{"id":30,"date":"2007-09-30T20:05:26","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T01:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2011-10-22T08:13:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T13:13:59","slug":"villanovans-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/?p=30","title":{"rendered":"Villanovans for Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image29\" style=\"width: 163px; height: 122px\" height=\"122\" alt=\"vforp.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/vforp.thumbnail.jpg\" width=\"163\" \/>Villanovans for Peace is an anti-war student group on campus, for which I serve as faculty moderator.\u00a0 We\u2019re active both on and off campus.\u00a0 For example, the last two years we\u2019ve hosted the Pennsylvania AFSC\u00a0 \u201cEyes Wide Shut\u201d demonstration of combat boots representing every death of a Pennsylvania soldier in Iraq.\u00a0 We sponsor speakers (e.g., Veterans against the Iraq War) and show peace-oriented movies and documentaries (e.g. The Ground Truth).\u00a0 Last spring we held a successful Peace Awareness Day in the center of the campus and collected many signatures against the Iraq War.<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago (September 15) a busload of us went to Washington, D.C., to demonstrate with tens of thousands of others against the Iraq War.\u00a0 I went as the faculty advisor (along with my wife Fran), and you can see many of us in the picture above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Villanovans for Peace is an anti-war student group on campus, for which I serve as faculty moderator.\u00a0 We\u2019re active both on and off campus.\u00a0 For example, the last two years we\u2019ve hosted the Pennsylvania AFSC\u00a0 \u201cEyes Wide Shut\u201d demonstration of combat boots representing every death of a Pennsylvania soldier in Iraq.\u00a0 We sponsor speakers (e.g., [&hellip;]<\/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-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peace-activism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}