Yesterday, on the Day of the Forest Defender, in honor of Manuel "Tortuguita" Terán—murdered by Georgia State Troopers two years ago while defending Weelaunee Forest—people took over a billboard on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway to celebrate Tortuguita's courage. From a statement:
"The writers of this message took over a billboard on one of NYC's largest highways, used by 130,000 vehicles daily. We covered a CopShot police billboard—that recruits informants with a $10,000 bribe—with a tribute to Tortuguita and all land defenders. In the context of a city that spends $29 million dollars a day on policing, off the side of a highway that displaced thousands of families with a stroke of a pen, we replace the state's cowardly propaganda with a commemoration of land defenders' sacrifice and struggle. Collective memory animates our will to destroy this empire that is killing us and our planet. As the US funnels billions into building Cop Cities across the country in its latest attempt to repress us, they concede what we already know—that rebellion is inevitable.
"Viva Tortuguita and All Land Defenders. We Will Destroy This Empire, with Earth as Our Witness."
Full statement:
www.instagram.com/p/DFBfjbayKvX
More background:
CrimethInc.
Solidarity with the Movement to Stop Cop City and Defend Weelaunee Forest
We call on all people of good conscience to stand in solidarity with the movement to stop Cop City and defend the Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta.
