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DESCRIPTION:Join the editors of the book "No Cop City, No Cop World" for a panel 
 discussion on the fight for police abolition and for a livable planet for 
 all.\n\nMon Jun 2, 2025 at 2 PM - 3:30 PM PT (5:00 PM - 6:30 PM ET) \n\nOr 
 watch the recording afterward anytime\n\nThe Stop Cop City movement is a 
 decentralized effort to stop the construction of a $120 million police 
 training facility and the destruction of 170 acres of the Weelaunee Forest 
 outside of Atlanta, Georgia. \n\nNo Cop City, No Cop World is the first 
 collection of essays bringing together organizers and activists who have 
 been involved in the years-long struggle to Stop Cop City. Connecting 
 movements for environmental justice, police abolition, and Indigenous 
 sovereignty, this expansive collection highlights the strategy, tactics, 
 and ideologies that transformed a local collective action into a powerful 
 international movement.\n\nFeaturing the voices of forest defenders, 
 environmental justice advocates, political prisoners, Indigenous activists, 
 abolitionists, educators, legal scholars, and academics, these wide-ranging 
 essays explore the history of the intersectional movement, the diverse 
 tactics embraced by activists, tributes to Tortuguita, the 26-year-old 
 queer Indigenous forest defender murdered by Georgia State Patrol troopers, 
 and the intense police and legal repression faced by organizers. Making 
 critical connections between oppression and resistance at home and abroad, 
 the movement to Stop Cop City has expanded to a fight against a Cop 
 World.\n\n————————————\nSpeakers:\n\nMicah Herskind 
 is an organizer, writer, and law student who is active in abolitionist 
 movements against police and jail expansion.\n\nKamau Franklin (he/him) is 
 the founder of Community Movement Builders. He’s been a dedicated 
 community organizer for over thirty years.\n\nMariah Parker is an emcee and 
 labor organizer born and raised in the South. Their cultural work and 
 organizing have been featured in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Teen 
 Vogue, SPIN, Al Jazeera, Scalawag and Hammer & Hope.\n\nAndrea Ritchie is a 
 Black lesbian immigrant survivor who has been documenting, organizing, 
 advocating, litigating, and agitating around policing and criminalization 
 of Black women, girls, trans, and gender-nonconforming people for the past 
 four decades. She is cofounder of Interrupting Criminalization and the In 
 Our Names Network, a network of more than 20 organizations working to end 
 police violence against Black women, girls, trans and gender-nonconforming 
 people. In these capacities and through the Community Resource Hub, she 
 works with dozens of groups across the country organizing to divest from 
 policing and invest in strategies that will create safer communities. 
 Ritchie is co-author, with Mariame Kaba, of No More Police. She is a 
 nationally recognized researcher, policy analyst, and expert on policing 
 and criminalization. Ritchie lives in Detroit, Michigan.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/05/27/18876788.php
SUMMARY:"No Cop City, No Cop World" Book Talk - Standing Up for Justice & Against the Police State
LOCATION:YouTube talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0RdtGIxVgk
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/05/27/18876788.php
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