Georgia Archives – Scalawag

Collage-Biden at Morehouse Graduation 2024

Biden at Morehouse isn't an opportunity. It's a death sentence.

by Marq Riggins and Sydney Jael Wilson September 25, 2024September 25, 2024

We demand our private institutions DISSOLVE their relationship with the Atlanta Police Department and all other organizations funding or supporting The Atlanta Public Safety Training Center and Israel.

AI Surveillance

AI Surveillance as a tool of state repression

by Michigan People's Defense Committee August 29, 2024August 28, 2024

This year, our focus is Empire, its endless expansion, and the carceral technologies that make it possible.

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Abolition Week: Empire Must Die

by Sherronda J. Brown and Scalawag Editors August 26, 2024August 26, 2024

Protestors grieve the loss of Palestinian life outside of the White House in Washington, DC, November 4, 2023. Photo by Katie Hanzalik. A look at Scalawag's most-read stories, reporting, and writing of 2023—from Cop City to Gaza, prison conditions, and more—in review.

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Year in review: Scalawag's top stories of 2023

by Scalawag Editors January 2, 2024December 14, 2023

A boarded up abandoned house is graffitied with a "Stop Cop City" tag, Thursday, July 20, 2023, in Atlanta. Activists with the Stop Cop City Vote Coalition are trying to get the signatures of more than 70,000 Atlanta residents by Aug. 14 to force a referendum allowing voters to decide the fate of a proposed police and firefighter training center. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson) Mutual aid allows movements to resist and transform oppressive systems. It could also be what ultimately sustains us against climate change.

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Mutual aid strengthens ATL's abolitionist organizing work

by Julian Rose September 28, 2023September 28, 2023

The author, Mira Ugwuadu, posing for a portrait in the months after graduating from high school in Marietta, Georgia. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson) Funding, education, and safety are at the top of the list of demands to dismantle the youth mental health stigma in Georgia schools.

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In Georgia, we need proactive—not reactive—mental health support in schools

by Mira Ugwuadu September 14, 2023November 13, 2023

A wheelchair standing between other chairs in a school classroom. Disabled students are overlooked in the youth mental health crisis. How navigating an impossible system drove one disabled student to activism in their quest for solutions to the youth mental health crisis.

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Young people struggle within a capitalist, ableist system. We can change it.

by Marrow Woods September 14, 2023November 13, 2023

Henry Drake was convicted for a 1975 murder he didn’t commit—twice. Even after another man confessed to the crime, he still spent 12 years on Death Row seeking exoneration and battling the classism and legal misconduct of Georgia's judicial system.

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A Close Shave with Death

by Lillah Lawson September 1, 2023September 1, 2023

Death penalty opponents gather on the steps of the State Capitol in Atlanta, Ga., Monday, March 2, 2015 to protest the death penalty and the planned execution of Kelly Gissendaner. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Ben Gray)

On the execution of my friend, Kelly Gissendaner

by Carla J. Simmons August 31, 2023August 30, 2023

Mourning in prison: How "total institutions" punish the grief of the incarcerated.

Against Regulations: Grieving inside a total institution

by E.J. June 27, 2023November 13, 2023

Pack City Hall: Rev. Keyanna Jones speaks while community members attend the city council meeting to protest against the controversial "Cop City" project, inside the city hall in Atlanta on May 15, 2023. REUTERS/Megan Varner.

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Out Loud on the Gate City Front

by Tea Troutman and Da'Shaun Harrison May 22, 2023May 22, 2023

GSU Cop City student demands: Protesters gathered outside of the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta in protest of Cop City as the clear cutting of trees began on March 31, 2023. REUTERS/Cheney Orr.

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Georgia State students demand the University denounce Cop City, end carceral investments

by GSU Student Coalition Against Policing & Militarism May 19, 2023November 13, 2023

Demonstrators march near Atlanta police during a protest over plans to build a new police training center, Thursday, March 9, 2023, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz) Cop City protestors now face felony stalking, intimidation, and domestic terrorism charges.

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Cop City protesters face felony charges for distributing flyers

by Candice Bernd, Truthout May 8, 2023May 8, 2023

An artistic interpretation of slaves jumping from a burning ship. Leftist organizing in the Black Radical Tradition.

How to Build the End of the World

by Miliaku Nwabueze May 5, 2023May 5, 2023

A storybook illustration of a Black mother playing soccer with her Black son in the park.

'Please Keep Playing.' An open letter to my son, Remix

by Ariana Brazier May 5, 2023November 13, 2023

Reverend Keyanna Jones

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To Save the Soul of Weelaunee

by Zoey Laird May 4, 2023May 3, 2023

The Taking of Peachtree-Pine and the Dawning of Cop City

by Ariana Brazier May 3, 2023November 14, 2023

31 Days in Dekalb County Hell

by Priscilla Grim May 2, 2023May 2, 2023

Making State Enemies

by Julian Rose May 2, 2023May 2, 2023

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This is the Atlanta Way: A Primer on Cop City

by Micah Herskind May 1, 2023May 2, 2023

Forever, I Love(d) Atlanta

by Tea Troutman May 1, 2023May 2, 2023

How Atlanta’s tradition of compromise betrays Black revolutionary violence: a critique of Black Political Action and the bargain of freedom. A critique of the state's appropriation of John Lewis' legacy to quell the radical demands for Black Power at its heart.

What's Next for the Captive Maternal, Part II: Notes on a Rebel(lion) without a Cause

by Tea Troutman April 27, 2023November 21, 2023

How Atlanta’s tradition of compromise betrays Black revolutionary violence: a critique of Black Political Action and the bargain of freedom. A critique of the state's appropriation of John Lewis' legacy to quell the radical demands for Black Power at its heart.

What's Next for the Captive Maternal: Notes on a Rebel(lion) without a Cause

by Tea Troutman April 26, 2023November 21, 2023

Black Palestine Meets Black Atlanta. A statement of solidarity between Black and Palestinian communities across the diaspora.

From Black Atlanta to Palestine: A statement of connection, solidarity, and survival

by Da'Shaun Harrison, Eva Dickerson, Osama and Bisan March 28, 2023November 21, 2023

grief & other loves: National Poetry Month workshop series

by Scalawag Team March 16, 2023December 1, 2023

While the HBCU boasts a commitment to Black women, Spelman's support of Cop City is peak antiblackness, alumni say in an open letter.

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An open letter to Spelman College: Denounce Cop City Now

by Eva Dickerson and Spelman Alumni March 7, 2023December 1, 2023

How 'the shadow of state abandonment' fostered then foiled Young Thug's YSL

by Justin A. Davis February 9, 2023December 14, 2023

Cop City, Gentrification, and Young Thug: Atlanta's uneven war over greenspace in 'The City of the Forest'

by Justin A. Davis February 9, 2023December 1, 2023

Sentenced to Trauma: Inside the volatility and disorder of prison

by Carla J. Simmons November 21, 2022December 1, 2023

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Contrary to popular belief, healthcare in prison is far from free. Sometimes, it can cost your life.

by Luci Harrell June 24, 2022December 5, 2023