Garrison Davis

And now with this specific localized struggle at completion, both organizers and the state are carrying lessons forward as Trump expands police power, deploys National Guard, increases ICE operations, and continues repression against organizers protesting the Palestinian genocide.

To quote an Atlanta anarchist, quote, I think it's a matter of reimagining the struggle that you're a part of.

Insurrectionary struggle is often an imaginative one.

And if you were part of this thing here, you are now like a veteran of the fight in Atlanta.

This thing, like this specific thing that was defend the Atlanta forest, stop cop city, is something to be learned from and valued.

and also moved on from.

And to move on from while taking lessons learned, experience gained, and connections made, and following those things through to their logical conclusion, such that the state has as well.

They have taken lessons learned from here and followed them through to their nationwide logical conclusions.

We are necessitated to do that as well.

That doesn't mean you have given up.

It just means that there's new shit happening.

It's helpful to reimagine yourself not as just, we're in Atlanta, we're doing Stop Cop City, to now you are engaged in a nationwide anti-fascist struggle against, like, a fascist police state, unquote.

This nationwide focus has always been an aspect of Stop Cop City.

One of the movement's key slogans was, Cop City is Everywhere.

Organizers did speaking tours around the country to educate about the movement, and thousands of people from all around the country and the world traveled to Atlanta to participate in Weeks of Action.

The physical fight to stop Cop City also expanded outside of Atlanta, with solidarity attacks and direct actions as a part of the tertiary targeting campaign against subcontractors and insurance companies.

This nationwide drift also happened on the side of the state, with similar police training facilities having been proposed in dozens of other cities.

And the strategies of repression used in Atlanta have been copied on a national level.

quoting an Atlanta anarchist, quote, now the cops are spreading out and their strategies and the strategies of repression, both militantly on the ground and legally, and even their propaganda and their messaging has gone outwards from here.

And so too then must our lessons learned, both in how we prepare and engage in struggle in Atlanta,