1 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:07,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, it could happen here. If that's the podcast that 2 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:11,559 Speaker 1: you're listening to, it's a news podcast about shit falling apart. 3 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:15,520 Speaker 1: That's the only intro you're going to get. Because Garrison 4 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:19,759 Speaker 1: is right now in the city of Atlanta, Georgia, reporting 5 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:24,799 Speaker 1: on the continuing Stop Cop City protests. Garrison's done a 6 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:28,160 Speaker 1: number of scripted episodes covering these in detail over the 7 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:30,680 Speaker 1: last year and change. They're in the thick of it 8 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:32,839 Speaker 1: right now, so I'm just going to bring them and 9 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:35,360 Speaker 1: a friend on to talk about what has been happening 10 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:40,360 Speaker 1: this week. Yes, that's your cue this week. This week 11 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 1: is a special week because this is the fifth week 12 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 1: of action that has happened here in Atlanta as a 13 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 1: part of these Top Cop City and if in the 14 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 1: Atlanta Force movement. This episode is going to be like 15 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 1: a midweek update because this week of action is still 16 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 1: very much ongoing. There's still many many days that that 17 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:02,680 Speaker 1: thinks can happen, but a lot of a lot has 18 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 1: already happened in in these in these first few days anyway, 19 00:01:05,680 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 1: So we're going to kind of do a quick a 20 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:10,319 Speaker 1: quick little update and then a more comprehensive piece will 21 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:12,880 Speaker 1: be later down the line. But with me to here 22 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:16,080 Speaker 1: to help talk about what's what's what's gone down so 23 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:20,679 Speaker 1: far is someone from the Atlantic Community Press Collective Clark. Hello, 24 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:23,680 Speaker 1: welcome to the show. Hey, thanks for having me on, 25 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:28,959 Speaker 1: So for being on. Yeah, we've we've been kind of 26 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: we we've been. We've been kind of teamed up the 27 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:35,080 Speaker 1: past few days here as as many many, many things 28 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:40,120 Speaker 1: both silly and serious, have have taken place across Atlanta. 29 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:44,959 Speaker 1: Of safety in numbers, Yeah, that's always nice to have 30 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:48,680 Speaker 1: friends when you're watching jack booted thugs go fucking ape 31 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:50,760 Speaker 1: shit with all of their new toys. And I mean, 32 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 1: I think that is part of the Week of Action idea, 33 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 1: is getting as many people here as possible and hopefully 34 00:01:56,280 --> 00:02:00,440 Speaker 1: some of that makes makes some people uh more safe. 35 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:03,639 Speaker 1: That's something that we'll probably talk more more in detail 36 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 1: later when we have kind of hindsight. But I guess 37 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:10,640 Speaker 1: today let's let's just start on what's kind of happened 38 00:02:10,639 --> 00:02:14,239 Speaker 1: so far chronologically. I guess starting on Saturday. We I 39 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 1: I met you Saturday for a rally at Gresham Park. 40 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 1: I think it's where we first met up this week. Yes, 41 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:25,040 Speaker 1: we met at the rally at Gresham Park, which had 42 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:28,240 Speaker 1: about I would say an hour's worth of speeches before 43 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 1: they kicked off a march down the bike path from 44 00:02:32,280 --> 00:02:36,399 Speaker 1: Gresham Park to what the activists call we Loaning People's Park, 45 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:41,520 Speaker 1: which is the side of the protest beforehand, so the 46 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:46,679 Speaker 1: forest around it had been unoccupied since the raid in 47 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:50,640 Speaker 1: January that saw the killing of Torture Guita. So this 48 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 1: was the first sort of permanent return to the forest. 49 00:02:56,760 --> 00:03:01,240 Speaker 1: So we took a I don't know forty minute march 50 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:05,760 Speaker 1: down the path and then landed in Wielani People's Park 51 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:09,680 Speaker 1: that had one more little round of chance with a 52 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:13,560 Speaker 1: promise to defend the forest, and then they broke off 53 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:18,240 Speaker 1: and everything was a It was a nice, really relaxing day, Yeah, 54 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:20,240 Speaker 1: it was. It was a pretty positive start to the 55 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 1: week of action. People essentially retook Kulani People's Park and 56 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 1: started to go into the forest once again. Camp got 57 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:34,240 Speaker 1: set up in the forest. Lots of people from both 58 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:37,720 Speaker 1: in town and folks from out of town started started 59 00:03:37,760 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 1: to camp in the woods again. And then in the 60 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:45,680 Speaker 1: hours after this small march, people started to prepare for 61 00:03:45,800 --> 00:03:49,320 Speaker 1: the music festival which was planned like a like a 62 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 1: few hundred feet away from a Bullhani People's Park. I 63 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:55,480 Speaker 1: guess inside inside like a more like open field area, 64 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: and music festival went off without a hitch. The first 65 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:01,840 Speaker 1: day it was pretty pretty rad. Yeah. I think there 66 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 1: was about five hundred people four five hundred people that 67 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:09,280 Speaker 1: first night of the musical festival. Yeah, the vibes were great. 68 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 1: Everyone was having a fun time. I think it went 69 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 1: on until about one am, and I don't think the 70 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:19,120 Speaker 1: first day could have gone better. I think I went 71 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:22,599 Speaker 1: on till about four am. Okay, well I went to 72 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 1: bed at one am. I did not go to bed 73 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:26,920 Speaker 1: at one am. I was. I was at the music 74 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:31,679 Speaker 1: festival quite quite a bit longer. I'm quite a bit older, 75 00:04:31,680 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 1: and I think that was the reason I had to leave. 76 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:40,120 Speaker 1: So yearson doesn't understand things like needing sleep yet another 77 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:42,479 Speaker 1: year or two before they hit that sweet sweet wall. 78 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:47,800 Speaker 1: So so true. Then then I'll have to find another 79 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:53,080 Speaker 1: teenager to go to journalism. Every like four or five years, 80 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:55,440 Speaker 1: you don't find a new one. Yeah, just just keep 81 00:04:55,520 --> 00:05:04,599 Speaker 1: re upping, like Leo DiCaprio. It so so the first 82 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 1: the first day was was pretty good. There was no 83 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:10,440 Speaker 1: no substantial police response that I saw. Police kind of 84 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:13,560 Speaker 1: left people alone in the forest. The march from Gresham 85 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:17,840 Speaker 1: Park was was fine, Um, and people got to spend 86 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:20,200 Speaker 1: a night in the woods again, which you know had 87 00:05:20,240 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 1: had not had that many people in the woods in 88 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:25,960 Speaker 1: like months. Um. I mean this is this is it 89 