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magnus (he/him)<p>A new <a href="https://venner.network/tags/ZAD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ZAD</span></a> (Zone To Defend), La Guinguette Vaillante. They are on Instagram, can someone come and fetch them over here to the free, open social network? <a href="https://www.instagram.com/laguinguettevaillante/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">instagram.com/laguinguettevail</span><span class="invisible">lante/</span></a></p><p>En français: <a href="https://iaata.info/Guinguette-is-the-new-ZAD-une-occup-contre-la-LGV-Bordeaux-Toulouse-7220.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">iaata.info/Guinguette-is-the-n</span><span class="invisible">ew-ZAD-une-occup-contre-la-LGV-Bordeaux-Toulouse-7220.html</span></a></p><p>In English:<br><a href="https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/01/24/in-pictures-land-occupation-against-hs-rail-in-france/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">freedomnews.org.uk/2025/01/24/</span><span class="invisible">in-pictures-land-occupation-against-hs-rail-in-france/</span></a> <a href="https://venner.network/tags/ZadPartout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ZadPartout</span></a> <a href="https://venner.network/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ACAB</span></a> <a href="https://venner.network/tags/LandOccupation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LandOccupation</span></a> <a href="https://venner.network/tags/DefendTheForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheForest</span></a> <a href="https://venner.network/tags/LaGuinguetteVaillante" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaGuinguetteVaillante</span></a></p>
Firestorm Books<p>Next weekend Firestorm is delighted to be hosting former political prisoner Henri Feola for a short reading and discussion of their recently published zine, "The Veil Between Worlds is Plexiglass."</p><p>Henri's work focuses on his experience as an incarcerated forest defender, intertwining the personal and the political. This conversation will explore abolition, jail support and solidarity, and the role of art and personal narrative in revolution.</p><p>Learn more and find copies of "The Veil Between Worlds is Plexiglass" at <a href="https://firestorm.coop/events/3316-the-veil-between-worlds-is-plexiglass.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">firestorm.coop/events/3316-the</span><span class="invisible">-veil-between-worlds-is-plexiglass.html</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheForest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Zinestagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zinestagram</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Abolitionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Abolitionism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FreeThemAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeThemAll</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PoliticalPrisoners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PoliticalPrisoners</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FeministBookstore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FeministBookstore</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirestormCoop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirestormCoop</span></a> (- L)</p>
Degrowth or Extinction<p><a href="https://defendtheatlantaforest.org/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">defendtheatlantaforest.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://jorts.horse/tags/StopCopCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopCopCity</span></a> <a href="https://jorts.horse/tags/DefendAtlantaForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendAtlantaForest</span></a> <a href="https://jorts.horse/tags/DefendTheForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheForest</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Mexico: defender of monarch butterflies found dead two weeks after he vanished</p><p>- Homero Gómez González was found floating in a well<br>- Activists say death could be over illegal logging disputes</p><p>by David Agren <br>Thu 30 Jan 2020 </p><p>A <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mexican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mexican</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/activist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activist</span></a> who fought to protect the wintering grounds of the monarch <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/butterfly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>butterfly</span></a> has been found dead in the western state of Michoacán, two weeks after he disappeared.</p><p>“<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HomeroG%C3%B3mezGonz%C3%A1lez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HomeroGómezGonzález</span></a>, a former logger who managed <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElRosarioButterflyReserve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElRosarioButterflyReserve</span></a>, vanished on 13 January. His body was found floating in a well on Wednesday, reportedly showing signs of torture.</p><p>“The motive for his murder remains unknown, but some activists speculated that it could have been related to disputes over illegal <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/logging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>logging</span></a>. </p><p>“Last week, authorities called in 53 police officers from the surrounding municipalities for questioning.</p><p>“Gómez González’s death comes as the murder rate continues to surge in a country where environmental defenders, human rights workers and community activists are routinely targeted for their work.</p><p>“President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has promised to halt attacks on environmental defenders, but the killings continue.</p><p>“‘This is a very regrettable act, very painful,' López Obrador said at his morning press conference on Thursday. 'It’s part of what makes us apply ourselves more to guarantee peace and tranquility in the country.'</p><p>“According to Global Witness 14 defenders were murdered in Mexico in 2018.</p><p>“Gómez González grew up in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ElRosario" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElRosario</span></a>, a hamlet in the hills of western Michoacán, where monarch butterflies winter amid dense forests of fir and pine trees.</p><p>“Millions of the butterflies make a 2,000-mile (3,220km) journey each year from Canada to pass the winter in central Mexico’s warmer weather. But the forests and the monarchs are threatened by climate change and the incursion of illegal loggers and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AvocadoFarmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AvocadoFarmers</span></a>.</p><p>“A gentle man with a salt-and-pepper hair and thick mustache, Gómez González was born into a logging family according to a profile in the Washington Post.<br>“‘We were afraid that if we had to stop logging, it would send us all into poverty,' he told the newspaper. </p><p>“But he eventually convinced others to abandon logging and protect butterfly habitats instead, figuring tourism would replace the lost income. The sanctuary is now a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnescoWorldHeritageSite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnescoWorldHeritageSite</span></a> and federal law outlaws logging in the site.