In August 2023, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr filed an unprecedented indictment against 61 individuals, launching the largest political RICO trial in U.S. history. This sweeping and punitive move targets activists, organizers, and legal observers associated with the movement to Stop Cop City—a militarized police training compound planned for Atlanta’s Weelaunee Forest. Among those indicted is Priscilla Grim, a long-time cultural worker and media organizer.

Framed around opposition to the controversial Cop City project, the charges aim to criminalize solidarity, mutual aid, and protest itself. Priscilla faces outrageous charges for standing against the militarization of public space.

Two years later, the state is still coming for Priscilla.

On March 5, 2023, our comrade was arrested in Atlanta with 30+ people at a music festival in the Weelaunee Forest during the Stop Cop City week of action. She planned to camp and organize group meditations. Instead, she was jailed for over a month in Dekalb County under ludicrous domestic terrorism charges. Multiple human rights organizations across the country have denounced these arrests as illegal. Denied bond twice despite no evidence against her, she endured inhumane and unsanitary conditions in Atlanta’s notorious Dekalb County Jail, in which there are constant plumbing issues, flooding in the cells, mistreatment and abuse of all in their cages, but especially those with mental health needs, irregular mealtimes, and little to no opportunity to go outside for sunlight, fresh air, and recreation. She wrote about her experience for Scalawag magazine and followed up with another piece for Hammer & Hope, outlining suggestions to help survive pretrial detention incarceration inspired by her stays in both Dekalb County Jail and the equally deadly Rice Street Jail of Fulton County.

Now, two years later, the state is pushing forward with a dangerous and baseless RICO prosecution against her and dozens of others. Everyone, including Priscilla, had to return to jail for over 24 hours in Fulton County for the arraignment. As of June 2025, hearings are underway, and motions are being heard. The charges are serious. The stakes are high—and the toll is heavy.

Priscilla is a mother, a writer, an artist, and a beloved community member.

She’s always shown up. Throughout her decades of involvement in grassroots movements for social, racial, and economic justice, Priscilla has served as an editor of the Occupied Wall Street Journal, writer of movement emails and social media accounts, builder of websites, sometime street actionista, sometime electioneering canvasser, and bagger of groceries for mutual aid efforts during the beginning of COVID. She continues to uphold the spirit of Occupy through social media, print, and other efforts. She has enriched the lives of countless people in her circles over the years, radiating supportive energy to all she meets. Like many, Priscilla felt called to Atlanta because she wants to build a world where people have the resources needed to care for their communities and keep them safe, rather than directing those same resources toward institutions that have a track record of doing just the opposite.

However, she can’t currently fight these charges and continue working full-time. Legal defense is a job in itself. She needs our help.

How you can support our comrade:

💸 Send a contribution directly via Venmo, Cash App, or PayPal
👕 Buy a “Hello Comrade. You Are Loved.” t-shirt (or another shirt designed by Priscilla)—all proceeds go to her defense
📚 Pick up one of the books she’s been published in: World War 3 Illustrated, No Cop City, No Cop World, or grab her zine, How to Survive Jail
📣 Share this website widely with anyone who might want to support the campaign to FREE PRISCILLA AND THE STOP COP CITY ATL 61.

Every purchase, share, and donation helps her stay on her feet and fight back.
Priscilla stood up for the forest, for community, and for a better world. Let’s stand up for her now.
We keep us safe—and we don’t let the state disappear our people.

Anyone and everyone can find ways to support Priscilla (and the other Atlanta arrestees)!

Sign the statement of solidarity with Stop Cop City defendants.

Share this website to help Priscilla and her daughter fundraise to stay afloat while they fight these charges.

Sign up for updates about her case and to hear from her in the future! Please let us know if you would like to contribute any particular skills or resources to this effort or join Priscilla’s defense committee.

Share the linktree for all the Stop Cop City RICO defendant fundraisers.

Follow Fire Ant Movement Defense for the latest on all the Stop Cop City cases.

We keep us safe, and we will stop the state from putting us down and repressing free speech. Let’s show Priscilla we have her back!