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We put together a list of staff recommendations of our podcast for your summer listening. This is a collage of the guests of those episodes. (The Conversation Canada)

Some of our favourite episodes you may have missed: Don’t Call Me Resilient podcast

Ateqah Khaki, The Conversation; Dannielle Piper, The Conversation; Jennifer Moroz, The Conversation, and Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation

In this bonus episode, you’ll meet some of the producers who help make this podcast to revisit some of our favourite episodes from past seasons.
Bulldozed land at the planned site of a controversial police training facility, with Atlanta in the distance. Cheney Orr/AFP via Getty Images

A First Amendment battle looms in Georgia, where the state is framing opposition to a police training complex as a criminal conspiracy

Rachel McKane, Brandeis University and David Pellow, University of California, Santa Barbara

This isn’t the first time that US authorities have criminalized civil disobedience or framed grassroots organizing as a conspiracy.
Protestors gather in the atrium of Atlanta City Hall to protest the proposed police training centre on June 5, 2023. Natrice Miller/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP

State of Georgia using extreme legal measures to quell ‘Cop City’ dissenters

Ateqah Khaki, The Conversation and Vinita Srivastava, The Conversation

Legal experts worry the “doubling down” on demonstrators who are opposed to the planned giant police training facility could undermine the right to protest.

Related Topics

  1. Atlanta
  2. Defund the police
  3. Indigenous land defenders
  4. Migrant workers
  5. Police
  6. Policing
  7. Residential schools
  8. Stop Cop City movement

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