</p><p>“<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/G%C3%B3mezGonz%C3%A1lez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GómezGonzález</span></a> often posted mesmerising videos of fluttering monarchs to social media.</p><p>“In one of his last videos, shared on Twitter a day before his disappearance, Homero Gómez González stood amid a cloud of butterflies. 'Come and and see this marvel of nature! [The <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/butterflies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>butterflies</span></a>] are lovers of the sun, the souls of the dead,' he said, referring to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousLegends" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousLegends</span></a> about the migratory butterflies.</p><p>“Speaking to the AP, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HomeroAridjis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HomeroAridjis</span></a>, an environmentalist and poet who is a longtime defender of the butterfly reserve, said: 'If they can kidnap and kill the people who work for the reserves, who is going to defend the environment in Mexico?’”</p><p>Source:<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/30/mexico-activist-monarch-butterflies-dead-homero-gomez-gonzalez" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/world/2020/jan</span><span class="invisible">/30/mexico-activist-monarch-butterflies-dead-homero-gomez-gonzalez</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForestDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForestDefenders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JusticeForHomero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JusticeForHomero</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheForest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MonarchButterflies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MonarchButterflies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Extinction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateJustice</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EcoActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EcoActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ACAB</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Just Stop Oil activist jailed for six months for taking part in slow march</p><p>Stephen Gingell, 57, thought to be first to receive prison sentence under new Public Order Act</p><p>by Damien Gayle<br>Fri 15 Dec 2023 </p><p>"A <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateActivist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateActivist</span></a> has been jailed for six months after pleading guilty to taking part in a peaceful <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SlowMarch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SlowMarch</span></a> protest on a London road.</p><p>"The sentence handed to Stephen Gingell, 57, is thought to be the first jailing under a new law that critics say makes anyone walking in a road liable for prosecution for 'interference with key national infrastructure'.</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Section7" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Section7</span></a> of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PublicOrderAct2023" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PublicOrderAct2023</span></a> bans any act that prevents newspaper printing presses, power plants, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/oil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oil</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/gas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gas</span></a> extraction or distribution sites, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/harbours" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>harbours</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/airports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>airports</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/railways" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>railways</span></a> or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/roads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>roads</span></a> 'from being used or operated to any extent', with a potential penalty of 12 months in jail.</p><p>"Gingell, a father of three from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Manchester" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Manchester</span></a>, was one of about 40 supporters of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JustStopOil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JustStopOil</span></a> who spent about 30 minutes marching on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HollowayRoad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HollowayRoad</span></a> in north <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/London" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>London</span></a> at about 4pm on 12 November, the climate campaign group said.</p><p>"He pleaded guilty to breach of section 7 at a hearing that same month at Wimbledon magistrates court. On Thursday, his case was transferred to Manchester magistrates court, where he was sentenced to six months.</p><p>"Just Stop Oil has been campaigning since 2022 for the UK government to stop all new fossil fuel production. The campaign’s 'guerrilla tactics' were cited by the Home Office when it introduced the Public Order Act’s tough new <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AntiProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiProtest</span></a> measures to parliament.</p><p>"Police began using section 7 to tackle Just Stop Oil’s protests at the end of October, arresting 60 people taking part in a march in Parliament Square. In a campaign of slow march protests carried out by the group between then and 4 December, 470 of the group’s supporters were arrested 630 times, with about half of those arrests under the new law.</p><p>"A spokesperson for the campaign said: 'Section 7 of the Public Order Act 2023, a law drafted by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FossilFuel</span></a> lobby, was introduced in April by Priti Patel, and covers ‘interference with the use or operation of key national infrastructure’. It seems this government has now made walking down the road, walking on the public highway an illegal act that is worthy of imprisonment.</p><p>"'How many fathers will be imprisoned before those planning to kill us are stopped? New oil and gas will see millions upon millions lose their homes, livelihoods and lives. Protected by the government, by failed politicians, by the police, those committing genocide continue to walk free, those protesting the killings are banged up. Whose side are you on?'</p><p>"The human rights organisation Liberty criticised Gingell’s sentencing. Katy Watts, a lawyer at Liberty, said: “It is shocking to see such harsh sentences handed down to protesters. This is yet another unnecessary and draconian law introduced by a government that is hell-bent on discouraging people from standing up for what they believe in. It is a clear attempt to silence people and for the government to hide from all accountability.