NO COP CITY, NO COP WORLD
Lessons from the Movement
Edited by Kamau Franklin, Micah Herskind, and Mariah Parker
Haymarket Books (6 April 2025)
Trade paper • ISBN-13: 9798888903742 • US $21.95 • 5 in x 8 in • 272 pgs.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
A collection of essays from the Stop Cop City movement on the fight for police abolition and for a liveable planet for all, with gripping reporting from activists on the ground and rousing articles from renowned radical academics
The Stop Cop City movement is a decentralized effort to stop the construction of a $120 million police training facility and the destruction of 170 acres of the Weelaunee Forest outside of Atlanta, Georgia. This is the first collection of essays bringing together organizers and activists who have been involved in the years-long struggle to Stop Cop City. Connecting movements for environmental justice, police abolition, and Indigenous sovereignty, this expansive collection highlights the strategy, tactics, and ideologies that transformed a local collective action into a powerful international movement.
Featuring the voices of forest defenders, environmental justice advocates, political prisoners, Indigenous activists, abolitionists, educators, legal scholars, and academics, these wide-ranging essays explore the history of the intersectional movement, the diverse tactics embraced by activists, tributes to Tortuguita, the 26-year-old queer Indigenous forest defender murdered by Georgia State Patrol troopers, and the intense police and legal repression faced by organizers. Making critical connections between oppression and resistance at home and abroad, the movement to Stop Cop City has expanded to a fight against a Cop World.
PRAISE:
“Our world is a world of police, and every city is a cop city. But this reality is neither inevitable nor eternal, and the turn to cop cities is a testament to the desperate fragility of police power. They expect resistance, and we will give them that and more. This book provides an essential map of the terrain and a strategy for the battles on the horizon.”
Geo Maher, author of A World Without Police and coordinator, W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Kamau Franklin is the founder of Community Movement Builder, a Black, member-based collective of community residents and organizers. Kamau has been a dedicated community organizer for over thirty years and is a former practicing attorney, beginning in New York City and now based in Atlanta. Micah Herskind is an organizer, writer, and law student. He is active in abolitionist movements against police and jail expansion, and has written for outlets including New York Magazine, Scalawag, MSNBC, Teen Vogue, and Race & Class. Mariah Parker is an emcee and labor organizer born and raised in the South. Their cultural work and organizing have been featured in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue, SPIN Magazine, Al Jazeera, Scalawag, and Hammer & Hope.
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