Tag: Georgia

New ICE locations in the South

Posted on by dirtysouth

CONFIRMED purchased warehouses:

10900 Hopewell Rd, Hagerstown, MD 21740 (capacity 1,500)

3619 Atlanta Hwy, Flowery Branch, GA 30542 (capacity 1,500)

542 SE Loop 410 Acc Rd, San Antonio, TX 78220 (capacity 1,500)

1365 E Hightower Trail, Social Circle, GA 30025 (capacity 8,500)

UNCONFIRMED proposed warehouses:

2070 Commercial Dr, Port Allen, LA 70767 (capacity 500) – Owned by CAP INDUSTRIAL PARK LLC (https://wbrassessor.azurewebsites.net/Details?parcelNumber=305200012800/0)

8660 Transport Dr, Orlando, FL 32832 (capacity 1,500) – Owned by BEACHLINE LOGISTICS CENTER LLC (https://ocpaweb.ocpafl.org/parcelsearch/Parcel%20ID/312336384900013)

950 I-45, Hutchins, TX 75141 (capacity 9,500)

New and expanded offices (from WIRED):

Washington, DC – Potomac Center North

Jacksonville, FL – One Enterprise Center

Miami, FL – One Riverview Square

Naples, FL – 75 Vineyards Boulevard

Orlando, FL – 12249 Science Drive

Sunrise, FL – 1551 Sawgrass Corporate Parkway

Alexandria, LA – 1201 Third Street

Cockeysville, MD – 201 International Circle

Hyattsville, MD – 6505 Belcrest Road

Cary, NC – 11000 Regency Lakeview

Charlotte, NC – Whitehall Corporate Center

Oklahoma City, OK – Corporate Tower

Columbia, SC – 1441 Main Street

Memphis, TN – 5904 Ridgeway Center Parkway

Nashville, TN – Estes Kefauver Federal Building

Nashville, TN – Nashville House Office Building

Eagle Pass, TX – 3381 US Highway 277

El Paso, TX – Epicenter Office Community

Harlingen, TX – 222 E. Van Buren Avenue

Irving, TX – 125 E. John Carpenter Freeway

San Antonio, TX – 15727 Anthem Parkway

The Woodlands, TX – 1700 Hughes Landing

Annandale, VA – Heritage Center

Richmond, VA – The Moorefield

Sterling, VA – Cabot Park

Submitted Anonymously

DOWN WITH GLOCK INC! NO PEACE FOR GENOCIDAIRES, OCCUPIERS, AND THEIR COLLABORATORS! WAR ON I.C.E. AND THE IOF!

Posted on by dirtysouth

GLOCK, Inc. is a deeply invested collaborator with oppressors at home and abroad: the zionist occupation forces owe it to glock for a wide selection of weapons they use to put bullets into Palestinians; in the belly of the beast, glock is $4.8 million dollars deep in i.c.e.’s money since january 20th of 2025, accommodating them with various glock weapons, gear, scopes, ammunition magazines, and accessories, in order to continue terrorizing all of us (and foremost immigrants and oppressed nations). However, the one advantage that sets anti-imperialists in amerikkka apart from those in the countries recipient of this empire’s wrath is this: we have immediate access to all of its internal organs, its veins and arteries, its senses and command controls. We have the unique ability to bring the war back home and engage blow-for-blow with the capitalist-imperialists. In light of all this, it would behoove us to know both who and where our enemy is, otherwise we would be truly lost in this life-or-death fight. One Taylor Crowley, Director of Sales at GLOCK, Inc. has been left in peace for far too long. He has been far too removed from the types of reactionary violence which result in no small part from his own personal efforts, and so it would be a welcomed gesture to offer him a taste of revolutionary violence. Hopefully he can be brought to his senses. That, however, is a responsibility only he has to himself. Our responsibility is to our siblings struggling for liberation, from Gaza to New Afrika. Free the land. Fuck the law. 2401 Weatherford Ct, Marietta, GA 30068.

Submitted anonymously.

Elbit Systems Subsidiary Attacked in Duluth GA

Posted on by dirtysouth

On October 7th, 2 years after brave Palestinian freedom fighters carried out operation Al-Aqsa Flood, a subsidiary of Elbit Systems was attacked for its role in the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

In the Early hours of the Morning, people laid siege to the Duluth office of Universal Avionics, smashing more than a third of its floor-to-ceiling windows, before vanishing into the thick air of night.

