No Cop City, No Cop World

"No Cop City, No Cop World is a story about organizers in motion who battled and continue to fight for their community against politicians, police, and organized capital. You will leave with more questions than when you began. This is the mark of an excellent book. The lessons from Stop Cop City should inform our current organizing efforts everywhere. The book underscores that criminalization is the indispensable fuel of fascism. It’s timely, necessary, and required reading.”  —Mariame Kaba, organizer and coauthor of Let This Radicalize You



“No Cop City, No Cop World is no David vs Goliath story. Rather, it is about waking a sleeping giant—a united coalition of grassroots social movements—to challenge a corporate-backed, ecocidal police state. Together, these powerful essays on the struggle in Atlanta offer vital lessons for how to resist the many cop cities on the horizon. The lesson is clear: only a people united, moved by visions of abolition and militant action, can stop a Cop World.”
—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination


"The reason that the struggle to Stop Cop City has such importance is that it reflects the struggles of the future. “Cop City Is Everywhere,” the book’s editors write in the conclusion, but also “Resistance Is Everywhere.” As a tremendous document capturing the heartbeats and voices of a struggle from which we have a lot to learn to educate us on the battles of the class war we are currently fighting, it is a compass for liberation." —brian bean for New Politics

"A masterclass in mapping power and movement building delivered by a chorus of community organizers on the front lines of the fight to Stop Cop City. This inspiring collection points toward what is possible through principled struggle and a collective commitment to a multiracial, multigenerational, multi-tendency, multi-tactic, united front to fight for and practice a world beyond policing, extraction, displacement and organized abandonment of Black and Indigenous communities and the lands they call home.

The experiments, lessons, reflections, and strategies for navigating solidarity, struggle, conflict, repair, realignment, and resistance to repression reflected in these insightful and beautifully written essays are essential for everyone committed to fighting the violence of policing, authoritarianism, and fascism in the U.S. in the current moment and those to come. Next step: Stop Cop Nation!" —Andrea J. Ritchie, co-founder Interrupting Criminalization, author of Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies, and co-author of No More Police: A Case for Abolition

“No Cop City, No Cop World is a bold and uncompromising call to action. Blending powerful storytelling with incisive strategy, the authors bring Angela Davis’s chilling warning to life: “If they come for me in the morning, they will come for you in the night.’ Through the lens of Atlanta, they offer a glimpse into the global rise of policing as a response to the anxieties and unrest of late-stage capitalism. This book is a rare and exquisite fusion of unflinching diagnosis and visionary prescription, a sharp tool for cutting through the noise as we resist and reimagine the carceral status quo.”
—Ruha Benjamin, author of Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want and Imagination: A Manifesto



“Few books will give you a better sense of our times. Or of the love, kindness, joy, music, dancing, intellectual expertise, and irrepressible determination that form the backbone of the social movements resisting authoritarian repression. Share this book with someone in your life, discuss its profound lessons, absorb its spirit together, and take its teachings out into the world.”
—Alec Karakatsanis, founder of Civil Rights Corps and author of Usual Cruelty and Copaganda



“In this time of unbridled police domination, when, as Antonio Gramsci put it, the old is dying and the new struggles to be born, No Cop City, No Cop World provides us with a methodology of struggle, a praxis of revolutionary optimism, and a blueprint for what is to be done. The diverse and powerful voices represented in this volume warn us about the real-time dangers of police and policing—and guide us on the necessity of organizing against these and other forms of state and imperialist violence. This is a book for those who not only demand freedom, liberation, sovereignty, and self-determination but who are also willing, against all odds, to fight for it.” 
—Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly, associate professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University and author of Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States



“In the Weelaunee forest as in the Atlanta city hall, the future is being made. Across the petitions, protests, direct actions, and encampments to stop cop city, the future is already here. The fight to Stop Cop City is among the most urgent, most riveting movements of our time. No Cop City, No Cop World brings together some of the sharpest insights from the frontlines of the abolitionist movement, be they forest defenders or community organizers, lawyers or media workers. Like the movement it chronicles, this book shows abolition to be a proliferation of strategies in pursuit of something called freedom. It takes all of us, dear reader, including you.”
—Dan Berger, author of Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family's Journey 



“No Cop City, No Cop World encapsulates precisely what is historic and crucial about the Stop Cop City movement and its place at the radical intersection of abolitionist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist, Black liberation, Indigenous, territorial, and climate struggle. The text, like the movement, refuses to treat these fights—and the oppression they face—in isolation. The essays collected here, from scholars and frontline organizers, reflect Stop Cop City’s insistence on tactical and strategic diversity. These are lessons we must take forward if we are to forge a No Cop World.”
—Natasha Lennard, author of Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life



“Over the past few years, the Stop Cop City movement has shaped how people across the country think about policing and power. No Cop City, No Cop World traces the story of this fight from principles to practice, and dares to ask what true justice and safety look like. This book is not just about one movement—it’s about all movements that center the people over punishment. It’s a fascinating book about hope, about the fight for justice, and about a better future—not just for Atlanta, but for the world. I loved every second of it.”
—Josie Duffy Rice, writer, journalist, and host of the Unreformed podcast



“Our world is a world of police, and every city is a cop city. But this reality is neither inevitable nor eternal, and the turn to cop cities is a testament to the desperate fragility of police power. They expect resistance, and we will give them that and more. This book provides an essential map of the terrain and a strategy for the battles on the horizon.”
—Geo Maher, author of A World Without Police and coordinator, W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction



"No Cop City gives us a rich understanding of the history, context, and players in the struggle in and outside Atlanta, as well as lessons that could prove very valuable for similar struggles in numerous other places. Cop City is not a national project but a model for a militarized war rehearsal ground coming soon to a metropolitan area near you. The book also makes clear the connections to war, the training of police by the Israeli military, the military equipment and language and thinking. Atlanta is our most unequal and most surveilled U.S. city with one of the deepest traditions of racism. But as it does, so others will follow." —David Swanson