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Camera assistant Alex Buhlig plays his guitar outside his Atlanta apartment on Oct. 18, 2023. With the actors' strike still ongoing and filming largely shut down, Buhlig has been teaching guitar lessons to make ends meet. (AP Photo/R.J. Rico)

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As the 'Hollywood of the South,' Atlanta has boomed. Its actors and crew are now at a crossroads
By R.J. RICO - Associated Press
Fri,10/27/23-7:47AM , 108 Reads
ATLANTA (AP) — A lighting technician is mowing lawns. A camera assistant is teaching guitar again. An actor has thought about shifting careers.
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Protestors reacts before council members voted 11-4 to approve legislation to fund the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, June 6, 2023, in Atlanta. Sixty-one people have been indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges following a long-running state investigation into protests against a proposed police and training facility in the Atlanta area that critics call “Cop City.” The Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, indictment under the state’s racketeering law was released by Fulton County officials on Tuesday, Sept. 5. (Jason Getz/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP, File)

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61 indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges connected to 'Stop Cop City' movement
By R.J. RICO - Associated Press
Tue,09/05/23-12:51PM , 107 Reads
ATLANTA (AP) — Sixty-one people have been indicted in Georgia on racketeering charges following a long-running state investigation into protests against a planned police and firefighter training facility in the Atlanta area that critics call “Cop City.”
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Community organizer Kamau Franklin speaks during a news conference outside Atlanta's City Hall, Wednesday, June 7, 2023, to announce an effort to force a referendum that would allow Atlanta voters to decide whether the construction of a proposed police and firefighter training center should proceed. Under the proposed referendum, voters would choose whether they want to repeal the ordinance that authorized the lease of the city-owned land upon which the project, which opponents call Cop City, is being built. (AP Photo/R.J. Rico)

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Atlanta organizers unveil plan to stop 'Cop City' at the ballot box
By R.J. RICO - Associated Press
Wed,06/07/23-10:30AM , 132 Reads
ATLANTA (AP) — Activists announced an effort Wednesday to force a referendum that would allow Atlanta voters to decide whether the construction of a proposed police and firefighter training center should proceed, in a potential last-ditch effort to halt the project that its opponents refer to as “Cop City.”
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Protestors gather in the atrium of Atlanta City Hall to protest the proposed police training center on Monday, June 5, 2023. (Natrice Miller/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)

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Atlanta project decried as 'Cop City’ gets funding approval from City Council
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Tue,06/06/23-4:40AM , 1,037 Reads
ATLANTA (AP) — The Atlanta City Council early Tuesday approved funding for the construction of a proposed police and firefighter training center, rejecting the pleas of hundreds of activists who packed City Hall and spoke for hours in fie
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