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Up First briefing: Russian rebellion; 'Cop City' protests; Alzheimer's drug approval

Yevgeny Prigozhin launched a failed rebellion in Russia. Activists in Atlanta hold a week of action against a police training facility. An Alzheimer's drug could be approved soon, but hurdles remain.

WEKU

Atlanta activists in drive to put fate of controversial ‘Cop City’ on ballot

Officials approve petition that allows organizers to move forward with a historic referendum on massive police training complex

The Guardian - US

Activists push for referendum to put ‘Cop City’ on ballot in Atlanta

Effort requires organizers to collect about 70,000 signatures from Atlanta registered voters in 60 days

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Real cost of ‘Cop City’ under question after Atlanta approves $67m for project

Opponents call process ‘anti-democratic’ after public participation in council meeting difficult and lack of transparency

The Guardian - US

Atlanta organizers unveil plan to stop 'Cop City' at the ballot box

Activists have announced an effort to force a referendum that would allow Atlanta voters to decide whether the construction of a proposed police and firefighter training center should proceed

The Independent UK

Atlanta approves funding to build ‘Cop City’ despite fierce opposition

City council vote 11-4 to move ahead with police and firefighter training center despite significant pushback

The Guardian - US

Hundreds protest as Atlanta votes on whether to give $31m to ‘Cop City’ police training centre

Hundreds signed up to offer commentary on much-watched city vote

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Fascism, free speech and Cop City

Clampdown on protests in Atlanta's Cop City isn't an isolated local issue — it's about America in 2023

Salon

‘Cop City’ protest lawyers challenge use of domestic terrorism statute

Attorneys for protester argue law is unconstitutional restraint on free speech as legal defense fund organizers also arrested

The Guardian - US

Georgia Arrests 'Cop City' Bail Fund Organizers for Fraud, Money Laundering

As with other cases in recent months, Georgia law enforcement has used specious classifications to charge nonviolent protesters with domestic terrorism.

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Atlanta politicians face pressure to vote against giving $31m to ‘Cop City’

City council to vote on giving taxpayer money to controversial project as state characterizes opposition as work of ‘terrorists’

The Guardian - US

Marjorie Taylor Green falsely claims slain Georgia activist killed police officer at Cop City protest

No police officer was killed in incident

The Independent UK

Latest arrests of ‘Cop City’ protesters ‘feel like overreach’, experts say

Three activists protesting the planned facility were charged under a little-known Georgia law, raising first amendment concerns

The Guardian - US

First Thing: Sudanese flee homeland as airstrikes threaten ceasefire

Long lines are forming at the borders as people fleeing fighting around the capital face daylong waits and demands for visas in order to cross to safety

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Atlanta shuts down strategic park in ‘Cop City’ protest movement

Opponents say move is yet another example of crackdown by officials seeking to disrupt protests against $90m training center

The Independent UK

Autopsy strengthens case that ‘Cop City’ activist didn’t fire first before being gunned down by police

Police claim activist fired first

The Guardian - US

‘Cop city’ backers and opponents battle for public opinion over $90m project

Poll shows Atlanta divided on racial lines over planned police and fire department training center

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Georgia prosecutors accused of waging ‘judicial pogrom’ against ‘Cop City’ activists

Protesters face domestic terrorism charges and have been denied bail as experts decry lack of evidence proffered by state

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The Guardian - US

Officers in ‘Cop City’ raid shot pepperball gun into activist’s tent first

Manuel Paez Terán’s family say incident reports reveal that Georgia officials ‘planned and led the operation’ that resulted in the activist’s death

The Guardian - US

Investment fund links to Atlanta police and ‘Cop City’ project revealed

Roark Capital and Silver Lake Management have a web of connections to the Atlanta police foundation, Cop City and surveillance in the city

Los Angeles Times

Inside the 'Stop Cop City' forest camp, the latest epicenter of activism over policing

ATLANTA — Carrying backpacks and bedrolls, a group arrived at a forest just outside Atlanta one balmy March afternoon. At the edge of a thicket of loblolly pines, they stepped over a concrete slab decorated with a mural of a police car, overturned and aflame.

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Autopsy of ‘Cop City’ activist shot by police still incomplete

Manuel Paez Terán’s family say other state agencies have also failed to release information about activist’s death. Plus, how the first Twitter-fuelled bank run played out

The Guardian - US

Tents slashed and supplies destroyed: ‘Cop City’ activists describe police intimidation

Police swarmed private property over the weekend, detaining activists and confiscating property; one person arrested, for a traffic ticket

The Independent UK

Environmentalist shot protesting $90m Atlanta ‘Cop City’ died with hands up, autopsy finds

Family calling on officials to release evidence from investigation into activist’s death

WEKU

The family of a 'Cop City' protester who was killed releases more autopsy findings

Attorneys for the family of Manuel Paez Terán said the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which is probing the shooting, has prevented Atlanta police from releasing more evidence to his relatives.

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