{"id":168,"date":"2014-12-12T11:21:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephenhphelps.com\/?p=168"},"modified":"2014-12-20T15:43:17","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T20:43:17","slug":"comment-on-day3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephenhphelps.com\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"One thing after another"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p>Harlem\u2019s <em>Amsterdam News <\/em>recently <a href=\"http:\/\/amsterdamnews.com\/news\/2014\/nov\/27\/rep-rangel-will-you-protect-our-jobs-and-community\/\" target=\"_blank\">published an op-ed<\/a> which I wrote with Stephanie Low, head of the Sierra Club here in New York.\u00a0 It\u2019s about stopping the passage of Trans-Pacific Partnership, a new trade deal which, as I read it, literally and legally turns the power to govern the U.S. and other nations over to corporations.\u00a0 As if they needed more help from Congress to accomplish this goal!<\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t heard of the TPP, it may seem one too many sorrows to bear, what with police killings of unarmed black men, accounts of CIA torture, mass incarceration, climate disruptions daily . . .<\/p>\n<p>Feeling such fatigue is no doubt a sign that\u00a0 you are fully alive.\u00a0 What helps me hold it together these days is actually holding it all together.\u00a0 I mean this.\u00a0 I pay attention to the causes at the root of the immense violence unleashed by the American civilization.\u00a0 There really is one root beneath the immense, lush bush of violence.\u00a0 Only one thing is going on.\u00a0 More on this soon . . . See <a href=\"http:\/\/amsterdamnews.com\/news\/2014\/nov\/27\/rep-rangel-will-you-protect-our-jobs-and-community\/\" target=\"_blank\">the article on the TPP.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harlem\u2019s Amsterdam News recently published an op-ed which I wrote with Stephanie Low, head of the Sierra Club here in New York.\u00a0 It\u2019s about stopping the passage of Trans-Pacific Partnership, a new trade deal which, as I read it, literally and legally turns the power to govern the U.S. and other nations over to corporations.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-justice"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenhphelps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenhphelps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenhphelps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenhphelps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenhphelps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenhphelps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenhphelps.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenhphelps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenhphelps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenhphelps.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}