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							Apr 1 2024

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## [Queer in the Fight to Stop Cop City](/queer-in-the-fight-to-stop-cop-city/)





Gender non-conforming arrestees face harsher police violence and incarceration conditions than cisgender protesters Vienna Forrest could tell from the bleak light shining in her cell that it was well past the scheduled time for her bond hearing. It was her […]




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							Dec 18 2023

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## [Grief Weavers: A Story of Collective Healing from Weelaunee](/collective-healing-weelaunee-forest-stop-cop-city/)





“May our tears Rehydrate the Forgotten spaces & beings long Forgotten … hidden underground May our voices rise us all up May our prayers Feed us all” – Anonymous prayer at Tatiana Bell’s “We Keep us Safe” installation A police




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							May 22 2023

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## [To Save the Soul of Weelaunee](/to-save-the-soul-of-weelaunee/)





Rev. Keyanna Jones in Atlanta, Ga. Photo credit: Ethan Payne/Scalawag. This story was originally published by Scalawag as a part of A Week of Writing: Stop Cop City. This essay discusses state-sanctioned murder and gun violence.  “For if they do




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