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In hour 2, Dave Wilkinson, Head of The Atlanta Police Foundation, joins Steak and Sandra to share stories of his life in the Secret Service.

A steady stream of Trump fanatics, still hung up on Georgia's 2020 presidential tally, rattled on about debunked conspiracies before the Georgia Elections Board today, to no avail. The occasion bears to mind how much the MAGA folks ... well, conservatives in general ... take issue with "democracy." There's also the matter of Georgia's film tax credit and its diminished returns, according to a GSU Fiscal Research Center study. Watch as this gets more scrutinized than other taxpayer-funded boondoggles. Speaking of cinema, Hollywood is all-in on realistic dystopia, lately, no? I'll dive in on two of the latest offerings ("Leave The World Behind" - trailer here - and "Civil War" - trailer here) and ponder as to their potential to be borne out in reality. Lastly, yet another AJC op/ed on "Cop City" does a lot of "inevitability" planting; it also fails to mention the paper's parent company ties to the Atlanta Police Foundation, but do we even expect editorial integrity from 'em, anymore?

Over the weekend, the Atlanta Journal Constitution's President and publisher, Andrew Morse, thought someone ELSE at his paper needed to write an opinion piece in support of the Atlanta proposed public safety training facility. He just left out his employer's deep financial ties to the Atlanta Police Foundation in doing so, and offered a fwe more audacious statements I took note of, as well. Then there's this: Atlanta police officials have been using the Signal app to have untraceable conversations ABOUT "Cop City" while supporters like Morse and mayor Andre Dickens, APD chief Darin Schierbaum tout a renewed (?) interest in "transparency." D'oop. Freelance journalist Timothy Pratt broke that story in The Guardian. He joined me today. There's more, though ... infamour voting rights attorney Marc Elias has signed his firm on to assist the Vote To Stop Cop City" movement to scrutinize the city's attempts to suppress voter participation on the matter. That's huge! Okay, so we know Georgia Republicans are going to do whatever they damn well wish on redistricting map re-writes, but our Friday guest, Ken Lawler, along with Cindy Battles and others, stepped up to speak to the Georgia Senate subcommittee to voice their concerns over the state's new Congressional map and I figure we could eavesdrop on that. Lastly, a nut stole a MARTA bus, dropped a passenger off at Waffle House, then took a joyride to Stone Mountain Park. I have questions.

From The Coolest Show: The City of Atlanta has leased 381-acres of Weelaunee Forest, stolen Muscogee land, to the Atlanta Police Foundation for a police military facility funded by corporations. This would be the largest police training facility in the US in a primarily Black community who overwhelmingly oppose the project. Despite over fifteen hours of public comments against the project, the City Council has approved $67 million in public funding for Cop City. The plans include military-grade training facilities, a mock city to practice urban warfare, dozens of shooting ranges, and a Black Hawk helicopter landing pad. Residents have petitioned the municipal court of Atlanta to gather signatures for a binding referendum. With enough signatures, this would put whether or not Cop City gets built up for a vote on November's ballot box. In this 2 part episode of The Coolest Show, Rev Yearwood speaks with community organizer Rev. Keyanna Jones, economist Dr. Gloria Bromell Tinubu, and community advocate Shar Bates. They discuss the history of the area surrounding the Weelaunee forest, the legacy of environmental racism, the community's work to get signatures, and “the Atlanta Way.” Support the Stop Cop City movement: https://www.copcityvote.com/ For more from The Coolest Show: https://thecoolestshow.com/ This episode was originally produced by The Coolest Show, a Hip Hop Caucus Think 100% production, and was used by Climate One with permission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Herschel's holding onto some serious campaign cash, and some Georgia GOPers are sweating his future Senate aspirations, but ... Uhm, there's another Clarence Thomas "conflict of interest" situation flying under the radar. Boop. Boop. New IN-CITY "Cop City" polling should give the mayor and Atlanta Police Foundation the sweats. Palestinian v Hamas conflation & "is Jim Jordan the best they can do?," too.

Atlanta Police Foundation is trying to build the largest police training facility in the US in Weelaunee Forest, a watershed surrounded by primarily Black residents who overwhelmingly oppose the project.The plans include military-grade training facilities, a mock city to practice urban warfare, dozens of shooting ranges, and a Black Hawk helicopter landing pad.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

On today's Closer Look with Rose Scott, we review the timeline of government action and public discourse about the proposed Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. Meanwhile, the deadline nears for petition signatures for a November referendum, asking City of Atlanta voters to repeal the lease agreement between the city and the Atlanta Police Foundation. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The City of Atlanta has leased 381-acres of Weelaunee Forest, stolen Muscogee land, to the Atlanta Police Foundation for a police military facility funded by corporations. This would be the largest police training facility in the US in a primarily Black community who overwhelmingly oppose the project. Despite over fifteen hours of public comments against the project, the City Council has approved $67 million in public funding for Cop City. The plans include military-grade training facilities, a mock city to practice urban warfare, dozens of shooting ranges, and a Black Hawk helicopter landing pad. Residents have petitioned the municipal court of Atlanta to gather signatures for a binding referendum. With enough signatures, this would put whether or not Cop City gets built up for a vote on November's ballot box. In this 2 part episode of The Coolest Show, Rev Yearwood speaks with community organizer Rev Keyanna Jones, economist Dr. Gloria Bromell Tinubu, and community advocate Shar Bates. They discuss the history of the area surrounding the Weelaunee forest, the legacy of environmental racism, the community's work to get signatures, and “the Atlanta Way.” Support: https://www.copcityvote.com/ https://communitymovementbuilders.org/stop-cop-city/ https://stopcop.city/ The Coolest Show – brought to you by Hip Hop Caucus Think 100% PODCASTS – drops new episodes every Monday on environmental justice and how we solve the climate crisis. Listen and subscribe here or at TheCoolestShow.com! Follow @Think100Climate and @RevYearwood on Instagram, Twitter, and Instagram.

The City of Atlanta has leased 381-acres of Weelaunee Forest, stolen Muscogee land, to the Atlanta Police Foundation for a police military facility funded by corporations. This would be the largest police training facility in the US in a primarily Black community who overwhelmingly oppose the project. Despite over fifteen hours of public comments against the project, the City Council has approved $67 million in public funding for Cop City. The plans include military-grade training facilities, a mock city to practice urban warfare, dozens of shooting ranges, and a Black Hawk helicopter landing pad. Residents have petitioned the municipal court of Atlanta to gather signatures for a binding referendum. With enough signatures, this would put whether or not Cop City gets built up for a vote on November's ballot box. In this 2 part episode of The Coolest Show, Rev Yearwood speaks with community organizer Rev Keyanna Jones, economist Dr. Gloria Bromell Tinubu, and community advocate Shar Bates. They discuss the history of the area surrounding the Weelaunee forest, the legacy of environmental racism, the community's work to get signatures, and “the Atlanta Way.” Support: https://www.copcityvote.com/ https://communitymovementbuilders.org/stop-cop-city/ https://stopcop.city/ The Coolest Show – brought to you by Hip Hop Caucus Think 100% PODCASTS – drops new episodes every Monday on environmental justice and how we solve the climate crisis. Listen and subscribe here or at TheCoolestShow.com! Follow @Think100Climate and @RevYearwood on Instagram, Twitter, and Instagram.

