{"id":1600,"date":"2015-09-18T15:51:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T22:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/bohmerp\/?p=1600"},"modified":"2015-09-18T15:51:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T22:51:41","slug":"interview-of-me-from-iran-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/interview-of-me-from-iran-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview of Peter Bohmer by Kourosh Ziabari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.evergreen.edu\/bohmerp\/blog\/2015\/09\/18\/interview-of-me-from-iran-review\/kouroshanswersrevised-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1605\"> Interview on Solidarity, Occupy and U.S.-Iran Relations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What follows are my answers to a written interview from\u00a0 Kourosh Ziabari, a writer and reporter for the<a href=\"http:\/\/english.farsnews.com\"> Fars News Agency<\/a>,\u00a0 an Iranian foreign policy news and analysis website. I submitted the following answers to Kourosh Ziabari\u2019s six questions on August 4, 2015 and slightly revised them on September 18, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Question 1- For many years, you\u2019ve been a political activist protesting racial discrimination across the United States, as well as other forms of social injustice. You\u2019ve also organized solidarity movements with the people of crisis-hit countries like Vietnam, Puerto Rico and Cuba. How does the US government perceive your activism and how does it react to you? Are such egalitarian and liberal movements ever taken seriously by the White House? Do they leave any impact on the major decisions of the US government and its institutions?<\/p>\n<p>My answer.<br \/>\nMy own active opposition for many years to the U.S. war in Vietnam is probably what I am proudest of in my life. The millions of people in the United States outside the military but also inside the military deserve credit for actively opposing their government\u2019s waging of a murder, immoral and illegal war. Of course, the people who deserve the most credit are the Vietnamese people who opposed the U.S. occupation and war. &#8230; (see link above)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through involvement in solidarity movements with liberation and revolutionary forces around the world, have led many including me to consider the need for revolutionary transformation of the United States to a participatory socialist society.  Without being actively involved in solidarity work, I would not have become an advocate for and organized for radical change at home. Analogously, being in active support and solidarity with revolutionary groups such as the Black Panthers in the United States has also made me consider and then commit myself to working for fundamental change at home. <\/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":[9,14],"tags":[52,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600"}],"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=1600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/peterbohmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}