{"id":48025,"date":"2015-10-07T07:45:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T14:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=48025"},"modified":"2015-10-07T09:36:18","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T16:36:18","slug":"months-after-earthquake-nepal-experiences-political-upheaval-with-new-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2015\/10\/07\/months-after-earthquake-nepal-experiences-political-upheaval-with-new-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Months After Earthquake, Nepal Experiences Political Upheaval With New Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2015\/09\/16\/kpfk-gm-leslie-radford-has-cut-uprisings-hours\/\" target=\"_blank\">BANNED BROADCAST on KPFK<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia801504.us.archive.org\/1\/items\/20150924CeciliaTichi\/2015_09_24_Santosh_Giri.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/ia601507.us.archive.org\/31\/items\/20150930Uprising\/2015_09_30_Uprising.mp3\">Listen to the full show <\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><em>GUEST: <strong>Santosh Giri<\/strong> practiced Constitution Law and Human Rights in Nepal from 1995 through 2005 and came to US to obtain a Masters in Law from Golden Gate University in San Francisco. He is also the West Coast coordinator for Bibeksheel, a new political party in Nepal.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>*This segment was broadcast online only on Sept. 24, 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After nearly a decade of political struggle, the land-locked South Asian nation of Nepal recently passed a constitution. Nepal&#8217;s monarchy, which ruled the country for more than 2 centuries, came to a formal end in 2008, and birthed the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal.<\/p>\n<p>The country, still reeling from a devastating earthquake in April that killed nearly 10,000 people, passed the new constitution with majority support, but riots and violence marred the celebrations with some groups contending that their rights had been trampled upon. Neighboring India, whose influence over Nepal looms large is also unhappy, worried that the violence will spill into its north.<\/p>\n<p>Nepal has more than a 100 ethnic minorities, and the constitution that lawmakers adopted, will carve the nation of 28 million into 7 provinces.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more at <em> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.leadnepal.com\" target=\"_blank\">en.leadnepal.com<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BANNED BROADCAST on KPFK GUEST: Santosh Giri practiced Constitution Law and Human Rights in Nepal from 1995 through 2005 and came to US to obtain a Masters in Law from Golden Gate University in San Francisco. He is also the West Coast coordinator for Bibeksheel, a new political party in Nepal. *This segment was broadcast [&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-48025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48025","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=48025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48294,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48025\/revisions\/48294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}