{"id":2571,"date":"2002-10-18T03:54:59","date_gmt":"2002-10-18T10:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/10\/the-protest-establishment\/"},"modified":"2002-10-18T03:54:59","modified_gmt":"2002-10-18T10:54:59","slug":"the-protest-establishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/10\/18\/the-protest-establishment\/","title":{"rendered":"The protest establishment"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThe Sacramento Bee — sacbee.com — New anti-war effort takes shape<\/a><\/p>\n

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Today’s anti-war activism flows from what has become a semi-permanent infrastructure of protest — a “culture of protest,” as Sheridan called it. The Quaker-based “Friends” date back to World War I. Peace Action, with 80,000 members and a chapter in Sacramento, has been active since the Gulf War. Then there are the thousands of Vietnam War-era protesters who have remained active on local issues and who are turning out to assist the new movement, organizers say.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Medea Benjamin isn’t the only protestor without portfolio – this article says it’s a whole industry, flitting from issue to issue, or excuse to excuse. Well, marching is fun.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sacramento Bee — sacbee.com — New anti-war effort takes shape Today’s anti-war activism flows from what has become a semi-permanent infrastructure of protest — a “culture of protest,” as Sheridan called it. The Quaker-based “Friends” date back to World War I. Peace Action, with 80,000 members and a chapter in Sacramento, has been active … Continue reading “The protest establishment”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-Ft","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}