{"id":1279,"date":"2010-04-26T03:00:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1279"},"modified":"2010-04-26T03:00:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T10:00:39","slug":"oregon-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/26\/oregon-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon for Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Thankfully, the visit to our state by Mooseolini the Misanthrope was not the only event of note here.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/jodywilliamsOSU.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; margin: 2px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"jody-williams-OSU\" border=\"0\" alt=\"jody-williams-OSU\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/jodywilliamsOSU_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a> Nobel laureate Jody Williams sat on the stage, wearing a T-shirt, jeans and black cowboy boots with teal stitching. She dangled one leg over the edge, swinging her foot as she spoke to an audience that packed the Memorial Union Ballroom.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;<strong>Real, sustainable peace is not just the absence of war. Real, sustainable peace is a world in which people&#8217;s basic needs are met<\/strong>,&quot; Williams said. &quot;<strong>War is just powerful people wanting other people&#8217;s resources. War is not glorious<\/strong>.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>It was Williams&#8217; second time participating in PeaceJam, an international education program that works with Nobel Peace Prize winners to engage young people in volunteerism and encourages them to transform themselves, their communities and the world. About 300 students, teachers and college mentors attended the two-day PeaceJam conference at Oregon State University.<\/p>\n<p>After the speech, students rushed the stage\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2010\/04\/25-2\" target=\"_blank\">Common Dreams<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Her message is wise indeed.&#160; When you think about it, the GOP is fighting an undeclared war against the American people.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thankfully, the visit to our state by Mooseolini the Misanthrope was not the only event of note here. Nobel laureate Jody Williams sat on the stage, wearing a T-shirt, jeans and black cowboy boots with teal stitching. She dangled one leg over the edge, swinging her foot as she spoke to an audience that packed <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/26\/oregon-for-peace\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}