 Cop City is a project proposed by the Atlanta Police Foundation to build the largest police training facility in the country here in southeast Atlanta in the largest urban forest in the country. People in Atlanta have been mobilizing against this project for the past two years. The city council still went forward with it and since then the movement has just grown stronger and stronger. We are seeing this rise in militarization of the police. We are seeing cop cities being proposed in other places too. In Atlanta's case it's explicitly the intention of this facility to train police in crowd control and the kinds of training that police will have here will just result in further devastation to black and brown communities and we're witnessing that firsthand in the way that the police have suppressed political dissent to the cop city project here in Atlanta. My friend Tortugito was killed by the police. We are seeing that the police are willing to kill people. They have no other tools to deal with public opposition to policing than force and violence and killing. The Atlanta Police Foundation which has a lot of political power both with the city and with the police is deciding what the future of policing is and they're calling it 21st century policing but when we look at the plans for Cop City it's an increase in militarization. It's further training in how to police people and raid people's homes. They have a mock city in this facility so that they can train in how to enter people's homes better and as we fight for justice for Tyrae Nichols, as we fight for justice for Tortugito and for George Floyd and for Breonna Taylor when we know that the police are trained to kill people how can we expect anything to come from police training to shoot people but for them to shoot people. We are asking people to stand in solidarity with us and get creative in your communities to work with your friends with your co-workers to whatever solidarity looks like for you put pressure on corporations to divest from policing to divest from fossil fuels to divest from the death that is being caused to our planet and to people at the hands of the state and at the hands of corporations. I would recommend visiting two websites stopcopcity.net we'll connect you with different ways to pressure contractors and funders to divest from the Atlanta Police Foundation and cut ties with the Cop City project. The efforts to directly pressure contractors and funders and Cop City stakeholders to pull out of the project has been one of our most valuable tools in this movement. The other website that's really helpful is stopcopcitysolidarity.org which gives an overview of the mass mobilization in Atlanta March 4th through 11th and some frequently asked questions and it also helps give an overview of different aspects of the movement in the way that environmental justice and police abolition are connected. We're looking at a future that is so undetermined and how we act now and how we build the world that we want to live in now affects whether we can continue to live on this planet.