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.