From Atlanta to Palestine, our struggles are inextricably intertwined, and the latest round of police violence against protesters proves this.

We are students from universities across Atlanta who are organizing against Cop City and the genocide of Palestinians. We demand total institutional divestment from Israeli apartheid and Cop City at all Atlanta colleges and universities.

The liberation of Palestine transcends geographical boundaries and has become synonymous with the liberation of the U.S. South, where activists are fighting a shared struggle for freedom and justice in the face of overwhelming odds.

As healthcare workers, we must look at root causes and attempt to treat those. The symptom we are witnessing today is brutal violence, and the diagnosis is colonization. The treatment must be de-colonization and a Free Palestine.

Atlanta activists and students from universities across Atlanta rallied to end the Georgia State University’s GILEE program which trains U.S. law enforcement in Israel, and called for an end to the suppression of student activism on Palestine.

The indivisibility of justice requires that the Palestinian liberation movement support the Black liberation struggle with the same fierce determination as we do our own.

The U.S. imposes settler-colonial violence upon African/Black, Indigenous, and Palestinian communities through initiatives like police training with Israeli occupying forces and the urban warfare training facility, Cop City.

We hear about the 12th annual Students for Justice in Palestine conference, and the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta and its connection to the Palestine solidarity movement.

We need to stop the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE) program in light of recent officer-involved shootings in Georgia.

Atlanta activists are reigniting their fight against the Georgia International Law Enforcement Exchange (GILEE), a program where law enforcement officials receive training from human rights violators such as Israel.