The US activists holed up in treehouses to block $90m ‘Cop City’
by Mike Jordan in Atlanta, with photographs by David from Environment | The Guardian on (#60EAD)
Atlanta wants to build a police training facility in a forested area amid community opposition
The sign in the forest reads You are now leaving The U.S.A." Then, high up among the branches of a white oak tree, there is a treehouse the size of a closet. It is draped on all sides with white sheets bearing painted messages like No police", No pipelines" and No prisons".
On the ground below it, woodland paths have been blocked with makeshift barricades of branches and used tires. There is a burned-out white pickup truck with Defend the forest" spray-painted in black on its tailgate.
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