Matt from the Atlanta Community Press Collective talks to Gare about Andre Dickens' political career from an affordable housing advocate to alleged sellout for the Atlanta Police Foundation.    https://secure.actblue.com/donate/atlantasolidaritySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In September 2021, the Atlanta City Council approved a proposal to lease 381 acres of the Weelaunee Forest—stolen Muscogee land surrounded by majority-Black neighborhoods—to the Atlanta Police Foundation to build the largest militarized police training center in the US. In response, a decentralized movement has risen up to halt the destruction of the forest and the construction of what has come to be known as “Cop City.” As the Stop Cop City movement has grown, the state has employed increasingly draconian methods of repression. In January of this year, police killed Manuel “Tortuguita” Téran, a 26-year old Indigenous Venezuelan forest defender. Dozens of people have been arrested for protesting, including a legal observer with the Southern Poverty Law Center, and more than 40 have been charged with domestic terrorism. Last month, a heavily armed joint task force raided a community center and arrested three bail fund organizers living there under tenuous allegations of “money laundering” and “charity fraud.” And despite widespread opposition, the Atlanta City Council recently authorized an additional $30 million contribution to the construction of Cop City, bringing the city's pledged total to $67 million. ​​On this week's episode of On the Nose, culture editor Claire Schwartz is joined by three guests in Atlanta deeply engaged with Stop Cop City—Micah Herskind, a community organizer and writer; Keyanna Jones, a reverend and organizer; and Josie Duffy Rice, a writer who covers criminal justice—to discuss the movement's roots and tactics, and what the militarization of Atlanta can teach us about the economic underpinnings of fascism.Thanks to Jesse Brenneman for producing and to Nathan Salsburg for the use of his song “VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed).”Transcript forthcoming.Further Reading and Listening: “The Fight Against Cop City,” Amna Akbar, Dissent“Shmita Means Total Destroy,” Fayer Collective, Jewish Currents“This is the Atlanta Way: A Primer on Cop City,” Micah Herskind, Scalawag“Atlanta Is Trying to Crush the Opposition to ‘Cop City' by Any Means Necessary,” Hannah Riley, The Nation “Targeting bail funds and Stop Cop City activists is an old tactic,” Say Burgin and Jeanne Theoharis, Washington Post“‘Multiple Grammars of Struggle'...

Cop City is a proposed training facility established to further militarize our police departments. Cop City in Atlanta has been met with protests as the corporations behind this compound seek to increase their influence and subsequently use public police departments as their public/private CAPOS or mafia-like enforcers against those pesky people who actually believe in democracy. A young activist named Manuel Paez Teran was shot 57 TIMES by Atlanta police during a non-violent protest. He was 26 years old at the time of his police murder. Protests continued and predictably arrests followed for what is protected 1st amenndment activities. A group called the Atlanta Solidarity Fund raises funds and arranges bail and attorneys for arrested protesters. Three of this group's organizers were arrested in a violent SWAT attack on their home. The ramifications for democracy are obvious. This is story #1.  Story #2 This ties in with the first story. I will begin to discuss the corporate interests behind Cop City and the obvious conflict of interest. I will also begin to discuss the danger of new laws which expand the definition of 'terrorism.'  We will also have our 'My Little Margie" segment and of course the "Jackass of the Week Award."  Come join me. Jeanine

Since the murder of forest defender Tortuguita last January, we've seen an escalation on the Stop Cop City by both activists and police. 34 people have been charged with "domestic terrorism." Atlanta police have cracked down on the smallest of demos resisting the project. Meanwhile, it's been revealed that Cop City would cost twice the amount originally asked for by the Atlanta Police Foundation. And 54% of Atlanta area residents oppose the project (with only 34% supporting it) in recent polls. This past week, three members of the Atlanta Solidarity Committee were arrested for alleged "financial crimes" by the state of Georgia. The Solidarity Committee is a bail fund that exists to support people arrested for protest-related actions. They began during the 2020 uprisings after the police murder of George Floyd and have been a pillar of support through the Stop Cop City campaign. Gov. Brian Kemp, and other politicians, has portrayed the movement to stop Copy City as a criminal organization. They are now targeting the campaign's legal and bail support for "charity fraud" and "money laundering." In our latest episode, Scott talks with Lauren Regan, executive director of the Civil Liberties Defense Center (@CLDC), about what's happening in Atlanta. They get into the intent of the authorities, other legal avenues they are pursuing to eradicate the Stop Cop City Movement and possible national effects. Bio// Lauren is the Executive Director & Senior Staff Attorney at the Civil Liberties Defense Center. She is a national expert in the defense of political activists, particularly those engaged in the climate, environmental, indigenous and animal rights movements. She is a trial lawyer who handles state and federal criminal defense, SLAPP defense, grand jury resistance, and federal civil rights litigation against police and government agencies for violating the rights of activists and organizations. --------------------------------------------------- Outro- Green and Red Blues by Moody Links// Civil Liberties Defense Center: https://cldc.org/staff/ Follow Green and Red// G&R Linktree: ⁠https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast⁠ ⁠ G&R's Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org/⁠ We're part of the Labor Podast Network:⁠https://www.laborradionetwork.org/⁠ Support the Green and Red Podcast// Become a Patron at ⁠https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast⁠ Or make a one time donation here: ⁠https://bit.ly/DonateGandR⁠ This is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969). “Green and Red Blues" by Moody. Editing by Isaac

Isaac joins Kei and Leila from Stop Cop City/Defend Atlanta Forest for a discussion on the movement, its strategy and its ultimate goals. They discuss what brought them into the movement, what the Weelaunee coalition and the Atlanta Police Foundation are, how the movement uses three prongs to aim for victory, and how it relates to the political landscape in Atlanta. They also touch on the centrality of care in a movement which has seen someone murdered, as well as the links to contemporary ecosocialism and abolitionism.  You can donate to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund here.  

Public comments abound - most of it (again) against the proposed public safety training facility. You wouldn't know that by following the official city of Atlanta Twitter account - which shared two pro-facility comments before removing those video shares. Anyhow, you'll hear from Dr. Jackie Echols of the South River Watershed Alliance, along with representation from the NAACP and a passionate pushback from Shannon Cofrin Gaggaro - a close friend of Amy St. Pierre. Amy was a mass shooting victim in Atlanta recently, but was invoked (without name) in a recent op/ed penned by Mayor Andre Dickens. Shannon penned a response op/ed the Cox Media Group-owned AJC has opted not to publish, so the Atlanta Press Collective did. CMG, by the way, is an Atlanta Police Foundation corporate donor. Both of Georgia's Senators have (finally) weighed in on #copcity in the aftermath of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund arrests, and I have their statements. WATCH: Atlanta City Council public comments session HERE

