{"id":115974,"date":"2021-04-10T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=184753"},"modified":"2021-04-10T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T17:30:00","slug":"serbians-take-to-the-streets-to-demand-action-on-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/04\/10\/serbians-take-to-the-streets-to-demand-action-on-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Serbians Take To The Streets To Demand Action On Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/b36c1dbc-18b1-48a0-8e58-13e3aac5755f_w1200_r1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Several thousand people blocked traffic in front of the Serbian parliament on April 10 in a protest against the lack of government action to prevent pollution by heavy industry. Serbia is ranked among Europe&#8217;s most polluted countries and its reliance on coal for heating and electricity has had a devastating effect on its air quality. Protesters, who came to Belgrade from all over Serbia, held banners reading &#8220;Cut corruption and crime, not forests,&#8221; and &#8220;Young people are leaving because they cannot breathe.&#8221; The protest called &#8220;Eco Uprising&#8221; was also attended by green activists from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro who emphasized the importance of unity across the Balkans.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2021\/04\/10\/serbians-take-to-the-streets-to-demand-action-on-environment\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several thousand people blocked traffic in front of the Serbian parliament on April 10 in a protest against the lack of government action to prevent pollution by heavy\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[538,98,4,23,75,76,77],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115974"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115975,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115974\/revisions\/115975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}