{"id":904,"date":"2009-04-28T14:03:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T14:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoe.com\/wheresjoe\/?p=341"},"modified":"2009-04-28T14:03:33","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T14:03:33","slug":"42809","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=904","title":{"rendered":"4\/28\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"

I talked to Chris Knestrick who is \u00a0part of a \u00a0Christian Peacekeeper Team \u00a0in Columbia, South America. \u00a0 He said it is not uncommon for subsistence farmers there, and their families, to “disappear” at the hands of para-military groups. \u00a0 Some big international corporations want the land these farmers have been on for generations and will apparently go to any length to get it — including funding these para-military terror campaigns. \u00a0 Since Chris (who is from Cleveland) has been back in the states, he’s traveled about giving talks and trying to raise peoples’ awareness of this issue. \u00a0 Note:<\/strong> \u00a0 Our administration would work stridently to help allow these farmers to keep their land, including aiding them with Peace Corps help, and the like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I talked to Chris Knestrick who is \u00a0part of a \u00a0Christian Peacekeeper Team \u00a0in Columbia, South America. \u00a0 He said it is not uncommon for subsistence farmers there, and their families, to “disappear” at the hands of para-military groups. \u00a0 …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}