{"id":437,"date":"2008-11-05T09:57:06","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T09:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=437"},"modified":"2008-11-05T09:57:06","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T09:57:06","slug":"us-election-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=437","title":{"rendered":"US Election Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my inbox this morning was a message from Ricken Patel and the team at <a href=\"http:\/\/avaaz.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\">Avaaz.org<\/a>, &#8220;<em>a community of global citizens who take action on the major issues facing the world today<\/em>.&#8221; In it they reminded us of some of Obama&#8217;s election pledges, and here is their list, with some related images from the streets of London:<\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2005\/02\/12\/050212_n349.jpg\" title=\"Rt Click, View image to see larger\" alt=\"Rt Click, View image to see larger\" width=\"450\" height=\"297\" \/><br \/>\nCampaign against Climate Change Kyoto Climate March, London, 12 Feb, 2005<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Reduce the US&#8217;s carbon emissions 80% by 2050 and play a strong positive role in negotiating a binding global treaty to replace the expiring Kyoto Protocol<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2008\/03\/15\/20080315-d0745.jpg\" width=\"402\" height=\"600\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Stop the War march, London. Sat 15 March, 2008<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Withdraw all combat troops from Iraq within 16 months and keep no permanent bases in the country<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2004\/04\/12\/040412_c351.jpg\" width=\"449\" height=\"600\" \/><em><br \/>\nApproaching Aldermaston, April 2004<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Establish a clear goal of eliminating all nuclear weapons across the globe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2008\/01\/11\/20080111-d0166.jpg\" title=\"Rt Click, View image to see larger\" alt=\"Rt Click, View image to see larger\" width=\"450\" height=\"301\" \/><em><br \/>\nAmnesty International at US Embassy, London mark 6 years of Guantanamo shame, Jam 2008<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Close the Guantanamo Bay detention center<\/li>\n<li> Double US aid to cut extreme poverty in half by 2015 and accelerate the fight against HIV\/AIDS, tuberculoses and Malaria<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2006\/03\/18\/060318_d0331.jpg\" title=\"Rt Click, View image to see larger\" alt=\"Rt Click, View image to see larger\" width=\"450\" height=\"301\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Open diplomatic talks with countries like Iran and Syria, to pursue peaceful resolution of tensions<\/li>\n<li> De-politicize military intelligence to avoid ever repeating the kind of manipulation that led the US into Iraq<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mylondondiary.co.uk\/2007\/04\/29\/070429-d0210.jpg\" title=\"Time running out for Darfur\" alt=\"Time running out for Darfur\" width=\"450\" height=\"301\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Launch a major diplomatic effort to stop the killings in Darfur<\/li>\n<li> Only negotiate new trade agreements that contain labor and environmental protections<\/li>\n<li> Invest $150 billion over ten years to support renewable energy and get 1 million plug-in electric cars on the road by 2015<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Obama provides a welcome new chance for the USA; perhaps the world&#8217;s last fragile hope of avoiding global disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my inbox this morning was a message from Ricken Patel and the team at Avaaz.org, &#8220;a community of global citizens who take action on the major issues facing the world today.&#8221; In it they reminded us of some of Obama&#8217;s election pledges, and here is their list, with some related images from the streets &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=437\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US Election Special<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work","category-political-issues"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}