{"id":3929,"date":"2009-08-31T20:55:22","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T00:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/?p=3929"},"modified":"2009-08-31T22:33:15","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T02:33:15","slug":"youtube-video-from-rethink-afghanistan-what-does-the-easter-bunny-know-about-rethinking-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2009\/08\/31\/3929\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Video From Rethink Afghanistan: What Does the Easter Bunny Know About Rethinking Afghanistan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><object width=\"800\" height=\"474\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TnKITB1Dw9o&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TnKITB1Dw9o&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"800\" height=\"474\"><\/embed><\/object><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TnKITB1Dw9o\">Watch Video on YouTube<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Today I read the New York Times article <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/30\/us\/30antiwar.html\">American Antiwar Movement Plans an Autumn Campaign Against Policies on Afghanistan<\/a><\/i> and noticed that <a href=\"http:\/\/rethinkafghanistan.com\/\">Rethink Afghanistan<\/a> was mentioned.  Earlier this year, during Easter weekend, I was solicited by a friend who works with the organization to voluntarily dress up like the easter bunny and hand out easter eggs around Chinatown and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/category\/location\/dc\/white-house\/\">White House<\/a>.  The video above is the result of two days of volunteering and while I was saving the video for a blog entry next Easter*, I felt compelled to share it today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;..4 months after this video was filmed&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are more soldiers going to Afghanistan today &#8212;-not less<\/li>\n<li>51 percent of Americans now feel the war in Afghanistan is not worth fighting<\/li>\n<li>August 2009 was the bloodiest month since the war began<\/li>\n<li>Afghanistan is the graveyard of Empires<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Obama campaigned on bringing the troops home, but he hasn&#8217;t done so, and I don&#8217;t see that happening anytime soon.<\/h2>\n<p>Imagine all the money that could be spent on free healthcare for all Americans that is currently being spent fighting unwinnable wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><small><i>* I also have about a dozen pictures of this action and another video of me trying not to get arrested by police officer in Chinatown.  I plan on posting them in a future entry&#8230;<\/i><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch Video on YouTube Today I read the New York Times article American Antiwar Movement Plans an Autumn Campaign Against Policies on Afghanistan and noticed that Rethink Afghanistan was mentioned. Earlier this year, during Easter weekend, I was solicited by a friend who works with the organization to voluntarily dress up like the easter bunny [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,82,56,1744,1741,11,302],"tags":[5662,1087,2602,2607,1350,2605,8742,2606,7022,2393,1418,2013,399,2601,2604,2608,2603,2616],"class_list":["post-3929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-holidays","category-location","category-new-york-times","category-news","category-video","category-youtube","tag-activism","tag-afghanistan","tag-antiwar","tag-children","tag-easter","tag-easter-bunny","tag-healthcare","tag-holiday","tag-iraq","tag-military","tag-obama","tag-peace","tag-protest","tag-rethink-afghanistan","tag-soldiers","tag-toys","tag-troops","tag-warfare"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":175,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3929"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3952,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3929\/revisions\/3952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}