{"id":8255,"date":"2010-10-04T18:01:58","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T02:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=8255"},"modified":"2010-10-04T18:02:18","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T02:02:18","slug":"antiwar-on-the-left-and-right-%e2%80%93-wednesday-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/04\/antiwar-on-the-left-and-right-%e2%80%93-wednesday-in-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Antiwar on the Left and Right &#8211; Wednesday in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 6 pm, a panel of speakers from a variety of political positions, all of whom oppose the war in Afghanistan, will meet at First Unitarian Universalist Church in San Francisco to discuss how to build a consensus to end the war in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Panelists:<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn Dennis, Republican Candidate, 8th Congressional District<br \/>\nDaniel Ellsberg, Author and Activist<br \/>\nMichael Eisenscher, US Labor Against the War Nat&#8217;l Coordinator<br \/>\nKarel, Green 960 AM Radio Talk Show Host<br \/>\nAngela Keaton, Antiwar.com Developmental Director<br \/>\n<strong>Moderator:<\/strong> Jeff Johnson, <a href=\"http:\/\/peacepundit.com\">PeacePundit.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Time and Place:<\/strong><br \/>\nWednesday, October 6, 2010, 6 pm<br \/>\nFirst Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco<br \/>\n1187 Franklin Street, at Geary Blvd<br \/>\nAdmission: FREE<\/p>\n<p>On October 7th 2001 US military aircraft began bombing Kabul. Nine years later, US military operations continue in Afghanistan with no end in sight. Within the next year, the US-led war on Afghanistan will exceed the length of the 1980s Soviet occupation of that unfortunate country.<\/p>\n<p>The war has already claimed the lives of over 1100 American service men and women; while more than 7500 have been wounded. Much larger numbers of Afghan and Pakistani civilians have lost their lives due to US and NATO bombing, including by pilotless drones.<\/p>\n<p>A recent opinion poll shows that 58% of Americans oppose the war in Afghanistan, yet both Democratic and Republican leaders still support it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 6 pm, a panel of speakers from a variety of political positions, all of whom oppose the war in Afghanistan, will meet at First Unitarian Universalist Church in San Francisco to discuss how to build a consensus to end the war in Afghanistan. Panelists: John Dennis, Republican Candidate, 8th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8255"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8257,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8255\/revisions\/8257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8255"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}