The 2020 protests that took place in the immediate wake of Minneapolis police murdering George Floyd were a historic call for America to reckon with its racist, oppressive system of state-sanctioned police violence. Three years later, rather than a reckoning, that same system, along with the political and business elites propping it up, are giving us "Cop City" (ie, the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, the Atlanta Police Foundation's 85-acre, $90-million police militarization and training complex where law enforcement from around the US and beyond will, among other things, train for urban warfare scenarios). Plans to build Cop City have been mired in controversy and civil rights violations from the beginning—from the city government's attempts to ignore residents' and activists' objections and force through the construction of Cop City in Atlanta's ecologically vital Weelaunee Forest, to police raiding an encampment of peaceful protestors and murdering one of them, Manuel ("Tortuguita") Esteban Paez Terán, who was shot 57 times, to the truly Orwellian crackdown on protestors and advocates, dozens of whom are being arrested and charged with "domestic terrorism."  As Micah Herskind writes, "The struggle to Stop Cop City is not just a battle over the creation of a $90 million police urban warfare center. It's not just a fight to protect the 381 acres of forest land, known as one of the "four lungs" of Atlanta, currently under threat of destruction. It's not just a conflict over how the city invests the over $30 million it has pledged to the project, to be supplemented by at least $60 million in private funding. The movement is all of those things. But even more fundamentally, the struggle to Stop Cop City is a battle for the future of Atlanta. It's a struggle over who the city is for: the city's corporate and state ruling class actors who have demanded that Cop City be built, or the people of Atlanta who have consistently voiced their opposition and demanded a different vision for the city." Make no mistake, though, the fight to Stop Cop City is all of our fight, and that very much includes the labor movement. In this mini-cast, we speak with Kamau Franklin and Mariah Parker about Cop City, the fight to stop it, and why labor needs to get off the sidelines and join that fight.  Kamau Franklin has been a dedicated community organizer for over thirty years, beginning in New York City and now based in Atlanta. He is also a lawyer, writer, and the founder of Community Movement Builders, Inc. Mariah Parker is labor and community organizer, a rapper (known by the stage name Linqua Franqa), and recently served as District 2 County Commissioner for Athens-Clarke County in Athens, Georgia, from 2018 - 2022. Additional links/info below... Kamau's Twitter page Community Movement Builders website, Facebook page, Twitter page, and Instagram  Mariah's Twitter page and LinkTree  Stop Cop City Micah Herskind, Scalawag, "This is the Atlanta Way: A Primer on Cop City" Candace Bernd, Truthout, "Cop City Protesters Face Felonies for Flyering as Police Repress Student Sit-Ins" Candace Bernd, Truthout, "Atlanta Was a Constitution-Free Zone During “Stop Cop City” Week of Action" Stephen Janis & Taya Graham, The Real News Network, "Atlanta's 'Cop City' Is a Blueprint for America's Future" Frances Madeson, Truthout, "Domestic Terrorism Charges Against Cop City Demonstrators Spur Further Protests" Natasha Lennard, The Intercept, "Atlanta Police Arrest Organizers of Bail Fund for Cop City Protestors" Natasha Lennard, The Intercept, "Police Shot Atlanta Cop City Protestor 57 Times, Autopsy Finds" Fair Fight Action Releases Statement Condemning Anti-Democratic Criminalization of Legal Aid Group Ahead of Vote on ‘Cop City' Funding  Jimmy Williams (General President of IUPAT) statement on Cop City Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, "Three Years Later, George Floyd's Family Members Are Still Fighting for Justice" Morgan Simon, Forbes, "The Corporations Funding Cop City In Atlanta" Permanent links below... Working People Patreon page Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show! Labor Radio / Podcast Network website, Facebook page, and Twitter page In These Times website, Facebook page, and Twitter page The Real News Network website, YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org) Jules Taylor, "Working People" Theme Song

Atlanta City Council's Finance Committee passed a move to give the Atlanta Police Foundation, a private nonprofit, more than $30 million to help fund the controversial Public Safety Training Center. It now heads to the full Council in June. Georgia-based Daniel Defense faces a lawsuit from parents of kids killed in the Uvalde, Texas school shooting one year ago. Plus, attorneys for the family of a man, who died at the Fulton County Jail covered in bed bugs, say the findings of an independent autopsy show criminal negligence. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Police repression intensifies as people march to the Atlanta Police Foundation. Over the weekend the cops raid a secondary encampment, and a memorial for Tortuguita is held in the Weelaunee Forest.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Safety and security are basic human needs, and essential to a thriving society. But in today's challenging cultural climate, how do you best protect the public? How can cities—or any entity—build lasting trust, transparency and value? And how do we learn from the transformation that's already occurring in law enforcement?In this episode of Connect, you'll learn why integration, or better yet, unity, is the key to success. Our guest, Marshall Freeman, Deputy Chief Administrative Officer, Atlanta Police Department, and former Chief Operating Officer, Atlanta Police Foundation, will discuss how his forward-thinking organization is integrating technologies, public-private partnerships and resident feedback, to build a stronger, safer community.Join us as Marshall shares how the Atlanta Police Department's innovative programs evolve from ideas to community wide rollouts. We'll examine the importance of evaluating technology, developing pilot programs and properly measuring effectiveness. We'll also spend time demystifying emerging technologies and understanding how they can be used to fill staffing gaps, enhance employee satisfaction and improve public safety. For more information about Axis Communications, visit us at www.axis.comFollow us on social media at Axis Communications - Home | FacebookAxis Communications: My Company | LinkedInAxis North America (@Axis_NA) / Twitter

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens returns to “Closer Look” to discuss what's next for the Atlanta police and fire training center known by protesters as ‘Cop City.' He also responds to an independent legal review that claims he can terminate the lease agreement between the City of Atlanta and the Atlanta Police Foundation without cause.Plus, Georgia State University law professor Anthony Michael Kreis discusses SB140 becoming law and whether the measure is supported by the constitution. Kreis also discusses how the law can be legally challenged. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Atlanta Police Foundation's $90 million police training facility, a mock-urban space with a nightclub, convenience store, and even homes, has drawn the ire of police reform activists, environmentalists, and even advocates for the homeless. The months-long effort by forest-dwelling protesters to prevent the construction of this facility has left an advocate dead, a state trooper shot, 35 individuals facing terrorism charges, and a community divided. Guest: Madeline Thigpen, criminal justice reporter at Capital B Atlanta. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Amicus—and you'll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Atlanta Police Foundation's $90 million police training facility, a mock-urban space with a nightclub, convenience store, and even homes, has drawn the ire of police reform activists, environmentalists, and even advocates for the homeless. The months-long effort by forest-dwelling protesters to prevent the construction of this facility has left an advocate dead, a state trooper shot, 35 individuals facing terrorism charges, and a community divided. Guest: Madeline Thigpen, criminal justice reporter at Capital B Atlanta. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Amicus—and you'll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Atlanta Police Foundation's $90 million police training facility, a mock-urban space with a nightclub, convenience store, and even homes, has drawn the ire of police reform activists, environmentalists, and even advocates for the homeless. The months-long effort by forest-dwelling protesters to prevent the construction of this facility has left an advocate dead, a state trooper shot, 35 individuals facing terrorism charges, and a community divided. Guest: Madeline Thigpen, criminal justice reporter at Capital B Atlanta. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Amicus—and you'll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's been a new motion filed to quash the special grand jury report that examined former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. WABE politics reporter Sam Gringlas discusses the latest developments. WABE politics reporter Rahul Bali joins then joins the program to discuss the latest news from the capitol as the legislative session nears an end.Alex Joseph, an Atlanta-based attorney, discusses the terms and conditions of the lease agreement between the City of Atlanta and the Atlanta Police Foundation for the proposed site of the police and fire department training facility known as “Cop City”. Joseph also explains what city leaders can legally do to stop the controversial project.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This week in Atlanta, supporters of an environmental movement to defend the Atlanta Forest are having a Week of Action against "cop city," following the January police killing of queer, Indigenous-Venezuelan Forest defender Manuel Teran aka Tortuguita. Over this past weekend, a group of protestors engaged in property damage of construction infrastructure around a security outpost adjacent to the RC field where a music festival was being hosted. The festival featured appearances from artists like Zack Fox and Faye Webster. 35 protesters were arrested during the festival and 23 accused of domestic terrorism, including a legal observer from the Southern Poverty Law Center who was representing the National Guild of Lawyers.  Our digital producer Zachary Bynum got the chance to speak with participants who'd been taking part in the week of action.  You can listen to our other segments on cop city below: Cop City Cop City: Forest Defender Killed Cop City: Welcome to RIOTSVILLE, USA Editor's Note: We reached out to the Atlanta Police Foundation for comment.  If we hear back from them, we will be sure to post their comments on our website.

