{"id":489,"date":"2014-06-11T15:08:01","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T14:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=489"},"modified":"2014-06-11T15:08:01","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T14:08:01","slug":"creative-action-calls-for-welfare-not-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/creative-action-calls-for-welfare-not-warfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative action calls for \u2018Welfare not warfare\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>14th April, Huddersfield<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/10172820_866330036725949_8853837136685573614_n.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-505 size-medium\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/10172820_866330036725949_8853837136685573614_n-240x320.jpg\" alt=\"10172820_866330036725949_8853837136685573614_n\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><a title=\"wool against weapons\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Wool-Against-Weapons\/570747079617581\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Huddersfield Wool Against Weapons<\/a> unfurled part of a 7 mile long pink scarf for peace in St George\u2019s Square Huddersfield as part of a global day of action calling for military spending to be redirected to meet human needs.<\/p>\n<p>Just part of the \u00a334.5 billion of the annual UK military budget could help save NHS services from cuts, for instance arms exports are subsidised by \u00a3700m a year, enough for 33,000 new nurses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Julia Mercer, local resident and grandmother, explains why she is taking part in the action:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"western\">\u201cIn the last two years we have had cuts to Sure Start centres; threats to our library services and now the A&amp;E at our hospital is threatened. \u00a0Meanwhile, our government spends more on weapons and military than almost every other country in the world. \u00a0I think it&#8217;s time to get our priorities straight, and that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m taking action today.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14th April, Huddersfield Huddersfield Wool Against Weapons unfurled part of a 7 mile long pink scarf for peace in St George\u2019s Square Huddersfield as part of a global day of action calling for military spending to be redirected to meet human needs. Just part of the \u00a334.5 billion of the annual UK military budget could &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Creative action calls for \u2018Welfare not warfare\u2019\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/creative-action-calls-for-welfare-not-warfare\/#more-489\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Creative action calls for \u2018Welfare not warfare\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"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-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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\/489","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demilitarize.org.uk\/staging\/1381\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}