{"id":178044,"date":"2021-02-01T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=178044"},"modified":"2021-05-06T10:56:55","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T09:56:55","slug":"an-open-letter-to-president-biden-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/02\/an-open-letter-to-president-biden-2\/","title":{"rendered":"An Open Letter to President Biden…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Press Release from Peace People<\/em> – 25 Jan 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

… to Address the Following Requests<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dear Mr President,<\/p>\n

Please accept my congratulations and best wishes with your work as President.<\/p>\n

I have two urgent requests to ask of you.<\/p>\n

1) Free Julian Assange<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please do all you can to free Julian Assange and let him go home to his family. He has served long enough; his family hankers for his presence and for his punishment to end.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Northern Ireland Peace activist Mairead Maguire (winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 1976) in front of the US Consulate General in Belfast on 24 Jan 2021.<\/p><\/div>\n

2) Save the Children of Yemen<\/strong><\/p>\n

Your foreign policy is causing death and starvation of thousands of Yemeni children as the ports are blocked and people cannot get food.\u00a0 Do not let history record again that powerful governments played politics with little children\u2019s lives. I implore you Mr. President–along with the UK government–to immediately stop the war on the Yemeni people. \u00a0Please end the arms sales to Saudi Arabia and make peace. Sadly more and more Yemeni children are being starved by warring parties whose blockades and bomb attacks have and continue to decimate their country.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>

Millions of children across Yemen face serious threats due to malnutrition, in particular, and the lack of basic health services. All these threats are caused by the ongoing war and hostilities in the country (file photo).
\u00a9 UNICEF\/UN0276430\/Almahbashi<\/p><\/div>\n

Please learn from Northern Ireland, and solve this horror of war on Yemen, through dialogue.<\/p>\n

Thank you.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>_________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/em>Mairead Corrigan Maguire, co-founder of <\/em>Peace People, is a member of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>. She won the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for her work for peace in Northern Ireland. Her book <\/em>The Vision of Peace (edited by John Dear, with a foreword by Desmond Tutu and a preface by the Dalai Lama) is available from www.wipfandstock.com<\/a>. She lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland. See: www.peacepeople.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Peace People began in 1976 as a protest movement against the ongoing violence in Northern Ireland. Its three founders were Mairead Maguire, Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown. Over 100,000 people were involved in the initial movement and two of the founders, Mairead and Betty, received the Nobel Peace Prize for that year. Since its inception, the organization has been committed to building a just, peaceful society through nonviolent means \u2013 a society based on respect for each individual, and that has at its core the highest standards of human and civil rights. www.peacepeople.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… to Address the Following Requests: 1) Free Julian Assange; 2) Save the Children of Yemen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":118576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[918,2197,1777,174],"class_list":["post-178044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nobel-laureates","tag-assange","tag-biden","tag-mairead-maguire","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}