{"id":1015896,"date":"2023-03-06T20:28:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T20:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=f3a43e4660947ff7cc4bc06a3e4ff2e9"},"modified":"2023-03-06T20:28:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T20:28:46","slug":"the-struggle-against-cop-city-has-decades-old-roots-in-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/03\/06\/the-struggle-against-cop-city-has-decades-old-roots-in-atlanta\/","title":{"rendered":"The Struggle Against \u201cCop City\u201d Has Decades-Old Roots in Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story was first published by Prism. On Jan. 18, 2023, a squad of local and state police officers marched into the Weelaunee Forest in southeast Atlanta, where they shot and killed a young, queer, Indigenous-Venezuelan protester named Manuel &ldquo;Tortuguita&rdquo; Ter&aacute;n. Tortuguita was one of many Atlanta forest defenders, a decentralized group of activists that has been living in the forest since 2021...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/the-struggle-against-cop-city-has-decades-old-roots-in-atlanta\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/the-struggle-against-cop-city-has-decades-old-roots-in-atlanta\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city has a history of elevating business interests and wealthy white communities over Black and working-class folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26820,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2551,41204,21860,905,4721,5040,24780,56383],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26820"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015897,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015896\/revisions\/1015897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}