{"id":797,"date":"2013-08-06T15:41:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T20:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=797"},"modified":"2013-08-06T15:41:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T20:41:38","slug":"arrested-at-lockheed-martin-today-hiroshima-day-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/?p=797","title":{"rendered":"Arrested at Lockheed Martin  today (Hiroshima Day, 2013)."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I walked onto the grounds of Lockheed Martin, the world\u2019s largest war profiteer, in order to ask employees to reconsider their working on nuclear-related systems, including drones that <!--more-->could deliver weapons that, instead of obliterating whole cities and killing 100,000 people at a time as in August 1945, could potentially obliterate the whole world and kill billions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Arrest is not a goal in itself. I told the arresting officer and the booking officer that my intent was to provide Lockheed Martin employees with information (I am a educator, after all) about the nature of their work \u2013 information that their employer and our government does not provide them.<\/p>\n<p>I now experience arrest at Lockheed Martin as an expression of Faithfulness to the cause of peace and as an expression of living outside of mindless control by our government. I do this in the spirit of the original Plowshares Eight (including Dan and Phil Berrigan), who were arrested at this same facility in 1980.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I walked onto the grounds of Lockheed Martin, the world\u2019s largest war profiteer, in order to ask employees to reconsider their working on nuclear-related systems, including drones that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2,9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peace","category-politics","category-religion","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.peacefulways.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}