Beyond Cop Cities, livre ebook

Since 1997, the US Department of Defense has transferred more than $7.2bn in military equipment to law enforcement agencies. Furthermore, the DOD is legally required to make various equipment items available to local police and school police departments, from flashlights and sandbags to grenade launchers and armored vehicles. This militarization has, unsurprisingly, been shown to impact Black communities unjustly and is associated with increased killings by police. No wonder there have been calls to ‘defund the police’ echoing across the streets of America.In Beyond Cop Cities, Joy James and fellow contributors take these calls one step further, highlighting the Stop Cop City movement - one of the most vibrant in the US today. Linking the anti-policing and racial justice movement with radical ecological 'forest defender' activism, the Stop Cop City campaign is a grassroots movement that aims to push back on police militarization by blocking the construction of Atlanta’s Police Public Safety Training Center.Sharp and concise, including the voices of key figures in the movement along with the mother of murdered activist 'Tortuguita' (shot and killed by Georgia police while protesting), this collection of vital and politically sophisticated writings captures a moment in time, demanding a safer, less brutal, future.AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPART I1. The Rubik’s Cube of Cop City: The Crisis of Colonized Cities and State Criminality, by Joy James and Kalonji Jama Changa2. Urban Warfare and Corporate-Funded Armies: Cop City as a Chapter in the Long History of U.S. Colonialism, by Joy James and Kalonji Jama Changa3.Letter of Concern to Black Clergy Regarding “Cop City”, by Reverend Matthew V. Johnson and Joy James4.Resisting Cop City Corporate and Clergy Colonizers, by Fergie Chambers, Matt Johnson, Kalonji Changa, and Joy James5. Tortuguita’s Mother Speaks: Belkis Teran: BPM/RSTV Interview with Kalonji ChangaPART II6. Combat Police Terror, by Dhoruba bin Wahad and Kalonji Changa7.Assassination Attempts against Mumia Abu-Jamal, by Pam Africa, Noel Hanrahan, Ricardo Alvarez, Kalonji Changa, and Joy James8.How Prison Officials Manufactured Gangs and Gang Wars in Virginia’s Prisons, by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson9.The Pendleton 2 Defense CommitteeConclusion, by Joy James“We Remember the Attempts to be Free: Part 3”, by James JonesQR Code/Omeka SiteNotesBibliography