{"id":8516,"date":"2009-05-28T09:44:18","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T14:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8516"},"modified":"2009-05-28T09:44:18","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T14:44:18","slug":"nobel-peace-laureate-mairead-maquire-open-letter-to-obama-detained-by-usa-homeland-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8516","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maquire: Open letter to Obama \/ Detained by USA homeland security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>28TH April, 2009<\/p>\n<p>OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA<br \/>\nFROM: MAIREAD MAGUIRE, NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DEAR PRESIDENT OBAMA,<\/p>\n<p>I found your book \u2018Dreams from my Father\u2019 a moving and inspiring story of your own struggle to find your identity and purpose in life. You found it for sure, and today carry the hopes and dreams of so many people in our world. We pray for you and your family. We wish you all good health and happiness. You carry so much responsibility. We hope you will change the policies of USA (both domestic and Foreign) to people centred policies, based on the values and ethics which you try to live out in your life.<\/p>\n<p>Reading your book I was inspired by your involvement (during Sophomore year at University) in the South African anti-apartheid Divestment campaign. Your own words &#8211; \u2018I found myself drawn into a larger role \u2013 contacting representatives of the African National Congress to speak on campus, drafting strategy, I noticed that people had begun to listen to my opinions.\u2019, encouraged me to share with you the following opinions, and experiences, of many of the people I met during my most recent visit to Palestine\/Israel. <\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.peacepeople.com\/\">Read the letter<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Related<\/em>:<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freegaza.org\/en\/home\/press-releases\/888-nobel-peace-laureate-mairead-maguire-detained-by-usa-homeland-security\">Nobel Peace laureate Mairead Maguire detained by USA homeland security<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>28TH April, 2009 OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA FROM: MAIREAD MAGUIRE, NOBEL PEACE LAUREATE DEAR PRESIDENT OBAMA, I found your book \u2018Dreams from my Father\u2019 a moving and inspiring story of your own struggle to find your identity and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=8516\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-8516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-2dm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8516"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8520,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516\/revisions\/8520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}