{"id":25738,"date":"2011-12-27T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=25738"},"modified":"2011-12-27T09:43:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T16:43:57","slug":"rev-james-lawson-on-occupy-wall-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2011\/12\/27\/rev-james-lawson-on-occupy-wall-street\/","title":{"rendered":"REBORADCAST: Rev. James Lawson on Occupy Wall Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-122711\/2011_12_27_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><strong>This is a rebroadcast<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/james_lawson.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/>Occupy Wall Street is barely a few months old but has already been dubbed the new progressive movement of our era. Internet technology has boosted the movement&#8217;s reach and sped up its growth. However, given its infancy, how much can be attributed to Occupy Wall Street&#8217;s influence and how resilient is it in the long-term? Today, to answer these and other questions, we spend the hour with one of Los Angeles&#8217; most well-known and revered activists, a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement, Reverend James Lawson. <\/p>\n<p>Rev. Lawson has been an activist since the 1950s, beginning with his refusal to fight in the Korean war. After spending over a year in prison, he traveled to India where he worked as a minister and teacher at Hislop College in Nagpur. While there he learned about Mahatma Gandhi&#8217;s philosophy of non-violent struggle against the British occupation of India which ended in 1947. After Lawson&#8217;s return to the United States he began to be active in the emerging civil rights  movement in the United States, opening a field office for the Fellowship of Reconciliation in Nashville, and training others in Gandhian non-violence and direct action. Rev. Lawson drew parallels between non-violent activism and Christianity. By 1961, he was helping to coordinate the Freedom Rides and in 1968, he played a major role in the sanitation worker&#8217;s strike in Memphis, Tennessee. Shortly before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated,  he called Lawson &#8220;the leading theorist and strategist of nonviolence in the world.&#8221; Rev. James Lawson has been living in Los Angeles since 1974, as the Holman Methodist Church pastor and continues to be active in movements for social, racial, and economic justice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a rebroadcast Occupy Wall Street is barely a few months old but has already been dubbed the new progressive movement of our era. Internet technology has boosted the movement&#8217;s reach and sped up its growth. However, given its infancy, how much can be attributed to Occupy Wall Street&#8217;s influence and how resilient is [&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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25738","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=25738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}