{"id":41932,"date":"2014-11-10T11:07:17","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T18:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=41932"},"modified":"2014-11-10T11:07:17","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T18:07:17","slug":"former-green-vp-candidate-rosa-clemente-analysis-elections-and-failure-of-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/11\/10\/former-green-vp-candidate-rosa-clemente-analysis-elections-and-failure-of-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Green VP Candidate Rosa Clemente Analysis Elections and Failure of Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20141110Uprising\/2014_11_10_rosa_clemente.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Rosa Clemente <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20141110Uprising\/2014_11_10_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\/rosa_clemente.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Republicans are celebrating! In less than two months they will hold a majority in the US Senate, and a majority in the House of Representatives. <\/p>\n<p>Six years into the tenure of a President they openly revile, they will be able to express a united front to their constituents. <\/p>\n<p>Voters turned out in historically low numbers and corporations and wealthy Americans poured in historically high amounts of dollars to yield these results. <\/p>\n<p>How much of a crisis of democracy does this represent?  <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Rosa Clemente, independent journalist and hip-hop activist and scholar, and a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer in the Pan African Studies Department at Cal State Los Angeles. She was Cynthia McKinney&#8217;s vice presidential running mate in 2008 for the Green Party Presidential <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans are celebrating! In less than two months they will hold a majority in the US Senate, and a majority in the House of Representatives. Six years into the tenure of a President they openly revile, they will be able to express a united front to their constituents. Voters turned out in historically low numbers [&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-41932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41932","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=41932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41941,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41932\/revisions\/41941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}