{"id":371608,"date":"2018-07-31T21:48:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T20:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/remembering-ron-dellums-who-fought-against-war-apartheid-and-poverty\/"},"modified":"2018-07-31T21:48:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T20:48:36","slug":"remembering-ron-dellums-who-fought-against-war-apartheid-and-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/remembering-ron-dellums-who-fought-against-war-apartheid-and-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Ron Dellums Who Fought Against War, Apartheid and Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Legendary anti-war activist, former Oakland mayor and longtime Democratic congressmember Ron Dellums of Oakland, California, died on Monday at the age of 82. A self-described socialist and radical, Dellums served in the House for 27 years, leading the congressional opposition to the Vietnam War and apartheid in South Africa. His activism landed him on President Richard Nixon\u2019s enemies list. Ron Dellums opposed bloated military spending throughout his career, instead pushing for increased investment in housing, health care and education. We remember Ron Dellums by airing part of a 2015 Democracy Now! interview with the famed congressmember.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong><span class=\"caps\">AMY<\/span><span> <\/span><span class=\"caps\">GOODMAN<\/span>:<\/strong><span> <\/span>This is<span> <\/span>Democracy Now!,<span> <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/\">Democracynow.org<\/a>, The War and Peace Report. I\u2019m Amy Goodman with Juan Gonz\u00e1lez.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"caps\">JUAN<\/span><span> <\/span>GONZ\u00c1LEZ:<\/strong><span> <\/span>We spend the rest of the hour remembering former Democratic Congressmember Ron Dellums of Oakland, California, who died on Monday at the age of 82. Dellums was a legendary figure in Washington for leading the congressional opposition to the Vietnam War and to apartheid in South Africa. In 1970, he became the first self-described socialist to be elected to Congress since before World War II. He went on to serve in the House for 27 years. Dellums was a lifelong fierce antiwar activist who pushed for the House to conduct a probe into US war crimes committed in Vietnam soon after his election in 1970. When his effort failed, Dellums held his own ad hoc war crimes hearings. His activism landed him on President Richard Nixon\u2019s enemies list. Dellums once said, \u201cI am not going to back away from being called a radical. If being an advocate of peace, justice, and humanity toward all human beings is radical, then I\u2019m glad to be called a radical.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"banner_wrapper\" style=\"\">\n<div class=\"banner subscribe-banner banner-247291 bottom vert custom-banners-theme-default_style\" style=\"\"><a class=\"custom_banners_big_link\" href=\"#\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"banner_caption\" style=\"\">\n<div class=\"banner_caption_inner\">\n<div class=\"banner_caption_text\" style=\"\">\n<p><strong>Never miss another story<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Get the news you want, delivered to your inbox every day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><span class=\"caps\">AMY<\/span><span> <\/span><span class=\"caps\">GOODMAN<\/span>:<\/strong><span> <\/span>Ron Dellums also led the congressional opposition to US-backed apartheid in South Africa, for nearly 15 years pushing legislation to ban US trade and investment in South&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/video\/remembering-ron-dellums-who-fought-against-war-apartheid-and-poverty\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary anti-war activist, former Oakland mayor and longtime Democratic congressmember Ron Dellums of Oakland, California, died on Monday at the age of 82. A self-described socialist and radical, Dellums served in the House for 27 years, leading the congressional opposition to the Vietnam War and apartheid in South Africa. His activism landed him on President [&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-371608","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}