{"id":647253,"date":"2022-05-10T17:48:08","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T17:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=205846"},"modified":"2022-05-10T17:48:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T17:48:08","slug":"notes-from-eritrea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/05\/10\/notes-from-eritrea\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes from Eritrea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had no idea until today that International Workers\u2019 Day is a national holiday in Eritrea. I missed the celebrations because I was rushing to the airport to get from Addis Ababa to Asmara, the Eritrean capital, but today I took a cell phone snap of the banner \u201cLong Live May 1 International Workers\u2019 Day\u201d still hanging outside a park.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no surprise that the US has done everything it can to turn a nation that celebrates International Workers\u2019 Day into a pariah state. Free education through college and subsidized health care don\u2019t suit its neoliberal model either, nor does its determination to negotiate fair prices for its considerable natural resources.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/notes-from-eritrea\/\">Notes from Eritrea<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/notes-from-eritrea\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had no idea until today that International Workers\u2019 Day is a national holiday in Eritrea. I missed the celebrations because I was rushing to the airport to get from Addis Ababa to Asmara, the Eritrean capital, but today I took a cell phone snap of th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[708,5722,15623,55,38864],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647253"}],"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\/13502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647390,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647253\/revisions\/647390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}