Welcome to Current Affairs. My name is Nathan Robinson. I am the editor-in-chief of Current Affairs Magazine, and I am joined today by Jamie Peck, activist, podcaster, writer. She has been involved with the Stop Cop City movement, which is what she is here to talk to us about today. She is also a co-host of the Party Girls podcast. Jamie Peck, welcome to current affairs.

Thank you. It's nice to finally be here.

Oh, I've been looking forward to it for so long.

Jamie, we're big fans of your work around here.

I want to ask you this.

I'll let to start off with, though.

You are, as I understand it, a New Yorker.

And yet you have been heavily involved with the Stop Cop City movement,

which is about a police

training facility based in Atlanta, in Georgia.

Let me ask you, how does someone who is not from Atlanta, as I understand it, doesn't live

in Atlanta?

How do you become involved with something?

Why do you think this, you know, this police training center in Atlanta. How do you become involved with something? Why do you think this,

you know, this police training center in Atlanta has such significance for you that you've

devoted such a large part of your time to being part of this movement?

Well, I'm so glad you asked me that, Nathan. And the answer is simple. First, I went to George Soros' outside agitators training

camp, and we trained in the arts of outside agitation to, you know, just basically go to Atlanta

and AstroTurf movement and cause anarchy and chaos. No, it's a good question. Seriously. I think the struggle over

Cop City in Atlanta is not just a local struggle. It is a local struggle, but it is also one

that reaches into lots of different places. They are trying to build or already have built or

currently building similar projects in almost all 50

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