Ep. 93 - Coalition-building, Growing Solidarity, & #StopCopCity ft. Chelle Sanders & Jasmine Burnett

BrownTown virtually visits Atlanta and chops it up with Chelle
Sanders and Jasmine Burnett, organizers with #StopCopCity.
Chicago’s #NoCopAcademy and Atlanta’s #StopCopCity movements are
part of the same struggle: to end violent policing, protect the
environment and defend Black and brown lives. As similar as they
are, only years apart, they also both vary in terms of structure
and place-based history. Still, the Black-led, multi-racial
constellations of grassroots organizations, concerned citizens,
and organizers worked and are working to stop their
municipalities from investing into a new police compound and
divert those resources into the community and life-affirming
networks of care. Building coalition and growing more general
solidarity both bring strength in the very same ways they can
prove difficult to navigate with groups/people coming to an issue
from different perspectives, ideologies, and tactics. BrownTown,
Chelle, and Jasmine unpack these struggles and the corresponding
#DefendAtlantaForest effort to uplift our collective fights for
liberation.


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Chelle is an organizer with EndstateATL, an ATL-based
organization committed to the liberation of Black folk everywhere
and building the future we imagine with a Black Queer Feminist
politic. Chelle has organized with ESA for four years
facilitating political education sessions from abolition to
alternative economic systems and connecting Black folks in the
city to mutual aid resources, building community along the way.
In the fight to Stop Cop City, Chelle co-coordinated and
facilitated the 2021 fellowship hosted by In Defense of Black
Lives that helped to jumpstart the Black Stop Cop City coalition.
Today, that coalition continues to build community with the Black
folks who will be most impacted by its construction.


Jasmine is an Atlanta native and abolitionist organizer with
Community Movement Builders who has been building power in the
Black community around displacement, gentrification, and to Stop
Cop City.


Follow Stop Cop City on Instagram and Twitter and follow Defend
Atlanta Forest on Instagram and Twitter. More information on
episode topics:


Atlanta Community Press Collective

Get involved with Stop Cop City For Our Futures Campaign

No Cop City Anywhere by Benji’s Hart (In These Times)

#NoCopAcademy Site, Toolkit, and Report

Ep. 26 - Coalition-building & #NoCopAcademy ft. Monica
Trinidad & Debbie Southorn



 


CREDITS: Intro and outro soundbite a
#StopCopCity protest in March 2023. Intro speaker is former
#NoCopAcademy organizer Destiny Harris. Inserts within the
episode are from SoapBox's No Cop Academy: The
Documentary. Episode graphic from Protect Our Water,
Heritage, Rights. Audio engineered by Kiera Battles.


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