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 1: should be said like camping in a music festival, but 90 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:34,200 Speaker 1: it's like relatively high risk because people have gotten significant 91 00:05:34,279 --> 00:05:36,840 Speaker 1: charges just for camping in the woods in the past, Yes, 92 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 1: and the very recent past part part. Some of the 93 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:45,160 Speaker 1: warrants that have been issued that justify the charges like 94 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 1: domestic terrorism have included things such as sleeping in a 95 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:52,400 Speaker 1: hammock with someone else in the forest and that's the 96 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:56,080 Speaker 1: reason why they're getting charged as a domestic terrorist. So, yeah, 97 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:58,480 Speaker 1: it is a music festival, people are camping. It's kind 98 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 1: of chill, but also there's absolutely this kind of this 99 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:06,479 Speaker 1: just like this like a ever present kind of fear 100 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:11,480 Speaker 1: that despite what is being done being pretty pretty kind 101 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:13,880 Speaker 1: of like normal and not not not not not in 102 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:17,479 Speaker 1: and of itself militant radical, still the consequences from the 103 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:30,160 Speaker 1: state are kind of always always looming, which kind of 104 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:35,880 Speaker 1: leads us to Sunday, Yeah, which picks up exactly where 105 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:38,880 Speaker 1: we left on. Yeah, so I got there around noon 106 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:42,119 Speaker 1: on Sunday. I think and the first thing we see 107 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:46,160 Speaker 1: is a bouncy castle, large, large bouncy castle in front 108 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:48,400 Speaker 1: of the music festival. It has a big stop Coop 109 00:06:48,480 --> 00:06:54,080 Speaker 1: City banner, um, massive multi colored bouncy castle. People are 110 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 1: having a pretty pretty good time. Yeah. As soon as 111 00:06:56,640 --> 00:06:58,680 Speaker 1: they finished setting up the bouncy castle, it was it 112 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:03,800 Speaker 1: was filled and everyone. I think there were about seventy 113 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 1: five one hundred people just set up on blankets around 114 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:10,960 Speaker 1: the stage. Initially, I think in the next few hours 115 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,280 Speaker 1: that definitely grew to be there being hundreds and hundreds 116 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:17,200 Speaker 1: of people returning to the music festival for the second day, 117 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:22,160 Speaker 1: I mean, I think the march on Saturday was anywhere 118 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 1: between like I saw estimates of anywhere between five hundred 119 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 1: to two thousand people. Music festival seems to be like 120 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 1: over five hundred people. And then on the second day 121 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:33,080 Speaker 1: at the music festival, it slowly grew in size to 122 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 1: again being hundreds and hundreds of people. And it's yeah, 123 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:39,240 Speaker 1: it's it started off just kind of continuing on with 124 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 1: the music, continuing on, with the people, people having having 125 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 1: nice times in the woods. I walked around the campsites, 126 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 1: got had conversations with people talking about all sorts of 127 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:55,640 Speaker 1: anarchy related things and then they're slowly throughout the day. 128 00:07:56,240 --> 00:07:58,520 Speaker 1: I think that this was posted on social media as well. 129 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:01,440 Speaker 1: There was a plan for or a rally at five 130 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:05,119 Speaker 1: pm to meet on part of part of the field 131 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 1: that the music festival was also happening on. By the 132 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 1: time that happened, people people met up. The group that 133 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 1: that kind of converged was in a mix of black 134 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 1: block camo block, so like people like covered head to 135 00:08:20,200 --> 00:08:25,680 Speaker 1: toe in various various camo print and they set off 136 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 1: from from the RC Field where the music festival was at. 137 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:32,200 Speaker 1: So they left, they they went down Bouldercrest Road to 138 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:35,080 Speaker 1: the section of the woods called the power Line Cut. 139 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:38,040 Speaker 1: So to to understand what is going on here, you 140 00:08:38,160 --> 00:08:41,400 Speaker 1: kind of have to understand some of the geography of 141 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:44,680 Speaker 1: the Wilani Forest. So we have like the the Wilani 142 00:08:44,720 --> 00:08:48,200 Speaker 1: People's Park parking lot and that immediate kind of kind 143 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 1: of camp site. This is this is like the the 144 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:54,199 Speaker 1: easternmost part, and then there's the RC Field which is 145 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 1: just like right right next to that to the west, 146 00:08:57,160 --> 00:09:00,840 Speaker 1: and then even west of that is Entrenchment Creek, and 147 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:04,120 Speaker 1: the Entrenchment Creek kind of divides up this this uh, 148 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:07,840 Speaker 1: this dissection of the forest and then everything everything west 149 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:12,120 Speaker 1: of Entrenchment Creek is generally referred to as like the 150 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 1: as the old Atlanta prison Farm area, and the power 151 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:19,640 Speaker 1: Line Cut is is pretty close to to to the 152 00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:22,720 Speaker 1: creek and to that that is kind of where this 153 00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:26,560 Speaker 1: this this prison farm section is and this is this 154 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:28,160 Speaker 1: is an area of the woods that cops have been 155 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:33,199 Speaker 1: more rigorous about policing, more rigorous about surveilling, more rigorous 156 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:36,840 Speaker 1: about having kind of constant surveillance and people on the ground. 157 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 1: It's it's estimated that they're spending over forty thousand dollars 158 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 1: a day running security on this part on on this 159 00:09:41,920 --> 00:09:47,520 Speaker 1: part of the woods. So yeah, yeah, so see people 160 00:09:47,679 --> 00:09:51,960 Speaker 1: for that amount of money, they could hire like more 161 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:53,920 Speaker 1: people than are on the police force if they just 162 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 1: used fiber. That that's really that's really the tactic they 163 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:01,240 Speaker 1: ought to be embracing. And I think if they had 164 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:04,360 Speaker 1: used fiber, they might have had enough people to counter 165 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:08,559 Speaker 1: the protesters. But baby overbloated police salaries. They only had 166 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:11,319 Speaker 1: like twenty people. Yeah, they did not have many. So 167 00:10:11,559 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 1: this group set down Bouldercrest. They they they marched up 168 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:17,840 Speaker 1: the power line cut. They they laid out like tire 169 00:10:18,040 --> 00:10:22,360 Speaker 1: tire barricades in the street. Um. And then upon them 170 00:10:22,360 --> 00:10:27,640 Speaker 1: marching marching on the power line cut. Uh. After after 171 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:31,560 Speaker 1: they arrived near the near near the police surveillance set 172 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:34,120 Speaker 1: up that we that we that we just mentioned some 173 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:38,120 Speaker 1: of some of the equipment somehow burst into flames. UM. 174 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 1: People have blamed like shoddy construction. People have said that, 175 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:46,400 Speaker 1: you know, sometimes equipment just does that. Uh. But yes, no, 176 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 1: so people people set set a whole