalawag @scalawagmag]

What happens when the people tasked with locking up criminals are the same ones deciding who is called a criminal in the first place?

@julianakilrose sits with this question in an interview with @TheBriject .

https://t.co/UULMKYeeqe

[pinky @pinkyposts]

the preciousness of the trees. the violence of the police. the organised abandonment by the state. "trees give life. police take it. viva, viva, Tortuguita!" - important work by @micahinATL for @scalawagmag https://t.co/7eUaIS3AFR

[Atlanta Community Press Collective @atlanta_press]

In a new video released by @CommunityMvt today, Abolitionist Angela Davis said she regrets not coming out against Cop City during her trip to Atlanta in late March.

She says, “Atlanta activists are on the front line of the abolitionist movement.”

https://t.co/uJmrTOO0mK

[free them all @jalessahj]

If you weren’t able to make it, you can watch the recording here: https://t.co/t5ovSSLDkR

[ARC-Southeast @ARC_Southeast]

We're calling on all Reproductive Justice leaders, practitioners, and advocates everywhere to be in solidarity with the movement to #StopCopCity and defend the Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta.

Sign on to our support letter: https://t.co/naB5WAbez9

[ebonically intelligent papi 🌻 @julianakilrose]

A story of Black organizers and activists working to recenter Black radical tradition in the midst of the #StopCopCity movement! So proud of @idblatl

https://t.co/bYh7QeHiwd

[Community Movement Builders @CommunityMvt]

Mark your calendars for a National Black Radical Organizing Conference from June 25-27, 2023 in Atlanta, GA. The theme is Unity in our Lifetime: Connecting the National Black Struggle for Self-Determination with Pan-Africanism.

[MN Against Cop City @MNforestsupport]

Clips from a press conference following the arrest of 12 defenders in the Weelaunee Forest

[Noname Book Club @NonameBooks]

11/26/22 Atlanta Chapter Meetup

[In Defense of Black Lives Atlanta Coalition @idblatl]

@TheDiaspora93 NAMI Connections and DBSA Alliance has online support groups every week. Some are exclusively for lgbtq, black people, young adults. They are free and offer a great community and peer support.

[AJ+ @ajplus]

What do corporations, police foundations and the surveillance of Black communities have to do with each other?

@KwameOlufemi from @CommunityMvt explains.

[AJ+ @ajplus]

Atlanta is planning on a building a $90M "Cop City" that will serve as a training ground to surveil and target Black communities, activists say.

[BAP Atlanta @BAPAtlanta]

On July 3rd, 1982, Mumia Abu Jamal was unjustly sentenced to death by a racist system. We demand the freedom of our incarcerated elder. Join us for a screening of “Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary” on July 3rd at the Little 5 Points Community Center, Rm 105 at 6:30pm.

[ESA @esacollective]

Atlanta Police, City Council and the Atlanta Committee for Progress have plans to bulldoze 300+ acres of atlanta forest to build a cop city, Black Atlantans can't survive this environmental destruction, we must #StopCopCity @defendATLforest

[Prof KKC @KaranjaKeita]

#PaulRobesonToldUs

[Dr. CBS @drcbs_]

Now is a great time to join an organization working against capitalism, patriarchy, imperialism, (neo-)colonialism, war and the manifold issues the right wing and neo-fascists have been organizing to uphold for decades.