A CopCity Reading List

Atlanta’s #StopCopCity movement and it’s violent repression which resulted in the murder of Manuel Terán can be understood in the wider context of Indigenous climate activism and modes of Black and Southern radicalism. I offer a reading list

Scenes from Class Struggle in Atlanta

The unhoused are subjected nonstop to the violence of the 14 policing agencies of the Atlanta area. A narrative and reflection on one incident.

On Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 93rd Birthday

A letter to Martin on his 93rd birthday

Misty morning

Defying Dixie at the Cotton Lofts

Glenda Gilmore’s Defying Dixie describes the leftist activism that laid the foundation for the subsequent Civil Rights and Movement for Black Lives. Her stories of hit home for many of us — her recounting of the Atlanta Six case at Atlanta’s Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill in particular for me and Atlanta folx. My great […]

Racist monuments are slowly crumbling

Slowly, with each passing day, with each gathering of thousands, the physical monuments to white supremacy are coming down. It is too early to tell if the immense institutional structures that erected them — policing, the very U.S. economy, the educational system, the health care system — will also be reborn in the wake of […]

The Uprising in Atlanta

People are emphasizing the material over the human.
– Dr Illya Davis, Morehouse College

Restarting Georgia’s economy from coronavirus the right way

Georgia’s plan to reopen the state on April 24th are not safe. Let’s demand moral accountability

The city of Atlanta doesn’t use facial recognition — so why does Delta Airlines?

Opt out of facial recognition