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energy cost and china reopening after covered the i'm f raised growth rates in to asian pow houses as well. china and india. i'm going to bring you some analysis on that story. i'm f grove. forecast for 2023. that will be coming up a bit later in the news. our now it's time for this stream. hope francis is said to visit the democratic republic of congo and south through dawn in a trip that is meant to heal the wounds that are still bleeding. will the point of visit started chapter apiece and reconciliation ending the internal conflicts of these 2 nations? oh, in africa on al jazeera ah, welcome to the stream, i'm josh rushing public opposition to a plan. police training center in the us city of atlanta is growing. after the police killing of an environmental rights activists main,

national and international headlines, community environmental activists have for months sought to block construction of the facility. as highlighted by a recent a j plus film. occupying this forest is how activists are resisting the construction of a $90000000.00 state of the art police training center protesters call cops, city. the facility will be developed on one of the largest green spaces in se, atlanta, which has a history of oppression. they just want to go in and bulldoze everything in the right to history the way the way they want to write it. the fate of the force is up in the air as a police and force defenders both refused to back down are joining us today from atlanta, command franklin, his executive director of community movement builders that the collective, a black community residence and activists advocating for neighborhoods next to the plant facility, also joining from atlanta is jacqueline eccles, co founder of the south river watershed alliance. that is trying to protect the land in which the plant police center will be built. and joining us from new york

ana cook is a film producer ha, plus, who's been covering the story. also, you are at the table. if you're watching this on youtube right now, see the common thing over there. we have a lie producer there waiting to get your comments to me so i can get him to our guest. so i invite you to be a part of the stream with me today. all right, let's start with anna anna. what drew you to the story? yeah, no this there has been a lot of attention on cob city and have been bubbling since, especially after 2020 the nation wide black lives matter protest where people not just in atlanta but nationwide called for a d fund and the police an end to police brutality but then in atlanta, we saw with a post facility, an increase in funding for the police. and so that do a lot of attention. obviously a lot of opposition and people have peacefully occupy the forest as a way to protest against building this facility. but i think what's so interesting

about this cop city is odd, it's drawing a lot of national and international solidarity and attention because it's at the intersection of environmental as and no racial justice indigenous rights. it's also just bought a lot of grass roots, community activism to try to protect the forest. you know, they want to nurture and preserve this park, this public park in forest for the benefit of the community. well, let's start with as close as a to the communities we can, and then we'll work our way out through these issues. i want to play a clip from your film. this is actually with the local resident residents who live near by see they were blindsided by the cities planned to expand the massive police facility law backyard. no one has reached out to me. they're also going to ask for votes to them and may not be afar. but to some i, yes, those newsome is the same is true. one result for the modem as far as, but these are new, so i'm going to lose only will live in the community building because i don't care

what to cure. they don't care at all the sewing, so the counselor would you allow and in your to room, you know, come out, i wanna pair that was something that i was reading on your i think it's on the atlanta police foundation website. we can actually go to my computer and see here, i'll highlight one of the goals that they've set here is to set a national standard for community engagement, neighbourhood sensitivity and devotion to the civil rights of all citizens by law enforcement. non listened to, to that gentleman who was in the ha plus film and it doesn't seem like, ah, they're living up to this particular one. come out, i can, can you touch on this? sure. i mean, they're not on, they're not living up to it. their job is to use that as propaganda, as they basically right rip shaw over this community and put this facility where no one has access board. as a prior speaker said, this facility was jammed through via the city council and mary's office,

no one in active unity was acts or, or, or interviewed about wanting to facility there. over 70 percent of the respondents who caught in when city council passed this resolution were to give this lease said they did not want this facility built over 90 percent of the people who left directly adjacent to the force have said that they do not want this facility built and said, the city of atlanta, the atlanta police foundation at the atlanta police themselves. i basically jammed as down the throats of this not only to citizens next to the force, but every wine in atlanta coming out of the 2020 uprisings. so this is in itself is a slap to civil rights. all meant to not only the black community, but in our estimation to the larger movement, which part of this facility is meant to stop a future organizing against police violence. it's almost for a welly and the way they describe it and not just social issues, environmental issues as well. i'm going oh and i just want to note here we did,

