{"id":325,"date":"2014-07-15T04:10:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T04:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/friendsnewundergroundrailroad.org\/?p=325"},"modified":"2014-07-15T04:10:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T04:10:48","slug":"news-clip-with-the-situation-for-lgbt-people-in-uganda-worsening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/news-clip-with-the-situation-for-lgbt-people-in-uganda-worsening\/","title":{"rendered":"News clip: With the situation for LGBT people in Uganda worsening&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[Friends New Underground Railroad] <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">\u201c&#8230;\u00a0 is work we would prefer not to do. We are doing it because we were asked to by people who had direct threats on their lives,\u201d says one organizer, who took the pseudonym Levi Coffin II in honor of a Quaker associated with the original Underground Railroad. \u201cNames were read out over radio stations, with broadcasts calling for their arrests, imprisonment, castration, and sterilization. They have been many incitements to mob violence. People have been burned out of their homes (and burned themselves), thrown out of their jobs, expelled from schools. Hospitals are refusing to treat LGBTQ individuals.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">While he\u2019s grateful they\u2019ve been able to help individuals, Coffin doesn\u2019t call the project a success. \u201cIt is not a win. It is not an answer. It is what we can do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read it at:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newnownext.com\/today-in-gay-15\/07\/2014\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.newnownext.com\/today-in-gay-15\/07\/2014\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Friends New Underground Railroad] \u201c&#8230;\u00a0 is work we would prefer not to do. We are doing it because we were asked to by people who had direct threats on their lives,\u201d says one organizer, who took the pseudonym Levi Coffin II in honor of a Quaker associated with the original Underground Railroad. \u201cNames were read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsugandanskillstraining.org\/friendsugandansafetransport.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}