Don’t Die Wondering: Atlanta Against the Police (2011-2012)
The winter of 2011-12 saw a number of clashes with the police in Atlanta. I hope that this piece can be helpful for anarchists, anticapitalists, and other would-be rebels in medium sized cities with almost no radical or combative history.
Interview with #ItsBiggerThanYou
Interview with Aurielle Lucier, of #ItsBiggerThanYou, from Viewpoint Magazine's "Strategy After Ferguson" feature.
Atlanta's washerwomen strike, 1881
Submitted by Steven. on Dec 9 2015 10:29
A short history of the strike of overwhelmingly African-American women laundresses in Atlanta Georgia. Coming only shortly after the abolition of slavery, the strike was successful in raising wages and establishing a union.
[Video] Modibo Kadalie on the 1977 Atlanta sanitation workers' strike and direct action
Submitted by TeflonMaster on Oct 8 2013 01:38
"This damn Maynard Jackson..."
Scholar/actvist Modibo Kadalie discusses his role in organizing direct action during the 1977 Atlanta Sanitation Workers' Strike and dumping garbage at City Hall.
[Video] Modibo Kadalie on the "bat patrols": Community self-defense and the 1981 Atlanta child murders
Submitted by TeflonMaster on Oct 7 2013 21:47
Scholar/actvist Modibo Kadalie discusses helping to organize community self-defense in the Techwood Homes housing projects during the 1981 Atlanta Child Murders.
Occupy Atlanta: Privilege politics or popular self-management for the post-civil rights city
Theo Tegemea and Z.A. Mrefu on Occupy Atlanta, race, reformism and white privilege.
The Atlanta Solidarity Network Continues Winning Streak
Submitted by Metakosmia on Dec 1 2011 03:57
ASOL keeps up it's perfect record with another victory!
Anti-police murder march in Atlanta
Submitted by Metakosmia on Oct 19 2011 17:21
Around 200 Atlantans march rowdily through the downtown business district in response to police murder of a 19 year old at the Vine City MARTA station in the city's west end.
Atlanta cabbies in wildcat strike
Submitted by Joseph Kay on Sep 12 2007 09:02
Cabbies at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport went on a five-hour wildcat strike Monday that ended when airport officials agreed to consider a list of their grievances.
A disgrace before God: Striking black sanitation workers vs. black officialdom in 1977 Atlanta
Submitted by David in Atlanta on Jun 12 2007 13:38
This article is a case study of the betrayal of the African American working class by the Black political class brought to power by the Civil Rights and Black Power movements of the 1960's.
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