asked the atlanta police foundation for a comment here. got no response from him. we also asked the city of atlanta and got no response also, but i'll let them speak for themselves like they did on their own website there. this year. if we go to my computer again, this is from the city of atlanta. it actually has the south river park highlighted on here, and they're called, it's called part of the lungs of atlanta. jackie, we touch on that the environmental importance of this area and what's at risk with the center? sure. this is one. this is the largest piece of green space remaining. and so i, i 285. that's the beltline around around atlanta. so it's, you know, $300.00 plus acres. so it's a massive piece of property. and so from that standpoint, it, it, it is vital to climate change it to dealing with the effect of

climate change from the standpoint of air quality, from the standpoint of protecting in treatment creek that flows through it. you know, just from a quality of life standpoint. so yeah, atlanta is developing rapidly, you know, it's very, a very pro development town and it's losing his tree canopy at an alarming rate. more trees are being destroyed every year than to be planted. and even those that a planet are, you know, to help over so it'll be a long time before they are really any, any viable use as relates to, to impact on the environment. so yeah, this, this green space, green space, in se, atlanta is, is critical to the city itself, not to the residence of se, atlanta, south, the cab county but, but to the city as

a whole. hey, i want to bring him some audience here. this is g girl and she says, who owns the land originally and, and that's touched on in your film. look, let's play a clip here about the history of this land layla's proposal to construct a police facility. sherry speaks the lands painful history. the site was a prison farm until 1995 prisoners there were subjected to harsh punishments and slave conditions, including poor sanitation, you trisha, and over crowding. some critics say claims of unmarked grades have not yet been properly investigated. before that, the land is thought to have been a plantation that enslaved at least 19 people. it was originally stolen from the muskogee who live there until the u. s. government forcefully displaced them to oklahoma. today, both activists and tribal members have reclaimed the indigenous name as will lonnie

peoples park. a fascinating history for this fuselage. anna, i'm curious, is the muskogee nation. are they involved in what's going on there now? and anyway? yeah, so i mean, as you can see, this piece of land has a really, you know, painful past. and local advocates and community members have told me that there has been basically no effort, no genuine effort on the city's behalf to try to make amends or try to even study the past and the potential crime that were committed on this land by the us government right, and by building the specialty on this plan, they're really trying to cover up this past not make any amends at all. and so the muskogee people who are based in oklahoma, they have been frequenting for as you know, trying to explore the idea of getting their land back and trying to reclaim their homeland again. but i think that the us government,

the city has not reached out to the indigenous tribes. and so they have failed in that way. but also the people who are protesting and occupying the 4th, they're trying to help the muskogee tribe, you know, get this land back. so that's why that they have me that will on people's part, which is the original muskogee creek name of the forest. yeah, we actually reach you as well and they were going to provide comment today for the show, but they're being hit with a massive winter storm right now. this knocked out a lot of their power. their schools are close so they weren't able to do it. mom, sorry i jumped on you there. oh no, not at all. i just wanted to add really quick to and so the, the to composition of the opposition of building cop city is really wide. not only is it from, with folks with the nation that used to be there, but it is from the black community. it is from the environmental as it is,

as you stated, for people who are defend forest folks. it is from civil rights advocate. it is from people from the community. so there is a wide range of folks who've been supporting or demonstrating again, the building of custody sense, the re beginning. and we should mention that since the very beginning, the police have used violence against protesters. the stop. ah, every, the stop folks in protesting and demanding that this doesn't get get built. huh. even at our earliest protests that we had in 2021, the police were arresting people. we had over 17 arrests. people were thrown down to the ground pepper sprayed, people were given charges of disorderly conduct during that phase of the, of everything. and then now we've moved to this new phase where they are actually giving charges of domestic terrorism. and as we talked about earlier in january of 18, they actually killed a protester. and so that's the city, the state and the federal government had been engaged in a multi level task force,

which is meant to destroy any movement to stop cop city. and instead to allow the police to build this facility, which again, rena would be used against the black community in particular. and we know will be used against organizing organizing activism in the future. yeah, i'm gonna ask you about that with the murder a manual turan, the police said that it was in self defense, but they were all wearing body cameras. has that footage been released and if not, why not? there's no body cam footage according to the police of the shooting, which we find highly dis believable. right? the police this task force is made up of the atlanta police, the cap county police, the georgia bureau of investigation. some news reports even placed the f b. i there in particular, the atlanta police are required to have body cameras on when they have encounters with the public. and so for them to tell us that they have no body camera image whatsoever is immediate. sus immediately suspect the fact that they would weave

