Police and prosecutors have used every tool in their arsenal to crush the spreading movement against Atlanta’s Cop City.
into Jurgens’s bar affiliation. As if the threat of 35 years in prison on domestic terrorism charges wasn’t enough, Jurgens now contends with professional backlash as well.
As for the rest of the accused, they remain in jail after being denied bond. The Atlanta Solidarity Fund, a bail fund for social justice activists, will keep fighting to be allowed to post bail, as they have done for previous Stop Cop City domestic terrorism defendants. Activists worry for the defendants languishing in prison. The activist with Defend the Atlanta Forest pointed to the case of Jamie Marsicano, a, with no timeline for when or if she might be released from police custody.
In denying activists bond, the judge, like local police, raised concerns about protesters being from out of state, as if broadening a local movement into a national one alone is cause for prosecution. At the bond hearing, Judge A.W. Davisthat the out-of-state protesters posed a flight risk. But these surface-level comments are only part of the story.
For months now, Georgia officials have sought to tamp down national solidarity with Stop Cop City. In December 2022, when the first round of domestic terrorism charges were levied against Defend the Atlanta Forest protesters, Atlanta Police Department Assistant Chief Carven Tyus, “None of those people live here. They do not have a vested interest in this property, and we show that time and time again.
These comments signaled an escalation in the fight against Cop City, and reflected growing anxiety about the burgeoning national nature of the movement. By the time the first round of domestic terrorism charges were handed down in December, the occupation of the South River Forest, called the “Weelaunee Forest” by activists using the Mvskoke tribal word for the watershed, had continued for over a year, and the movement had begun to find traction among activist circles on social media.
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