bunch of police 177 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:52,960 Speaker 1: infrastructure on fire, set some construction equipment on fire that 178 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 1: is being used to destroy sections of the forest where 179 00:10:56,520 --> 00:10:59,800 Speaker 1: they wanted to build cop city. Um. Police were repelled 180 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 1: its stuff like rocks and fireworks. The cops that were 181 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:06,640 Speaker 1: stationed there very quickly retreated. I think, Uh, lots lots 182 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:09,400 Speaker 1: of stuff was set on fire. There was the surveillance 183 00:11:09,440 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 1: tower was set on fire. A bulldozer was set on fire. Well, 184 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:15,640 Speaker 1: I mean it's it's winter. People need fires to camp 185 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:19,719 Speaker 1: come from I understand how a UTV was some kind 186 00:11:19,720 --> 00:11:22,079 Speaker 1: of like like a like big like big like trailer 187 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 1: like storage unit thing was set on fire. Yes, and 188 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:27,600 Speaker 1: the cops were very worried about that. They didn't know 189 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:31,440 Speaker 1: if there was flammable material inside that you you wouldn't 190 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:35,600 Speaker 1: store flammable materials, and an easily accessible area. We shut 191 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:38,079 Speaker 1: down an entire interstate because we did that a few 192 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:42,240 Speaker 1: years ago. So we would in Atlanta, Atlanta, would all 193 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 1: of Atlanta collectively? UM so so, so this happened. A 194 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:52,199 Speaker 1: thermal chopper from a thermal police helicopter was was watching 195 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:57,760 Speaker 1: all of this. Um honestly, the footage is pretty interesting. 196 00:11:58,280 --> 00:12:01,360 Speaker 1: It is it is worth it is worth discussing how 197 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:05,280 Speaker 1: this type of how this type of surveillance works. UM 198 00:12:05,480 --> 00:12:08,200 Speaker 1: almost think the same thermal cameras that are on the 199 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:11,880 Speaker 1: bay Racti drones that Turkey makes. By the way, it's 200 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:15,679 Speaker 1: it's it's it's pretty. It's pretty Fucos boomerang. Yeah, oh 201 00:12:15,720 --> 00:12:19,079 Speaker 1: absolutely no, it's it's it's it's pretty. It's pretty frightening 202 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 1: with their ability to track into in to track individual people. 203 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:25,679 Speaker 1: I also think it's worth because there's video of the 204 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:29,199 Speaker 1: cops being pelted with stuff, including fireworks. I think it's 205 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:32,240 Speaker 1: worth noting that, Like, while it is unpleasant to be 206 00:12:32,320 --> 00:12:34,640 Speaker 1: pelted with the kind of stuff the cops were pelted with, 207 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:37,959 Speaker 1: you and I have both been pelted with numerous fireworks 208 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:40,480 Speaker 1: of similar size and it is not a serious threat 209 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:44,280 Speaker 1: to life and limb. No, no, they're We survived, but 210 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:48,400 Speaker 1: it's modestly unpleasant. But the cops that were there were 211 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:50,280 Speaker 1: not very happy about it. They put out calls for 212 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:54,200 Speaker 1: officer in need of support and for all available units 213 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:57,720 Speaker 1: in the greater Atlanta area to converge on the forest. 214 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:02,240 Speaker 1: People who were who who marched to to this to 215 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:05,679 Speaker 1: the section of the power line cut started to disperse 216 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:09,320 Speaker 1: throughout the woods. And I was back by the road 217 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:12,640 Speaker 1: watching this from hundreds and hundreds of feet away because 218 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 1: I did not need to go up there. That would 219 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:18,360 Speaker 1: not have been helpful in any way. Um. But as this, 220 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:21,640 Speaker 1: as this was happening, a whole bunch of police cars 221 00:13:21,720 --> 00:13:24,439 Speaker 1: zoomed by, So I started following those cars. I went 222 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:28,199 Speaker 1: back to the music festival. UM, I met up with 223 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:32,280 Speaker 1: with some with some other other media people that I 224 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:35,320 Speaker 1: was that I was communicating with, and then I got 225 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:38,360 Speaker 1: a text message saying that a cop showed up in 226 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:40,960 Speaker 1: the parking lot of the Wallani People's Park with an 227 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:43,839 Speaker 1: air fifteen. I started making my way over and then 228 00:13:43,920 --> 00:13:47,440 Speaker 1: as as I'm running across the music festival, I see 229 00:13:47,559 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 1: a whole bunch of police at the parking lot for 230 00:13:50,679 --> 00:13:53,880 Speaker 1: the music festival itself at the at the RC field. 231 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:56,000 Speaker 1: So I don't I don't make my way over to 232 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:58,480 Speaker 1: the Waalannie People's Park parking lot where there's the Air fifteen, 233 00:13:58,520 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 1: because instead I see way way or police closer closer 234 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:06,360 Speaker 1: to where I am, so I staged there. Minutes later, 235 00:14:06,440 --> 00:14:10,640 Speaker 1: police start running into into the music festival. They start 236 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:14,280 Speaker 1: tackling seemingly anyone who's like by themselves and that they 237 00:14:14,320 --> 00:14:16,800 Speaker 1: could like get their hands on. It didn't. It didn't 238 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:20,680 Speaker 1: seem incredibly targeted. Um, it's this is something that will 239 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:23,600 Speaker 1: kind of prope I'll probably like discuss in more detail 240 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:26,960 Speaker 1: once we have slightly more hindsight. But a lot of 241 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:31,200 Speaker 1: the arrests did not seem specifically targeted. In the bail 242 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:34,120 Speaker 1: hearings from just yesterday as a time of recording, they 243 00:14:34,160 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 1: said they were going after people who had mud on 244 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 1: their clothing and like it it rains a day before 245 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 1: the music festival. Incredible detective work. Only only a true 246 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:49,160 Speaker 1: terrorist would have mud. I think a month and a 247 00:14:49,200 --> 00:14:51,880 Speaker 1: half ago, Ryan millsapp tore up the parking lot so 248 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:54,280 Speaker 1: it rained the day before, and anyone who would walk 249 00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:57,320 Speaker 1: through that parking lot or the trail system had to 250 00:14:57,360 --> 00:14:59,720 Speaker 1: walk through mud you're walking through, but also people are 251 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:02,360 Speaker 1: just sitting on the dirt at the music festival like 252 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:07,240 Speaker 1: so yes, I mean this might also include like useful 253 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:09,600 Speaker 1: advice for people in the future, because if the movie 254 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:12,240 Speaker 1: Predator was telling me the truth and it's never lied 255 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:15,800 Speaker 1: to me yet, coding yourself entirely in mud makes thermal 256 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:20,120 Speaker 1: vision no longer function. Uh huh uh huh. Yeah. Um, 257 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:24,240 Speaker 1: so police police started attack with people. It was definitely 258 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:26,440 Speaker 1: they were going after people who were like by themselves 259 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 1: and yeah, people with mud. The police alleged in their 260 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:34,920 Speaker 1: in their in their warrants that were read out at 261 00:15:34,920 --> 00:15:37,360 Speaker 1: the bail hearing that they were going after people who 262 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:39,960 Speaker 1: had metal shields, and they said that almost everyone they 263 00:15:40,040 --> 00:15:42,960 Speaker 