The products of American tech companies are in every bomb that levels neighborhoods in Gaza, every drone that attacks desperate international attempts to break siege and starvation, and every camera tower that tracks the movements of Palestinian families in the West Bank.

The companies that design and build this tech live comfortable in empire. They have offices in your cities. They live in your neighborhoods. Find them, disrupt their work, ruin their sleep, make their offices unfit for business, make them give up, make them ashamed.

Free Palestine, Free the Land, الحرية لفلسطين

With love,
The Global Intifada

Submitted anonymously.

CALL TO ACTION: CAPTURE THE FLOCK

Posted on by dirtysouth

That’s right. We’re playing the game where you dodge pigs, bootlickers, and snitches to steal their treasures while keeping your teammates from getting tagged. Maybe you’ve heard of Flock, the expressly evil surveillance company that’s been putting a creepy red (or sometimes green) eye (sauron-style) on every street corner to support ICE (https://www.404media.co/ice-taps-into-nationwide-ai-enabled-camera-network-data-shows/), extend the police state into Black and brown neighborhoods to hasten gentrification (https://www.flocksafety.com/articles/security-camera-system-specifically-for-neighborhoods), prosecute people seeking abortions (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/she-got-abortion-so-texas-cop-used-83000-cameras-track-her-down), incarcerate people taking action against fascist car salesmen (https://www.motorbiscuit.com/tesla-vehicles-car-showroom-georiga/)… the list of evil doing goes on. This doesn’t even include the amount of fucking water and rare-earth minerals it takes to build their not-cute data centers and drone and camera factories.

Yet the shame continues! August 4-6, Flock is holding a conference in Atlanta, GA, at the Intercontinental Buckhead (https://www.flocksafety.com/flock-forward), with a cast of truly ghoulish characters— the police chief who presided over Memphis police officer’s murder of Tyre Nichols, loss prevention heads, drone as first responder advocates, and the company’s own C-Suite. We think the fuck not; let the games commence!

OBJECTIVE:

Fuck these flocks. In the run-up to this conference, we have an opportunity to have some fun with their investments that are terrorizing our neighborhoods and poisoning the earth. Success will look like disabling their hardware, disrupting their supply chain, and damaging their reputation by embarrassing them at their stupid little show to discourage potential investors and contractors.

This edition of the game runs for a limited time only. As Flock scales up through lucrative new contracts (like those being hawked at their summer conference/circle-jerk) and brand new factories, their technologies will evolve. Let’s clip their wings by August 4 to show investors that Flock brings crime to the streets.

HOW TO PLAY:

BEGINNER:
• Add to this map of flocks https://deflock.me/; https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25969945-apd-cam-and-lpr-list-export-202306202/
• Make and distribute agitprop
• Research and publish investor/contractor/collaborator information

INTERMEDIATE:
• Join the leaderboard by destroying physical cameras and posting your city’s tallies to counterinfo sites. https://unravel.noblogs.org/new-zine-birds-of-a-feather-destroy-a-flock-together/,
• Conduct hardware research on their newest tech by dismantling cameras, investigating, and reporting findings
• Theatrics, shenanigans, and tomfoolery at their August conference

EXPERT:
• Production facilities, personnel, transportation, oh my! Tread lightly and choose wisely; you’re soundly in enemy territory here.

EXTENSION PACK:
• Coordinate with other AGs, city events like large protests or adverse weather conditions, and other contextual factors to maximize your impact & design your own strategies.

The announcers of this game take inspiration from Richmond, Philadelphia, and other campaigns calling for a concerted focus on Flock and other cameras. Credit goes where it is due for inspiration.

Have fun!

Maps of Over 2000 ALPRs and Other City-Owned Cameras in So-Called Atlanta w/Accompanying Zine “Mapping the Surveillance State (to Kill it)”

Posted on by dirtysouth

We mapped the street-level surveillance of so-called atlanta. Our goal is to make offensive and defensive approaches to surveillance technology more possible and for this work to be replicable.

We prioritized collecting data on ALPRs (Automatic License Plate Readers) and the city’s ‘Shield Program’ cameras. We recorded 872 Flock, 450 Motorola, and 2,316 city-owned cameras across all of fulton county and some parts of dekalb (ideally we would like all of metro atl– gwinnett, cobb, clayton, in addition to the rest of dekalb county– mapped out).

