{"id":19056,"date":"2011-02-21T09:54:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T16:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=19056"},"modified":"2011-02-21T09:54:28","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T16:54:28","slug":"huffington-post-maine-state-lawmaker-heads-to-wisconsin-to-join-protests-its-a-class-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2011\/02\/21\/huffington-post-maine-state-lawmaker-heads-to-wisconsin-to-join-protests-its-a-class-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Huffington Post: Maine State Lawmaker, Heads To Wisconsin To Join Protests: &#8216;It&#8217;s A Class War&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; The protests that erupted last week in Wisconsin have attracted attention not only across the United States, but even as far away as Egypt. One of those out-of-state observers, Maine state Rep. Diane Russell (D), has decided that what is happening in Madison is so important &#8212; even to her own Northeastern state &#8212; that she has decided to pack up a vehicle and drive all the way out there with three of her friends to join the fight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wanted to be there to show solidarity,&#8221; said Russell in an interview Sunday evening with The Huffington Post as she was driving through New Hampshire. &#8220;I&#8217;m coming because if the levees break in Madison, everyone gets flooded.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Russell has been raising money through her website for the trip, which includes providing protesters with hot chocolate, coffee and hand-warmers &#8212; cold-weather necessities for standing outside for hours in Wisconsin. She said that she had raised more than $1,000 in total. She is also tweeting and posting updates about her trip. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/02\/20\/diane-russel-maine-wisconsin-protests_n_825763.html\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; The protests that erupted last week in Wisconsin have attracted attention not only across the United States, but even as far away as Egypt. One of those out-of-state observers, Maine state Rep. Diane Russell (D), has decided that what is happening in Madison is so important &#8212; even to her own Northeastern state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19056","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=19056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}