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Atlanta, GA – On Monday morning, a bold and joyful procession of roughly 500 people marched along a public road to the proposed Cop City construction site. Holding banners and giant puppets, and accompanied by drummers and a brass band, Block Cop City activists reclaimed Atlanta’s rich civil rights legacy from politicians who continue to tarnish it with every voter disenfranchised and each tear gas canister thrown. Despite the violent response by police, activists minimized arrests and harm through careful planning, extensive preparation, and close attention to lessons learned from generations of revolutionary struggles against repression and authoritarianism.

The march began with a festive gathering in Gresham Park where participants adopted an explicit commitment to nonviolence and heard from Kamau Franklin (Executive Director of Atlanta-based Community Movement Builders) and Joel Paez (father of Tortuguita, a forest def

Join your neighbors on Sept 9th, 2023 from 12pm to 5pm in Atlanta's Historic Adair Park for Porches and Pies, a festival celebrating the joys of baking and eating savory and sweet pies.

The festival will have:

• Live entertainment
• Pie bake-off competition
• Pie tastings
• [Non-pie] food and beverages
• A generally nice time

Interested in participating in the pie baking competition? Enter into the competition by Aug 21!

Interested in eating the delicious pies from the competition? Purchase a tasting pass!

Proceeds from the festival benefit Adair Park Today, the neighborhood association for Adair Park.

From the "Georgia Newsletter" by Austin Louis Ray:

And now, folks in the West End are getting their very own version of it. El Tesoro has officially opened its second location at Wild Heaven Beer in the Lee & White development right on the BeltLine.

"It’s such a great location for us to have a presence in the West End," co-owner Alan Raines tells me. "It is very Tesoro. A huge boost for us."

What're everyone's favorite farmers markets around Atlanta? I really like the Freedom Farmers Market. I used to go to the Sandy Springs one when I lived to there.

Any other good ones I'm missing around town?

This may just be a Decatur thing, but I am getting pretty frustrated with how quickly the youth sports leagues around here fill up. More than once I've had to tell my kids that a league had filled up before I got them registered. And it's not just the city league -- the private leagues like the YMCA and Druid Hills Youth Sports fill up just as fast. I don't remember that ever happening when I was a kid, and that's not because my parents were especially on top of things. I can only speculate why this might be an issue, but I'd love to hear if others have noticed it and have an idea of what the limitation is. My ideas are:

1. Density: Decatur has much higher density than where I grew up (Baltimore suburbs). Maybe there just are a lot more people per playing field, and the leagues are limited by space.
2. Growth: Decatur's population has been growing rapidly over the past decade, especially it's youth population. Maybe the infrastructure -- both physical and organizational -- just hasn't

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Seems like the Braves, Falcons, United, Hawks could all use a community? I’m not sure how these things start and I’m personally not interested in moderating at all, but I’d love to have places to shit talk visiting teams and our teams #BocaOut