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Tortuguita Assassinated by Police.
Georgia Police Assassinate Queer Indigenous Opponent of "Cop City," Steps up Repression of Forest Defenders
On January 18, Atlanta and Georgia police assassinated a queer defender of the Weelaunee Forest during a raid by heavily armed city and state police on a camp that activists have occupied for over a year to block the construction of an 85-acre, $90 million police training facility, popularly dubbed “Cop City.” The person shot and killed by police was Manuel Teran, who went by Tortuguita. Tortuguita was an Indigenous Venezuelan of Tomoto-Cuica descent who was queer and non-binary.
The police also arrested 12 forest defenders and another 6 a week later in an unprecedented use of a state anti-terrorism law. In response to Atlanta street protests of the killing, Republican Governor Brian Kemp declared a state of emergency in Atlanta and mobilized 1,000 National Guard troops.
In this segment of Out-FM, we bring you voices of those who worked with Tortuguita and members of the groups 1000people 1000trees and Defend Atlanta Forest who spoke at a vigil in East River Park in Manhattan on Saturday, January 28.
In this segment of Out-FM, we bring you voices of those who worked with Tortuguita and members of the groups 1000people 1000trees and Defend Atlanta Forest who spoke at a vigil in East River Park in Manhattan on Saturday, January 28.
For more information, and to support the struggle in Atlanta tostop Cop City and the forest destruction, visit twitter.com/defendATLforest To support the effort to save East River Park,visit twitter.com/1000treesNYC
Proud Boys Protest Drag Story Hour in Queens
Drag performer Harmonica Sunbeam,The Comedy Queen, gives us the story of Drag Story Hour, a national program to bring literacy and gender acceptance to children and their parents. We play an excerpt from a recent story hour by Sunbeam, and she describes her experience as a local Drag Story reader and the right-wing white supremacists who've been threatening these events. We'll also hear audio of NYPD escorting anti-trans Proud Boys through subway turnstiles without paying after they protested a recent Drag Story Hour in Queens. More at: https://www.dshnyc.org