{"id":89983,"date":"2017-04-10T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=89983"},"modified":"2017-04-04T19:10:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T18:10:08","slug":"arrests-at-maine-christening-of-aegis-destroyer-april-1-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/04\/arrests-at-maine-christening-of-aegis-destroyer-april-1-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrests at Maine, USA, Christening of Aegis Destroyer &#8211; 1 April 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, nine peace activists were arrested while blocking the entrance to the &#8220;Christening&#8221; ceremony for a new Aegis destroyer at Bath Iron Works, a leading US naval shipyard. Aegis destroyers are an important coordinating and missile-carrying component in US nuclear and conventional war strategy. The activists and their supporters contended that the money spent on these expensive weapons systems is immoral, and that the shipyard&#8217;s workers &#8212; and the world &#8212; would be better served if they produced high-speed trains, wind-mills, and tidal generators.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U2D6hsC3kgE<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Eric Herter was a draftee in the Vietnam War, worked against the war on his return; years later spent six years in Vietnam as the Associated Press Television video producer, also making films for the UN, World Wildlife Fund and other Vietnam-based NGOs. He currently lives in Brunswick, Maine, USA, making videos on social and environmental topics, some of which are posted under his name on YouTube.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, nine peace activists were arrested while blocking the entrance to the &#8220;Christening&#8221; ceremony for a new Aegis destroyer at Bath Iron Works, a leading US naval shipyard. Aegis destroyers are an important coordinating and missile-carrying component in US nuclear and conventional war strategy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89983","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=89983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}