The files are organized by camera type and can be found here:

https://cryptpad.fr/drive/#/2/drive/view/WHudg0XaLup8pPLQKcU1fVnxBV8tnLQ0MWw4xm6+m6o/

The .kml files can be imported in Organic Maps, OSM (Open Street Maps), or GIS software. In Organic Maps, they will show up as layers that can be shown/hidden as lists under the bookmarks tab (star icon). The .csv files are spreadsheets of the raw data. Feel free to publish this data on other platforms.

Each camera is identified according to type and labeled with its orientation. We used the term “dingleberry” to specify the PTZ (Point-Tilt-Zoom) cameras affixed to hanging pipe (most often seen at intersections). “Shotgun” refers to directional cameras also often seen at intersections. The “Red Light” camera list contains cameras suspected to be red light cameras, but we actually have no clue what they are (small gray rectangular cameras). While we carefully reviewed all collected data, there may be some redundancies and inaccuracies, so don’t solely rely on this data to plan actions. Do your own scouting first.

We also wrote a guide (below) on how we went about collecting and organizing this data, with the hope that it might be useful to anyone interested in doing this work in their own area.

We desire the complete destruction of the entire panopticon and all of the colonial infrastructure it seeks to safeguard. May this information aid in that project.

against borders and hope,
some nihilist secretaries

Mapping the Surveillance State (to Kill it) [Imposed for Printing]
Mapping the Surveillance State (to Kill it) [pdf]

via anonymous submission

ICE contracts Southeast Georgia prison to create largest detention center in U.S – Folkston, GA

Posted on by dirtysouth

June 13, 2025

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is expanding its processing center in Folkston, Ga. to double the current capacity, establishing the largest ICE detention center in the country.

The federal government brokered a deal with private prison company GEO to contract a now-defunct prison in Folkston as an additional holding space existing ICE facility.

“They’re going to be brought together, and when they come together, some it will be a detention center. Some of it will be a processing center, and some of it will be just for them to get ready to transfer,” Rep. Buddy Carter (GA-01) said.

According to GEO, the facility is under contract with ICE as of June 6.

Found on Mainstream News

ICE protesters and police clash on Chamblee Tucker Road – Doraville, GA

Posted on by dirtysouth

June 14, 2025

A protest against federal immigration enforcement escalated Saturday afternoon along Chamblee Tucker Road, where police used tear gas and arrested multiple demonstrators after declaring the gathering an unlawful assembly.

The protest, organized to oppose the Trump administration’s immigration policies and ICE operations, drew dozens of people waving flags and chanting along the road near a shopping center. The crowd soon filled the sidewalks.

The central effort of the DeKalb protest, organized by the Party for Socialism and Liberation and local activists, was a march down Chamblee Tucker Road. The protesters reportedly wanted to march onto I-285, but a large law enforcement presence was massed to block them.

DeKalb County police say the demonstrators ignored repeated orders to stay on the sidewalk, prompting officers—many in riot gear from both DeKalb County Police and the Georgia State Patrol—to respond with crowd control measures.

Around 1:45 p.m., [news source] reporters saw officers in riot gear shooting tear gas to break up the rally.

After police threw the gas and moved the crowd, protesters could be heard chanting, “oink, oink piggy, piggy” and “stop cop city.” 

DeKalb officials reported at least eight arrests as of 5 p.m.

Among those arrested was Mario Guevara, a prominent metro Atlanta journalist known for his reporting on immigration raids. Attorneys for journalist Mario Guevara say he was here on a work authorization and is trying to get a green card, but remains in the DeKalb County Jail on an ICE hold despite being granted a signature bond following his arrest on Saturday.

Compiled from mainstream news sources.

Clashes at anti-ICE protest on Buford Highway – Brookhaven, GA

Posted on by dirtysouth

June 11, 2025

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered Tuesday night along Buford Highway in Brookhaven to protest recent immigration raids and deportations carried out under the Trump administration, joining a wave of unrest that has swept across the country.

The protest, held outside Northeast Plaza, drew a large and passionate crowd of activists, families, and community members. Many carried signs, chanted in English and Spanish, and shared personal stories of family members detained or deported.

Officials say they arrested one person around 7:30 p.m. and five people were arrested after the protest continued past the time that officers and organizers agreed for the rally to end. 