This week in Atlanta, supporters of an environmental movement to defend the Atlanta Forest are having a Week of Action against "cop city," following the January police killing of queer, Indigenous-Venezuelan Forest defender Manuel Teran aka Tortuguita. Over this past weekend, a group of protestors engaged in property damage of construction infrastructure around a security outpost adjacent to the RC field where a music festival was being hosted. The festival featured appearances from artists like Zack Fox and Faye Webster. 35 protesters were arrested during the festival and 23 accused of domestic terrorism, including a legal observer from the Southern Poverty Law Center who was representing the National Guild of Lawyers.  Our digital producer Zachary Bynum got the chance to speak with participants who'd been taking part in the week of action.  You can listen to our other segments on cop city below: Cop City Cop City: Forest Defender Killed Cop City: Welcome to RIOTSVILLE, USA Editor's Note: We reached out to the Atlanta Police Foundation for comment.  If we hear back from them, we will be sure to post their comments on our website.

The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (03/06/2023): 3:05pm- According to The New York Post's Miranda Devine, “[n]ew emails uncovered by House Republicans probing the COVID-19 pandemic reveal the deceptive nature of Dr. Anthony Fauci.” In early 2020, Fauci commissioned a paper to “disprove the theory that the virus leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China.” You can read the opinion editorial here: https://nypost.com/2023/03/05/new-emails-show-fauci-commissioned-paper-to-disprove-wuhan-lab-leak-theory/ 3:30pm- Appearing on Fox News with Maria Bartiromo, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) addressed allegations that Dr. Anthony—as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease—pushed researchers to disprove the laboratory leak theory. Rep. Jordan called for greater transparency immediately. 3:40pm- While speaking with Margaret Brennan, former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said, “I think we should work under the assumption that there is a probability [the COVID-19 pandemic] was a lab leak…we ought to look into outlawing that kind of research…or conduct it in… high security labs.” 3:50pm- Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News' Shannon Bream that he has no doubt that COVID-19 originated from a laboratory leak in Wuhan, China and accused Dr. Anthony Fauci of being “complicit” in its cover-up. 4:05pm- Speaking at the 2023 Conservative Political Action Coalition (CPAC) taking place outside of Washington, D.C., former President Donald Trump referred to the World Health Organization (WHO) as “We Hide Outbreaks.” Trump also told members of the press that China needs to be held accountable for the COVID-19 outbreak, accusing China of costing the world economy an estimated $50 trillion in economic growth. 4:10pm- On Sunday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis spoke at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Ventura, California. During his speech, in front of a packed crowd, Gov. DeSantis criticized California Governor Gavin Newsom, Disney, and woke ideology. 4:15pm- Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley spoke at the 2023 Conservative Political Action Coalition (CPAC) taking place outside of Washington, D.C. over the weekend. Her speech was not well attended—is she just campaigning to be the eventual Republican Presidential nominee's Vice President? 4:35pm- According to The New York Post, the Minnesota Department of Human Rights has ordered USA Powerlifting to permit biological males who identify as female to compete in the women's division. 4:55pm- New York City Mayor Eric Adams is now telling citizens to remove their face masks when entering a store—in hopes of cracking down on shoplifting. 5:05pm- The Drive at 5: According to a report from Ari Blaff at National Review, “Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) staff attorney Thomas Jurgens was among the dozens of rioters arrested following a violent attack on police at the proposed site of the Atlanta Police Foundation's training facility, located a few miles south of the city.” The Southern Poverty Law Center is notorious for inaccurately labeling mundane conservative organizations as dangerous, hate groups. You can read the report at: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/dozens-arrested-for-attacking-cops-with-molotov-cocktails-bricks-at-atlanta-training-facility/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=breaking&utm_campaign=newstrack&utm_term=30748108 5:20pm- In response to Hershey's decision to go “woke”, The Daily Wire has released its own brand of chocolate and has already sold over 300,000 candy bars in the first 36-hours of their release. 5:35pm- According to reports, author R.L. Stine intends to edit his “Goosebump” books to have more inclusive language. 5:40pm- Comedian Chris Rock addressed Will Smith's 2022 Oscars slap during a live Netflix stand-up special on Saturday. 6:05pm- A New York Times opinion editorial by David Wallace-Wells theorizes that “we've been talking about the lab-leak hypothesis all wrong.” Wallace-Wells writes, “if you had been told, back in 2019, that this would be the state of knowledge in 2023, would it not seem extremely weird to you that there has not been a broad public conversation about the wisdom of potentially dangerous virological research in the meantime? That so much more oxygen had been eaten up by partisan theater than by public debate over the policy implications of such a possibility?... The boundaries of mainstream discourse have suggested that we should resolve the matter of pandemic origins before moving on to the implications of the lab-leak hypothesis. But this has proved a paralyzing standard.” You can read the editorial here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/28/opinion/lab-leak-energy-department-covid.html 6:30pm- A New York Times opinion-columnist says he can no longer enjoy McDonald's because his socio-economic status has changed after attending Yale—and, consequently, fast food is now beneath him. 6:45pm- Russell Brand accuses MSNBC of bias while on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. FLASHBACK: MSNBC's greatest lies!

The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 3: The Drive at 5: According to a report from Ari Blaff at National Review, “Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) staff attorney Thomas Jurgens was among the dozens of rioters arrested following a violent attack on police at the proposed site of the Atlanta Police Foundation's training facility, located a few miles south of the city.” The Southern Poverty Law Center is notorious for inaccurately labeling mundane conservative organizations as dangerous, hate groups. You can read the report at: https://www.nationalreview.com/news/dozens-arrested-for-attacking-cops-with-molotov-cocktails-bricks-at-atlanta-training-facility/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=breaking&utm_campaign=newstrack&utm_term=30748108 In response to Hershey's decision to go “woke”, The Daily Wire has released its own brand of chocolate and has already sold over 300,000 candy bars in the first 36-hours of their release. According to reports, author R.L. Stine intends to edit his “Goosebump” books to have more inclusive language. Comedian Chris Rock addressed Will Smith's 2022 Oscars slap during a live Netflix stand-up special on Saturday

Mark Spencer updates us on the struggle to stop the Atlanta Police Foundation building the largest police training facility in the US in Weelaunee Forest, Atlanta. He also explains why ‘health' is a useful lens by which to understand the overlapping processes of racial capitalism, ecological destruction and the expanding carceral state in Atlanta and elsewhere.Mark Spencer has a MD from Georgetown University School of Medicine and a BS in Neuroscience from Johns Hopkins University. He works as an Internal Medicine Resident physician at multiple hospitals across Atlanta. He is part of a coalition that builds support among healthcare workers for community based movements like Atlanta's Communities over Cages campaign to close the Atlanta Detention Center and also Stop Cop City.More info on Red Medicine event at The Horse Hospital on May 25th coming soon...https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/https://atlsolidarity.org/https://www.buymeacoffee.com/redmedicineSoundtrack by Mark Pilkington 

The Atlanta Police Foundation, a private non-profit funneling corporate money into police initiatives, wants to build a massive training facility for Atlanta cops outside of Southeast Atlanta. Multiple activists want to stop the building of this "cop city" pointing out the horrific history of the land itself, the environmental racist impact and more. The Red Dove centers the words of local activists Jasmine Burnett, Jackie Echols and the Forest Defenders to share the story of "cop city", and how YOU can get involved to stop Cop City and defend the Weelaunee Forest. Listen, learn then activate!! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The Atlanta Police Foundation, a private non-profit funneling corporate money into police initiatives, wants to build a massive training facility for Atlanta cops outside of Southeast Atlanta. Multiple activists want to stop the building of this "cop city" pointing out the horrific history of the land itself, the environmental racist impact and more. The Red Dove centers the words of local activists Jasmine Burnett, Jackie Echols and the Forest Defenders to share the story of "cop city", and how YOU can get involved to stop Cop City and defend the Weelaunee Forest. Listen, learn then activate!!

