Delta Air Lines
Cop City
See Atlanta Forest Defenders
The Atlanta Police Foundation is a public-private partnership model organization that privately funds and implements programming which according to their website "creates a safe and just city for every citizen of Atlanta, driving out crime and enhancing the safety of our neighborhoods." [1]
The APF refused to disclose the private donors funding Cop City when the Atlanta City Council was holding discussions about approving the project. *add source*
In 2021 LittleSis and Color of Changed profiled 1,400 corporate connections to 22 major police foundations, including the APF. [2]
The institutions donating to the Atlanta Police Foundation span across many industries and include: Amazon, Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Waffle House, Axon Enterprises, Atlanta Hawks & State Farm Arena, Georgia State University, Inspire Brands, The Home Depot, UPS, Delta Air Lines, and Chick-Fill-A. [3] Cox Enterprises is also an investor in the APF and is the owner of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.[4]
Emissions
Greenwashing
In February of 2020 Delta Airlines pledged to become carbon neutral through the purchasing of carbon credits.[5] Delta committed to spending 1 billion dollars, over a ten year period, on the carbon offset credits. A recent lawsuit, filed in May of 2023, against Delta claims that their carbon offset plan is false advertising, because carbon credits do nothing to quell the climate crisis; The lawsuit was filed in California by the law firm, Haderlein and Kouyoumdjian LLP [6] Krikor Kouyoumdjian, in a statement regarding the lawsuit, said
When companies say: ‘Don’t worry about our emissions, they’re sorted,’ they are communicating complacency. They are letting consumers pay to feel better and not have to worry about the impact of their consumption. But that is counterfactual to reality. It is not something that you can pay away.
When I hear ‘carbon neutral’, I think you’re not doing anything wrong, you’re not hurting the environment in any way. It’s like you don’t exist. That’s what the words mean to any rational person: that we can participate in your business without any guilt. Most of us who care about the environment walk around with this giant cloud of guilt that our very existence hurts the environment in a bunch of ways.[7]
Sources
- ↑ https://atlantapolicefoundation.org/
- ↑ https://policefoundations.org/
- ↑ https://news.littlesis.org/2022/11/15/meet-the-major-corporations-and-cultural-institutions-helping-build-cop-city-in-atlanta/
- ↑ https://theintercept.com/2021/08/11/atlanta-police-training-center/
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/feb/14/delta-carbon-neutral-airline-plan
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/30/delta-air-lines-lawsuit-carbon-neutrality-aoe
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/30/delta-air-lines-lawsuit-carbon-neutrality-aoe