{"id":1284,"date":"2017-04-23T20:41:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T19:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2017-04-23T20:41:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T19:41:28","slug":"reports-coming-in-from-gcoms-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/reports-coming-in-from-gcoms-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports coming in from GCOMS 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1285 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vote-St-Josephs-.jpg?resize=338%2C239&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"239\" \/><em><strong>At St Joseph&#8217;s School<\/strong><\/em> and site of Pax Christi office in Hendon London, staff and pupils of the school came along to cast their vote for a safer world.<\/p>\n<p>As well as showing curiosity about what was going on, 94 people took part in the vote and you can see the results in the photograph.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1286\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1286\" style=\"width: 328px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1286\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-content\/uploads\/2votejpg.jpg?resize=338%2C190&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"190\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>St Joseph school and others cast their votes.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Hereford Peace Group report.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of our members had made some excellent placards, saying that \u00a32,500,000,000 is spent globally every minute on the military, and they stood out across the big pedestrian area, so that a large number of people could not help but get that message.<br \/>\nWe had some long conversations, including one with a young man who was in the navy. \u00a048 votes were cast.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The\u00a0votes\u00a0were:<\/strong><br \/>\nEducation\u00a0and\u00a0Health \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 72\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a037%<br \/>\nClimate\u00a0Change \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a078\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a041%<br \/>\nInternational\u00a0Cooperation\u00a0and\u00a0Development \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 40 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 21%<br \/>\nMilitary \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a02 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 1%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At St Joseph&#8217;s School and site of Pax Christi office in Hendon London, staff and pupils of the school came along to cast their vote for a safer world. As well as showing curiosity about what was going on, 94 people took part in the vote and you can see the results in the photograph. &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Reports coming in from GCOMS 2017\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/reports-coming-in-from-gcoms-2017\/#more-1284\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reports coming in from GCOMS 2017<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}