{"id":19885,"date":"2016-04-13T11:51:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T16:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19885"},"modified":"2016-04-13T11:51:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T16:51:47","slug":"democracyspring-protest-against-corporate-ownership-of-politians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19885","title":{"rendered":"#DemocracySpring Protest Against Corporate Ownership of Politians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pageTitle blogTitle\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/international-news\/north_america\/americas-current-economy\/democracyspring-protest-against-corporate-ownership-of-politians\/\">#DemocracySpring Protest Against Corporate Ownership of Politians\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mainContent\">\n<div class=\"contentWrap\">\n<div class=\"contentMeta\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"theContent\">\n<p><a class=\"fancybox image\" href=\"https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DemocracySpring-April-12-2016.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49648\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49648 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DemocracySpring-April-12-2016.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/armstrongmedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DemocracySpring-April-12-2016-300x144.jpg 300x, https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DemocracySpring-April-12-2016-600x288.jpg 600x, https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/DemocracySpring-April-12-2016.jpg 641x\" alt=\"DemocracySpring April 12, 2016\" width=\"641\" height=\"308\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over 400 protesters were\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/04\/11\/politics\/democracy-spring-arrests-protests-washington\/\" target=\"_blank\">arrested<\/a>\u00a0in Washington for exercising their First Amendment right Assemble and Free Speech. They were protesting the ownership of Congress by the banks and corporations. The movement is known as #DemocracySpring and is expected to run for the week. It has been taking place on Twitter and Facebook. Of course, politicians rely upon that money so they will throw these people in jail rather than address the issue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#DemocracySpring Protest Against Corporate Ownership of Politians\u00a0 Over 400 protesters were\u00a0arrested\u00a0in Washington for exercising their First Amendment right Assemble and Free Speech. They were protesting the ownership of Congress by the banks and corporations. The movement is known as #DemocracySpring and is expected to run for the week. It has been taking place on Twitter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13449,5496,63,171,13450,2542,5479,657,1169,1796,838],"class_list":["post-19885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-democracyspring","tag-armstrong-economics","tag-banks","tag-corporations","tag-first-amendment-rights","tag-freedom-of-speech","tag-martin-armstrong","tag-protests","tag-social-media","tag-us-congress","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19886,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19885\/revisions\/19886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}