{"id":40148,"date":"2014-05-30T09:55:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T16:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=40148"},"modified":"2014-05-30T09:55:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T16:55:10","slug":"latino-communities-decry-fracking-and-climate-change-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/05\/30\/latino-communities-decry-fracking-and-climate-change-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Latino Communities Decry Fracking and Climate Change Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140530Uprising\/2014_05_30_fracking.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Refugio Mata <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140530Uprising\/2014_05_30_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Host Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/fracking_latinos.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>The California State Senate this week failed to pass a bill calling for a moratorium on the controversial practice of &#8220;fracking&#8221; or hydraulic fracturing. It was the second year in a row that a handful of Democrats joined Republicans to defeat a fracking moratorium. The bill, which failed by 3 votes, was introduced by Sen. Holly Mitchell of Los Angeles who said, &#8220;the safety of oil drilling is an environmental justice issue.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Now, the Latino advocacy organization, famous for helping push Lou Dobbs off CNN over his anti-immigrant sentiments, is focusing on fracking as an environmental justice issue. In supporting the moratorium, the group made the following statement: &#8220;Fracking will disproportionately affect Latino communities by draining our water sources, poisoning our families, and fueling climate change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Refugio Mata, Campaign Manager at Presente.org<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The California State Senate this week failed to pass a bill calling for a moratorium on the controversial practice of &#8220;fracking&#8221; or hydraulic fracturing. It was the second year in a row that a handful of Democrats joined Republicans to defeat a fracking moratorium. The bill, which failed by 3 votes, was introduced by Sen. [&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-40148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40148","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=40148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40162,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40148\/revisions\/40162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}