On the 11th year of the U.S. War against Afghanistan, October 7, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I remember exactly one year ago today being at Sylvester Park on a Friday evening. It was the beginning of Occupy Olympia Movement. There was an open mike and I mentioned that the war against the Afghani people had begun 10 years ago and that we should continue to oppose it as part of Occupy Olympia and our activism. There was little reaction to my comment. There are protests against this continuing war, small, but happening all over the United States today. We are part of movements in the U.S. and beyond that are standing up, that are saying that we will not let this war in Afghanistan be invisible. Not in our name!<\/p>\n
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What kind of society do the U.S. soldiers come back to? One that you would not know about if you watched the Obama- Romney Presidential debate last Wednesday, one where over 100 million people are poor or near-poor, and where almost \u00bd of all Black and Latino children are below the official poverty line, where more than 50 million people don\u2019t have any health insurance, over 2 million people are in prison, \u00bd of whom are African-American, and millions have lost their homes. Most soldiers are from working class families, many who enlisted had the alternative of unemployment; and face unemployment when they leave the military. … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":175,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[18,45,51,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/175"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}