The muggy Social Sciences 2 classroom overflowed with students coming together to express their dissent toward ‘Cop City.’ When there were no more seats to be had, students sat on the ground.&nbs
The years-long fight over a planned police training center in an urban forest near Atlanta has pitted community, climate, and justice activists against law enforcement. The result has been violence, arrests and a renewed crackdown on protest.
Since its approval by the Atlanta City Council in 2021, the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center—more commonly referred to as Cop City—has been a flashpoint of controversy. The $90 million facility is set to be built within a large forest adjacent to predominantly Black and poor neighborhoods; in protest, activists have taken up residence in the forest to try to stop its construction. In January, conflict between police and protesters turned deadly. On episode 72 of The Politics of Everything,
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