1: arrested was arrested carrying a metal shield. Now here's a 264 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 1: few funny notes about that. There was not a single 265 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:50,400 Speaker 1: metal shield present at all. There were a few small 266 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 1: plastic shields, not a single metal one. And in looking 267 00:15:55,200 --> 00:15:57,840 Speaker 1: through all of the footage of arrests, the footage that 268 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 1: I have that's been sent to NLG for other people 269 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:04,920 Speaker 1: have had no one was arrested carrying a shield, let 270 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 1: alone a metal one m So a whole bunch of 271 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:13,280 Speaker 1: the reasoning for these arrests is incredibly suspect police so 272 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:16,720 Speaker 1: rated once tackled, arrested like five people, carried them out, 273 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:19,680 Speaker 1: they rated again, and this is where they started launching 274 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:24,000 Speaker 1: tear gas into the forest. I got gassed decently bad. 275 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:26,480 Speaker 1: It was not It was not very fun. First time 276 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:30,920 Speaker 1: I've gotten tear gassed in years, old, old old memories. 277 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:34,480 Speaker 1: Um and during this time kiss from a dear friend. 278 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:38,640 Speaker 1: So that was exactly what I was thinking. And I 279 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:42,120 Speaker 1: did not. I brought gas masks to Atlanta, but I 280 00:16:42,160 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 1: didn't bring them on the Sunday because usually you don't 281 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:49,400 Speaker 1: bring gas masks to a music festival. Yeah, I mean, 282 00:16:49,480 --> 00:16:51,760 Speaker 1: the thing about gas, the thing about tear gas and 283 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:55,440 Speaker 1: gas masks is that, like when you're used to getting 284 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 1: tear gassed, it's really easy to have them handy and 285 00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 1: get them on. When like you're not used to being 286 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:03,920 Speaker 1: tear gas, you're probably not going to bring it with you. Yeah, 287 00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:07,879 Speaker 1: so people got some people in the forest got gassed 288 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:10,800 Speaker 1: pretty bad. I mean, the whole point was to sew confusion, 289 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:12,480 Speaker 1: make it so that people could not hide out in 290 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:15,680 Speaker 1: the woods. It was it's to make people scatter runaways 291 00:17:15,680 --> 00:17:18,320 Speaker 1: so that they can be tackled and arrested. One person 292 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 1: that was a national Lawyer's guild, a legal observer, was arrested. Um, 293 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:24,960 Speaker 1: they're also a lawyer at the Southern Poverty Law Center. 294 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 1: This whole boy, this person was the only person arrested 295 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:35,040 Speaker 1: that I'm aware of that was released on bail. Everybody else, everyone, 296 00:17:35,160 --> 00:17:38,200 Speaker 1: everyone else is being held indefinitely. That actually includes there 297 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:41,160 Speaker 1: was a second legal observer who was not wearing the hat. 298 00:17:42,080 --> 00:17:45,119 Speaker 1: So during the bail hearings yesterday, their lawyer said that 299 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:47,720 Speaker 1: they were a legal observer, but because they weren't wearing 300 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:50,600 Speaker 1: the hat and because they were not local, they were 301 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:52,800 Speaker 1: not given bail. It was reported there was like around 302 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:56,680 Speaker 1: like thirty five arrests the night of yes Initially, APD 303 00:17:56,760 --> 00:17:59,200 Speaker 1: released at press release that said there were thirty five 304 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:02,119 Speaker 1: detain which at the time they released it was a 305 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:06,160 Speaker 1: very interesting term because we thought thirty five people had 306 00:18:06,160 --> 00:18:10,040 Speaker 1: just been arrested and were on their way to jail. Yeah, 307 00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:14,480 Speaker 1: but just about forty five minutes after that, twelve of 308 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:18,280 Speaker 1: those thirty five were released, So this was very curious. 309 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:23,200 Speaker 1: There is a lot of theories going on for what 310 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:27,280 Speaker 1: has happened. I'm gonna I'm just going to relay what 311 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:30,320 Speaker 1: I heard when I was listening to the bail hearings yesterday. 312 00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:33,240 Speaker 1: So a defense lawyer for some of the people arrested 313 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:37,920 Speaker 1: said yesterday during the bail hearing that, to his understanding, 314 00:18:38,320 --> 00:18:41,720 Speaker 1: the twelve people that were detained but not arrested were 315 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:45,400 Speaker 1: people from Atlanta, and the twenty three people who got 316 00:18:45,480 --> 00:18:49,760 Speaker 1: arrested and charged or were not from Atlanta. And part 317 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:54,080 Speaker 1: of so what police could be doing here is basically, 318 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:57,480 Speaker 1: if you're from Atlanta, will we will id you, but 319 00:18:57,560 --> 00:18:59,800 Speaker 1: we're not going to actually arrest and charge you, but 320 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:01,440 Speaker 1: you will arrest and charge you if you're from out 321 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:03,800 Speaker 1: of state. So this so they can continue this outside 322 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:07,560 Speaker 1: agitator narrative, so they can say every single person arrested 323 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:12,439 Speaker 1: after this protest was from out of state. Um. The 324 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:14,520 Speaker 1: cops in the media have done a lot of weird 325 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:18,919 Speaker 1: collusion regarding the events of Sunday night. Um, they've conflated 326 00:19:19,080 --> 00:19:22,119 Speaker 1: the location of the arrests a lot. Police want to 327 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:25,479 Speaker 1: make this seem like they arrested people at a crime scene, 328 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:28,920 Speaker 1: that like they arrested people as they were like torching 329 00:19:28,920 --> 00:19:32,160 Speaker 1: construction equipment. Which just is it's true they arrested people 330 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:35,639 Speaker 1: almost seemingly at random at a music festival that was 331 00:19:35,680 --> 00:19:38,600 Speaker 1: like hundreds and hundreds of feet away, like it was. 332 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:40,560 Speaker 1: It is. It is not an it is not an 333 00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:44,480 Speaker 1: easy walk from from the power line cut to the 334 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:46,439 Speaker 1: music festival, because not only do you have to go 335 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:50,399 Speaker 1: through some like pretty pretty harsh brush some woods, um 336 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:54,400 Speaker 1: and like jump over a pretty large creek of the alternatively, 337 00:19:54,440 --> 00:19:56,800 Speaker 1: you have to like walk down a road, which nobody did. 338 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:00,199 Speaker 1: So the police have done a police and and like 339 00:20:00,560 --> 00:20:04,359 Speaker 1: local media, like large like large corporate local media have 340 00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:07,639 Speaker 1: have tried to make it seem like that this that 341 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:10,439 Speaker 1: this music festival things just like a red herring that 342 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 1: it's it's not it's not important. But a lot of 343 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:14,880 Speaker 1: the people that that were that were that were arrested, 344 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:17,959 Speaker 1: see seemed to be people that were just enjoying this 345 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:21,959 Speaker 1: music festival. So twenty three of them um have been 346 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:25,600 Speaker 1: charged with domestic terrorism. Most of those people are being 347 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:30,080 Speaker 1: held indefinitely for now. There the the bail hearing's going 348 00:20:30,119 --> 00:20:32,960 Speaker 1: to get appealed to the to the Superior Court, where 349 00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:36,119 Speaker 1: we'll see if that changes anything. The judge said