</p><p>"Protest is a fundamental right, not a gift from the state. Government should be protecting our right to protest, not criminalising it.'"<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/15/just-stop-oil-activist-is-first-to-be-jailed-under-new-uk-protest-law?share=jetpack-whatsapp" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/20</span><span class="invisible">23/dec/15/just-stop-oil-activist-is-first-to-be-jailed-under-new-uk-protest-law?share=jetpack-whatsapp</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterProtectors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterProtectors</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DirectAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DirectAction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheForest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateJustice</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ACAB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ACAB</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EcoActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EcoActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Censorship</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HumanRightsViolations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRightsViolations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Article20" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Article20</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AbolishTheMonarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AbolishTheMonarchy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RightToProtest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RightToProtest</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousActivists</span></a> are risking their lives for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/butterflies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>butterflies</span></a></p><p>In <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CentralMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CentralMexico</span></a>’s forests, armed community members defend an iconic butterfly from cartel-backed logging.</p><p>By Anjan Sundaram Dec 20, 2023</p><p>"Every winter, northwest of Mexico City, the branches of the Oyamel fir trees ignite in orange, colored by the wings of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MonarchButterflies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MonarchButterflies</span></a> that have made the epic journey south from Canada and the United States. </p><p>"The forest is home to the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, created by presidential decree in 1986 and designated as a Unesco World Heritage site in 2008. The reserve shelters nearly 90 percent of the region’s over-wintering monarch butterfly population.</p><p>"Despite the fact that the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve is internationally protected, decades of degradation of the forest have posed an existential threat to this fragile ecosystem. Over the past four decades, the number of winter roosting sites for the butterflies in the reserve has fallen by over 50 percent, driven in part by illegal logging. </p><p>"After researchers found that 10 percent of total canopy cover had been lost between 2001 and 2012, the Mexican government ramped up enforcement of laws prohibiting logging. Government raids on illegal sawmills in the reserve sharply reduced logging. Yet according to an analysis by the World Wildlife Fund, the rate of forest degradation in the reserve tripled in 2022. </p><p>"To protect these forests — one of the few remaining wintering refuges for migrating monarchs — the local <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mazahua" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mazahua</span></a> Indigenous community in Crescencio Morales has established its own security force. </p><p>"As these self-described forest defenders from Crescensio Morales fight to protect the monarch butterfly’s refuge, Indigenous leaders took the global stage at the United Nations annual climate change summit in Dubai to wage this battle on a second front: to convince world leaders to recognize the dangers environmental land defenders, particularly in Latin America, face and to build stronger mechanisms to support them.</p><p>"Around the world, environmental activists face increasing violence </p><p>"As their weapons indicate, the world’s environmental defenders need defending. Every day, the councils of Crescencio Morales’ guardia comunales work in shifts, patrolling their community as well as the boundary of the Monarch Biosphere Reserve. They say they are threatened by <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sicarios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sicarios</span></a>, cartel <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hitmen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hitmen</span></a>, who also benefit from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IllegalTrade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IllegalTrade</span></a>, and are allied with clandestine loggers who camp in the surrounding forests. The guardia comunales run well-armed patrols through their territories to prevent the sicarios from expanding their territories and cutting down the precious Oyamel fir trees. </p><p>"These conflicts put environmental <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/activists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activists</span></a> at great risk. Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has promised to stop such violence, but the country remains among the world’s deadliest for those defending its pristine ecosystems. In January 2020, the body of the anti-logging activist and monarch butterfly defender <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HomeroG%C3%B3mezGonzalez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HomeroGómezGonzalez</span></a> was found in a community near Crescencio. Activists suspect his death was connected to illegal logging disputes, the Guardian reported. </p><p>"The pressures that Mexico’s Indigenous activists face are emblematic of similar conflicts arising globally. Communities like Crescencio Morales are on the front lines of a battle to protect their local environment from a mounting scramble for natural resources, amplified by corruption.