{"id":1094,"date":"2007-01-09T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T17:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=1094"},"modified":"2007-01-09T09:21:39","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T17:21:39","slug":"report-from-watadas-pre-trial-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2007\/01\/09\/report-from-watadas-pre-trial-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Report from Watada&#8217;s Pre-Trial Hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2\/2007_01_09_olson.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&#038;p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2\/2007_01_09_uprising.MP3&#038;m=1\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right src=\"http:\/\/www.indybay.org\/uploads\/2006\/06\/28\/9-banner1.jpg\" width=65% alt=\"Watada\" \/><em>GUEST: Sarah Olson, independent journalist and radio producer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last week&#8217;s pre-trial hearing for Army Lt. Ehren Watada is raising the crucial question of whether military officers have the right to publicly criticize their Commander-in-Chief and US foreign policy. More importantly, Watada&#8217;s impending court martial highlights growing dissent against the war from within the military. The Honolulu based Lieutenant is the US&#8217;s first commissioned officer to refuse deployment to Iraq. He faces a court-martial and six years in prison for failing to deploy to Iraq and for &#8220;conduct unbecoming an officer.&#8221; Two weeks ago we spoke with independent journalist Sarah Olson, who was subpoenaed to testify at the January 4 pre-trial hearing. Olson had interviewed Watada last May and has criticized the Army for threatening press freedom and free speech. Yesterday the Los Angeles Times also spoke out against the Army calling on journalists to testify in their editorial pages. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thankyoult.org\">www.thankyoult.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program GUEST: Sarah Olson, independent journalist and radio producer Last week&#8217;s pre-trial hearing for Army Lt. Ehren Watada is raising the crucial question of whether military officers have the right to publicly criticize their Commander-in-Chief and US foreign policy. More importantly, Watada&#8217;s impending court martial highlights growing dissent against the war from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}