{"id":19863,"date":"2011-05-06T05:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T11:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19863"},"modified":"2011-05-06T05:39:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T11:39:00","slug":"an-activists-work-is-never-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19863","title":{"rendered":"An Activist&#8217;s Work Is Never Done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, the good news: \u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=19758\">call to civil rights activists earlier in the week<\/a> was answered, big-time. \u00a0The Senate was overwhelmed with calls from human rights activists asking for a hearing on Senate File 1357, the companion to HF1467, the &#8220;Stand Your Ground&#8221; bill. \u00a0 And the hearing will happen today.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s the&#8230;well, not &#8220;bad&#8221; news. \u00a0Just another job that needs to get done.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate is holding hearings today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Defense of Dwelling and Person Act of 2011 (SF1357) will be heard in the Minnesota Senate Judiciary and Public Safety Committee tomorrow (Friday, May 6) at 5:00 p.m.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s a catch:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Seating is extremely limited: <strong>you will need to arrive at 3:30 p.m<\/strong>. to line up for tickets, which will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis at <strong>4:00 in Room 15 of the Capitol<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>This is our first and best chance to really show the Senate that Minnesotans back this common-sense civil rights bill.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Minnesota civil rights activists have always shocked the legislature with the depth and power of their support.<\/p>\n<p>Now&#8217;s no time to stop.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to try to make it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, the good news: \u00a0the call to civil rights activists earlier in the week was answered, big-time. \u00a0The Senate was overwhelmed with calls from human rights activists asking for a hearing on Senate File 1357, the companion to HF1467, the &#8220;Stand Your Ground&#8221; bill. \u00a0 And the hearing will happen today. And that&#8217;s the&#8230;well, not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,22,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mn-legislature","category-victim-disarmament","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19865,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19863\/revisions\/19865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}