LS3P is the architecture firm contracted by the Atlanta Police Foundation to design Cop City, with offices in Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. On Wednesday September 6th, the day after Fulton County indicted 61 forest defenders on ridiculous racketeering charges, we took it upon ourselves to remind LS3P that the fact that they are profiting from the political repression of forest defenders will not be tolerated or forgotten.
We assembled during LS3P's business hours and walked straight into their Savannah office on Congress Street in broad daylight. We read them our indictment of their involvement in the Cop City project so there was no mistaking why we were there.
A few people in our crew staged a die-in while others read the letter.
Inspired by the actions of forest defenders who scattered rotten shrimp at an Atlanta Police Department recruitment event in Manhattan, we decided to pull our own shenanigans. As we left, we dumped many gallons of rotting food in the elevator, leaving it to LS3P to explain the stench as the elevator circulated the putrid smell to every floor of the building LS3P shares with other businesses.
This entire action took less than five minutes. LS3P employees threatened to call the police, but we never saw a cop in the process.
We dream of a world without political repression where we can change the systems we live in without risking the violence of the police and prisons. But as long as repression against strong movements is as inevitable as the decay of our food scraps, we will be here like the microorganisms that turn death into new life, using it to grow our power.
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