{"id":5105,"date":"2008-12-19T11:09:40","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T18:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=5105"},"modified":"2008-12-19T11:09:40","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T18:09:40","slug":"communities-begin-organizing-against-marine-base-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/12\/19\/communities-begin-organizing-against-marine-base-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Communities Begin Organizing Against Marine Base Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigests121908\/2008_12_19_carraher.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigests121908\/2008_12_19_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=55% src=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/xml\/news\/2008\/05\/ap_scrapscavengers_051308\/051308_scrappers_800.JPG\" alt=\"Twenty Nine Palms\" \/>The largest US Marine Corps base in the world is located here in Southern California&#8217;s Mojave desert. Twenty Nine Palms Combat Center covers more than 900 square miles and accommodates more than 11,000 Marines and sailors. Every Marine unit being deployed to Iraq is required to come through the base for Mojave Viper, an intense month-long training program on urban warfare in a setting mimicking Iraqi towns with hundreds of role players. Now, the marine base is looking to expand into a community called Wonder Valley. The expansion plans include using airspace to carry out air and ground training simultaneously. Wonder Valley is populated by a diverse group of people, many of whom are up in arms over the base expansion and organizing to stop it. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Chris Carraher, concerned resident of Wonder Valley<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program The largest US Marine Corps base in the world is located here in Southern California&#8217;s Mojave desert. Twenty Nine Palms Combat Center covers more than 900 square miles and accommodates more than 11,000 Marines and sailors. Every Marine unit being deployed to Iraq is required to come through the base for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105","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=5105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}