{"id":1118,"date":"2020-12-05T14:10:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T14:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=133093"},"modified":"2020-12-05T14:10:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T14:10:05","slug":"corporations-paying-lawmakers-to-outlaw-protest-is-a-crime-against-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/05\/corporations-paying-lawmakers-to-outlaw-protest-is-a-crime-against-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporations Paying Lawmakers to Outlaw Protest Is a Crime Against Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field--name-field-hp-author field--type-text field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">Basav Sen<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix\" id=\"field-wrapper-content\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-subtitle field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div>More communities are standing up to pipelines. The fossil fuel industry wants to make that a felony. We need to push for &#8220;Protesters&#8217; Bills of Rights&#8221; in state legislatures to codify the right to protest.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/cd_special_coverage\/public\/views-article\/thumbs\/line3_protest.jpg?itok=Ul7W0-mv\" width=\"420\" height=\"220\" alt=\"People protest against the Enbridge Energy Line 3 oil pipeline project outside the Governor&#039;s Mansion in St. Paul, Minnesota on November 14, 2020. Increasingly, corporate-funded politicians are criminalizing efforts to roll back the harms fossil fuel interests are doing to vulnerable communities. (Photo: Stephen Maturen\/Getty Images)\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/05\/corporations-paying-lawmakers-to-outlaw-protest-is-a-crime-against-democracy\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basav Sen More communities are standing up to pipelines. The fossil fuel industry wants to make that a felony. We need to push for \u201cProtesters\u2019 Bills of Rights\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1119,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions\/1119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}