that 350 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:38,440 Speaker 1: they were not presented with any evidence that these people 351 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:41,320 Speaker 1: did anything wrong, but they still decided to not give 352 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:45,120 Speaker 1: them bail. Um that the judge. The reasoning for that 353 00:20:45,280 --> 00:20:48,680 Speaker 1: was that the judge thought that people who did not 354 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:51,280 Speaker 1: have any local ties to the community could be a 355 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 1: flight risk, and some people who did have local ties 356 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:57,679 Speaker 1: to the community, they said, still were a threat to 357 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:00,840 Speaker 1: the community somehow, despite many of them not having any 358 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:04,680 Speaker 1: prior convictions, not not having any prior arrests. It's it 359 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:08,080 Speaker 1: seemed it seemed pretty suspect during during during the during 360 00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:10,000 Speaker 1: the bail hearing, but that was that was most of 361 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:14,400 Speaker 1: Sunday night. Um. Eventually police kind of surrounded and kettled 362 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:17,800 Speaker 1: the group of people that that was still still at 363 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:21,320 Speaker 1: the music festival hours after these arrests happened. They gave 364 00:21:21,359 --> 00:21:23,440 Speaker 1: like a five minute dispersal warning, and then they gave 365 00:21:23,480 --> 00:21:26,159 Speaker 1: a ten minute dispersal warning. Eventually cops let most of 366 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 1: the people who like gathered who were gathered right in 367 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 1: front of the stage leave. That was probably like fifty 368 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 1: people at that point because people throughout the night we're 369 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:37,240 Speaker 1: trying to leave um as as police were, you know, 370 00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:40,159 Speaker 1: like rating the forest. Some people were able to some 371 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:43,160 Speaker 1: people were just like let go and like we're able 372 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:47,560 Speaker 1: to leave. Others were detained almost arbitrarily. It's it's it's 373 00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:50,639 Speaker 1: it's hard to say. So that that was the first 374 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:53,600 Speaker 1: two days of the Week of Action, and it felt 375 00:21:53,640 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 1: like a week. What happened the next day? So yeah, 376 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 1: the non violent direct actions and then the Monday the events. 377 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:14,600 Speaker 1: Oh no Monday, yeah, because that was only that was 378 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:18,439 Speaker 1: only the second Is the city council meeting that we 379 00:22:18,440 --> 00:22:21,080 Speaker 1: were in for eight hours? Yes, yes, So Monday there 380 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:25,199 Speaker 1: was there was an interfaith coalition of clergy that UH 381 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:28,440 Speaker 1: that have held a press conference outside of city hall. 382 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:33,119 Speaker 1: UM basically like endorsing the stop Cop City movement or 383 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:37,000 Speaker 1: like Clark, how how would you describe what what? What happened? 384 00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:40,680 Speaker 1: So there were a couple of elements to the clergy. Um, 385 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:43,959 Speaker 1: we'll just call it an action. The first thing was 386 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:48,400 Speaker 1: they presented a letter with over two hundred other clergy 387 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:52,600 Speaker 1: members who had signed that UH denouncing Cop City, calling 388 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:56,199 Speaker 1: for an independent investigation into the killing of Tortuguita and 389 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:59,760 Speaker 1: calling for an independent investigation into the use of domestic 390 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:04,080 Speaker 1: terror and charges to chill free speech. And then during 391 00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:09,760 Speaker 1: that press conference, UH Miko Shabon called for land back 392 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 1: and called for landback in the Wilani Forest to the 393 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:23,200 Speaker 1: Muskogee people. Two stored in um coordination with the legacy 394 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:26,679 Speaker 1: Black residence of the area. Yeah, so they were both 395 00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:29,320 Speaker 1: like talking about the need to stop cop city but 396 00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:33,879 Speaker 1: also providing a plan on how this land could be used. 397 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,040 Speaker 1: This land that is that is leased by the city. 398 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:39,760 Speaker 1: It is on decap County. After this press conference, some 399 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:43,520 Speaker 1: of these people from the coalition gave public comment during 400 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:47,160 Speaker 1: the city council. That was most of the events on 401 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:50,920 Speaker 1: Monday that I can recall. Oh, there was the there 402 00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:54,720 Speaker 1: was the poem in the forest that night and that 403 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:56,800 Speaker 1: was that was very enjoyable. That was kind of the 404 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,800 Speaker 1: first time people like tried to go back into the 405 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 1: forest since since the Sunday night raid. And I think 406 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:07,000 Speaker 1: that started to slowly boost morality again. Yeah, and I 407 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:09,320 Speaker 1: think we should talk about also after the raid, there 408 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:12,560 Speaker 1: are a few, um really unique things that happened. There 409 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:14,520 Speaker 1: were a lot of people who didn't have housing and 410 00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:18,439 Speaker 1: they were housed by local activists. Um. There was the 411 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:21,679 Speaker 1: bus network was set up to transport people from the 412 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:25,840 Speaker 1: site where everyone was getting arrested to somewhere safe. They 413 00:24:25,880 --> 00:24:30,000 Speaker 1: moved breakfast offsite to a different location. So there was 414 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,919 Speaker 1: a lot of work done in continuing the Week of 415 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:36,080 Speaker 1: Action and providing some sort of infrastructure for all of 416 00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:38,320 Speaker 1: these people who had come into town and didn't have 417 00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:42,119 Speaker 1: anywhere else to go. Yeah, once again, the resiliency on 418 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:46,400 Speaker 1: display was impressive and people's ability to adapt to the 419 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:55,760 Speaker 1: ever evolving situation was tested, and people adapted pretty well. Tuesday, 420 00:24:55,840 --> 00:25:00,320 Speaker 1: there was there was starting to be like typical non 421 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,440 Speaker 1: violent direct actions happening throughout to downtown. A whole bunch 422 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:07,200 Speaker 1: of banner drops happened around highways and interstates around Atlanta. 423 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:14,439 Speaker 1: People were detained for y US three people were briefly 424 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,480 Speaker 1: detained at the site of of of a banner drop, 425 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:21,640 Speaker 1: but throughout throughout the day there was people handing out 426 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:27,600 Speaker 1: letters to people, to folks like the CEO of Norfolk 427 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:32,600 Speaker 1: Southern Norfolk Southern Alan Shaw, and then similar similar types 428 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,159 Speaker 1: of like non violent direct action were happening. A small 429 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 1: a small march was led from Woodroffe Park to At 430 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:43,400 Speaker 1: and T and Georgia pacific Um. There was like maybe 431 00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,680 Speaker 1: maybe fifty I think fifty is an accurate number. Fifty 432 00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:50,080 Speaker 1: people gathered to march. Well, there were fifty marchers gathered 433 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,919 Speaker 1: and then like one hundred and twenty police officers in 434 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:58,320 Speaker 1: the in the in the surrounding area, massive, massive police presence. 