a tale that says one shot was fired by the protester, and that it was a returned fire. our report, some folks who were around the force, was that there was a sudden burst of fire. it makes no sense that one individual in a tend to express no interest whatsoever of being in a duel with the police. were somehow shoot 1st when over 20 to 25 officers of various stripes were there and telling them to get out the test. it just seems ridiculous on his face, and as we know, the police have been known to lie in your reports as they did in george floyd as they just did in memphis. and as they've continually dine, ah, to tell one story. and only later on does the choose come out as you say, that something you're looking at an a p photo of atlanta swap members, and they're all wearing body camps. and you're right, just this week, we've watched him memphis how police murdered a man and then lied about it in their official reports at someone's gotta produced

this footage to say there's no footage is, is beyond belief. what were you gonna say anna? yeah, no, i was going to add that they claim that there is no body cam footage. and that is the exact reason why they're having growing calls to call for an independent investigation to be done into what actually happened here. but i think another thing that i mentioned that's really interesting is just the kind of dangerous precedent. these domestic charges, domestic terrorism charges are going to create, you know, through about who is a protest or forest occupier that we follow in the film. we were notified by a store in the movement that she was one of those arrested and charged with domestic terrorism. and you can see in the film that he is peacefully protesting. also in the film you can see in our interviews with city politicians, you know, belatedly admitting to us on camera for months now they've been actively pursuing these protest, sisters,

for domestic terrorism even before investigating or arresting. so this, that's sort of like a dangerous example for future protesters, you know, civil rights are saying by they are using the charged politicized marginalized groups to kind of clamp down on protesters and the for the future of protesters in the us. i don't agree with certain things, the government or the police is doing this is a dangerous example that they're setting and of course, dissenters protect it. they're supposed to be brought up to clubs and we actually have both of those ready. so let's start with the 4th defender and is this the person that you were just talking about? force defenders have demolished equipment that the c attempted to destroy the forest with insurance or corporate with the blue circle. once it's why not everyone agrees, but the way defenders have been resisting. some of them have embraced militant

tactics, vandalizing police and private contractor vehicles. other critics see they do not represent the communities living in se, atlanta ok risk. we don't see eye to eye on everything, but we are here trying to defend the forest. and so, yeah, so yeah, been arrested or good. yeah. so the 2nd protester was in that class has now been arrested. and i mean, both of you in atlanta, you guys can speak to this, but now there has just been less presence in the forest because of the increase police activity. you know, i think it's interesting in the beginning of the club, we saw that i said, you know, the state of the forest is up in the air, but it seems now that as police are clamping down on these protestors and arresting them aggressively. does seem that they are going to move forward with this construction of the facility and they were very clear with me on the city of atlanta. i know it didn't respond to you guys,

but when i was doing the report they responded to me and said that they planned to finish building the facility by the end of 2023. and now that it's the beginning of the year, i think that is the reason why they have really ramped up this type of aggression towards protesters. when i was reporting on this, at the end of last year, i saw video footage from those occupying the forest. they had a video of the police, you know, rating the area, cutting down trees as these people were sitting inside, trees endangering their safety. so i'm sort of like not surprised to see the rise in aggression from the police against the protesters or, and i want to know or go for come to really quick. i do that. this is why i wanted to point out earlier that the violence from the police have started sent the very beginning of the protest, and they've only escalated their tactics. all the folks arrested it, and so far we've had a 19 arrest. now, if people are charged with domestic terrorism, all the folks who are arrested in the oars were arrested while sitting in tree or

a tree heights and or near their camp sites. none of these folks were engaged in any activity whatsoever that can be closely connected to any acts of so called terrorism, or even vandalism. at that particular stage, these folks are arrested why they were in treat. these folks were at most committing the act of civil disobedience and nothing more. and so these are just scare tactics to criminalize the movement against cassidy and nothing more than that. and i think that is what we are at the stage or act where i agree with that at this stage, what they want to do is to criminalize the movement, get everyone out before and so that they can build as fast as possible because they see that folks are beginning to watch and to see what's happening. call in protest even more, both nationally and internationally. and the last i think is important. they try to keep talking about that the protesters are outside agitators. and these are the

