In August 2023, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr brought an unprecedented indictment against 61 people in what became the largest political RICO case in U.S. history. The sweeping prosecution targeted activists, organizers, and legal observers connected to the movement to Stop Cop City, the proposed militarized police training compound in Atlanta’s Weelaunee Forest. Among those indicted was Priscilla Grim, a longtime cultural worker, writer, and media organizer.

From the beginning, these prosecutions have aimed to criminalize solidarity, mutual aid, and protest itself. The charges grew out of opposition to Cop City and demands for accountability after the state’s murder of forest defender, Tortuguita. Priscilla was arrested for standing against the militarization of public space and for being part of a movement fighting for a different vision of safety and community.

Three years in, the threat of prosecution remains.

On March 5, 2023, Priscilla was arrested in Atlanta with more than 30 others at a music festival in the Weelaunee Forest during the Stop Cop City week of action. She had planned to camp and help organize group meditations. Instead, she was jailed for a month in DeKalb County on outrageous domestic terrorism charges.

Human rights organizations across the country denounced those arrests as illegal.

Denied bond twice despite the lack of evidence against her, Priscilla endured brutal and unsanitary conditions in DeKalb County Jail, where incarcerated people faced flooding, plumbing failures, abuse and mistreatment, especially those with mental health needs, erratic meals, and little or no access to sunlight, fresh air, or recreation.

She later wrote about those experiences for Scalawag and Hammer & Hope, offering both testimony and practical reflections shaped by her time in DeKalb County Jail and Fulton County’s Rice Street Jail.

Since then, the process itself has become a punishment. The indictment has cast a long shadow over Priscilla’s life, keeping her and so many others from turning the page and living freely.

April 2026 Update

On December 30, 2025, Judge Kevin Farmer dismissed racketeering charges against all 61 people, including Priscilla, who had been swept into the Stop Cop City RICO case. Then, on March 6, 2026, a new judge heard motions from Priscilla and 13 others seeking dismissal of unindicted and unprosecuted domestic terrorism charges.

This is meaningful progress, but the most odious allegations remain. The office of Georgia State Attorney General Chris Carr is working on the RICO appeal and may seek re-indictment on those charges, dragging out a process that has already consumed three years of people’s lives. The legal threat is not over, and neither is the emotional, financial, and political toll.

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 while continuing to work 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 THE STOP COP CITY ATL 61.

Every purchase, share, and donation helps her stay on her feet.
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!