{"id":2188,"date":"2011-04-15T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/to-the-armed-forces-of-mexico-javier-sicilia.html"},"modified":"2011-04-15T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T12:00:00","slug":"to-the-armed-forces-of-mexico-javier-sicilia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/to-the-armed-forces-of-mexico-javier-sicilia.html","title":{"rendered":"To the Armed Forces of Mexico &mdash;Javier Sicilia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I-SNhyzViy4\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/I-SNhyzViy4\/default.jpg\"\n><\/a><br \/>\n50,000 people marched in Cuernavaca 6 April 2011 to the gates<br \/>\nof a military base, where the usual military guards were nowhere to be seen.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I-SNhyzViy4\"><br \/>\nThen a poet, whose son had recently been killed by the drug war,<br \/>\nclimbed up and said:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nTo the Armed Forces of Mexico<br \/>\nYou have always been the custodians of peace for our nation<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s why we never want to see you again,<br \/>\noutside of your barracks,<br \/>\nexcept to defend us from foreign invasion,<br \/>\nor to help us, as you always have, during natural disasters.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I-SNhyzViy4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nWhat does this have to do with us?<br \/>\nWe don&#8217;t need a private prison;<br \/>\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/04\/no-mas-guerra-de-las-drogas.html\"><br \/>\nwe need an end to the War on Drugs<\/a> that<br \/>\nfills our prisons with more prisoners<br \/>\ntotal and per capita than any other nation on earth.<\/p>\n<p>\nTodos somos Sicilia.<\/p>\n<p>\n-jsq<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>50,000 people marched in Cuernavaca 6 April 2011 to the gates of a military base, where the usual military guards were nowhere to be seen. Then a poet, whose son had recently been killed by the drug war, climbed up and said: To the Armed Forces of Mexico You have always been the custodians of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,1113,40,2,1381,72,20,178],"tags":[8830,8730,4487,1296,1297,82],"class_list":["post-2188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-cca","category-community","category-government","category-immigration","category-incarceration","category-law","category-vlcia","tag-immigration","tag-incarceration","tag-javier-sicilia","tag-mexico","tag-private-prison","tag-war-on-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}