Opponents say move is yet another example of crackdown by officials seeking to disrupt protests against $90m training center
Children and parents from a couple ofprivate schools recently showed up at City Hall during a school day to urge city council members not to go ahead with “Cop City,” a $90m police and fire department training base planned in a forest that has become a center of controversy in the US and overseas.Tech and other Atlanta schools protested the gigantic project, holding up signs, handing out leaflets and giving speeches.
The park’s secondary-growth forest is where police shot and killed activist Manuel Paez Terán, or Tortuguita, on 18 January, catapulting the fight over Cop City into global headlines. It is also where dozens of people were arrested on 5 March during a music festival and charged with domestic terrorism and where almost all the movement’s “tree sitters” have camped.
In response to the park’s closing, the broad range of groups interested in defending the forest are showing up elsewhere around the city – as evidenced by the visits to city hall and this week’s plans by Emory and other Atlanta-area college students. Weekly food distribution and potlucks, formerly held in the park’s parking lot, are now being held right outside, yards away from police.
– a leading local source of information about the training center in an environment where the state has been less than transparent – from entering the press conference.
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