This week on Political Breakfast, DeKalb CEO Michael Thurmond shares the perspective of those residents who have mixed feelings about the proposed police training facility in their neighborhood. Thurmond tells host Lisa Rayam and strategists Tharon Johnson and Brian Robinson, the Atlanta Police Foundation did not initially consult with his office on the future site of the $90 million facility. He sees it as a political misstep. And a new Atlanta Journal Constitution poll shows voters have trust in Georgia's elections. That's two years after alleged widespread voter fraud was never proven.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

It's Monday, January 23rd, A.D. 2023. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard at www.TheWorldview.com. I'm Adam McManus. By Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com) Nigerian Catholic priest burned to death, another survived gunshots On January 15th, a Catholic priest, Isaac Achi, was burned to death and another, Collins Omeh, sustained gunshot wounds in a terrorist attack in Niger state, Nigeria, reports Christian Solidarity Worldwide. In a separate incident the same day, 25 churchgoers were abducted in Katsina state in the northwest. The local chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria was burned beyond recognition and the rectory was gutted when terrorists set it ablaze after failing to gain entry forcibly. Pray that the violent and peaceful Nigerian Muslims alike would come to faith in Jesus Christ. First March for Life in post-Roe America On Friday, January 20th, 100,000 pro-lifers marched in the 50th annual March for Life, which first took place following the 1973 Supreme Court decision known as Roe v. Wade which legalized abortion, reports LifeNews.com. Jeanne Mancini, the President of the March for Life, welcomed the attendees. MANCINI: “Let me welcome you all here, in person, for the 50th March for Life, the first post-Roe March for Life. (applause) The country and world changed on June 24th, when the Supreme Court handed down the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health decision allowing the people, through their elected officials, at the state and the federal level to impact pro-life laws. “So many giants paved the way for this momentous victory, including our own Nellie Gray, the founder of the March for Life, whose birthday was on June 24. I can't think of a better birthday gift.” Mancini talked about the pro-life battle ahead. MANCINI: “The human rights abuse of abortion is far from over. Sadly, this year alone in the United States, there will be well over 700,000 abortions. And we know that in every abortion one life is taken and at least one life is wounded. We will continue to march until the human rights abuse of abortion is a thing of the past.” Jeremiah 1:5 says, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.” Pro-life Rep: Call your Senators to pass Born Alive bill Republican Congressman Steve Scalise of Louisiana was encouraged by the recent passage of the Born Alive Survivors Protection Act. SCALISE: “Just a few months ago, when Nancy Pelosi was Speaker of the House, we brought a bill called the Born Alive Act, a bill that says if a baby is born alive, outside the womb, you cannot murder that baby and call it abortion. Do you know 80 different times Nancy Pelosi blocked that bill from coming to the floor? (audience boos) “The story actually gets better. In just eight days of a Republican majority, we brought up that bill and passed it through the House of Representatives. (audience cheers) That bill is over in the Senate right now. “Call your senators. They haven't brought it up yet. [Democratic Senate Majority Leader] Chuck Schumer doesn't want to bring it up. But if he hears from all of you, they'll have to bring that bill up. “There are only about a handful of countries that allow this barbaric process -- countries like China, like North Korea, and unfortunately America. America should not be on that list of barbaric countries.” To ask your two senators to pass the Born Alive bill, call 202-224-3121. That's 202-224-3121. Coach Dungy compares prayers for NFL player with unborn babies Former Indianapolis Colts Coach Tony Dungy talked about the power of prayer at the March for Life, reports LifeNews.com. DUNGY: “A young man named Damar Hamlin of the Buffalo Bills made a routine tackle, and his heart stopped beating right on the field. It could have been tragic, but something miraculous happened. The team medical staff rushed out. They got Damar's heart started again. But you know what? that wasn't the miracle. The real miracle was the reaction of everyone to that. “The announcers on the broadcast, what did they say? ‘All we can do is pray.' (audience cheers) And all across the country, people started praying. Usually when that happens, the cameras cut away from that. “Back when I was coaching in the 1990s, Christian players got together and they said, ‘We want to pray after the games.' And we actually got a memo from the NFL office said, ‘Don't let your players do that. If you do, you'll be fined, because that's not appropriate.' Can you believe that? (audience boos) That's a true story. “Well, those prayers were answered. Damar is recovering. Now he's home. He's been released from the hospital. (audience cheers) But what's the lesson in that? You know, an unbelievable thing happened that night, a professional football game with millions of dollars of ticket money and advertising money on the line, that game was canceled. Why? Because a life was at stake. And people wanted to see that life saved. “Well, that should be encouraging to us because that's exactly why we're here today. Because every day in this country, innocent lives are at stake.” Atlanta rioters smash windows and set police car on fire Last Wednesday night, Manuel Teran, who objected to the building of a $90 million training facility for the Atlanta Police Department in a forested area dubbed “Cop City,” shot a police officer in the abdomen, reports CBS News. In the ensuing exchange of gun fire, Teran was killed. Proverbs 22:8 says, “Whoever sows injustice reaps calamity, and the rod they wield in fury will be broken.” Afterwards, a Twitter account for a local Defund the Police group, called @ScenesATL, called on Friday for a "night of rage" along with "reciprocal violence to be done to the police and their allies,” reports Fox5Atlanta. That account has subsequently been suspended. In response, on Saturday night, violent rioters, who stormed downtown Atlanta, set a police car on fire and smashed windows of three businesses including Wells Fargo Bank, reports The New York Post. Georgia Republican Attorney General Chris Carr   tweeted, “To the Atlanta Media: Peaceful protestors use words. Rioters smash windows, set police cars on fire & shoot law enforcement officers. Stop calling these people protesters.” Anarchists with a group called “Stop Cop City” stated, “All reported acts appear to be explicitly targeted against the financial backers & goons of the Atlanta Police Foundation, a shady nonprofit that funnels weapons and military gear into our city to wage war on black and brown folks.” 10 killed, 10 wounded at a dance club outside L.A. And finally, police were involved in a stand-off Sunday with an Asian man they believe killed 10 people in a mass shooting Saturday night at a dance club during the Lunar New Year celebration in Monterey Park, California outside Los Angeles, reports NewsMax.com. Ten others were wounded. Close And that's The Worldview in 5 Minutes on this Monday, January 23rd, in the year of our Lord 2023. Subscribe by iTunes or email to our unique Christian newscast at www.TheWorldview.com. Or get the Generations app through Google Play or The App Store. I'm Adam McManus (Adam@TheWorldview.com). Seize the day for Jesus Christ.

