{"id":23642,"date":"2013-06-26T13:45:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T13:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=7f283911c5de92bc5ca2beea342ef2f2"},"modified":"2013-06-26T13:45:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T13:45:28","slug":"clearing-the-fog-on-dissent-in-the-us-with-kevin-gosztola-and-tarak-kauff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2013\/06\/26\/clearing-the-fog-on-dissent-in-the-us-with-kevin-gosztola-and-tarak-kauff\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearing the FOG on Dissent in the US with Kevin Gosztola and Tarak Kauff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We explore restrictions on the rights of people to assemble and express dissent in the United States. The First Amendment gives us the right to peaceably assemble and redress our government for our grievances. Instead of protecting that right, the government, local police and private companies are acting to prevent and stop actions of dissent. The First Amendment also gives the right to freedom of the press, but today\u2019s press are mouthpieces for the corporate state. What is being done to preserve our rights? We speak with Kevin Gosztola who has been covering this issue for FireDogLake as the Dissenter, \u00a0and Tarak Kauff, a veteran arrested at the Vietnam Veterans\u2019 Memorial last Oct for protesting the war in Afghanistan. For more information, visit ClearingtheFOGRadio.org.<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/clearingthefogradioshow.libsyn.com\/clearing-the-fog-on-dissent-in-the-us-with-kevin-gosztola-and-tarak-kauff\">Clearing the FOG with co-hosts Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We explore restrictions on the rights of people to assemble and express dissent in the United States. The First Amendment gives us the right to peaceably assemble and redress our government for our grievances. Instead of protecting that right, the gove&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23642"}],"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\/1661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23643,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23642\/revisions\/23643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}