435 00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:03,640 Speaker 1: Police caused a huge, a huge disruption to to downtown. 436 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 1: Um that's something we've seen kind of ever since the 437 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:11,800 Speaker 1: Sunday raid. The police have been incredibly heavy handed in 438 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:15,240 Speaker 1: their response to every single thing, whether that be people 439 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:17,879 Speaker 1: handing out flyers or whether that be you know, uh, 440 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:21,920 Speaker 1: you know, people at people at at at a music festival. Um, 441 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,600 Speaker 1: whole a whole bunch of police were mobilized to stay 442 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:27,400 Speaker 1: night near the forest, like a hundred again, like one 443 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:33,280 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty cops at least three or four different agencies, bearcats, helicopters. 444 00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:38,960 Speaker 1: I think there, it's it's it's unclear what they were doing. Um, 445 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:41,840 Speaker 1: this is something that we might we might speculate further 446 00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:44,160 Speaker 1: on once we have hindsight. When I when I put 447 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:47,400 Speaker 1: together my my kind of my kind of a more 448 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 1: more intense deep dive. And then uh, then today the 449 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:53,760 Speaker 1: thing that me and Clark just got back from. Uh, 450 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:58,240 Speaker 1: how do you want to explain today's today's events? So 451 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:03,120 Speaker 1: today was a lot of leaflet handing out and marching 452 00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:06,360 Speaker 1: for it was a smaller group than the march yesterday. 453 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:08,800 Speaker 1: I would say there was like twenty twenty five people. Yeah, 454 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:11,520 Speaker 1: Like it started off being like only only but like 455 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:14,240 Speaker 1: a dozen, um and it's it slowly grew to like 456 00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:17,520 Speaker 1: maybe like two or three dozen. But yeah, small, small, 457 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:19,400 Speaker 1: small group of people. Yeah, a small group of people. 458 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,520 Speaker 1: And when they met at noon, they met and they 459 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:25,160 Speaker 1: broke into three different groups. Yeah. And so the group 460 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 1: that we followed was just, uh, they walked a little 461 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:31,560 Speaker 1: northward and started passing out flyers at the Petrie Center 462 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:34,920 Speaker 1: Marta station. They went to all three entrances, and each 463 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:42,040 Speaker 1: group warranted its own police surveillance unit, massive police surveyless units. 464 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:45,880 Speaker 1: It was following everybody around. There was there was a 465 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:50,400 Speaker 1: SWAT vehicle parked right right outside where these people were 466 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:54,639 Speaker 1: handing out flyers. Um it was. There was there was 467 00:27:54,800 --> 00:27:58,399 Speaker 1: like fifty to one hundred cops flanking people on like 468 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:02,480 Speaker 1: from from like, from like different sides. Eventually all the 469 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:04,480 Speaker 1: all of the smaller groups that kind of branched off 470 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:10,080 Speaker 1: converged again and police then gave a dispersal warning to 471 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:13,880 Speaker 1: people who were on a sidewalk outside of a hard 472 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:18,720 Speaker 1: rock cafe who were handing out flyers. Okay, well they 473 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:20,880 Speaker 1: mean they were in that case, they may have been 474 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:23,240 Speaker 1: protecting people because you want you want to get folks 475 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,720 Speaker 1: as far away from the hard rock cafe as possible, Garrison, 476 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:32,199 Speaker 1: And that's a real dangerous I was. I was campaigning 477 00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,080 Speaker 1: for all of the press gathered to meet afterwards. That's 478 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:41,840 Speaker 1: a hard rock cafe between the hard rocks on that one. So, Garrison, 479 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,720 Speaker 1: I watched you at the Rainforest Cafe. You barely made 480 00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:48,800 Speaker 1: it through that dessert. That was different, That was different. 481 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:53,040 Speaker 1: I was. I did I did get food poisoning from 482 00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:57,360 Speaker 1: that Rainforest Cafe. I will, I will continue to claim. 483 00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,360 Speaker 1: And I woke up with a headache for an under 484 00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:02,960 Speaker 1: an inexplicable reason that because you were carrying around a 485 00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 1: bottle of bourbon throat through bourbon and a t or 486 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:13,800 Speaker 1: a milkshake or whatever. Yeah. Yeah, So, so cops gave 487 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,840 Speaker 1: it dis personal warding to people who were not not 488 00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:19,600 Speaker 1: in fact blocking a sidewalk. We're simply handing out flyers. 489 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:23,040 Speaker 1: People were still walking everywhere. Um. So they basically moved 490 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:24,960 Speaker 1: to a different section of the of the sidewalk and 491 00:29:25,160 --> 00:29:28,600 Speaker 1: cops kind of left him alone. Um. Near by, a 492 00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,680 Speaker 1: group of indigenous activists from the Indian collective. I believe 493 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,720 Speaker 1: it's what it's It's actually a Miscogee nation, the Muscogee Nation. 494 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:40,560 Speaker 1: Uh went went to a meeting that the Mayor of Atlanta, 495 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:45,160 Speaker 1: Andre Dickens, was having near by. H Clark, I think 496 00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:48,000 Speaker 1: you know slightly more about what happened here than I do. Yes, 497 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:52,320 Speaker 1: So several of the indigenous activists entered. So where he 498 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:58,640 Speaker 1: was having this meeting is a mall in true Atlanta fashion. 499 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:02,200 Speaker 1: Um So they entered them all and they they found 500 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:06,640 Speaker 1: where he was in the building, and uh so Miko 501 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:12,320 Speaker 1: Colonel Chabon delivered a letter essentially evicting the city of 502 00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:17,880 Speaker 1: Atlanta from the Wilannie Forest. Uh So they got in 503 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:21,960 Speaker 1: without the police noticing. Um and then the moment they 504 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:28,480 Speaker 1: got out, a large squad of police mobilized. They were 505 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,040 Speaker 1: they were not happy how close people got to the mayor. 