In Atlanta, Georgia, community activists remain locked in a nearly 2-year struggle against the development of a massive police training center in a forest just outside the city, dubbed "cop city."  Only weeks after George Floyd's murder in 2020 and the 2020 police killing of Rayshard Brooks, calls to "demilitarize" and "defund the police" amassed all over the country. It was difficult for Atlanta, as it was for many cities across the country. The city's 14 percent increase  in homicides was accompanied by several, tragic, high-profile murders just as the voters were facing a choice of who would serve as the next mayor. The race and runoff were dominated by these public perceptions of crime and questions about how candidates would respond became central.  In September 2021, the Atlanta City Council approved plans to grant a ground lease to the Atlanta Police Foundation for a $90 million dollar police training facility to be built on 85 acres of land near Southeast Atlanta, located in a lower-income, predominantly Black area not represented on Atlanta's City Council. A local firm conducted a survey of residents near the proposed site and found 98% of respondents opposed the project. The approval was also granted despite strong opposition from community groups who oppose this substantial allocation of public resources to Atlanta police.  Additionally, the land slated for development has a fraught history, having formerly served as the Old Atlanta Prison Farm where inmates were subjected to abusive, "slave-like" conditions. Digital producer Zachary Bynum reports from Atlanta, talking with activists, organizers, and elected officials from the city to determine what this all means about policing, land stewardship, and power in the struggle for the future of Atlanta's South River Forest. Editor's note: We reached out to the Atlanta Police Foundation for comment and we have not yet received a response. If we do, we will post it here.

In Atlanta, Georgia, community activists remain locked in a nearly 2-year struggle against the development of a massive police training center in a forest just outside the city, dubbed "cop city."  Only weeks after George Floyd's murder in 2020 and the 2020 police killing of Rayshard Brooks, calls to "demilitarize" and "defund the police" amassed all over the country. It was difficult for Atlanta, as it was for many cities across the country. The city's 14 percent increase  in homicides was accompanied by several, tragic, high-profile murders just as the voters were facing a choice of who would serve as the next mayor. The race and runoff were dominated by these public perceptions of crime and questions about how candidates would respond became central.  In September 2021, the Atlanta City Council approved plans to grant a ground lease to the Atlanta Police Foundation for a $90 million dollar police training facility to be built on 85 acres of land near Southeast Atlanta, located in a lower-income, predominantly Black area not represented on Atlanta's City Council. A local firm conducted a survey of residents near the proposed site and found 98% of respondents opposed the project. The approval was also granted despite strong opposition from community groups who oppose this substantial allocation of public resources to Atlanta police.  Additionally, the land slated for development has a fraught history, having formerly served as the Old Atlanta Prison Farm where inmates were subjected to abusive, "slave-like" conditions. Digital producer Zachary Bynum reports from Atlanta, talking with activists, organizers, and elected officials from the city to determine what this all means about policing, land stewardship, and power in the struggle for the future of Atlanta's South River Forest. Editor's note: We reached out to the Atlanta Police Foundation for comment and we have not yet received a response. If we do, we will post it here.

Chat Guest JP James was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and his family is from India. He knew since the age of 12 that he wanted to be an entrepreneur! When he was 12 years old and the internet was just beginning to flourish, he initiated his career by going to his local library to give lessons about the functions of a computer. He was making nearly $60,000 a year by the age of 14. At age 17, he was starting two new ventures: he began his first company and was admitted into Georgia Tech. Since then, James has helped start, acquire, restructure, and scale stagnant ventures in their management strategy, business process automation, technology automation, and capital solutions. Having built ventures from startup to hundreds of millions in valuation. He owns, invests, and advises fast-growth ventures.   Founder & Chairman, Hive Financial Systems, LLC James invested and helped scale Hive Financial Systems, a financial technology company, providing technology to a portfolio of closely held consumer lenders.  Grew almost 8000% in revenue since 2017, in less than 30 months as of the start of 2020, as one of the fastest-growing companies in the world Designed and built an end to end financial automation software including marketing, underwriting, loan management and analytics architecture with capital from multiple VCs and balance sheet financing from several institutional lenders for its closely held portfolio of lenders. Co-Author of Two patents filed on System for Processing Loans using Machine Learning and Identifying and Processing Data impacting Enterprise Valuation Chairman of the Board, Libreum International LLC Scaled Libreum International into a multi-national conglomerate stretching with multiple global offices and hundreds of employees serving advisory capacities for Capital Markets, IT / Software Development, Accounting & Bookkeeping Services, and Operational Consulting. With over 150 clients spanning 15 years in industries as diverse as FinTech, Financial Services, Medical Devices, B2B SaaS applications, Tech-Enabled ventures in Manufacturing, Logistics, Restaurants, and Apparel. Founder, Libreum Capital Management Libreum was a multi-strategy manager of managers and fund of funds hedge fund focused on the applications of risk management utilizing agent-based modeling understanding bottom-up position risk. Built fund and partners and classmates at Georgia Tech Partnered and brought in traders in commodities, forex, energy trading, fixed income, merger arb, convertible arb, long-short equities, and quant strategies Trade desks in Chicago, NYC, and South Korea Sales and administration in Atlanta, West Palm Beach, Mumbai, Taipei, London   Family & Non-Profit Activity Wife Mary, and 4 daughters, Evelyn, Nora, Alaina, and Leanna TiE Atlanta President 2020-2021 TiE Atlanta Angels, Co-Founder & Chair - $4.3MM deployed in 2.5 years in early-stage ventures Board Member of Atlanta Police Foundation, 21 Century Leaders, Buckhead Club Active National Member of BENS, Business Executives for National Security Has taught Sunday school at Buckhead Church for the last 7 years Chat Highlights What major changes or adjustments have you had to make in your leadership as a result of the coronavirus pandemic? Given that JP leads teams in different parts of the world, we discussed how he's continuing to keep his teams engaged, positive, and accountable to continued business growth activities during the crises. Why is Atlanta such a great place to do business, raise a family, and work as an entrepreneur and investor? JP has noticed that people don't want to connect with the tragedy that's happened and feel the emotion around the problems people are facing. He is called to action to give back to the community and challenges all leaders to do the same. You grow as a person when you help people that you don't know as well as the people you know. Pro Tip: It's not just writing checks.   Get In Touch Connect with JP James on LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/jpjameslinkedinLearn about TiE Atlanta and how they're fostering entrepreneurship at atlanta.tie.orLearn more about HIVE Financial Systems at hivefs.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Brandon Gardner earned his BA in mass media arts from Clark Atlanta University and is an active member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. He currently serves as the Associate Director of Community Engagement for Emory University, where he contributes to cultivating new and existing community partnerships aligned with Emory's strategic community engagement priorities.   With more than nine years of event-management experience managing events for the International Cherry Blossom Festival, Atlanta Police Foundation, and Atlanta Opera, he has also worked in the film industry working for Tyler Perry Studios and The Real Housewives of Atlanta.   In this episode, Brandon shares: Why he decided to attend Clark Atlanta University   How he got an internship with Tyler Perry Studios and became an extra in the movie Stomp the Yard   What it's like to work as a production assistant and assistant casting director   How his degree in media arts and experience in the film industry prepared him for roles in event management and community engagement   The importance of being open to opportunities that may not be on your radar   Connect with Brandon on LinkedIn!   ---------- Sign up for my contact list to be the first to know about new offerings and to receive my note on all things!   You can also stay connected with Journey to Jupiter via..... Email: jetaun@jetaundavis.com Website: jetaundavis.com Instagram: @JourneyJupiter Twitter: @JourneyJupiter Facebook: @JourneyJupiter ----- Edited by Ken Inge of Dead End Hip Hop

