We are joined by the Spencer Pride contingent! Judi Epp, Lucie Mathieu, and Spencer Pride’s Rainbow Birders organiser, Wendy Wonderly joins Kal and Justin and Melanie all around the big table to talk about Spencer Pride’s programming, give Unity Center updates, and Wendy talks about getting out farther than the closet with a bunch of other queer and allied folks …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, April 25th, 2024. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondents Kate Chmielewski and Annika Harshbarger will be live in the studio discussing how you can support the station during our Spring Fund Drive. More in the bottom half of our program. Also coming up in the next half hour, WFHB Correspondent Kay Weinberg …
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By: Annika Harshbarger
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Since 2021, a diverse movement in has challenged the construction of Cop City, which is slated to destroy Atlanta’s South River Forest. The forest is also known by its Muscogee name, Weelaunee. The movement has created new intersections between abolitionist and environmental politics, since it is defending a forest with important ecological elements for the surrounding Black community, in order to …
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On the morning of May 31st, Georgia Bureau of Investigation and Atlanta Police Department raided a house and arrested three staff members of the Atlanta Solidarity Fund. The Atlanta Solidarity Fund is a non profit organization that supports those arrested for protesting or otherwise prosecuted for involvement in social movements. Over the last year, the fund has focused on supporting …
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This week we continue sharing a panel hosted by Haymarket Books on the abolitionist struggle to stop Cop City. In this section, we hear Hugh Farrell in conversation with Sarah Haley, a leading historian of Black feminism in the South, organizer Kwame Olufemi of Community Movement Builders, and journalist Micah Herskind. Haley roots contemporary resistance to Cop City within a longer …
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Update: According to reporting by the Indiana Daily Student, Declan Farley announced late last month that he will be leaving IU. Protesters gathered for a march and town hall in Bloomington to demonstrate against Indiana University’s response to recent acts of discrimination. On January 14th, IU student Declan Farley posted a TikTok about harassment he faced on the floor of …
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During a dramatic week of action in the Atlanta forest this past week, hundreds of forest defenders sabotaged a construction site for the unpopular “Cop City” development. Police responded with an act of extreme collective punishment against the entire movement, attacking a nearby Stop Cop City music festival, tasing, beating, and arresting concertgoers at random. 34 people were detained, with …
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From March 4-11th, thousands of people will be converging in Atlanta’s Weelaunee Forest, as part of the abolitionist and environmentalist struggle to stop “Cop City,” a police training facility set to be built over a vast urban forest. Reflecting this unprecedented mobilization, we are focusing on the history and current stakes of the struggle. For context, we start off with …
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This week, we speak again with Isaiah Willoughby. Last time he was on the show, he reflected on being incarcerated due to the 2020 George Floyd Uprising. He was released from prison last March, but he’s now housed once again in SeaTac Federal Detention Center on a parole violation. It took three separate calls to complete this interview: calls in …
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