{"id":79866,"date":"2016-09-19T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=79866"},"modified":"2018-02-11T10:56:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T10:56:38","slug":"nobel-peace-laureate-mairead-maguire-will-join-the-freedom-flotilla-2016-to-break-the-gaza-siege-imposed-by-israeli-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/09\/nobel-peace-laureate-mairead-maguire-will-join-the-freedom-flotilla-2016-to-break-the-gaza-siege-imposed-by-israeli-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Joins the Freedom Flotilla 2016 to Break the Gaza Siege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/PEACE-PEOPLE-LOGO-Small.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-79867\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/PEACE-PEOPLE-LOGO-Small.jpg\" alt=\"peace-people-logo-small\" width=\"88\" height=\"88\" \/><\/a><strong>Sep 15, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Prize winner, will join the women&#8217;s boat to Gaza. The goal of this mission is to highlight the devastating effects of the brutal blockade of the Palestinian people living in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M_7w4jvyKLM<br \/>\n<em>Mairead Corrigan Maguire, co-founder of <\/em>Peace People,<em> is a member of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a><em>. She won the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for her work for peace in Northern Ireland. Her book <\/em>The Vision of Peace<em> (edited by John Dear, with a foreword by Desmond Tutu and a preface by the Dalai Lama) is available from <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wipfandstock.com\/\" >www.wipfandstock.com<\/a>. She lives in Belfast, Northern Ireland. See: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peacepeople.com\/\" >www.peacepeople.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>The Peace People<em> 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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sep 15, 2016 &#8211; Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Prize winner, will join the women&#8217;s boat to Gaza. The goal of this mission is to highlight the devastating effects of the brutal blockade of the Palestinian people living in Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[431,105,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-videos","category-nobel-laureates","category-short-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79866","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=79866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}