very same public officials who, less than 2 weeks ago were honoring dr. king. dr. king, who did what went around from city to city, from state to state protesting, unjust laws, committing access to disobedience. and those very same authorities of that day called dr. king a what an outside agitator, a criminal, even a terrorist stephen. so the fact that they're trying to use the language of southern segregation is back for us, a ploy to try to switch the intention from what's happening in terms of that militarized police base that no one warrant or 2. what's happening in terms of active is coming from out of town who we welcome to do protests and organize against cop city. yeah, and so i know for international audience, atlanta where you guys are sitting as the home of dr. king jackie, want to bring you in, because i know that there's the watershed there and i know that that's protected by some clean water act laws. what,

what's going on with that part of this we've been approaching, you know, actually stopping this project through the regulatory channel, which is at this point like the best, the best route to actually, to actually stop it as part of the conversation about, you know, alternative sites because it is also what we've been promoting the creek that flows through the, the site it is on the states impaired water slip. give me just a few seconds of what the issue is, the previous impaired it. it's impaired because of the impact of sediment on the fish and mecklenburg, macklin vertebrae population in the creek. and so as a result, there it has. there is

a limit that's been placed on the amount of sediment that can enter the creek on by georgia apd. and it's also supported of course, by the clean water act. so we are at this point, pursuing the regulatory angle that pretty much supports. it does directly support our claim that the creek cannot assimilate any more sediment. plenty of sediment will be produced by the construction and therefore it will violate the clean water act. so that's what we have been pursuing for, for, you know, several months now and, and that's what we will continue to pursue in terms of when they issue the permit appeal. and yet through the channels that hopefully we in the and we'll be successful in terms of protecting the crate. oh,

and protecting the land around it supports the crate. i want to get 40 bills in here. we've got few minutes left, and i want to show this clip from the doc of city officials and how they responded to anna's questions. why did you vote to approve this facility? it's gonna be a big recruiting tool. we have an a duty i think, and an obligation to provide our employees with the best in class of everything. but you also have an obligation to listen to what the community is saying, right. do you feel like you've done that? yes, i feel that i've been there. i'm a city wide representative of move around the city constantly for multiple chances for the public to speak. i've never been to him. they were planning in a meeting or neighborhood meeting. or i have been told we don't want this cml just to make sure you heard the end of that was dustin hill, as i think is his name. he said he's never been to

a planning committee or community meeting where he heard someone against this plan . well, that's a joke of estate me again on the day that they voted, they had over 1000 calls. they came in over 70 percent of those calls were opposed to the building of this facility. again, pose again, taken in that neighborhood, directly adjacent to where this force is going. this, this cop city is going to be built at said that they are opposed to this facility protest after protests, civil disobedience direct action. they know that people are opposed to this. i come out, i'm an interrupt, it's only got 2 units and i want you to respond to this on their website, the atlanta police foundation. it says that they're doing this in partnership with the national center for civil and human rights. do you know anything about that? i looked at the national center for civil and human rights is funded by coca cola, which is wine, white at one wait was one of the corporate sponsors. one is facility. i think it,

i, i know we have to go through, but on this facility, they're gonna have a black hawk helicopter landing pad. they're going to have a, were, doesn't firing ranges, they're going to have a place to detonate explosives, they're going to have mach cities. this has nothing to do with policing, this has everything to do with the militarized thing to place it. our communities has nothing to do with trying to for public safety. this has everything to do with stopping uprisings and continuing the militarization of the police against black communities. and i listen to my left a port. yeah, i just wanna add that, you know, as you can share from come out there is such a deep mistress between bach neighborhood and the city because they were telling me about it's the name of public safety, right. they really believe that this center can improve public safety and if they believe so, i think it's up to them to communicate transparently with the community, which they have clearly failed to do so. and you know, the bought communities

a believe that this will lead to further militarization of the police. and again, the, i gotta, i gotta stop you there in slide to game. we're going to lose the show. the city of atlanta said that they are going to build this facility and is going to happen before the end of this year. we will continue to watch it now. desert and go to al jazeera plus. to find an cook's excellent documentary on this. ah ah

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