Atlanta Bail Fund Arrests Reveal Shocking Financial Crimes.
Three organizers from the Atlanta Solidarity Fund, a nonprofit that supports people who are arrested for protest or activism, were arrested and charged with charity fraud and money laundering. The state prosecutors are criminalizing the collective care of activists, including through the payment of money bail. The state is criminalizing collective care itself, and it is doing so at a time when forms of collective support are becoming increasingly essential. The Stop Cop City movement has certainly done this, using festive concerts in a forest to draw broader connections between the destruction of natural resources and the funding of police violence.