{"id":1069943,"date":"2023-06-06T16:34:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T16:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=26097a43a87f43393599b563a986bbe8"},"modified":"2023-06-06T16:34:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T16:34:30","slug":"atlanta-city-council-oks-67m-for-cop-city-as-thousands-showed-up-in-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/06\/06\/atlanta-city-council-oks-67m-for-cop-city-as-thousands-showed-up-in-opposition\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta City Council OKs $67M for Cop City as Thousands Showed Up in Opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents in Atlanta shattered the record for turnout at a city council meeting Monday, as thousands lined up to voice their opposition to the construction of a massive police training facility known as Cop City. Ultimately, the Atlanta City Council voted 11-4 to approve $30 million in additional funding for the project, bringing the total to $67 million &mdash; more than double the original estimate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/video\/atlanta-city-council-oks-67m-for-cop-city-as-thousands-showed-up-in-opposition\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/video\/atlanta-city-council-oks-67m-for-cop-city-as-thousands-showed-up-in-opposition\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. James Woodall and Atlanta Solidarity Fund organizer Marlon Kautz, who was arrested in a SWAT raid, provide updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1462,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,2551,61192,41204,405,463,61193,61194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069943"}],"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\/1462"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069944,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1069943\/revisions\/1069944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1069943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1069943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}