{"id":290078,"date":"2017-01-14T19:33:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T18:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/activists-kick-off-week-of-protests-ahead-of-inauguration\/"},"modified":"2017-01-14T19:33:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T18:33:03","slug":"activists-kick-off-week-of-protests-ahead-of-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/activists-kick-off-week-of-protests-ahead-of-inauguration\/","title":{"rendered":"Activists kick off week of protests ahead of inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>American civil rights activists have kicked off a week of protests ahead of Donald Trump&#8217;s presidential inauguration with a march in Washington.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A few thousand protesters chanted &#8220;no justice, no peace&#8221; while marching along the National Mall toward the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Braving drizzle and near-freezing temperatures,\u00a0speakers denounced the Republican president-elect for his disparaging remarks against minority groups and women as well as his pledge to dismantle President Barack Obama\u2019s signature healthcare law, known as Obamacare.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We stand together, not as a people of hate, but as a people of hope,&#8221; said Charley Hames Jr., president of the Oakland, California, chapter of Sharpton&#8217;s National Action Network, according to Reuters. &#8220;We believe this march is the first of many.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trump, a billionaire real estate developer from New York, defeated his heavily-favored Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the November election with a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/01\/14\/506201\/AntiTrump-protesters-march-in-Washington\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American civil rights activists have kicked off a week of protests ahead of Donald Trump&#8217;s presidential inauguration with a march in Washington. A few thousand protesters chanted &#8220;no justice, no peace&#8221; while marching along the National Mall toward the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on Saturday. Braving drizzle and near-freezing temperatures,\u00a0speakers denounced the Republican president-elect [&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-290078","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\/290078","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=290078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}