Faculty Spotlight: Andy Battle on Capitalism and Urbanization, Eric Adams, Cop City, and the Right to the City
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The Outside Agitator in the Atlanta Forest
Eric Adams: I want to talk about something that is a particularly timely issue of some concern with those of us that have interest in abolition and defunding the police. And that topic is COP city and the protests that have been ongoing in the Atlanta forest. He says he was wondering if you, with your long sense of U.S. history, could speak a little bit about what your impression of this figure of the outside agitator is. "I think it has a long history as a way of excluding some people from what is claimed to be the legitimate political community making decisions"
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