{"id":4771,"date":"2008-09-06T04:56:49","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T11:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/?p=818"},"modified":"2008-09-06T04:56:49","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T11:56:49","slug":"an-open-letter-on-behalf-of-amy-goodman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4771","title":{"rendered":"An Open Letter on Behalf of Amy Goodman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katrina vanden Heuvel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/blogs\/edcut\/?pid=353654\">blogs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We join with you in condemning the arrest and harassment of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/\">Democracy Now!<\/a> host Amy Goodman and members of her crew on the first day of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. These arrests were a transparent attempt to intimidate journalists and an assault on our constitution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amy_Goodman\">Goodman<\/a> was arrested for simply questioning police about the unlawful detention of producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar who were covering street demonstrations in St. Paul. All three were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/blog\/2008\/9\/1\/update_democracy_now_s_amy_goodman_sharif_abdel_kouddous_and_nicole_salazar_released_after_illegal_arrest_at_rnc\">roughly handled<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2jreRSEQ_yg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2jreRSEQ_yg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/categories\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/818\/\" border=\"0\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/tags\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/818\/\" border=\"0\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/818\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/818\/\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/818\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/818\/\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/818\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/818\/\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/818\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/818\/\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/818\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/blogbullet.wordpress.com\/818\/\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blogbullet.wordpress.com&amp;blog=743885&amp;post=818&amp;subd=blogbullet&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katrina vanden Heuvel blogs:<br \/>\nWe join with you in condemning the arrest and harassment of Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman and members of her crew on the first day of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. These arrests were a transparent attempt to intimidate journalists and an assault on our constitution.<br \/>\nGoodman was arrested for [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4771\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}