Charges range from disorderly conduct to assaulting a peace officer.

In a press release Wednesday, the Brookhaven Police Department said their officers responded to the organized protest in the 3300 block of Buford Highway, which was led by the Atlanta branch of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

Police said the demonstration began peacefully, and Brookhaven officers “maintained open and constructive communication” with organizers throughout the protest, which remained nonviolent for most of the evening.

Around 7:30 p.m., police said they made their first arrest of the night – a man who allegedly walked into the road despite multiple warnings from officers to stay on the sidewalk.

[News source] cameras were on the scene as clashes between officers and the protesters began around 9:30 p.m. 

Protesters set off fireworks as officers moved to break up the remainder of the rally.

Brookhaven police say that the officers made multiple announcements of the agreed-upon cutoff, telling the remaining group that the “assembly would be deemed unlawful” after that time.

Once the cutoff arrived, authorities say several people began throwing rocks and shooting firework mortars, which led to the officers using tear gas to disperse the crowd.

Officials say that three Brookhaven Police vehicles were damaged in the incident; they described that as including “multiple windows being smashed in.”

Found on Mainstream News

fuck racists

Posted on by dirtysouth

For years, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a white supremacist group that exists to glorify slavery, organized a neo-Nazi rally in Stone Mountain Park with full state cooperation. They celebrate in a tacky and racist costume bought with the stolen riches of the Black and Indigenous peoples. White supremacists should not feel safe as long as they actively work for the destruction of our Black, Indigenous, queer safety. It is not difficult to find their emails, addresses and employers. Use the tools at your disposal (not just a useless rally) to prevent these fools from using public resources for shit. Let us completely stop their racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic, homophobic and antisemitic beliefs.

At one point on the night of April 12, a group of people interested in achieving this goal visited one, Timothy Pilgrim, who is the commander of the Georgia division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans at his house in Marietta, GA, in the 20 Old Fuller Mill Road. We painted the sayings “NO RALLY” and “NO SCV” on their house, their windows and their entrance, we poured lawn killer in his front yard, stuck glue in his front lock, and left a piece of roadkill on his welcome carpet. We knew that these cowards would quickly move to cover their humiliation, so we also take photos to share them with you. Although the quality is low, we hope that our anger can be seen clearly.

House calls have long been one of the favorite tactics of South white supremacists. They used intimidation and humiliation to bully, threaten and sometimes even kill members of the community. Well, anarchists can also make house calls. Consider this our burning cross. CANCEL THE RALLY.

via anonymous submission

Four Construction Vehicles Burned at Data Center in Georgia

Posted on by dirtysouth

Anonymous Submission:

At the end of March, some entered the construction site of the data center hypercampus east of Atlanta, Georgia and burned 4 construction vehicles. This was done to oppose data centers that quickly exhaust the limited water supply of the region. This is another example of the country’s tendencies to externalize the costs of their relentless wealth hoarding to southeastern United States. They have chosen the south as an area of ​​sacifice, that is, a place to deposit the most unpleasant industries and their waste. For them, our home is barely available within such parameters, as it can still be used as a landfill. Thus, the people who acted insist that those who try to steal our water, air and land must at least endure loss and embarrassment on their way to hell.

This specific data center has aimed at facilitating AI connection for local companies. AI not only use more water than other computer processes, but is quickly becoming a way for the state to increase its intrusion in our personal life. And more and more are used by police and state forces to monitor those who oppose them. The people who burned these machines do not believe that our thoughts and movements should be used for profit or incarceration.

If you are interested in taking similar steps against such opponents, there are many opportunities. Atlanta Region is one of the locations with the highest activity of the data center developers, but they appear across the country. Companies owned by these centers often are not based in regions in which construction happens. No matter where you are, you are likely to be able to identify a project, facility or corporate office associated with data centers. There are many opportunities to take action. Some neighbors in Atlanta were successful with traditional organizing approaches. However, when politicians inevitably sell you out, we hope that this action reminds you of alternatives.

Here are some tips that may guide you to identify potential targets. Driving in search of construction sites can produce good results. Notifications of public hearings for rezoning and new constructions can also be helpful. Comparing the logos and the name of the corporation on signs outside the construction via Tor Browser on Tails will also help narrow it down. Check that your research is done safely on tails before acting; there are many methods and techniques that others have developed to limit the state’s ability to stop you.