an audio montage of clips explaining the resistance to the proposed cop city in Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Stop Cop City

We speak with Gabriel Medrano, a lead worker-organizer at the Essex Crossing Trader Joe's in lower manhattan, where the independent Trader Joe's Union announced a union election will be held last week. 

We also get updates on other labor happenings in the city and country and hear voices from the current mass protests and strikes in France.

Then, we take listener call ins to honor their heroes for Women's History Month.

Lastly, we provide an update on the fight down in Atlanta to stop the construction of the country's largest police-training facility.

The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 28 March '23

In the opening segment, we hear from Priscilla Grim, Brooklyn-based digital media activist. She was arrested at a Cop City protest in Atlanta on March 5th and was held without bail for a month before finally being released last week. Later in the show, we follow up on the violent police raid that shut down an Easter Sunday at Sunset Park organized by Mexicanos Unidos. And we talk with NYPD watchdog and Indy columnist John Teufel about the fat new contract Mayor Adams signed last week with New York City’s PBA police union.

The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI-99.5 FM // 11 April '23

A New York City activist has finally made it home from Cop City protests in Atlanta after being jailed for a month. Priscilla Grim was arrested at a music festival in the Weelaunee Forest on March 5. The DeKalb County DA’s office charged Grim and 22 other Stop Cop City week of action participants with domestic terrorism on trumped-up evidence. It claims that wearing black clothing and having mud on pants was evidence of having engaged in property destruction that took place in another part of the forest earlier that day.

Interview w/ NYC Stop Cop City Activist Priscilla Grim, Released on Bail After a Month in Jail

Ponder with the Rev. Liz Kearny what Jesus has to teach us about following our failures, limitations, and frailties to the truth: that it's community that holds the work of liberation.

TWIR 5.14.23 #FailureLab: Held in a Collective of Love

Stop Cop City-activists from Atlanta told about their story via skype February 12th, 4PM. 

This was first part of the event, in second part Finnish forest activists led discusison on the forest-preservation movement.

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Explore Romans 5:1-8 with the Rev. Liz Kearny as she learns how to reclaim this heavyweight text of the New Testament from the ways it has been co-opted by empire. What does it mean to remember with our whole selves that Abraham and Jesus are indeed our ancestors? How can we follow them in the path of faithful resistance to every system that seeks to destroy life? 

Transcript available here:  https://surj.org/our-work/surj-faith/twir/

TWIR 6.18.23 #WrestlingWithRomans:  Finding Our Share

Micah Herskind discusses his Scalawag article, "This is the Atlanta Way: A Primer on Cop City," and his MSNBC post, “If those supporting ‘Cop City’ prevail in Atlanta, your city could be next.”

Micah Herskind is an Atlanta-based organizer and writer. Find more of his writing on his website, micahherskind.com and follow him on Twitter at: micahinATL

Read Micah’s article here: https://scalawagmagazine.org/2023/05/cop-city-atlanta-history-timeline/

#StopCopCity

A Primer on Cop City / Micah Herskind

An abridged timeline of all of the major events & background circumstances leading up to the June 5th, 2023 Atlanta City Council vote to fund the "Cop City" project in Atlanta, GA.

Atlanta vs. Cop City

In this extended version of an interview aired on The Indypendent News Hour on WBAI Jun. 27, we get some exciting updates on the struggle to stop Cop City from Dr. Jacqueline Echols of the South River Watershed Alliance in southern Atlanta, who has been integrally involved in the fight since it began two years ago.

Dr. Jacqueline Echols on the Ongoing Grassroots Push to Stop Cop City

What is the good news that Paul longs for his beloveds to tell each other again and again, in the midst of Rome’s lies? Join Rev. Liz Kearny in unlearning what the empire’s religion has taught us about “confessing with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believing in your heart that God raised him from the dead,” and find out what Paul says will actually save us. 
***Content warning: Mention of suicide***

Transcript available here: https://surj.org/our-work/surj-faith/twir/

TWIR 8.13.23 #WrestlingWithRomans: A Better Proclamation

Paul doesn't shy away from practical matters in his letter to the Romans and this week's episode takes a look at his admonitions against letting differences divide us.  Dr. Sharon Fennema explores contemporary and historical examples of the ways solidarity is a threat to empire and asks what these have to show us about resisting "divide and conquer" tactics and building the kind of community we are called to create as kindom-makers and Jesus-followers.

