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Micah Herskind

Micah Herskind is an organizer and writer based in Atlanta, GA. You can find him on Twitter at @micahinatl.

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This is the Atlanta Way: A Primer on Cop City

by Micah Herskind May 1, 2023May 2, 2023

The struggle today around Cop City is the result of a decades-long fight over who Atlanta belongs to, who is run for, and who it stands against. Making sense of it requires understanding the city's history of shifting dynamics of class and racial domination.

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