This week, Aja returns behind the mic with Jess Izard—contributor and now-business manager at the Mainline—to air an important episode in the practice of media reparations, as envisioned and outlined by Media 2070. In this episode, Aja and Jess turn their critical media lenses to a previous broadcast of the Mainline Podcast and Mainline News Hour episode on WRFG.On Sept. 10, the Mainline aired an episode of its news hour on WRFG (labeled Episode 48 on the Mainline Podcast) following Atlanta City Council's vote to authorize a ground lease of 381 acres of green space to the Atlanta Police Foundation for $10 a year. In this episode, guest Ryan Gravel spoke of another case and legal strategy which leaned on a "logic" that protesters of the city-state are potentially harmful to constituents. This narrative is false, has no bearing, and should not have been legitimized on our broadcast, in any context.Aja atones for her role as an editor and journalist in that moment, as well as further explains the harm of the narrative. Jess and Aja read a critical feedback letter sent to the editor following the broadcast beautifully explaining the danger of the neoliberal fascism as it's being displayed in both Atlanta city government and mainstream media. All these elements combine bring us to the movement of media reparations and why it's so important to continue this practice. Listen in for more.For the extended version of this episode and a full back catalogue of coverage, join us on our Patreon at https://patreon.com/mainlinezineTo become a sustaining donor to ensure future episodes, visit https://mainlinzine.com/donateTo learn more about Media 2070 and their 100-page essay on media reparations, visit https://mediareparations.orgThank you to our listeners, subscribers, and donors for ensuring the quality and future of our coverage. Our podcasts, radio shows, and all other digital content depend on your support.— The Mainline Team

This week, Aja and Sylvia catch up with city designer and urban thinker Ryan Gravel following Atlanta City Council's vote to pass a proposal by the Atlanta Police Foundation to build an 85-acre police training facility on the 381-acre forested land in DeKalb County known as the Old Atlanta Prison Farm. In this episode, we discuss the events leading up to the vote, the vote itself, and what could happen next.Prior to council's vote, council members sat through 17 hours of public comment in which nearly 70% of voters adamantly opposed the facility. Council deliberated hte proposal for about an hour before passing the legislation, denying any additional amendments, in a 10-4 vote.The proposal originally sought to build a 150-acre training facility before adjusting following intense public outcry and dissent. Local organizers in Community Movement Builders, Sunrise Atlanta, Atlanta DSA, DARC, and others have been galvanizing in the #StopCopCity movement since the ordinance was introduced in June. Other organizations like the South River Forest Coalition have also been advocating and organizing for preservation of the forest.This episode plays exactly as it was aired during the Mainline News Hour on WRFG radio in Atlanta on Fri., Sept. 10.ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:To learn more about the land, which was originally inhabited by the Muscogee Creek Nation before they were forcibly removed. After the Civil War, the land was sold in a land lottery to a plantation owner tho used the land for chattel slavery and forced labor of Black people criminalized by the state: https://itsgoingdown.org/slave-labor-overcrowding-and-unmarked-graves-the-buried-history-of-atlanta-city-prison-farm/Our full breakdown of the council's vote and an overview of public opposition among Atlantans: https://www.mainlinezine.com/atlanta-city-council-passes-police-training-facility-legislation/Our report detailing the arrests made during council's deliberations: https://www.mainlinezine.com/atlanta-protesters-arrested-council-passes-lease-police-foundation/To support our work, consider becoming a sustaining contributor at https://patreon.com/mainlinezine or making a one-time donation at https://mainlinezine.com/donate

Last week, research organization Social Insights Research—a woman of color-led firm working to decolonize research & evaluation to produce data that amplifies marginalized perspectives—released its findings from research conducted to learn how Atlantans feel about Cop City, the newly proposed $90 million police training facility developed between the City of Atlanta and the Atlanta Police Foundation in unincorporated DeKalb County.Atlanta City Council was expected to vote on the legislation that would authorize the ground lease of city-owned land known as the Old Atlanta Prison Farm to APF on Sept. 7. After receiving nearly 17 hours of public comment line calls, the council delayed deliberation until the evening of Sept. 8.Founding editor Aja Arnold was able to connect with Social Insights Research founder Zuri Tau, who spearheaded the research which shows that 98% of Atlantans surveyed do not want the police training facility in South Atlanta and that 90% of Atlantans surveyed do not want a new police training facility in Atlanta in general. The two anxiously await for deliberation on the legislation to begin in council as they discuss Tau's methodology, the story the data tells us, and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp's letter sent to city council members just a couple hours ahead of their vote.ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:Social Insights Research's Community Survey on Development of Police/Fire Training Facility in Atlanta: https://site-2670551-5163-2537.mystrikingly.com/Social Insights Research official website: https://www.socinsights.com/Social Insights Research on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SocialInsights8Aja on Twitter: https://twitter.com/soundslikeasiaMainline's latest report, "Official documents show no community members present on training facility advisory council": https://www.mainlinezine.com/police-training-facility-advisory-council/Our info starter kit for Cop City: https://www.patreon.com/posts/53201136To support our work, consider becoming a sustaining donor at https://www.patreon.com/mainlinezineTo make a one-time donation, go to https://www.mainlinezine.com/donate

This episode is a double feature: the debut of The Mainline News Hour on WRFG 89.3 in Atlanta as well as the People's story about the growing #StopCopCity movement in the city. In this special report, founding editor Aja Arnold delivers a brief explainer of Cop City — the City of Atlanta and Atlanta Police Foundation's newly-proposed massive $90 million police training facility — and the land the city wishes to place it on, the Old Atlanta Prison Farm.The report features recorded audio from last month's People's Town Hall, an event organized by local groups DARC, Atlanta DSA, Community Movement Builders, and Sunrise ATL. The People's Town Hall is the only true public forum event regarding Cop City to date, with no collaboration with any elected officials in city council or City Hall. Of the 13 council members, only two were in attendance.Over 100 Atlantans gathered to speak their opposition, concerns, and sentiments towards the proposal and the city's governance at-large. Tune in to hear the people's story of #StopCopCity. This episode plays exactly as it aired on WRFG on Fri., Sept. 3.INDIGENOUS LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT [also discussed in the report]The City of Atlanta and Atlanta Police Foundation are attempting to build a 150-acre police training facility on 381 acres of forested land that is historically known as the Old Atlanta Prison Farm. The prison farm land is city-owned, but resides in unincorporated DeKalb County. This land was once home to the Muscogee (Creek) indigenous peoples before the land was awarded in a land lottery to a plantation owner who practiced the chattel enslavement of African people.ADDITIONAL RESOURCESAja's recent report about the training facility published in The Intercept: https://theintercept.com/2021/08/11/atlanta-police-training-center/An info starter kit to #StopCopCity via The Mainline: https://www.patreon.com/posts/53201136A local researcher's metal analysis testing of Intrenchment Creek, the water source in the South River Forest/Old Atlanta Prison Farm: https://twitter.com/lilponitz/status/1425103516390014991To learn more how you can help in the movement: https://stopcopcity.orgTo support our work, become a sustaining member at https://patreon.com/mainlinezine or consider making a one-time donation at https://mainlinezine.com/donate

This week, Aja talks with Kamau Franklin of Community Movement Builders in Atlanta about the recent city council vote in which council members voted to table Cop City legislation that would have authorized a ground lease of 381 acres of green space to Atlanta Police Foundation for $10 a year. This means that Cop City was in fact stopped — at least until the vote that is scheduled to take place on Sept. 7. The unexpected turn raises a lot of questions for Atlantans, journalists, and organizers. In this episode, we discuss the vote, how we got here as a city, and what could happen next.In the intro, Aja takes a much-needed moment of reflection of Mariam Abdulrab. The restaurant community in Atlanta mourns as another tragedy ripples through the city, and we stand in solidarity with those communities as well as survivors of violence.To support our work, consider becoming a patron on our newly launched Patreon for as little as $3 or $5/month to unlock an entirely new catalog of news coverage with other cool stuff. https://patreon.com/mainlinezine.Or, consider making a one-time or recurring donation, with nothing in return at https://mainlinezine.com/donateFollow Aja on Twitter at @soundslikeasia& Community Movement Builders at @CommunityMvtADDITIONAL RESOURCES:"How we got here" highlight reel via Mainline's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mainlinezine/Aja's article featured in The Intercept: https://theintercept.com/2021/08/11/atlanta-police-training-center/The People's Town Hall recording: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=414307796658247&ref=watch_permalinkIt's Going Down feature detailing the history of the Old Atlanta Prison Farm by Atlanta Community Press Collective: https://itsgoingdown.org/slave-labor-overcrowding-and-unmarked-graves-the-buried-history-of-atlanta-city-prison-farm/