</p><p>"Members of Crescencio Morales’s community told me that in addition to fighting the illegal loggers, they also protect their forested mountains from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> companies seeking to extract <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/gold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gold</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/silver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>silver</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/copper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>copper</span></a> — <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/minerals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>minerals</span></a> now in high demand as the world transitions to clean energy technologies. <br>Land defenders around the world — in countries including Mexico, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Brazil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brazil</span></a>, The Democratic Republic of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Congo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Congo</span></a>, and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Philippines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Philippines</span></a> — face increasing violence as they defend their territories, according to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlobalWitness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GlobalWitness</span></a>, an accountability nonprofit that studies the link between <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NaturalResources" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NaturalResources</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/conflict" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conflict</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a>. A 2023 investigation by the organization found that nearly 2,000 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/activists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activists</span></a> have been killed over the last decade for their efforts to protect the planet, many of them from Indigenous communities trying to preserve their ecological heritage. </p><p>"The majority of recorded killings of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LandDefenders</span></a> in 2022 took place in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LatinAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LatinAmerica</span></a>, making the continent perhaps the most dangerous place for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalDefense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalDefense</span></a>.</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousLands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousLands</span></a> include some of the planet’s most threatened landscapes</p><p>"The Mexican constitution protects the right of Indigenous communities’ self-determination — which, among other forms of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sovereignty</span></a>, allows them to govern their land communally. In 2023, more than 50 percent of Mexico’s land fell under these legal regimes, termed <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TierraComunal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TierraComunal</span></a> or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TierraEjidal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TierraEjidal</span></a> — which roughly translates to communal land. This, according to a study by the Rights and Resources Initiative, is the highest percentage of land collectively owned by Indigenous and local communities of any country in the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Americas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Americas</span></a>. </p><p>"This unique aspect of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MexicanIndigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MexicanIndigenous</span></a> heritage means that broad swaths of land in Mexico remain protected. Yet mounting effects from climate change as well as political and economic pressures mean that some of Mexico’s Indigenous communities have been forced to block highways in protest and appeal for help to protect themselves, their communities, their ecosystems, and their way of life. </p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mexico</span></a>’s unique legal regime is especially important for Crescencio Morales because it offers communities in the area, with deep historical and cultural ties to the monarch butterflies, the legal authority to protect the reserve. But the law can only do so much to protect the refuge and its migrating butterflies from illegal logging pressure.</p><p>"To prevent destruction of the Monarch Biosphere Reserve, Indigenous activists have taken their security and that of the butterflies’ precious trees into their own hands. When I visited Crescencio Morales earlier this year, I walked with a community policeman named Aurelio during an armed patrol along his community’s border. (We are withholding his identity and using a pseudonym to protect him from being targeted by local violence.) At the summit of one of the hills surrounding the community, Aurelio told me Crescencio Morales had been forced to arm itself to protect its people, butterflies, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Forests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Forests</span></a>.</p><p>"The security situation in towns such as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CrescencioMorales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CrescencioMorales</span></a> is complex. According to other community leaders I spoke with this year, who wished to remain anonymous due to security risks, the locals did not trust the army or the state police, which they often suspected of cutting business deals with the cartels. Armed security volunteers who protected the community from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/taladores" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>taladores</span></a>, the illegal loggers, patrolled their town in pickup trucks. </p><p>"These hyperlocal battles — on highways and in open warfare by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GuardiasComunales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GuardiasComunales</span></a> — have larger stakes: Mexican Indigenous environmental activists are defending landscapes that have implications for global <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biodiversity</span></a>. Without their efforts, environmentalists fear systemic <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/deforestation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deforestation</span></a> from illegal logging, which would not only destroy habitat for vulnerable species but also increase the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreenhouseGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreenhouseGas</span></a> emissions that further drive <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateChange</span></a>. And without the preservation of the Crescencio Morales Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, an important chain in a migration that connects ecosystems from Canada to Mexico would be severed."</p><p>Full article:<br><a href="https://www.vox.com/climate/24006471/cop28-rising-danger-environmental-activism" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vox.com/climate/24006471/cop28</span><span class="invisible">-rising-danger-environmental-activism</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForestDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ForestDefenders</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JusticeForHomero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JusticeForHomero</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DirectAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DirectAction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CriminalizingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriminalizingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheForest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndigenousRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndigenousRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Extinction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateActivists</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateJustice</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DirectAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DirectAction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SilencingDissent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilencingDissent</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CorporateColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EcoActivists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EcoActivists</span></a></p>
