{"id":41836,"date":"2014-11-03T11:14:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T18:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=41836"},"modified":"2014-11-03T11:14:46","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T18:14:46","slug":"progressive-issues-on-stake-in-ballot-measures-around-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/11\/03\/progressive-issues-on-stake-in-ballot-measures-around-the-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressive Issues on Stake in Ballot Measures Around the Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20141103Uprising\/2014_11_03_ballotmeasures.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Jon Queally <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20141103Uprising\/2014_11_03_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/prop47.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Elections aren&#8217;t just a time to choose politicians and place them positions of power. They are a time for voters to decide directly on issues through state-wide and local ballot measures. <\/p>\n<p>Many crucial issues have come to the fore via the ballot, such as Proposition 8, California&#8217;s same-sex marriage ban that reignited the progressive pro-marriage base. <\/p>\n<p>This year voters will face myriad ballot measures on topics dear to progressives. While we cannot cover all ballot measures in all states, we&#8217;ll attempt today to examine some of the most important ones, addressing issues of mass incarceration, minimum wage, marijuana legalization, women&#8217;s reproductive rights, GMO labeling, and much more. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Jon Queally is senior editor at Common Dreams (commondreams.org) which has provided daily online news and views for the progressive community since 1997.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elections aren&#8217;t just a time to choose politicians and place them positions of power. They are a time for voters to decide directly on issues through state-wide and local ballot measures. Many crucial issues have come to the fore via the ballot, such as Proposition 8, California&#8217;s same-sex marriage ban that reignited the progressive pro-marriage [&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-41836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41836","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=41836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41842,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41836\/revisions\/41842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}