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Right now righteous comrades have issued the people’s injunction! Bulldozers have been made to stop! CopCityWillNeverBuilt
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So I’m currently sitting at the desk of the
@CityofAtlanta
municipal clerk’s office. These cats told us they will take our petitions, store them in a vault and have chosen not to begin the verification process, due to the 11th Circuit decision to “pause” the injunction.
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This is the same tactic employed by the Jim Crow era RICO networks to repress the Black vote across the South.
Today, Atlantans woke up to the news that the City Clerk, in direct defiance of Council's orders, published unredacted personal information of every petition signer & witness. We are exploring legal avenues against this indefensible choice. Our statement:
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@KeishaBottoms
why are there Black people who are unsheltered sleeping in tent cities in “wakanda”, especially since we built this country for free...
#AyeKeisha
#mythoftheblackmecca
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The city attorney…is a member of Ebenezer, is submitting the authority of the city over to a conservative State all to pacify the interest of KKKemp, Korportations, and Kops…Dr King is rolling over in his grave.
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@andreforatlanta
is doing an event for Black men’s lives tomorrow while Deacon
#JohnnyHollman
’s family has been demanding the video of his execution by police be released, while he silence the same Black men’s voices by playing games with the CopCity referendum.
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@MikeK_LA
@atlanta_press
studies have shown that more training doesn’t decrease excessive force, police misconduct or violence. The APD officer who killed Rayshard Brooks had 2000+ hrs of training w/de-escalation. Atl has some of the most trained officers in the country
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@coopcs
@jduffyrice
@CityofAtlanta
They could also be sent home to sleep in their own beds. The commitment to close the jail is part of a larger commitment to transform the way we address harm, stop criminalizing folks who need care, not cages, and to interrupt generations of profit driven racist policing.
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We don’t just organize bc of Black Death, we organize because we have chosen Black Life! Police murders bring people to the streets but it’s the love, organization, desire + the possibility for a taste of freedom that we make an enthusiastic commitment to face death, if necessary
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@KeishaBottoms
will you commit to
#DefundThePolice
and
#DefendBlackLives
? Will you invest those resources into the communities that have been ravaged by weak reforms, covid, and generations of racial terror?
#ayekeisha
#mythoftheblackmecca
@AJustGeorgia
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Let's hold counsel in the streets tomorrow ALL Black Women!
#sayhername
@ShutItDownATL
@ignitekindred
http://t.co/McQGWM38DQ
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#DearAtlantaCityCouncil
what statistical data do you have that says police stop killing Black people the more training they get? If safety is what we need this ain’t it. Vote NO today!
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@HotlineJosh
Wow! This is an expression of capitalist values. A total refusal to see one of the many obvious enemies of Black people and oppressed people. He is a capitalist and he has betrayed our people and an unconscious Black mind will see the way he moves and celebrate him. 🤦🏾♀️
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@DocumentingMN
Without political education we will have folk who will show up like this in the name of community safety yet holding the ideology, tactics, posture + posture of the police. If they are unwilling to be a formation that is rooted in liberatory values this will happen.
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@prisonculture
@prisonculture
this dragggggg though!!!! Lol! I saw them coming and closed the blinds but was like “we got fruit snacks!” I was proud! I see the error of my ways. SMH..next year I will be transformed in the service of the treats!
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Y’all heard that?
#stateofblackamerica
Build our power. Build our own shit. And Hold these cats accountable. Transform ourselves.
#excelarate
@iKaylaReed
@CharleneCac
@_AshDashLee_
@Mvmnt4BlkLives
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I’m deeply deeply grateful to have served as co-director inside of my political home. So many lessons, so many mistakes, so many wins, a few regrets, and I wouldn’t take any of it back. Excited to join the ForeverSong family and find another seat on the bus.
SONG Co-Director, Mary Hooks is transitioning into Forever SONG member at the end of 2020. Watch her interview here:
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You sending police when you should be sending counsellors, healers, job trainings, trauma supporters.
#AtlantaUnite
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Tweeny will be hitting the stage during week of action to
#StopCopCity
follow
@defendATLforest
for the deets!
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@EPAMichaelRegan
Norfolk Southern and other companies are also helping to fund the destruction of 85acres of forest in ATL to build a
#StopCopCity
that will have grave environmental impacts for the communities in Dekalb.
#FULLAccountability
#GiveTheOrders
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The leadership of ATL must actually embody leadership. That starts with doing what you said you will do. Close the damn jail, demolish the jail, and build the wellness center. Period.
2020 is coming to a close- why isn't ACDC?!
@NMArchibong
@AtlDistrict3
@Andre4Atlanta
@JenniferIde1
@AmirForATL
@WestmorelandATL
@FeliciaAMoore
: voters demand legislation TODAY to demolish the jail & approve funds for the promised Center for Wellness & Freedom by Dec 31!
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@DocumentingMN
This should be a learning opportunity for all of us who say “we keep each other safe” and we want alternative models, to really interrogate what then is required for us to do that in a way that liberates.
