{"id":283357,"date":"2016-12-08T11:15:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T10:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/power-to-the-people-john-lennons-legacy-lives-on\/"},"modified":"2016-12-08T11:15:57","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T10:15:57","slug":"power-to-the-people-john-lennons-legacy-lives-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/power-to-the-people-john-lennons-legacy-lives-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Power to the People: John Lennon\u2019s Legacy Lives On"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYou gotta remember, <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=Dj5uY-yAy4QC&amp;dq=%22establishment,+it%E2%80%99s+just+a+name+for+evil%22+john+lennon&amp;source=gbs_navlinks_s\">establishment, it\u2019s just a name for evil<\/a>. The monster doesn\u2019t care whether it kills all the students or whether there\u2019s a revolution. It\u2019s not thinking logically, it\u2019s out of control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014John Lennon (1969)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Militant nonviolent resistance works.<\/p>\n<p>Peaceful, prolonged protests work.<\/p>\n<p>Mass movements with huge numbers of participants work.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, America, it is possible to use occupations and civil disobedience to oppose government policies, counter injustice and bring about change outside the confines of the ballot box.<\/p>\n<p>It has been done before. It is being done now. It can be done again.<\/p>\n<p>For example, in May of 1932, more than 43,000 people, dubbed the Bonus Army\u2014World War I veterans and their families\u2014marched on Washington. Out of work, destitute and with families to feed, more than 10,000 veterans set up tent cities in the nation\u2019s capital and refused to leave until the government agreed to pay the bonuses they had been promised as a reward for their services.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate voted against paying them immediately, but the protesters didn\u2019t budge. Congress adjourned for the summer, and still the protesters remained encamped. Finally, on July 28, under orders from President Herbert Hoover, the military descended with tanks and cavalry and drove the protesters out, setting their makeshift camps on fire. Still, the protesters returned the following year, and eventually their efforts not only succeeded in securing payment of the bonuses but&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/12\/08\/88929\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou gotta remember, establishment, it\u2019s just a name for evil. The monster doesn\u2019t care whether it kills all the students or whether there\u2019s a revolution. It\u2019s not thinking logically, it\u2019s out of control.\u201d \u2014John Lennon (1969) Militant nonviolent resistance works. Peaceful, prolonged protests work. Mass movements with huge numbers of participants work. Yes, America, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-283357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}