{"id":324,"date":"2003-03-11T22:43:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-12T03:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/uncategorised\/march15th_peace_march.html"},"modified":"2006-10-15T19:10:01","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T00:10:01","slug":"march15th_peace_march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/politics\/march15th_peace_march.html","title":{"rendered":"March 15th peace march and rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As those who wish a war in Iraq are unrelenting in their push for violence, so must those who are against that war be unrelenting in their cries for peace. With that in mind, there is another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldmessenger.20m.com\/march.html#upcoming\" title=\"War March 15th Anti War Rally Locations International Emergency Response\"> global day of protest against a war in Iraq this Saturday, March 15th<\/a>. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcaswi.org\/\" title=\"Stop the War! Toronto Committee Against Sanctions and War on Iraq\"> Toronto rally is at noon in front of the US consulate<\/a>. <ins>Canadians elsewhere can attend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acp-cpa.ca\/march_15th_day_of_action_against.htm\" title=\"March 15th Day of Action Against War in Iraq\"> rallies taking place across the country<\/a>.<\/ins> Of note for those in the United States is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.internationalanswer.org\/campaigns\/m15\/index.html\" title=\"March 15th Emergency Convergence on the White House to stop the war on Iraq\"> emergency convergence on the White House in Washington D.C.<\/a> along with parallel protests in San Francisco and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>I will be among those in Toronto even though it seems somewhat futile at this point. If you are against a war, please attend a rally near you. If you are not quite sure what your stance is, I urge you to immerse yourself in <em>meaningful<\/em> arguments from both sides of the debate and draw your own conclusions. I view a political rally of this nature as a vote with my physical presence. Like all votes, I feel that it is not a decision one should take lightly. If you are against a war but are feeling powerless against the notion of war, remember the words of Mahatma Gandhi: &#8220;Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As those who wish a war in Iraq are unrelenting in their push for violence, so must those who are against that war be unrelenting in their cries for peace. With that in mind, there is another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldmessenger.20m.com\/march.html#upcoming\" title=\"War March 15th Anti War Rally Locations International Emergency Response\"> global day of protest against a&nbsp;&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"read_more\" href=\"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/politics\/march15th_peace_march.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Continue reading &ldquo;March 15th peace march and rally&rdquo;\"><span>Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}