{"id":335826,"date":"2017-11-20T11:28:39","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T10:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-dc-protesters-march-in-unity-with-puerto-rico\/"},"modified":"2017-11-20T11:28:39","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T10:28:39","slug":"presstv-dc-protesters-march-in-unity-with-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-dc-protesters-march-in-unity-with-puerto-rico\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-DC protesters march in unity with Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Hundreds of protesters have marched in Washington, DC, to draw attention to the situation in hurricane-stricken Puerto Rico amid criticism\u00a0that the Trump administration&#8217;s response has been inadequate.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dubbed &#8220;The Unity for Puerto Rico March,&#8221; the event was attended by San Juan\u00a0Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz and politicians like Representative Luis Gutierrez of Illinois, who said Puerto Rico had been neglected.<\/p>\n<p>Waving the island territory&#8217;s red, white and blue flag, the protesters sang and chanted in unison: &#8220;What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now!&#8221;, &#8220;Who&#8217;s in the house? Puerto Rico&#8217;s in the house!&#8221; and also repeating &#8220;The Jones Act has got to go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the rally, Gutierrez said the Trump administration\u2019s lackluster help to Puerto Rico was &#8220;one of the gravest injustices that I have seen.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"313\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20171120\/6d3794bd-76f3-4a40-aa81-f966f0a17619.jpg\" width=\"555\"\/><figcaption>People carry signs during a protest for Puerto Rico on November 19, 2017, in Washington, DC. (Photo by AFP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The lawmaker then took direct&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/11\/20\/542826\/US-protestet-Washington-DC-Puerto-Rico-Trump-hurricane\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of protesters have marched in Washington, DC, to draw attention to the situation in hurricane-stricken Puerto Rico amid criticism\u00a0that the Trump administration&#8217;s response has been inadequate.\u00a0 Dubbed &#8220;The Unity for Puerto Rico March,&#8221; the event was attended by San Juan\u00a0Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz and politicians like Representative Luis Gutierrez of Illinois, who said Puerto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":335827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-335826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335826","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=335826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}