506 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,040 Speaker 1: So at this point we don't know what the full 507 00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,360 Speaker 1: reaction of that's going to be. We do know that 508 00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:40,280 Speaker 1: the mayor ran away from accepting the letter, and then 509 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:46,280 Speaker 1: one of I believe they handed it to one. There 510 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:49,200 Speaker 1: are a few few more beautiful sites than a mayor 511 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:53,640 Speaker 1: running away. More mayors need to spend time fleeing from 512 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:57,400 Speaker 1: their peoples. So I think this this episode comes out, 513 00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,680 Speaker 1: I think like like late Thursday night, Friday morning, um, 514 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,400 Speaker 1: Thursday afternoon there. So, like we are, we are recording 515 00:31:03,440 --> 00:31:06,680 Speaker 1: this Wednesday. There's plans for Thursday. There's gonna be there's 516 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:08,840 Speaker 1: gonna be a large march at six pm. I believe 517 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,800 Speaker 1: there's gonna be a youth rally at Saturday, and then 518 00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:17,320 Speaker 1: on on Sunday morning. Um Manuel torn Tortoquita's family is 519 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:21,239 Speaker 1: holding a memorial for tort in the Wilani forest um 520 00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:25,520 Speaker 1: where I've been told that they're going to spread towards 521 00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:28,560 Speaker 1: ashes inside the woods, and that is kind of the 522 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:32,680 Speaker 1: last thing that's going to happen. Um. And so those 523 00:31:32,720 --> 00:31:34,880 Speaker 1: are the things that have have not not not yet 524 00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:39,560 Speaker 1: took place. Um So, but we've we've explained in pretty 525 00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:42,880 Speaker 1: pretty in pretty spruciating detail, some of some of what's 526 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:45,440 Speaker 1: happened so far. So yeah, that that's kind of the 527 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:47,640 Speaker 1: current current state of on the ground at the week 528 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:50,360 Speaker 1: of action. UM. I guess, Robert, do you have any 529 00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,000 Speaker 1: questions for Clark as someone who's kind of been on 530 00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:58,360 Speaker 1: the ground in Atlanta for years covering stop city. Yeah, 531 00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:02,720 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm curious what over the last few weeks, 532 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:07,360 Speaker 1: like you've you've had some direct clashes with the police 533 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:10,840 Speaker 1: that have ended in a variety of ways. Broadly speaking, 534 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,720 Speaker 1: is there anything that you're you're kind of leaning towards 535 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,120 Speaker 1: this doesn't work? And is there anything you're kind of 536 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:20,240 Speaker 1: leaning towards This seems to work really well. So there's 537 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:23,480 Speaker 1: something to be said for the more aggressive actions, and 538 00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:27,960 Speaker 1: I think they serve their purpose. And there's definitely something 539 00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:32,600 Speaker 1: to be said for the forest occupation. It continued the 540 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:38,040 Speaker 1: movement until there was a ground swell of support. So 541 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:41,480 Speaker 1: at this point, I think the actions have sort of 542 00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:46,000 Speaker 1: switched gear into more non violent direct actions as we're 543 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,760 Speaker 1: seeing this week, and I think that those actions will 544 00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:53,280 Speaker 1: will continue. I'm sure that the anarchistic contingent will continue 545 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:58,960 Speaker 1: to do some other more aggressive, shall we say, direct actions. Yeah, 546 00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,880 Speaker 1: and all of the work. We have a large swath 547 00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:10,840 Speaker 1: of different uh avenues of of engagement that the movement 548 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:13,560 Speaker 1: is has developed, and each of them has their place, 549 00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,040 Speaker 1: and if they're used in the proper place, they're used 550 00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:19,200 Speaker 1: to great effect. I think one kind of change that 551 00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:22,600 Speaker 1: has happened we've seen We've seen a bit of a 552 00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:27,520 Speaker 1: decrease in the types of like nighttime sabotage, like the 553 00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:31,160 Speaker 1: the sort of like attack and disappear tactics that was 554 00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:33,720 Speaker 1: was really popular in like the early days of the 555 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:37,480 Speaker 1: occupation of of like of of like the fourth occupation 556 00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:42,200 Speaker 1: of people living and living and camping out in the woods. Um. 557 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:45,440 Speaker 1: And you know the because like the last two much 558 00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:48,440 Speaker 1: more like militant actions were done during the daytime, during 559 00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:51,040 Speaker 1: like large rallies. There was there was the protest on 560 00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:54,600 Speaker 1: Saturday after Tortuguita was killed where a cop car was torched. 561 00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:57,360 Speaker 1: Then there was this, then there was this protest on 562 00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:02,320 Speaker 1: on Sunday night um at people that people marched, people 563 00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:04,840 Speaker 1: marched to the to the power line cut and then 564 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:08,839 Speaker 1: the police started doing repression at the music festival. UM. 565 00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:13,560 Speaker 1: But like those things were happening like during like before 566 00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:16,120 Speaker 1: the sun was setting. UM. So I think that that 567 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,719 Speaker 1: that's one interesting change. I feel like some people are 568 00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:22,279 Speaker 1: definitely thinking about this, especially because there's been twenty three 569 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:25,359 Speaker 1: people arrested during this week of action and they're being 570 00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:28,000 Speaker 1: held in jail uh and we have no idea when 571 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,239 Speaker 1: they're going, when they're going to be able to have 572 00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:32,680 Speaker 1: the option of getting out. So I think this is 573 00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:34,640 Speaker 1: something This is something that people are thinking about in 574 00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:37,960 Speaker 1: terms of how they are, how they are doing direct action, 575 00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:43,440 Speaker 1: and how how their involvement in direct action will affect 576 00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:46,320 Speaker 1: people who did not participate, like with people at the 577 00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:49,359 Speaker 1: people at the music festival, who who were not who 578 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:53,480 Speaker 1: were not present at the power line cut direct action, 579 00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:58,000 Speaker 1: and how some of those people are undoubtedly now facing 580 00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:02,160 Speaker 1: like punishment from from the state. UM. So I feel 581 00:35:02,200 --> 00:35:05,520 Speaker 1: like that there is definitely going to be some discussion 582 00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:08,520 Speaker 1: about that. I've i've i've i've seen discussion about this 583 00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:12,439 Speaker 1: threat in the city. Um. But I mean the Week 584 00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:14,480 Speaker 1: of Action is still is still ongoing. It is it 585 00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:17,640 Speaker 1: is only Wednesday. It feels like it's been a month, um, 586 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:21,200 Speaker 1: but it's only been like three or four days. Uh. 587 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:24,840 Speaker 1: But I mean it's people. People are in this for 588 00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,319 Speaker 1: the long haul. Um. We're We're starting to see more 589 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:31,360 Speaker 1: solidarity from from groups that are less militant, like with 590 00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:35,239 Speaker 1: the Interfaith Coalition right, like you're not. I don't think 591 00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:37,760 Speaker 1: any of like the priests, the priests or the clergy 592 00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:42,120 Speaker 1: were there throwing maltov cocktails um at the at the 593 00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:45,080 Speaker 1: surveillance tower. Yet the very next day they're standing out 594 00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:48,440 Speaker 1: outside of City Hall and demanding the same things that 595 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:52,040 Speaker 1: the people throwing maltovs are are demanding. You should be 596 00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:55,840 Speaker 1: noted that they didn't denounce No, that