{"id":2904,"date":"2008-02-12T12:56:17","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T18:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2904"},"modified":"2008-02-12T12:56:17","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T18:56:17","slug":"mexicans-say-integrate-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2904","title":{"rendered":"Mexicans Say: Integrate This!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Katie Kohlstedt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As part of a broadened alliance of Mexican civil society groups demanding the  renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Mexicans from  all parts of the country occupied Mexico City&#8217;s Zocalo and surroundings on Jan.  31.<\/p>\n<p>The hot subjects of immigration, subsidies, and corporate manipulation with  disregard for the public are making people angry in all parts of North America.  As divergent as the march was, at least Mexicans were motivated to hit the  streets. If only the injustices of NAFTA made enough people angry enough to push  their governments to do something.<\/p>\n<p><em>Katie Kohlstedt is Program Associate at the  Americas Policy Program (<a href=\"http:\/\/app.streamsend.com\/c\/255541\/1021\/3zqYKsw\/iKs8?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.americaspolicy.org%2F\">www.americaspolicy.org<\/a>)  in Mexico City.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>See new article online  at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/app.streamsend.com\/c\/255541\/1031\/3zqYKsw\/iKs8?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Famericas.irc-online.org%2Fam%2F4958\">http:\/\/americas.irc-online.org\/am\/4958<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Katie Kohlstedt As part of a broadened alliance of Mexican civil society groups demanding the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Mexicans from all parts of the country occupied Mexico City&#8217;s Zocalo and surroundings on Jan. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2904\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-KQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}