{"id":37231,"date":"2013-08-12T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=37231"},"modified":"2013-08-12T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T17:19:00","slug":"dream-defenders-launch-trayvons-law-to-address-racism-in-justice-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/08\/12\/dream-defenders-launch-trayvons-law-to-address-racism-in-justice-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream Defenders Launch Trayvon&#8217;s Law To Address Racism in Justice System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130812Yemen\/2013_08_12_dreamdefenders.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130812Yemen\/2013_08_12_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/dream_defenders.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>A group of young activists are determined to not let George Zimmerman\u2019s acquittal be the last word in the killing of Trayvon Martin. <\/p>\n<p>Calling themselves the Dream Defenders, a number of youth started camping out in front of Florida Governor Rick Scott&#8217;s office days after the verdict came down. <\/p>\n<p>Demanding that Governor Scott investigate the Stand Your Ground Laws in Florida that they say encouraged Zimmerman, as well as other issues of racial injustice, the Dream Defenders have drafted a new piece of legislation called &#8216;Trayvon&#8217;s Law.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>They hope the three-part law, if it gets the support of lawmakers, could address the racial inequities of the legal system in Florida and the nation at large. <\/p>\n<p>Having garnered the support of high profile community members like the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Harry Belafonte, and Talib Kweli, and groups like the Advancement Project and the NAACP, the Dream Defenders may well be the focal point for justice for Trayvon Martin.<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Ciara Taylor, Political Director of Dream Defenders<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of young activists are determined to not let George Zimmerman\u2019s acquittal be the last word in the killing of Trayvon Martin. Calling themselves the Dream Defenders, a number of youth started camping out in front of Florida Governor Rick Scott&#8217;s office days after the verdict came down. Demanding that Governor Scott investigate the [&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-37231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37231","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=37231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37236,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37231\/revisions\/37236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}