{"id":1066,"date":"2007-11-02T22:56:28","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T03:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2024-05-04T13:54:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T20:54:46","slug":"friday-video-peace-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1066","title":{"rendered":"Friday video: Peace rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/image031.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"399\" height=\"254\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/image031.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/image031.png 399w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/image031-300x191.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Last Saturday (27 October), I went to the New England Mobilization To End the War in Iraq. It felt &#8212; strange. Very 1960&#8217;s, and not necessarily in a good way. Ranting through megaphones, hippies, people curiously dressed. Blah. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was at least one speaker who inspired me, however&#8230;. (2:32)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fellow who inspired me, who is featured at the end of the videoblog post above, is actually from the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee. Unfortunately, I didn&#8217;t catch his name. His positive, humane vision stood out among all the shrill-voiced &#8220;We&#8217;ve got to stop the killing now!&#8221; and &#8220;No more blood for oil!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I don&#8217;t want to trash the entire peace movement. Last year&#8217;s Christian Peace Witness for Iraq felt meaningful (and they&#8217;re already planning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianpeacewitness.org\/april2008\">another one for March 8th<\/a>, assuming that the United States is still in Iraq). I like some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcnl.org\/iraq\/\">what the Quakers are doing<\/a>. But the old-fashioned 1960&#8217;s-style peace rallies have got to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(<em>Happy birthdays,Abs!<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: video host blip.tv is defunct, so this video no longer exists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday (27 October), I went to the New England Mobilization To End the War in Iraq. It felt &#8212; strange. Very 1960&#8217;s, and not necessarily in a good way. Ranting through megaphones, hippies, people curiously dressed. Blah. There was at least one speaker who inspired me, however&#8230;. (2:32) The fellow who inspired me, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice-peace","category-vlog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8398,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/8398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}