{"id":4683,"date":"2009-11-07T10:56:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T19:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=4683"},"modified":"2010-06-27T12:35:39","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T21:05:39","slug":"hilo-groups-will-protest-strykers-on-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=4683","title":{"rendered":"Hilo groups will protest Strykers on parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.honoluluadvertiser.com\/article\/20091107\/NEWS01\/911070323\/Group+to+protest+Strykers\">Honolulu Advertiser article<\/a> Strykers will be included in the Hilo Veterans parade:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Organizers hoped to keep word of the vehicles a secret from peace  activists like Jim Albertini of the Malu Aina Center for Non-Violent  Education and Action, in an attempt to ward off conflict.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Albertini found out anyway, and on Sunday wrote an open letter to Lt.  Col. Warline Richardson of Pohakuloa Training Area, asking that the  vehicles be kept out of the parade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Albertini says he&#8217;s concerned that the presence of the vehicles  &#8220;glorifies war&#8221; under the guise of honoring veterans. He&#8217;s also raised  concerns that the Strykers, which are involved in training exercises at  Pohakuloa, could be contaminated with depleted uranium and may pose a  health risk to citizens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Richardson called Albertini on Monday to confirm that two Strykers  would be in the parade, but they would be unarmed command vehicles.  There would be numerous other, non-controversial vehicles in the parade,  including an ambulance and transport vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Honolulu Advertiser article Strykers will be included in the Hilo Veterans parade: Organizers hoped to keep word of the vehicles a secret from peace activists like Jim Albertini of the Malu Aina Center for Non-Violent Education and Action, in an attempt to ward off conflict. Albertini found out anyway, and on Sunday &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=4683\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hilo groups will protest Strykers on parade&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,7],"tags":[2409,72],"class_list":["post-4683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-hawaii","tag-movements-resistance","tag-veterans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4683"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4685,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683\/revisions\/4685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}