Movements like NoCopAcademy and StopCopCity continue the work of previous Black-led uprisings which resisted the carceral state.
began a long-term encampment in Weelaunee Forest to prevent deforestation. The movement integrates abolitionist work with environmental justice with #landback in an effort to demilitarize, decolonize, divest and dismantle yet another product of the carceral systems that destroy these communities daily.
However, not all solidarity within the movement to Stop Cop City is cohesive. This is especially true of white organizers involved with Defend the Atlanta Forest. IDBL fellow and youth organizer Speaks stresses white anarchists and environmentalists too often monopolize space in the movement.
In this case, white organizers too often sever movements from one another, including the inextricable link between abolition work and environmental justice. In fact, environmental liberation has everything to do with abolishing the same carceral systems which defecate on the land and abuse its stewards. “They don’t understand,” Harris explains, “that when you’re talking about the environment, you’re talking about the community that you engage with every day.
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