{"id":2724,"date":"2019-05-09T18:58:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T22:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2724"},"modified":"2019-05-09T18:58:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T22:58:29","slug":"defending-the-embassy-defending-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2724","title":{"rendered":"Defending the Embassy, Defending Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/embassydefenders\/embassydefenders.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/embassydefenders\/embassydefenders650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"950\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A new low was reached this week<\/strong> when, at the direction of the US Secret Service, Potomac Electric Power Company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/458837-embassy-blackout-activists-collective\/\" target=\"_blank\">cut off the electricity<\/a> to the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington DC, in an effort to force out members of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codepink.org\/venezuela\" target=\"_blank\">Code Pink<\/a> and other organizations there \u2013 at the invitation of the staff \u2013 defending the Embassy against a siege by thuggish supporters of the attempted putsch by US-backed fascist failson Juan &#8220;Guido&#8221; Guaid\u00f2.<\/p>\n<p>This is in addition to ongoing attempts to prevent the delivery of food to the Embassy, ironically mirroring the economic warfare being waged against the people of Venezuela by the US Empire.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;16 medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/embassydefenders\/embassydefenders.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 1.4mb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new low was reached this week when, at the direction of the US Secret Service, Potomac Electric Power Company cut off the electricity to the Venezuelan Embassy in Washington DC, in an effort to force out members of Code Pink and other organizations there \u2013 at the invitation of the staff \u2013 defending the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,762,9],"tags":[981,965,964,330,966],"class_list":["post-2724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-right-wingnuts","category-trumpism","category-war-and-peace","tag-coup","tag-guaido","tag-maduro","tag-trump","tag-venezuela"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2726,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2724\/revisions\/2726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}