Just off Chester Road, overlooked by the tower cranes and skyscrapers of Manchester's never-ending building boom, there's a little corner of the city that's steeped in history.
14.02.2022 - 19:37 / thegavoice.com
In September 2021, the Atlanta City Council voted to approve the new police training facility for the Atlanta Police Department. The Atlanta Police Foundations, who are largely sponsoring the $90 million dollar project, have referred to the planned facility as a new “Public Safety Training Center.” Activists in the Atlanta area have dubbed it “Cop City” and have been protesting for months to stop the project.
On Saturday (February 12), the small area of the Intrenchment Creek trailhead was filled with protestors, there to express their opposition to Cop City. The project — which has the support of Governor Brian Kemp, former mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, and new mayor Andre Dickens — is planned to be built where the Old Prison Farm now sits and will require deforestation to make room for the facility. Activists and groups, such as Defend the Atlanta Forest (also known as the Forest Defenders) argue that the land should be kept the way it is, not destroyed to build the new facility. One member of the Forest Defenders, who preferred to remain anonymous, listed out how the organization has been trying to slow the process of getting the project underway.
“We’ve been creating occupations either in the directly threatened area or near it so that we can have our eyes on the woods at all times,” the anonymous member said. “When [contractors hired to start the deforestation process] came last week with bulldozers, we were the first people to see what was going on and make a call for other people to come and stop it.”
The group member also mentioned that they are creating aerial blockades, such as tree houses, to make it harder for the trees to be cut down.
Additionally, activists are worried about how the facility will impact
Just off Chester Road, overlooked by the tower cranes and skyscrapers of Manchester's never-ending building boom, there's a little corner of the city that's steeped in history.
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