Veranderwens<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>EU_Commission</span></a></span> <br>Then why did you prolong the use of <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/pestcides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pestcides</span></a> ??????????<br><a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/DefendTheForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheForest</span></a></p>
Unsalted Counter-Info<p>Anarchism Must Not Be Criminalized – Statement from 12 of the 61 People Indicted on RICO Charges in Atlanta</p><p>"This RICO indictment is an attempt by the state to not only criminalize dissent, but a specific set of ideas which leads to dissent and offers an alternative framework to the state and capitalism.</p><p>...</p><p>Mutual aid is what we do &amp; solidarity is how we relate.<br>Fear is the mind-killer.<br>Solidarity is our shield, anarchy is our sword."</p><p><a href="https://unsalted.noblogs.org/post/2023/11/09/anarchism-must-not-be-criminalized-statement-from-12-of-the-61-people-indicted-on-rico-charges-in-atlanta/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">unsalted.noblogs.org/post/2023</span><span class="invisible">/11/09/anarchism-must-not-be-criminalized-statement-from-12-of-the-61-people-indicted-on-rico-charges-in-atlanta/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopCopCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopCopCity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheForest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Weelaunee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Weelaunee</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FuckRICO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FuckRICO</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Solidarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Solidarity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Repression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Repression</span></a></p>
Indybay<p>March Against Cop Campus!<br>From Atlanta to the Bay<br>Stop Police Militarization in our Communities<br>Sat Sep 30 @ 3pm<br>Kennedy Plaza in San Pablo, California (23rd St &amp; Brookside Dr)</p><p>The City of San Pablo plans to build a $43 million police training center and shooting range for cops around the Bay Area. The people of San Pablo and the Bay Area oppose this expansion of police power because of cops long history of harassing, abusing, incarcerating, and killing Black and Brown people.</p><p>Show up and march with us against the construction. We need healthy communities not police! Together we can stop Cop Campus! </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopCopCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopCopCity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopCopCampus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopCopCampus</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlockCopCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlockCopCity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheForest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheBay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheBay</span></a></p>
Stop Cop City MN<p>Our account got suspended yesterday for a thread calling for a boycott of @HomeDepot.</p><p>I guess they didn't like that it contained the work email of CEO Ted Decker. So please, DO NOT Google "Home Depot executive emails" or email them about cop city. They would not like that.<br>nitter.edist.ro/MPHProject/status/1673717871266918400#m </p><p><a href="https://social.edist.ro/tags/StopCopCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopCopCity</span></a> <a href="https://social.edist.ro/tags/DefendTheForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheForest</span></a></p><p><a href="https://nitter.edist.ro/MPHProject/status/1674458312539090950#m" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nitter.edist.ro/MPHProject/sta</span><span class="invisible">tus/1674458312539090950#m</span></a></p>
Stop Cop City MN<p>I’m at the construction arson… I’m at the bouncy house party… I’m at the combination construction arson and bouncy house party</p><p><a href="https://social.edist.ro/tags/StopCopCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopCopCity</span></a> <a href="https://social.edist.ro/tags/DefendTheForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheForest</span></a> <a href="https://social.edist.ro/tags/atlanta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atlanta</span></a></p>
It's Going Down<p>"This afternoon, DeKalb District Attorney (DA) Sherry Boston announced that after a formal review of the evidence, her office is withdrawing from the prosecution of 42 cases against individuals opposed to the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, more commonly known as Cop City, a $90 million training center being built by the Atlanta Police Foundation (APF). </p><p>The 42 cases include 29 counts of domestic terrorism charges stemming from arrests in December 2022 and March of this year."</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopCopCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopCopCity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Atlanta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atlanta</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheForest</span></a></p><p><a href="https://atlpresscollective.com/2023/06/23/dekalb-district-attorney-withdraws-from-42-cases/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">atlpresscollective.com/2023/06</span><span class="invisible">/23/dekalb-district-attorney-withdraws-from-42-cases/</span></a></p>
Twin Trouble<p>Trailer for our upcoming <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheForest</span></a> level of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SmashMAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SmashMAGA</span></a>! <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopCopCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopCopCity</span></a></p><p>:antifa_100: :anarchismred: :anonymous: :af: :molotov: :weed: :better_pride: :nyancat_rainbow: </p><p>Battle Lutzerath-esque Earth Rippers, Riot Trucks, Digidogs, B3 bombers and more dystopian police tech in a battle for the future for the WeeLaunee Forest, and beyond release on Steam for the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WeekOfAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WeekOfAction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopCopCityEverywhere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopCopCityEverywhere</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/indiegames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indiegames</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antifagames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antifagames</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchygames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>anarchygames</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SteamGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SteamGames</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Atlanta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atlanta</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TortuguitaVive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TortuguitaVive</span></a></p>
