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color photograph of an outdoor protest. Black people stand shoulder to shoulder in the middle of a street and hold a black banner with white text that reads "protect your power"

Politics & Democracy

Restrictive voting laws have major implications for presidential election

by Sravya Tadepalli January 17th, 2024January 18th, 2024

Environmental pollution lawsuit may pump the breaks on Cop City construction

Climate & Environment

Environmental pollution lawsuit may pump the breaks on Cop City construction

by Jocelyn James November 20th, 2023November 20th, 2023

color photograph of a Black woman at an outdoor protest against police violence in response to police killing Tyre Nichols. people hold a large white banner behind her with red and black text that's partially obscured. to the right, someone holds a white picket sign that reads "end police terror."

Crime, Reform & Abolition

Atlanta Stop Cop City activists continue push to abolish GILEE program amid the Palestinian genocide

by Jocelyn James November 14th, 2023November 16th, 2023

color photograph of an outdoor protest in support of black lives matter. in the center, a black woman holds up her fist as she looks down at the ground

Crime, Reform & Abolition

From Atlanta to San Pablo: Residents say no to militarizing police

by Gracelynn West October 30th, 2023October 30th, 2023

color photograph of a Black man wearing a red baseball cap holding up a blue flag of the Gullah Geechee people

Race

Georgia officials open Sapelo Island to development, endangering the Gullah Geechee community

by Alexandra Martinez October 5th, 2023October 10th, 2023

color photograph of people holding flags with "people power" and anarchist symbols printed on them. underneath the flags in the background, a police officer walks out of a building towards the camera

Indicting anarchism, inventing ‘terror’: From 1898 to Cop City

by William C. Anderson October 3rd, 2023November 27th, 2023

color photograph of an outdoor protest against police violence. a women in a dark grey fleece jacket holds up a black paper sign with white handwritten text that reads "american policing = state-sanctioned terrorism." other people in the mid-ground hold white signs with black printed text that reads "justice for tyre nichols jail killer cops" and "the people demand: end police terror"

Crime, Reform & Abolition

Cop City RICO indictment casts protesters as organized criminals

by Jocelyn James September 20th, 2023September 20th, 2023

In this Q&A with Prism, Union of Southern Service Workers member Mama Cookie discusses the uphill battle of fighting for labor rights and protections in North Carolina

Economy & Workers' Rights

‘A change is gonna come’ in the South

by Tina Vásquez August 24th, 2023August 24th, 2023

'We can't stay silent anymore': On Cop City and grief There is a human toll for Atlanta-based activists organizing against Cop City and the very forces that seek to stamp them out

‘We can’t stay silent anymore’: On Cop City and grief

by Tina Vásquez August 7th, 2023August 7th, 2023

digital portrait on a dark teal background of a teenage Black girl wearing an orange shirt and playing the trombone. the trombone extends past the edge of the circular portrait frame into the teal background

Climate & Environment

We must enter a new climate world together

by Ray Levy Uyeda July 31st, 2023July 31st, 2023