In Atlanta, four Georgia State University students and a local resident were arrested at a sit-in outside the Georgia State president’s office, demanding the university reach a community benefits agreement with local residents over the plan to develop 67 acres of land known as Turner Field. The university is seeking to turn the field into a football stadium and university housing. Local residents fear the $300 million plan will lead to gentrification and displacement. Longtime local residents have set up an ongoing tent city in protest and have been camped out at Turner Field for more than 10 days. This is Sherise Brown.

Sherise Brown: “We are out here because we are trying to get a negotiation for a community benefit contract that is binding and legal with Georgia State University, Carter Development and Oakwood Development. And we’re going to be out here as long as it takes, until they listen to us and know that this is not a joke, this is our livelihood, and we’re willing to stay on this front line as long as we have to.”