SCENES FROM THE ATLANTA FOREST CLOSES DOWN

Posted on November 25, 2024 by unoffensiveadmin

"This project has come to a close.
The noblogs team Autistici/Inventati decided to shut down this blog shortly following the republication of the Heritage Foundation dox from againstbeltwayfascism.noblogs.org and after the dox of the Elbit Systems of America. This blog hosted a great deal of antagonistic content over the years, and we are thankful to the Autistici/Inventati team for allowing a majority of the content to remain up for so long. They undoubtedly tolerated a great deal of resistance – we trust that their decision to shut down the blog did not come lightly.

"This site served as a nexus for anonymous publication, a space for engaging in dialogue with other rebels, and a place to spread complicity and proliferate autonomous activitiy.

"Please keep those who are languishing in jails for accusations related to this movement in your hearts- better yet, send them letters.

"Continue fighting for the end of RICO charges.

"Never forget Tortuguita, a hero whose bravery cannot be understated.

"Continue fighting for a world without markets, hierarchy, and fascism.

"For a time, the struggle in the atlanta forest was one of the powerful torches that carried the flames of antagonstic anarchist destruction. We hold our actions in this struggle proudly, and hope you do as well.

"We will never forget the weelaunee forest, we will never forgive those that perpetrated its destruction.

!Viva Tortuguita!

Nothing is Finished
Everything Continues"

https://unoffensiveanimal.is/2024/11/25/scenes-from-the-atlanta-forest-closes-down/

#JusticeForTortuguita #StopCopCity #HeritageFoundation #Doxing #CriminalizingDissent #Resistance #ScenesFromTheAtlantaForest #SaveTheForest #Weelaunee #CopCity #PoliceState #Fascism #ACAB #Atlanta #StopCopCity
#AtlantaForests #Suppressed #HostPressured #FascistGovernment
#PoliceMilitarization #Whistleblowers #VivaTortuguita

This (ongoing, just starting) series of mini documentaries by @atlanta_press on the #ATL61 is going to be a must-follow. The first two defendant portraits are powerful and sweet, and focus righteously on the organic structures of mutual aid and care that develop among people facing state repression, violence, and neglect.

We need this kind of homespun movement storytelling. Help spread all these interviews far and wide!

#StopCopCity #VivaTortuguita #MutualAid

https://youtu.be/ZXO1OBWuAVw

We make our own sacred spaces—spaces on no maps—through repeated rituals of resistance whose meanings stretch beyond borders. Because our grief knows no borders.

Neither does our love.

So from some leftover paint and fabric that are transformed into banners, some old newspapers mixed with flour and water to be reshaped into a turtle, some heartfelt words turned into zines, and some odds and ends like blankets, candles, stones, and flowers, an altar sprang up tonight in the same riverside spot in Asheville used a few months ago for a public Mourner’s Kaddish. You can still see the self-composting, pale-orange husk of a pumpkin that read “Free Palestine” and was left as our people’s memorial to honor the dead in Gaza. When this evening’s remembrance ended, we surrounded the pumpkin with the ecological remnants of our temporary autonomous altar honoring Tortuguita on this yahrzeit, this one-year anniversary, of murder-by-police in Atlanta.

For some two hours, starting just after a fiery sunset faded into dusk and then dark, people shared poems, blessings, and music; people lit candles, ate homemade food, and sipped hot tea; people formed wet soil into seed bombs and hurled them to new homes (because the cops and state may be able to cut down certain flowers, but they can’t keep the spring from coming); people spoke in low tones, passing along warmth through hugs, and here and there, taught each other songs like a Weelaunee version of “Bella Ciao” and sang aloud to the night sky and each other. There were silences too—not planned, not awkward, just right, as if we were hearing the old souls that are trees communing tenderly with the relatively new souls like Tort whom they are welcoming into their forest. Trees of life, trees as life, for even if the winter branches looked bare, the sap of life flows through them.

Then we walked in a small procession, guided by candles til the wind hushed them, down to the river’s edge, and to repeated shouts of #VivaTortuguita! someone (allegedly) set free the paper-mache tortoise into the water, and we watched it swim away in harmony with the currents.

We make sacred against the profane of this world.

@stopcopcity @defendatlantaforest

On January 18, people across the world will commemorate the life of Tortuguita, the forest defender who was killed by police one year ago while defending Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta. We honor Tortuguita's courage and sacrifice.
Consider organizing an event in your community, as well. #stopcopcity #tortuguita #vivatortuguita

January 18: Day of the Forest Defender
#StopCopCity #VivaTortuguita #AtlantaForest

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/post/2024/01/06/january-18-day-of-the-forest-defender/

Victor came to my material aid once when I really needed a hand, and I didn’t even need to ask. That’s the kind of friend you want to have when times are rough. I’m honored to be in solidarity with Victor, now being held without cause as a political prisoner. Please join us in the call to
#FreeVictor
#vivatortuguita #StopCopCity #saveweelauneeforest

Chase Bank and ATMs Vandalized in Southeast Michigan

"we glued the ATMs shut and spray-painted the windows, and used acid-etch paint to write messages of resistance like DROP COP CITY and VIVA TORTUGUITA!
we think that your stupid bank looks MUCH better now."

https://unsalted.noblogs.org/post/2023/07/12/chase-bank-vandalized-in-southeast-michigan/