{"id":25916,"date":"2011-12-07T11:47:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T18:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=25916"},"modified":"2011-12-07T11:50:04","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T18:50:04","slug":"activists-gather-in-los-angeles-on-intl-human-rights-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2011\/12\/07\/activists-gather-in-los-angeles-on-intl-human-rights-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Activists Gather in Los Angeles On Intl Human Rights Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=100% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/Kali_Akuno.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/>Coinciding with International Human Rights Day this week hundreds of activists from around the nation will gather for the bi-annual conference of the U.S. Human Rights Network from December 9-11. The conference traditionally happens in Atlanta, Georgia, but this year, in protest of Georgia&#8217;s draconian new immigration law, and consistent with a subsequent economic boycott of Georgia, it was moved to Los Angeles. The conference is being held at the Radisson Hotel near LAX, a hotel with a unionized work force. The US Human Rights Network is a coalition comprising over 300 community organizations that formed out of a 2002 conference at Howard University Law School. It&#8217;s goal is to strengthen the work of human rights activists in the United States. The network recognizes that economic rights are intimately tied to human rights, and recently released a statement in support of the Occupy Los Angeles movement and Occupy movements nationwide. This year&#8217;s conference features important activists like Sister Song&#8217;s Loretta Ross, Haiti Action Committee, Pierre LaBossierre, and former Green Party Vice Presidential candidate Rosa Clemente. <\/p>\n<p>Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar spoke with US Human Rights Network Co-Director, Kali Akuno on December 7th 2011. <\/p>\n<p>Watch the interview here: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"477\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IlQJtZUNa6Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Find out more about the conference at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ushrnetwork.org\">www.ushrnetwork.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Martina Steiner recorded this interview. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coinciding with International Human Rights Day this week hundreds of activists from around the nation will gather for the bi-annual conference of the U.S. Human Rights Network from December 9-11. The conference traditionally happens in Atlanta, Georgia, but this year, in protest of Georgia&#8217;s draconian new immigration law, and consistent with a subsequent economic boycott [&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":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25916","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=25916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}