The movement to Stop Cop City in Atlanta has brought environmental defenders and police abolitionists together to fight a mega-project that would demolish the historic Weelaunee Forest to create a massive urban warfare training facility. For standing up for people and the planet, more than 40 Cop City activists have been struck with domestic terrorism charges. Will Potter, author of Green Is the New Red, joins The Chris Hedges Report to place the repression of Cop City activists in a longer history of labeling environmental activists as ‘domestic terrorists.’

Will Potter is an investigative journalist whose work has focused on social justice and environmental movements, and attacks on civil rights post-9/11. He is the author of Green Is the New Red, among other book.

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27 thoughts on “Stop Cop City and the history of environmental activism | The Chris Hedges Report”
  1. For peaceful bright future of human and world , discussions must be conducted only and only on

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  2. Cop City is totally evil and should be stopped. In the bigger picture, we need to stop & reverse the police state that the U.S. has become, among other bad things.

    The real ecoterrorists are the large corporations that are destroying the Earth and all the life here. Those fighting them are heroes, not eoc- or any other type of terrorists.

  3. Military and Offsprings with Little Moral sharing…as Home or Children Exposure Usages for some means or Vulnerabilities creations

  4. Just Speaking of Mr President and if "Literacy a Factor from Poor or Wealthy President…NOT just TRUMP Friends he thought were DEER to His Health , Probably…He should be Reviewing "Humanity Moral Ethical Personnel– Exposed as LAWs"..Much Busy busy days and Rules to Little LAWs

  5. Hardly any two….agree on what should be done. Spotted Tail / Lakota circa 1880.
    Why should you take by force from us that which you can obtain by love? King Wahunsonacook / Powhatan
    excerpts from A Cherokee Feast of Days – Joyce Sequichie Hifler

  6. The "Media" IS the problem! Change the Media and Change the World! Such is the power of media to manufacture your consent and focus your attention where they want it. In this very recent example of media control it becomes very obvious where their priorities lie and where they want yours to be.

    On fathers day 2023 and for a week following the launch of the Ocean Gate Titan submersible taking 5 members of the "Billionaire" class on nothing more than an overly risky, million-dollar sight-seeing tour of the undersea graveyard of the Titanic, the media forced their viewers to stay on the edge of their seats while they conjured up visions for them of being in that vessel as breathable air ran out and panic and desperation took over, when in fact, the passengers had all died instantly and painlessly a few hours after the launch during the descent. They even continued the media coverage after the fate of the crew of Titan was known for the recovery efforts of any remains!

    It was an absolute media circus as they interviewed all of the experts and covered every aspect of the multi-million-dollar air, sea and undersea rescue efforts to save five members of the ruling billionaire class who chose to take the risks involved and signed waiver documents to that effect before embarking on this adventure for bragging rights.

    At the same time that all this media attention was focused on the already doomed Ocean Gate fiasco, across the Atlantic in the Mediterranean, over 700 refugees on an overcrowded fishing boat with a dead engine and no means of propulsion, that was being watched by local governments, took on water and sank. The passengers, mostly women and children without life-vests, were actually struggling and gasping for air while swallowing salty seawater in an absolute panic and in a truly desperate attempt to save the lives of their children and just to survive! And where was the media coverage to mount the recue effort to save them? It was NON-EXISTENT, a NON-EVENT in the media! So many died needlessly, and the truth is, all of the refugees who died in this incident were fleeing conditions directly caused by American Empire and over 20 years of war and colonialism in their countries!

    Nothing will change without empathy, and that's the way your overlords want it in order to maintain the status quo! We absolutely have a moral obligation to do all we can to end poverty, hunger and suffering all over the world, but it is impossible for individuals, who lack significant financial means, to affect real meaningful change in the world without the help of governments, both here and abroad, adjusting their priorities to deal with the situation.

    That being said, it IS our responsibility to support and elect public officials, who have at their core being, those moral imperative priorities!

    The real problem is that the filthy-rich, the less than 1% of the population, who own and run the governments and media of the world, are greedy and do not share any of those priorities, and live only to exploit the weak and powerless for their own personal gain. They spend good portion of their wealth manipulating government officials and the media to manufacture a false consent of the governed masses to continue on with the status quo, making themselves even more rich and powerful.

    Education of the people through the media is the solution to this problem! We need an antiwar and socially responsible media with global reach!

    The MIMIC (Military-Industrial-Media-Infotainment-Complex), the fake, mimic of democracy and freedom of speech, is running and propagating Western Empire through propaganda and misinformation to manufacture the consent of the people for their agenda. It really is just that simple!

  7. He talks about "mission creep." Could it just be a bunch of corporate security creeps with a mission to destroy not just "movements" but in the end the intelligent members of those movements. They are mission creeps. Their mission is without merit. This needs to be as Cornell would say ABOLISHED.

  8. Funny, I just viewed a comedy skit on YouTube of Richard Pryor talking about police killings of blacks. The year of that skit 1977…. Times have not changed.

  9. People protest, cops shoot an innocent man, protestors throw a PEACEFUL music festical, cops dress up as as antifa and vexome agent provocateurs to delegitimize the protesters then leave, then the PEACFUL protestors get arrested. This is in the playbook man

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