{"id":139,"date":"2003-07-21T19:48:11","date_gmt":"2003-07-21T19:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:16","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:16","slug":"speaks_for_itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=139","title":{"rendered":"Speaks For Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Daniel Weintraub&#8217;s great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/static\/weblogs\/insider\/archives\/000235.html\">California politics newsletter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><\/p>\n<p>Some of the San Francisco peace activists who protested to save Saddam before the war have now gone to Baghdad to keep a close eye on the U.S. military occupation forces and the private companies working on the reconstruction, reports the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2003\/07\/17\/MN256400.DTL\">SF Chronicle<\/a>. &#8220;This is a test of our rights &#8211;of freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly &#8212; and we will press those to the full extent,&#8221; San Francisco activist Medea Benjamin tells the Chronicle. Among other things, the activists hope to establish Iraqi labor unions and an organization to work for human rights. Strange. <b>I wonder why they waited until after the fall of Saddam to set up their human rights shop in downtown Baghdad.<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/i>(emphasis mine)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually, I have an idea on this which came from reading Rawls. I&#8217;ll try and elaborate in the next day or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet more from the activist circuit. Some are headed over to establish Iraqi labor unions and an organization to work for human rights. Strange. I wonder why they waited until after the fall of Saddam to set up their human rights shop in downtown Baghdad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}