{"id":29611,"date":"2012-05-15T13:26:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T20:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=29611"},"modified":"2012-05-15T13:26:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T20:26:23","slug":"green-partys-mike-powelson-vies-for-californias-30th-district-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2012\/05\/15\/green-partys-mike-powelson-vies-for-californias-30th-district-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Party&#8217;s Mike Powelson Vies for California&#8217;s 30th District Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/mike_powelson_interview.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/>Often overlooked in the heated contest for California&#8217;s 30th Congressional District is third party candidate Michael Powelson, a former professor at Cal State Northridge running on the Green Party ticket. Powelson was recently excluded from a District 30th debate hosted at Cal State Northridge, sparking a protest by students. Powelson holds a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and has also taught at L.A. Valley College, and Cal State Channel Islands. He is running on a platform that includes a call for free universal health care for all and a withdrawal of all troops from Afghanistan and Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>The election is on June 5th, 2012. <\/p>\n<p>On May 11, 2012, Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar interviewed Mike Powelson about the race and his platform. <\/p>\n<p>Watch a video of the interview here: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"477\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bRkC2FWCHh0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelpowelsonforcongress.org\">www.michaelpowelsonforcongress.org<\/a> for more information. <\/p>\n<p>Martina Steiner recorded this interview. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often overlooked in the heated contest for California&#8217;s 30th Congressional District is third party candidate Michael Powelson, a former professor at Cal State Northridge running on the Green Party ticket. Powelson was recently excluded from a District 30th debate hosted at Cal State Northridge, sparking a protest by students. Powelson holds a Ph.D. in history [&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-29611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29611","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=29611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}