After a long week on the Atlanta news beat, King, Sylvia, and Aja are back for our weekly briefing. Updates on #StopCopCity, the matter of mask mandates, Sylvia's new candidate alert, and a much needed status update on the mental health of our staff is what we bring in this episode.For more context on Aja's #StopCopCity update:Mainline's Twitter thread explaining the "public input sessions" by Atlanta Police Foundation: https://twitter.com/mainlinezine/status/1420883863023230976Mainline's Twitter thread containing important screenshots of APF slide show, with context: https://twitter.com/mainlinezine/status/1420891205223604229A thread explaining APF's disinformation regarding native species in the forest: https://twitter.com/strixus/status/1416555505569382405A straight recording of the Q&A session of APF's session on July 29: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zyqpk3jifj1o5xs/07-29%20APF%20Q%26A_DeKalb%20session.mp3?dl=0To support our work, consider becoming a patron on our newly launched Patreon for as little as $3 or $5/month to unlock an entirely new catalog of news coverage with other cool stuff. https://patreon.com/mainlinezineOr, consider making a one-time or recurring donation, with nothing in return at https://mainlinezine.com/donateFollow King Williams via his stacked newsletter via https://iamkingwilliams.substack.comFollow Sylvia Johnson online at @slyarounddaworld on Instagram and @slyarounddworld on Twitter

King, Sylvia, and Aja are back for a (shorter) Atlanta news and politics briefing with notes and reflections on Juneteenth, the latest news in city council & its decision to Joyce Sheperd's latest ordinance, local activism efforts to defend the forests and resist the land deal with Atlanta Police Foundation, and our regular Kasim watch and new candidate alert. The three also reflect on the 50th anniversary of the Pentagon Papers and how free press and whistleblowers are still in danger. We wonder, how great are performative politics, really?To support our work, consider becoming a patron on our newly launched Patreon for as little as $5/month to unlock an entirely new catalog of news coverage with other cool stuff. https://patreon.com/mainlinezineOr, consider making a one-time or recurring donation, with nothing in return at https://mainlinezine.com/donateFollow King Williams via his stacked newsletter via https://iamkingwilliams.substack.comFollow Sylvia Johnson online at @slyarounddaworld on Instagram and @slyarounddworld on Twitter

King, Sylvia, and Aja are back this week to discuss what's happening in Atlanta politics. On the docket this week are the recent Georgia Board of Education resolution & the Heritage Foundation, Sylvia's report on District 4 campaign finances, concerns of Atlanta Police Foundation and media-related donors in candidate Jason Dozier's finance report, Joe "Ain't Cuttin Checks to the Right People" Biden, the debt collective, a rundown on new candidates, and more.To support our work and unlock our bonus coverage, visit our new Patreon page at https://patreon.com/mainlinezine. Join for as little as $5 a month to receive access to all in-depth and bonus coverage.To learn more about the debt collective, visit https://debtcollective.orgINDIGENOUS LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTIt is with deep, sincere respect we acknowledge that this podcast was recorded and produced on both the unceded and ancestral native lands of the Muscogee Creek Nation (currently known as Atlanta, Ga.) and the unceded, ancestral lands of the Duwamish Tribe (currently known as Seattle, Wash.). We honor the lands and the people of both the Muscogee Tribe, which was forced from its land under the Indian Removal Act of 1830, and the Duwamish Tribe, who became signatories of the Treaty of Point Elliot in 1855 and lost one of its largest villages to a fire set by colonial settlers in 1895.To learn more, visit links below:https://native-land.ca/maps/territories/muscogee-creek/https://www.duwamishtribe.org/history

Chat Guest JP James was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and his family is from India. He knew since the age of 12 that he wanted to be an entrepreneur! When he was 12 years old and the internet was just beginning to flourish, he initiated his career by going to his local library to give lessons about the functions of a computer. He was making nearly $60,000 a year by the age of 14. At age 17, he was starting two new ventures: he began his first company and was admitted into Georgia Tech. Since then, James has helped start, acquire, restructure, and scale stagnant ventures in their management strategy, business process automation, technology automation, and capital solutions. Having built ventures from startup to hundreds of millions in valuation. He owns, invests, and advises fast-growth ventures.   Founder & Chairman, Hive Financial Systems, LLC James invested and helped scale Hive Financial Systems, a financial technology company, providing technology to a portfolio of closely held consumer lenders.  Grew almost 8000% in revenue since 2017, in less than 30 months as of the start of 2020, as one of the fastest-growing companies in the world Designed and built an end to end financial automation software including marketing, underwriting, loan management and analytics architecture with capital from multiple VCs and balance sheet financing from several institutional lenders for its closely held portfolio of lenders. Co-Author of Two patents filed on System for Processing Loans using Machine Learning and Identifying and Processing Data impacting Enterprise Valuation Chairman of the Board, Libreum International LLC Scaled Libreum International into a multi-national conglomerate stretching with multiple global offices and hundreds of employees serving advisory capacities for Capital Markets, IT / Software Development, Accounting & Bookkeeping Services, and Operational Consulting. With over 150 clients spanning 15 years in industries as diverse as FinTech, Financial Services, Medical Devices, B2B SaaS applications, Tech-Enabled ventures in Manufacturing, Logistics, Restaurants, and Apparel. Founder, Libreum Capital Management Libreum was a multi-strategy manager of managers and fund of funds hedge fund focused on the applications of risk management utilizing agent-based modeling understanding bottom-up position risk. Built fund and partners and classmates at Georgia Tech Partnered and brought in traders in commodities, forex, energy trading, fixed income, merger arb, convertible arb, long-short equities, and quant strategies Trade desks in Chicago, NYC, and South Korea Sales and administration in Atlanta, West Palm Beach, Mumbai, Taipei, London   Family & Non-Profit Activity Wife Mary, and 4 daughters, Evelyn, Nora, Alaina, and Leanna TiE Atlanta President 2020-2021 TiE Atlanta Angels, Co-Founder & Chair - $4.3MM deployed in 2.5 years in early-stage ventures Board Member of Atlanta Police Foundation, 21 Century Leaders, Buckhead Club Active National Member of BENS, Business Executives for National Security Has taught Sunday school at Buckhead Church for the last 7 years Chat Highlights What major changes or adjustments have you had to make in your leadership as a result of the coronavirus pandemic? Given that JP leads teams in different parts of the world, we discussed how he's continuing to keep his teams engaged, positive, and accountable to continued business growth activities during the crises. Why is Atlanta such a great place to do business, raise a family, and work as an entrepreneur and investor? JP has noticed that people don't want to connect with the tragedy that's happened and feel the emotion around the problems people are facing. He is called to action to give back to the community and challenges all leaders to do the same. You grow as a person when you help people that you don't know as well as the people you know. Pro Tip: It's not just writing checks.   Get In Touch Connect with JP James on LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/jpjameslinkedin Learn about TiE Atlanta and how they're fostering entrepreneurship at atlanta.tie.or Learn more about HIVE Financial Systems at hivefs.com See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.