Trees Spiked in Atlanta
The fight to protect the South Atlanta Forest intensifies. The Atlanta Police Foundation plans to destroy the forest to build a police training facility. Activists have occupied the tres to prevent the destruction. There have been many demonstrations and acts of ecotage, destroying the bulldozers and targeting the contractors involved in the project.
Recently, some anonymous individuals drove spikes into trees to prevent their destruction.
The anonymous communique:
“Last night we randomly inoculated dozens of trees with steel and ceramic spikes to protect against felling by chainsaw. Signs were posted in English and Spanish to alert workers.
This process is harmless to the trees, but poses a serious danger to machinery and workers should they choose to ignore the warnings. Cops have been seen in recent weeks entering the forest with chainsaws, ignoring the stop work order and cutting down trees in an unskilled and dangerous manner at the site of current and former treesits. They should stop.
Since we know the tree-sits ALONE that have been publicized may not prevent logging by themselves, we have taken it upon ourselves to go the extra mile.
“The earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.”–Utah Phillips
The draws of “society” & the “civilized” & ‘developed’ world cannot surpass the sounds of swallows in trees, humming of insects & bees, & the liberation of laying under the starry skies.
-Railroad Workers Union Local 1312