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@andreforatlanta
We can’t work together when your decisions or should I say your orders, comes at the cost and expense of already exploited and suffering Black communities. “Group project”my ass! That’s a white liberal pick up line if I ain’t heard one before.
#sellout
#StopCopCity
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Today i experienced what happens when the ancestors have a word they need 2 release & they make you speak regardless of your comfort zone. Too much is at stake. “Speak your truth, even if your voice shakes.”
Audre Lorde
#themandate
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This is what happens when elections get stolen by crooked politicians.
@BrianKempGA
took $ from the bail industry. The ppl of GA must stand against HB340
#gapol
@MicahGravley
@CityofAtlanta
@ajc
@wsbtv
@CNNPolitics
@dreamhampton
@voiceofdissentw
@ATLBlackStar
@ColorOfChange
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@CNN
@LoriLightfoot
@KeishaBottoms
@AJustGeorgia
#ayekeisha
you and the rest of the Black mayors should feel accountable to your people, descendants of Africans, and let that inform the transformation that is desperately needed for our people. Don’t let Amerikkka mami you!
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Unwrapping this gift of this jubilee while holding our folks in the southern gulf coast...feelin' all the feels.
#Ida
Jubilee: A Black Feminist Homecoming
#Jubilee21
via
@YouTube
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@prisonculture
An elder once told me that you have to push folks to the edge of their fears. Enough so they must choose courage but not feel like they are too afraid to move. Loving agitation is key and doing something with others is critical.
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@shaunking
@ClarissaMBrooks
Why not sit down and talk it out? In this work facts and truths get exchanged and misinformation gets spread. However the time we use to go in on each other we can be using to do the work that must be done. Too much is at stake and the real opposition is still killin our people
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She does it again...giving us the best of her brilliance. Thank you
@CharleneCac
"True liberation requires valuing all Black lives, not just those who mirror our own experiences." —
@CharleneCac
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@Michael_J_Bond
The community played a role when +17hrs of public comment said they didn’t want
#copcity
what do CBC and you have to say about police murdering Manuel? You are complicit in the murder and the whole
@ATLCityCouncil
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@CityofAtlanta
@andreforatlanta
are those people who play spades and don’t call joker joker deuce deuce before the game has started. Name the number of petitions, allow a cure process, allow observers, no sig match bs, and put this on the ballot in November!
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Monday 12:30pm
#RiseUp
ATL! Demand transparency from
@ATLCouncil
!
@BLMAtlanta
@GA_STANDUP
@ATLisReady
@V103Atlanta
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@atlanta_press
Her ass runs the damn meetings! SMH
@CityofAtlanta
y’all trying to play in our faces
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@Michael_J_Bond
@Michael_J_Bond
you should have listened to locals when 17+ hrs of community comment said we didn’t want it. Attack on democracy!
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However the damage, the betrayal, and the poison that BACKWARDS and arrogant Black people in positions of power is manifesting is heartbreaking.
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I’m not naive about the fact not all Black folks is kinfolks, I just have an undying love for Black people and a disciplined hope that decolonization and transformation can happen for all of us. I’m a living witness.
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ATL you ready?...5/25/15 text
@shutitdownATL
to 23559 for the details!
The big brother of
#RekiaBoyd
@IAmRekiaBoyd
explains why the
#SayHerName
actions today & tomorrow are so important.
http://t.co/gvwfHsBXws
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I struggle with being in a multi-racial org because I don't want to spend time talking about or with white folks. -Eshe Shakur
#OUTSOUTH15
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This shit is systemic and there are many who have experienced the domestic terrorism by
@SheriffVHill
militarized police force.
#DefundThePolice
is the only way to shrink the devil that kills, steals, and destroys the lives of Black people. Period. Come share your testimony 2pm
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@wsbtv
If folks are mad about this then I’m sure you are outraged by the Black misleadership in this city that is literally burning down his legacy
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"An educated black population could not be an enslaved black population" ~K. Crenshaw (
@sandylocks
) Watch TELL THEM WE ARE RISING Tonight on
@PBS
at 9pmET
#BlackExcellence
#HBCUrising
#blacklivesmatter
@ATLisReady
@MaryPatHector
#HBCUs
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#WhiteBoysGoinWild
#Debates2020
#PresidentialDebate2020
#BREATHEAct
#BreatheDay
#NotUpForDebate
These colonizers...
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Georgia’s economy lost $391 million and 3,260 jobs in 2011 because of HB 87. HB 1105 will do the same! Georgia, are y'all ready for your crops to rot?
#VETOHB1105
@BrianKempGA
#gapol
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@CityofAtlanta
@nuernberg_de
@andreforatlanta
@marcuskoenignbg
All of y’all supporting genocide and apartheid…shame!
#freepalestine
#ceasefirenow
#stopcopcity
#endgilee
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Folks want to ride the coat tails of Dr. King versus really addressing racism capitalism and militarization
#AtlantaUnite
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When was the last time a community unity conversation was had after a KKK protest....I'll wait.😕
#AtlantaUnite
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The clerks would give the information of Black registrants and voters to landowners and they’d evict sharecroppers like Fannie Lou Hammer. They’d give it to the police/KKK that would burn a cross or Black body. That historical memory is painful. This current game is peculiar…
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What are you going to do to end mass incarceration? What what what! Stop caging us!!