Transcript available here: surj.org/our-work/surj-faith/twir/

TWIR 9.17.23 #WrestlingWithRomans: Solidarity Forever

On the September 17, 2023 episode of Mic Check, host Mike Merli is joined by journalist and activist Melinda Tuhus.

Melinda speaks about her involvement in Stop Cop City solidarity work here in Connecticut.

On September 30 at 4pm, the Stop Copy City CT group will be holding an event at The People's Center (37 Howe Street in New Haven).

For updates from the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta:
https://twitter.com/defendATLforest
https://twitter.com/CommunityMvt
https://twitter.com/micahinATL

To connect with the Stop Cop City CT organizing group:
https://www.instagram.com/stopcopcityct/
stopcopcityct@gmail.com

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Melinda Tuhus and Stop Cop City Solidarity Here in Connecticut

We get an update on the epic struggle in Atlanta over the future of Cop City, the massive police-training facility that local officials are clear cutting a forest to build. Matt Scott, editor at the Atlanta Community Press Collective, talks about the latest developments in the referendum push, the RICO charges 61 protesters are facing, the current state of the site, an upcoming mass action in Atlanta, and more.

Stop Cop City Updates with Matt Scott from from Atlanta Community Press Collective

This week on Full Circle we will hear from the city of San Pablo in West Contra Costa County as well as Antioch in far east Contra Costa. First activists gathered in opposition to a proposed 43 million dollar police training facility in San Pablo CA, dubbed Stop Cop Campus after the Stop Cop City Movement in Atlanta, we’ll hear from organizers. In the second half of the show, the city of Antioch just signed a historic tenant protection anti harassment ordinance. We'll hear from the signing ceremony and speak with a local activist with Rising Juntos, who were key in getting protections in place.

Full Circle 10-06-2023 Stop Cop Campus and Tenant Anti Harassment Ordinance In Antioch

On November 14, 2023 public health workers against Cop City held a rally outside of the American Public Health Association (APHA) annual meeting held in Atlanta, GA at the Georgia World Congress Center. Listen to the voices from the rally.  CopCity is a public health issue & Atlanta is one of the most well-funded PDs in the country. 
From Atlanta to Palestine - militarization has got to go!
Song played - Matt Rivers: "So Grows the Flame (The Ballad of Tortuguita)"
Speakers:
1) Rita Valenti - Project South
2) Devin Franklin - Southern Center for Human Rights
3) Dominique Grant - Women on the Rise
4) Felipe
5) Omid
6) Dr. Katie Huffling - Alliances of Nurses for a Health Environment
7) Devin Barrington Ward -Black Futurists Group, Community Org
8) Dr. Mark Spencer -- introductions to Felipe, Omid, and Devin

"There Will Be Justice in this Town" - Voices from #StopCopCity at APHA

Indigo hosts Anna & Josh spend the hour with Reverend Keyanna Jones. Rev. Jones, born and raised in Atlanta, GA, is a community activist and organizer.  She talks with us about the #stopcopcity movement in Atlanta, the history of the Weelaunee forest, policing, the GILEE program & militarism, the connections between Gaza and Atlanta, and necessary international solidarity.
Songs:
The Revolution Can Not be Televised - Gil Scott Heron
So Grows the Flame - Matt Rivers
Fight the Power - Public Enemy

From Palestine to Atlanta: Occupation is a Crime ~ An hour with Rev. Keyanna Jones

On this Podcast Steven hosts new guest to the show Organizer & Activist Anthony DePice.  The boys talk about Ryan Gainer, Palestine, Stop Cop City, Justice 8, Union & much more.


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Episode #197 with Anthony DePice

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What do our sacred texts have to teach us about living, surviving, even thriving, in the context of empire, tyranny, violence, repression - the times in which we are living today?  What do they have to teach us, as white Christians, about our role in resistance, in showing up, in liberation?  They teach us this: 

Our traditions were made for these times.  They come from these times.  So we have resources in our texts, our practices, to help us right now.  We can reclaim our stories and re-tell them to nourish our resistance against white supremacy and our work for collective liberation.

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