{"id":23055,"date":"2011-08-16T10:12:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T17:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=23055"},"modified":"2011-08-16T10:12:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T17:12:33","slug":"associated-press-bart-protests-go-on-without-new-cell-phone-service-shutdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2011\/08\/16\/associated-press-bart-protests-go-on-without-new-cell-phone-service-shutdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Associated Press: BART Protests Go On Without New Cell Phone Service Shutdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; Civil libertarian groups have backed away from threats to legally challenge the Bay Area Rapid Transit system&#8217;s wireless service shutdown last week after the agency refused a repeat amid rush-hour protests that shuttered four San Francisco stations.<\/p>\n<p>The American Civil Liberties Union met with BART&#8217;s police chief late Monday even as demonstrators protested the agency&#8217;s action to block wireless reception Thursday to disrupt a planned protest against police brutality. After the meeting, ACLU attorney Michael Risher said the organization had no plans to file a lawsuit, but he remained disappointed that he didn&#8217;t extract a pledge from BART to refrain from similar tactics in the future. He said he planned to continue meeting with the agency.<\/p>\n<p>The Electronic Frontier Foundation, too, said it was unlikely to file a lawsuit over the disabling of wireless reception for three hours.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/08\/16\/bart-protests-go-on-no-cell-shutdown_n_928248.html\">Read the full article here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO &#8212; Civil libertarian groups have backed away from threats to legally challenge the Bay Area Rapid Transit system&#8217;s wireless service shutdown last week after the agency refused a repeat amid rush-hour protests that shuttered four San Francisco stations. The American Civil Liberties Union met with BART&#8217;s police chief late Monday even as demonstrators [&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-23055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-important-news-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23055","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=23055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}