{"id":37270,"date":"2013-08-13T10:31:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T17:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=37270"},"modified":"2013-08-22T21:26:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T04:26:58","slug":"rev-rick-hoyt-on-why-his-church-is-suing-the-nsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/08\/13\/rev-rick-hoyt-on-why-his-church-is-suing-the-nsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Rev. Rick Hoyt on Why His Church is Suing the NSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ya6W_wxI42E\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/rick_hoyt_interview.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>As Americans reel from the extent of the NSA\u2019s domestic surveillance program, a feeling of overwhelming  helplessness can accompany the flood of information. <\/p>\n<p>What can we do in the face of so much unchecked power? <\/p>\n<p>On August 13, 2013, Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar interviewed Reverend Rick Hoyt of the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles about why his church has joined a broad coalition of groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Green Peace, the Council on American Islamic Relations, Free Press, Human Rights Watch, and the Bill of Rights Defense Committee to sue the NSA over violations of Americans\u2019 First Amendment Rights. <\/p>\n<p>Watch a video of the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ya6W_wxI42E\">here<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"477\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ya6W_wxI42E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uula.org\">www.uula.org<\/a> for more information. <\/p>\n<p>Michael Casey recorded this interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ya6W_wxI42E\" title=\"Click here to watch the video\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/rick_hoyt_interview.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>As Americans reel from the extent of the NSA\u2019s domestic surveillance program, a feeling of overwhelming  helplessness can accompany the flood of information. <\/p>\n<p>What can we do in the face of so much unchecked power? <\/p>\n<p>On August 13, 2013, Uprising host Sonali Kolhatkar interviewed Reverend Rick Hoyt of the First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles about why his church has joined a broad coalition of groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Green Peace, the Council on American Islamic Relations, Free Press, Human Rights Watch, and the Bill of Rights Defense Committee to sue the NSA over violations of Americans\u2019 First Amendment Rights. <\/p>\n<p>Watch a video of the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/ya6W_wxI42E\">here<\/a>.<\/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-37270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37270","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=37270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37463,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37270\/revisions\/37463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}