Why Disability Justice Activists Have Joined the Movement to Stop Cop City

Organizers emphasized that disabled people are especially vulnerable to both climate crisis and police violence.

When then-Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced in April 2021 that a new law enforcement training complex would be built in the Weelaunee Forest, or South River Forest, in Dekalb County, near Atlanta, Georgia, a diverse coalition of organizers, activists, and other community members formed to oppose the project under the “Stop Cop City” banner. For Atlanta-based disability justice activists...

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