I love Atlanta, not because it is a perfect city but because it is the site of so many struggles for freedom—no matter how Republicans may abuse that word—in the midst of a region of oppression.
That is why I must oppose the project to destroy a vast swath of the city’s forest in the name of a center for the enhancement of police violence and a gentrification driving film studio.
No good can come of this environmental destruction or these terrible purposes for which it is being enacted. Like many, I joined the protests after the murder of George Floyd by Officer Derek Chauvin and his accomplices.
I have seen terrible police violence directed at protestors, known at least one person injured so badly by the APD that they lost their memory of what happened to them.
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