File under: collective trauma, activism, intersectionality, inner revolution, dismantling white supremacy, media relations with police & politicians, healing, recovery, “cop city”/defend the forests.
The Mainline published my interview with Attorney Gerald Griggs (NAACP Atlanta) regarding Georgia’s HB 286 earlier today. This is the extended version, which in this case is me sharing some additional context to what’s happening in Atlanta right now.
I’ll be sharing the written version of the original interview via Mainline’s site when I have the time and energy. For now, we just have the audio available.
I hope we can begin to have community conversations here soon (between organizers, activists, healers, community, writers/journalists), but I’m waiting to get my footing here, make plans with other people I want to bring on, and wait for more subscribers to join. We will either host via livestreams or Zoom Q&A’s. Stay tuned!
Photo credit: Brandon Mishawn, one of ATL’s most talented photographers who went on the ground day-in and day-out for us to cover our city’s protests last year. <3 I fuxxed with the fx and added the text.
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INDIGENOUS LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The recorded interview and this report were created on both the unceded and ancestral native lands of the Muscogee Creek Nation (currently known as Atlanta, Ga.) and the unceded, ancestral lands of the first people of Seattle, the Duwamish people, past and present. We honor the lands and the people of both the Muscogee Tribe, which was forced from its land under the Indian Removal Act of 1830, and the Duwamish Tribe, who became signatories of the Treaty of Point Elliot in 1855 and lost one of its largest villages to a fire set by colonial settlers in 1895.
In solidarity,
Aja
