After forest defenders took direct action against the Hotel Colonnade in Coral Gables, FL, TV news station WSVN (FOX) had the nerve to call the Stop Cop City/Defend Atlanta Forest campaign “a national hate group(?!?!).

Here is the FOX/WSVN TV 7 (Miami) report. IT is an ugly mess of lies and slander. WSVN and FOX had best hope none of the aboveground groups associated with this campaign decide to take them to court for slander:

https://wsvn.com/news/local/miami-dade/hotel-in-coral-gables-vandalized-with-graffiti-could-be-linked-to-national-hate-group/

Unknown if FOX decided to run this slander on their own-or was fed these words by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, Atlanta Police Department, or the FBI.Perhaps WSVN and FOX News as a whole should also be considered Cop City contractors for slandering a direct action campaign against a destructive project as a “hate group?”

The direct action was graffiti including the words “Stop cop city” due to the presence of a general contractor (a major target and among the most important of all targets) on the project on the building. Someone at the hotel (security?) was left wondering on FOX News 7 how the courageous warriors who got this done got their artwork high onto the side of the building

Perhaps WSVN and FOX News as a whole should also be considered Cop City contractors for slandering a direct action campaign against a destructive project as a “hate group?”

Hate groups do not use nonviolent property damage to protect forests and keep police from murdering people of color. Direct action social justice groups do not try to bring back gas chambers to use against the LGBTQ community and the Jewish community. Far-right hate groups and GOP politicians (the kind whose minions would use Cop City) are already pushing such things as registries of all trangender folks while Nazis harass drag shows and synagogues had to cancel holiday events due to terror threats. In places like Georgia and Florida, the hate groups are already inside the government.

Far-right hate groups and GOP politicians (the kind whose minions would use Cop City) are already pushing such things as registries of all trangender folks while Nazis harass drag shows and synagogues had to cancel holiday events due to terror threats. In places like Georgia and Florida, the hate groups are already inside the government. FAUX News, the FBI, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, the Atlanta Police Department etc need to understand the difference between social justice and hate, to literally know their left from their right-or get the hell off of the public airwaves!