#AtlantaUnite
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@CharleneCac
You didn’t even give nothin out!! I thought I was winning with the fruit snacks! Only one kid came and I guess he spread the word that my treats was whack cause no one else came…
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Fulton County Sheriff Ted Jackson wants to loot federal Covid dollars by using $23M to expand Fulton county jail for “covid isolation” units! We demand that they
#FreeThemAll
! The Commissoners could use that money…
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Best citizen activists
http://t.co/I2j71z5cEx
@FreeFromFearATL
@ignitekindred
@RiseUpGeorgia
@_BiggerThanYou
#BlackLivesMatter
#Atlanta
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@CharleneCac
Omg!! I think to myself “was this filmed before covid?” and I wonder when masks will be incorporated into scenes!
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One rise, one fall, you come for one you come for all! See you at 1pm 55 trinity ave.
@BLMAtlanta
#MayorGreed
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72,000+ quality of life arrest in the last three years. Every night about 47% of jail population are homeless.
#AtlantaUnite
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@KasimReed
TODAY the ppl of ATL want to hear from u! Declare
#SanctuaryNowATL
by passing
#J20ATL
demands. They are on your desk what's good?
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@coopcs
@jduffyrice
@CityofAtlanta
@CityofAtlanta
took a courageous and necessary step to begin the process and are backsliding to the old ways of doing business. Their short sighted plans won’t allow them to see the generations of damage they are sowing. Small bandaid “solutions” to big root-cause problems SMH
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#MutuluMondays
Black Revolutionaries & Acupuncture A History of Integrative Medicine Dr Tolbert Small & Dr Mutulu Shakur (
@freedrmshakur
) by Eana Meng go check out this powerful presentation or watch on YouTube at Harvard University Asia Center
#freemutulu
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When you make a commercial w/ Nina Simone and nobody Black....
#alternatefacts
#SuperBowl
#RiseUp
#AtlantaFalcons
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We who believe in freedom never rested
#plottingandscheming
#ANTlanta
#BlackLivesMatter
@RiseUpGeorgia
http://t.co/PIPPJaPVlU
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Mayor Bottoms &
@cityofatlanta
the people been waiting over 3 months for a decision. 91% of atlantans surveyed say
#RazeAndReplace
#CommunitiesOverCages
#CloseTheJailATL
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Reform hub?..nah baby, the us empire must fall! Defund toward abolition is the North Star beloveds. In the meantime we got to make the spiritual commitment to keep each other safe. Ain’t no way in the hell I’m calling the police. Prepare ya people. Get you a pod! We are the ones
Why do we have a systemic problem with law enforcement? Because trainers like Dave Grossman tell them that one of the “perks of the job” is that after you fight with or shoot a suspect you will have “the best sex” you’ve had in months.
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theres a deep need for folks to be rooted in the legacy of southern organizing; like a
#FreedomSummer
#BlackPower50
#BlackPower50Pol
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@ATLPSTC
@Chesaysthings
Oh you will not have the tanks at CopCity, but police officers will just make the field trip to train with the Israeli Defense Force (a military inflicting genocide). Ok got it!
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There needs to be an investment in Black orgs because it is there that ideology, vision, values, are held.
#BlackPower50pol
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Baba Mayor Chokwe Lumumba said if you don’t walk with the people, if you don’t love the people, you will betray the people.
@andreforatlanta
didn’t get the memo.
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The best solution for urban crime is to dismantle white supremacy, the laws, corporations, and culture that uphold it and created the conditions for it to thrive. This settler colony was built on violence and one of the greatest purveyors of violence.
#policeoversighthearing
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If you watchin
#stateofblackamerica
...My comrades in Puerto Rico say fuck statehood! We want our independence and self-determination. We can govern ourselves!
We feel y’all
@AgitArte
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We're in the Bible Belt- it's time to take off the belt and kick some ass! - Valencia Robinson
#outsouth
@ignitekindred
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@CharleneCac
My great Aunt Lorraine’s oldie but goodie...”I beat da’ dog stuffin’ out ya’ ass!”
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Hey
@ATLcouncil
,
#PumpTheBrakes
on criminalizing Black youth seeking recreation, and work with the community to find real solutions instead!
#PumpTheBrakesATL
#HandsOffBailReform
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Johnny Hollman Sr.'s Family Finds Him Unresponsive After Being Tased By ... via
@YouTube
ATL y’all know what time it is! Let’s go!
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Have you ever been held on bail or posted bail for a loved one? Make your voice heard and fill out our survey here:
#freeblackmamas
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@TechnicallyADoc
@ignitekindred
@GiveOUTday
@homosweethomosc
@missjademeadows
@KindredNC
@chicanafemme
@sapogonia
@ConMijente
@MickyBeeResists
@ChiChiJxn
@BreedloveCai
Blessings!!! Thank you thank you!!!!!
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Trump. Savior. Africans. Never never should be spoken in one sentence!
#NotUpForDebate
#PresidentialDebate
#2020debate
#Debate2020
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