is it is 597 00:35:55,960 --> 00:36:00,719 Speaker 1: solidarity across the movement. Absolutely. They talked about how them 598 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:05,080 Speaker 1: as clergy you know, and uh, the in the history 599 00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:09,840 Speaker 1: of Abrahamic religions, how many how many people associated and 600 00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,640 Speaker 1: are the figureheads of such religions have been killed by 601 00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:15,680 Speaker 1: the state, and how often often these religions have been 602 00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:20,120 Speaker 1: in opposition to the state during during their formative years. Um, 603 00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:22,640 Speaker 1: and they don't know. I just I just can't think 604 00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:26,839 Speaker 1: of any prominent uh Christian figures or Jewish figures who 605 00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:28,640 Speaker 1: were who were murdered by the state. That's just not 606 00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:32,200 Speaker 1: nothing's coming up right none, zero, Yeah, No, I grew 607 00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:38,279 Speaker 1: up Christian and I can't really remember anyone. So um, yeah, 608 00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:40,440 Speaker 1: that is. That is. That is the week of action 609 00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:45,040 Speaker 1: so far. There will there will certainly be be be 610 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,960 Speaker 1: a more a more detailed deep dive with like analysis 611 00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:51,600 Speaker 1: and like, you know, a narrative through line in the 612 00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:53,960 Speaker 1: coming weeks as we're actually able to like look back 613 00:36:54,040 --> 00:36:57,480 Speaker 1: on what has happened. Um, interviews with more people who 614 00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:01,560 Speaker 1: are who are like actually involved interviews with like organisers, protesters, 615 00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:07,240 Speaker 1: forest defenders, UM. But people despite the ig massive amount 616 00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:10,960 Speaker 1: of repression that we've seen on Sunday, the increasingly like 617 00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:14,280 Speaker 1: heavy handed response police have had to both direct action 618 00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:18,200 Speaker 1: that includes property destruction and non violent direct action. UH. 619 00:37:18,920 --> 00:37:21,279 Speaker 1: Despite all that, people are still continuing to be in 620 00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,600 Speaker 1: the woods. They are not letting it scare them away. 621 00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:27,319 Speaker 1: The woods are still a place that the people are 622 00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:31,080 Speaker 1: able to like exist in. Uh. They are still able 623 00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:34,880 Speaker 1: to live, live together in the woods, stay in the woods. 624 00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:39,000 Speaker 1: The cops don't like being in the woods. No, there's 625 00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:42,399 Speaker 1: a real fear that you're trying to tear them down. Yes, 626 00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:45,840 Speaker 1: the cops are. The cops are still very much scared 627 00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:49,080 Speaker 1: of the woods. UM and and UH people have have 628 00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:52,480 Speaker 1: have not have not let the violence shown by police 629 00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:56,080 Speaker 1: scare them away from from wanting to stay in the forest. 630 00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:59,200 Speaker 1: So that is that is something that continued every day. 631 00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:02,839 Speaker 1: There's been like guided tours throughout the forest showing off 632 00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:05,800 Speaker 1: the different different types of plants, the different sections of 633 00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:12,040 Speaker 1: the woods, different different old campsites that people have slept at. UM. Yeah, 634 00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:15,040 Speaker 1: it's it's been it's been pretty nice to see with 635 00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:21,640 Speaker 1: the with just the incredible level of resilience. Well, I 636 00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:25,000 Speaker 1: know that that I am, and I'm sure many people 637 00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:31,000 Speaker 1: are kind of watching this from a distance and very 638 00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:34,720 Speaker 1: very happy to see that folks are continuing to adapt 639 00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:39,320 Speaker 1: and endure and and take punches. It's unfortunate that the 640 00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:42,560 Speaker 1: punches keep coming, but the ability of the community to 641 00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:49,279 Speaker 1: take those hits and continue iterating and adapting remains tremendously impressive. UM. 642 00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,839 Speaker 1: I think kind of the note that makes most sense 643 00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:55,719 Speaker 1: to end on as to say that this is still 644 00:38:55,760 --> 00:39:00,800 Speaker 1: a winnable fight. Absolutely, and that is aiment that literally 645 00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:03,920 Speaker 1: everyone on the ground shares like we are at a 646 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:08,040 Speaker 1: point where like people keep saying like at this point 647 00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:11,480 Speaker 1: they have to win, like like there there is no 648 00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:15,640 Speaker 1: other option than winning, um, And people have the ability 649 00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:19,080 Speaker 1: to win this. This is a winnable fight, um. And 650 00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:21,680 Speaker 1: that is that is something that people continue continue to 651 00:39:21,719 --> 00:39:23,879 Speaker 1: talk about, and that that is why people are fighting 652 00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:26,960 Speaker 1: so hard. That's why people are are are risking getting 653 00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:29,880 Speaker 1: these ridiculous charges because they know that this fight is 654 00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:31,840 Speaker 1: both worth it and they know this fight is winnable. 655 00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:35,360 Speaker 1: Like these are these the actions and the risks that 656 00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:37,920 Speaker 1: people are The actions and the risks that people are 657 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,400 Speaker 1: taking are not for nothing like they they know that 658 00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:43,799 Speaker 1: it is impactful and there is a very good chance 659 00:39:43,880 --> 00:39:47,799 Speaker 1: that this this will lead to victory and will lead 660 00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:51,239 Speaker 1: to the forest being preserved, to being protected and being 661 00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:54,960 Speaker 1: able to continue continue to grow. It does have a 662 00:39:55,239 --> 00:40:00,600 Speaker 1: feeling of inevitability that they will win, that we're we 663 00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:03,880 Speaker 1: will win. I don't know which the appropriate way to 664 00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,719 Speaker 1: say that is as a journalist, but the feeling is 665 00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,880 Speaker 1: that that Cops City will not be built and that 666 00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:11,840 Speaker 1: is something that shared, I think by all of the 667 00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:16,719 Speaker 1: activists in this city. And I guess the last thing 668 00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:20,640 Speaker 1: I'll say is, uh, Atlanta Solidarity Fund. You if you 669 00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:22,840 Speaker 1: if you've been listening to any of our coverage, you 670 00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:25,880 Speaker 1: should already know what it is. You can find the 671 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:30,360 Speaker 1: Solidarity Fund at atl solidarity dot org. You can donate 672 00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:33,840 Speaker 1: there to help the force defenders and you know, anyone 673 00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:38,800 Speaker 1: who's who's arrested in relation to this with with legal expenses, lawyers, 674 00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:45,320 Speaker 1: that sort of thing. Um. Yeah, well, um, that's gonna 675 00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:48,600 Speaker 1: do it for this episode. Uh. And we'll have more 676 00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:55,040 Speaker 1: from you, Garrison, more from Atlanta soon. Uh. Until next time, everybody, Uh, 677 00:40:55,840 --> 00:41:02,120 Speaker 1: keep an eye on shit. It could happen here as 678 00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:04,839 Speaker 1: a production of cool Zone Media. 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