Garrison Davis

Quoting an Atlanta anarchist,

A lot of people will argue their opinions about what was the stifling thing.

I think some of the more electorally or mass movement, big tent-minded people would argue that March 5th takes a lot of the wind out of the sails.

I think a lot of people would disagree with that, just because you can build on the momentum of a March 5th.

You can build on a triumphant battlefield victory.

It's a lot harder to build on just everyone getting more charges and also people getting their doors kicked in really early in the morning.

It's hard to build on that, unquote.

Despite the RICO charges, acts of sabotage did continue, but isolated sabotage alone wasn't enough to propel the movement.

After the referendum campaign was effectively nullified by the state in fall of 2023, there was a lack of willingness among its organizers to engage in serious efforts to get people engaged in mass actions or pressure campaigns targeted against elected officials.

Something multiple activists in Atlanta have mentioned to me as a contributing factor to the eventual decline in momentum during this limbo stage is a sort of failure to prefigure alternative strategies and adapt after the forest occupation became impossible to maintain.

Especially considering just how much weight people had put into that strategy.

but then did not come up with a clear next step after the police were able to suppress that tactic by completing their OTA loops and improving their own strategies.

The ODA loop is a four-step military decision-making model used across a large variety of professional fields, including policing.

Step one, observe.

Gather as much information as possible.

Then, orient.

Synthesize that information with background knowledge.

Decide on the next course of action using that newly synthesized information.

And finally, act.

And the results of your actions should then send you back to step one.