Smoke and Fire (a poem)
Written In Support of the Heroic Cop City Rebels
By Anarchist Prisoner Sean Swain
Written In Support of the Heroic Cop City Rebels
By Anarchist Prisoner Sean Swain
Portland Oregon Solidarity Action With Atlanta and the Atlanta Forest Defenders
Anarchists broke somewhere between 10-15 large windows and started multiple small fires within the building. UPS is one of the biggest companies currently donating to the Cop City Project in Atlanta.
2 articles from Scenes from the Atlanta Forest
"Vengeance from Oakland – ¡Viva Tortuguita!"
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"Philadelphia: Vigil and Stroll for Tortuguita"
From It's Going Down
Last weekend, across more than 20 cities in the so-called United States, hundreds of people took to the streets, holding vigils, protests, and rallies in solidarity with the ongoing fight against ‘Cop City’ in Atlanta and to remember Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, also known as Tortuguita, a 26 year-old anarchist who was shot and killed by law enforcement during a raid on the Weelaunee forest on August 18th.
On Sunday January 22nd in Berlin, Germany a group of anarchists and comrades from different parts of the world came together to grieve the death of Tort, a comrade who was killed at the hands of the Atlanta police on Wednesday. A beautiful human who didn’t have to die, but did so fighting for us.
From It's Going Down
A dedication for Tortuguita, an anarchist who was shot and killed by police while defending the Weelaunee forest in Atlanta, Georgia on January 18th. Originally published by the Atlanta Community Press Collective.
Received by email
Under the light of the full moon on Thursday Jan. 5, 2023, we — anarchists in so-called South Florida (colonized Tequesta, Seminole, and Miccosukee land) — struck the contractors Brasfield and Gorrie at their office inside Hotel Colonnade and at their construction site next to the Nicklaus Children’s Hospital. We attacked them with revenge in our hearts for the Forest Defenders in Atlanta arrested and caged as “domestic terrorists." In these past weeks, this upcoming weekend of action, and going forward, we will demonstrate that we truly have the numbers. From Portland to Miami to Atlanta, the forest defenders are everywhere!
From Scenes from the Atlanta Forest
Last night I broke into a Bank of America in Portland, Oregon and started a large fire. According to news reports, the fire grew quickly and took firefighters more than an hour to extinguish.
From Creeker
Creeker is a grassroots, anti-authoritarian zine series that aims to bring depth, variety, critique and continuity to the ongoing process of reflecting on the Ada’itsx/Fairy Creek blockade and related efforts. It’s intended for creekers themselves, land defenders elsewhere, and the land defenders yet to come. The newest offering in the series includes contributions of reflection, art, critique, movement history, personal reflection and poetry that were anonymously sourced from participants at the blockade. There is also a whole section dedicated to the ongoing forest defense movement in Atlanta.
As in the case of those protests, DAF’s activists have come for a specific reason — to oppose the development projects threatening the land — but their political ideology is far from monolithic. There are anarchists, Marxist-Leninists, communists, socialists, and likely every flavor and distinction in between. Many have been involved in Atlanta’s local anarchist and community-organizing scene; some worked on mutual-aid projects during Covid, or participated in the George Floyd protests, or helped organize traditional union campaigns at their workplaces. Those from out of town learned about the forest through “movement media,” social media, and word of mouth, sacrificing vacation time or their jobs altogether to visit the forest. What unites them, however, is their commitment to direct action: They are here not to vote or petition, but to defend the land with their bodies.