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DESCRIPTION:Fierce opposition to the proposed $90 million police training facility in 
 Atlanta's Weelaunee Forest known as Cop City has resulted in a growing 
 national movement connecting Indigenous, environmental, racial justice, 
 youth, religious, and abolition activists. However, the strength and 
 visibility of this movement has also resulted in extreme repression of 
 activists and their supporters. Since December 2022, Georgia law 
 enforcement have murdered environmental activist Manuel "Tortugita" Teran, 
 brought domestic terrorism charges against protestors on the most spurious 
 charges, denied bond for months to most of those arrested, and recently 
 raided the home of and arrested three organizers with the Atlanta 
 Solidarity Fund, a group providing needed legal support and connection to 
 attorneys. \n \nJoin the NLG for a conversation with movement attorneys 
 Kamau Franklin, Moira Meltzer-Cohen, and Don Samuel moderated by 
 Atlanta-based journalist Hannah Riley. In this webinar, panelists will 
 discuss the implications of the legal issues related to the #StopCopCity 
 movement, including use of domestic terrorism charges, the criminalization 
 of legal support such as legal hotlines and bond funds, and the potential 
 for RICO charges against political activists.\n\nFriday, June 16\n7 - 8:30 
 PM ET / 4 - 5:30 PM PT\n \nPanelists:\n \nKamau Franklin is the founder of 
 Community Movement Builders, Inc. Kamau has been a dedicated community 
 organizer for over thirty years, beginning in New York City and now based 
 in Atlanta. For 18 of those years, Kamau was a leading member of a national 
 grassroots organization dedicated to the ideas of self-determination and 
 the teachings of Malcolm X. He has spearheaded organizing work in various 
 areas including youth organizing and development, police misconduct, and 
 the development of sustainable urban communities. Kamau has coordinated and 
 led community cop-watch programs, liberation/freedom schools for youth, 
 electoral and policy campaigns, large-scale community gardens, organizing 
 collectives and alternatives to incarceration programs. Kamau was an 
 attorney for ten years in New York with his own practice in criminal, civil 
 rights and transactional law. He now lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his 
 wife and two children.\n \nMoira Meltzer-Cohen is an educator, attorney, 
 and abolitionist, serving overlapping communities of activists, queers, and 
 prisoners. Mo's work includes criminal defense, particularly for those 
 arrested in the course of justice struggles; representation of witnesses 
 before federal grand juries; and advocacy for those seeking gender 
 affirming and other necessary (but often withheld) health care while in 
 prison. They provide legal support and education for social movement groups 
 working toward collective liberation, people in communities targeted by law 
 enforcement, and other attorneys seeking to learn more about the substance 
 and culture of representing radicals.\n \nDon Samuel is a partner at the 
 Atlanta-based law firm Garland, Samuel, and Loeb. Prior to law school, he 
 was a community organizer in southeast Georgia focusing on voting rights 
 and fair housing rights. He is past-President of the Georgia Association of 
 Criminal Defense Lawyers (GACDL) and a member of the National Association 
 of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL). He is currently an adjunct professor 
 of law at Georgia State University and has published extensively on Georgia 
 criminal procedure and law, RICO, and the 4th Amendment. Don has been 
 listed in Best Lawyers in America every year since 1993. He was awarded the 
 Rees Smith Lifetime Achievement Award by the Georgia Association of 
 Criminal Defense Lawyers in 2014, one of only five lawyers in Georgia to 
 win this award in the past twenty years.\n \nThis panel will be moderated 
 by Hannah Riley, a writer and activist based in Atlanta and the Director of 
 Programming at the Center for Just 
 Journalism.\n____________________________\n\nAccessibility: CART captioning 
 will be provided for this webinar. If there are other features that would 
 make this webinar accessible to you, please indicate so in the "Access 
 Needs" field below. If you have any questions related to accessibility, 
 please email our Communications Director at communications@nlg.org.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/06/12/18856566.php
SUMMARY:Understanding the Escalating Repression of the #StopCopCity Movement
LOCATION:Online via Zoom\nRegister at 
 https://www.nlg.org/civicrm/event/register/?id=60 \nLive captioning 
 provided
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/06/12/18856566.php
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