By creating “Sanctuary Zones” that refuse to cooperate with ICE or police, a coalition in Atlanta is building the infrastructure to practice real community safety.
In America’s most surveilled city, a community loses forest land and gains a network of AI-enabled cameras.
Organizers working to end police violence refuse to be intimidated by growing efforts to criminalize free speech.
Georgia’s sweeping, political application of conspiracy law echoes tactics that shattered the left a hundred years ago, when the government targeted socialist parties and militant unions with laws against criminal syndicalism, espionage, and sedition
Medical supply warehouses can be a significant source of cancer-causing ethylene oxide emissions. Only one state is doing anything about it.
In an 11th-hour change, Atlanta approved new rules for citizen-led petitions to include signature matching—a practice decried by Cop City protesters and voting rights advocates.
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Cop City, beyond contributing to over-policing, will require clear-cutting 381 acres of forest land.
The fight against the militarized police training center dubbed “Cop City” is one of the great struggles of our time.
A record number of inmates are dying in Georgia's five largest county jails, and that Fulton County Jail has led the state in such deaths since 2009.
Overcrowding and understaffing plague the facility, where around half of the more than 3,000 inmates have not been charged with any crime.
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