Garrison Davis

Failure to act at all or too slowly often ends in defeat.

To quote an anonymous Atlanta anarchist, quote, you need contingency lines, right?

Either things that you're willing to escalate in the current line of strategy that you're doing to make it still viable, or a complete change in strategy.

It could be change in tactics to something new and exciting.

Either of those are valid options.

Doing both of them at the same time can be extremely effective.

But at the end of the day, you have to when the cops start to break out of paralysis.

An example from any eco-defense or occupation, whether in Atlanta or somewhere else, when cops start to break out of that paralysis, you have to escalate in some way.

The occupation, the defense of it, has to escalate in some way to prevent them from feeling safe coming in or trying to.

Or the physical space of action has to change.

Because now they need to recalibrate to, oh shit, like, not only is the occupation less assailable than we thought, because there's been a change in tactics, but there's also a massive uptick in shit going on everywhere else.

And that significantly impedes their ability to have an Oda loop to do battle with.

You can even look at the ice pickups that got a lot of attention in Worcester, Massachusetts.

They were not expecting that many people just to show up.

You can see when the crowd starts to hit like a critical mass of rage and getting really close to those guys that they fucking panic.

They freak out.

Like it's very clear, even just in the small amount of their faces and their movements, that you can see that they were panicking.

Unquote.

Similar scenes have since taken place in Chicago and Portland.

And I've seen this before with Bortec during the 2020 protests in Portland.