Stop Cop City MN<p>We are reliably informed that a national bail fund network is stepping in to provide support for people trying to <a href="https://social.edist.ro/tags/stopcopcity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stopcopcity</span></a> since the <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.coop/@AtlSolFund" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>AtlSolFund</span></a></span>'s accounts are now frozen.</p><p>Link to support: <a href="https://bit.ly/supportatlsolfund" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">bit.ly/supportatlsolfund</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.edist.ro/tags/atlanta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atlanta</span></a> <a href="https://social.edist.ro/tags/defendtheforest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>defendtheforest</span></a> <a href="https://social.edist.ro/tags/stopcopcity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stopcopcity</span></a></p>
AnonOpsUnited<p>People in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Georgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Georgia</span></a> are getting arrested for terrorism for sharing these names of the police responsible for killing <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tortuguita" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tortuguita</span></a> an <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a> environmental activist and forest defender<br>Do not be silenced <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CopCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CopCity</span></a> <br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopCopCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopCopCity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheForest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/justicefortortuguita" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>justicefortortuguita</span></a></p>
It's Going Down<p>No evidence that Tortuguita fired a gun. </p><p>Police shot them at least 57 times. </p><p>"According to the autopsy sent to ABC News, Teran did not have gunpowder residue on their hands. Teran had at least 57 gunshot wounds in their body, according to the autopsy, including in the hands, torso, legs and head." </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopCopCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopCopCity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tortuguita" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tortuguita</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Atlanta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atlanta</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendtheForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendtheForest</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/dekalb-county-releases-autopsy-cop-city-protester-manuel/story?id=98700731" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abcnews.go.com/US/dekalb-count</span><span class="invisible">y-releases-autopsy-cop-city-protester-manuel/story?id=98700731</span></a></p>
Greenback Guerrilla Distro<p>Brasfield &amp; Gorrie, Stop Cop City!!! </p><p>Photo creds: <span class="h-card"><a href="https://kolektiva.social/@SkunkApeLiberationUnion" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>SkunkApeLiberationUnion</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CancelTheContract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CancelTheContract</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TheirNameWasTort" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheirNameWasTort</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheForest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Miami" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Miami</span></a></p>
Reck<p>This map from the Atlanta Journal Constitution shows the land swap property which covers the section of the park not covered by the executive order. The legality of access to that section of the park is determined by the outcome of the land swap lawsuit, not Dekalb County.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheForest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheAtlantaForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheAtlantaForest</span></a></p>
Reck<p>Jozsef Papp posted about the destructive clearing operation today at Weelaunee People’s Park here: <a href="https://nitter.edist.ro/JozsefPapp_/status/1640361535712239616#m" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">nitter.edist.ro/JozsefPapp_/st</span><span class="invisible">atus/1640361535712239616#m</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheForest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheAtlantaForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheAtlantaForest</span></a></p>
Reck<p>After checking the news from Georgia Public Broadcasting and reading a copy of an executive order closing (sections of) so-called Intrenchment Creek Park from the Dekalb County CEO that was posted on Friday I made a startling observation:</p><p>Weelaunee People’s Park parking lot, where police and contractors have destroyed memorials for Tortugita and posted “no trespassing” signs today (Monday March 27th), is not within any of the closed properties listed in Dekalb County Executive Order 2023-001, the order that is being used to justify today’s horrific actions. Policing and clear-cutting forests pose threats to all life in the Weelaunee forest and beyond. </p><p>The executive order can be found on Georgia Public Broadcasting’s website: <a href="https://www.gpb.org/sites/default/files/2023-03/dekalb_county_executive_order_03-24-23.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gpb.org/sites/default/files/20</span><span class="invisible">23-03/dekalb_county_executive_order_03-24-23.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoCopCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoCopCity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StopCopCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StopCopCity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheAtlantaForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheAtlantaForest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheForest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DefendTheForestATL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefendTheForestATL</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Weelaunee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Weelaunee</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WeelauneeForest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WeelauneeForest</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Atlanta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Atlanta</span></a></p>