The Battle Over Cop City

OA1161 - Micah Herskind is an activist, Harvard law student, and most recently a co-editor of the essay collection No Cop City, No Cop World with Mariah Parker and Kamau Franklin. We welcome Micah on to discuss his experience with Atlanta’s Stop Cop City movement and the lessons which activists and advocates around the US can learn from it in these times of mass dissent in the face of American authoritarianism. 

• No Cop City, No Cop World, ed. Micah Herskind, Mariah Parker, & Kamau Franklin (2025)

• Cop City RICO Indictment, Fulton County Superior Court (8/29/2023)

• “The Tools of Repression,” Hanah Riley & Micah Herskind, Inquest (4/24/25)

• The Free Speech Forest Fund

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