Listen Now: We Came to the Forest
Bunga Bunga
Wondery
4.3 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Vienna is working a delivery job when she hears about Cop City, a massive police training facility planned for Atlanta. She decides to join the activists trying to stop construction. When Vienna arrives in the South River Forest, she quickly finds a community, a cause and a love unlike any other. But the events of one morning shatters everything. Vienna and everyone connected to the forest begin to question what are you willing to die for? Wondery, Campside and Tenderfoot TV present: We Came to the Forest.
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| 0:00.0 | In the depths of an Atlanta forest, a clash between activists and authorities ended in tragedy, |
| 0:05.6 | but the official narrative doesn't end up. We Came to the Forest is a new investigative podcast |
| 0:10.7 | from Wondry, Campsite Media, and Tenderfoot TV. It peels back the layers of secrecy surrounding a deadly |
| 0:16.9 | confrontation that shook a community to its core. Through exclusive recordings and never |
| 0:21.6 | before release eyewitness accounts, host Matthew Scher exposes the hidden truths behind a nighttime |
| 0:26.8 | shootout that left one activist dead and countless lies forever changed by a web of conflicting |
| 0:32.2 | testimonies, missing evidence, and allegations of a cover-up reaching the highest levels of law enforcement. |
| 0:38.4 | From the idealistic dreams of young environmentalists to the complex motivations of local |
| 0:43.0 | officials, this story challenges our understanding of justice, activism, and the lengths people |
| 0:47.8 | will go to to protect what they believe in. What actually happened in the forest? You're about |
| 0:53.0 | to hear a clip from We Came to the Forest. |
| 0:55.3 | Follow We Came to the Forest on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:06.4 | Campsite Media. |
| 1:10.8 | On a chilly evening in January, an activist named Vienna Forest goes on a date with her partner in Atlanta. |
| 1:18.0 | It's been a long, rough month for Vienna, the longest in some ways she can remember, and she's spent much of it lying low, crashing on the floor at a friend's house. |
| 1:29.4 | Her partner, who goes by Tortugita, that's little turtle in Spanish, has decided that it's |
| 1:34.6 | time for her to get out of the house. |
| 1:36.9 | And we went to get Vietnamese and Mexican food, just got a whole buffet. |
| 1:43.8 | And Tortugito was, like, at their peak, they were just so happy. |
| 1:47.1 | They quit cigarettes. |
| 1:48.7 | They were just really doing good. |
| 1:51.6 | A couple hours later, Vienna and Tort pack into a sedan, along with two other friends, |
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