{"id":6613,"date":"2022-02-25T13:50:27","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T18:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=6613"},"modified":"2022-02-25T12:47:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T17:47:38","slug":"protestors-at-the-white-house-demand-sanctions-on-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=6613","title":{"rendered":"Protestors at the White House Demand Sanctions on Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Devon Mitchell<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hundreds of people gathered in front of the White House this Thursday calling on President Biden to take a tougher stance on Russia, a day after Russia launched a military assault on Ukraine. Roanoke College students participating in the Washington Semester participated in the pro-Ukraine protest.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Junior Michaela Johnson attended the protest feeling close to the cause because her brother-in-law is from Ukraine. Johnson said, \u201cIt was really good to see people from all backgrounds, not just Ukrainians, care so much and take time out of their day to protest. Ukraine is often overlooked so the media attention is really good and I hope they keep it up.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Protestors held signs saying, \u201cprotect Ukrainian skies\u201d, \u201cfreedom is under attack\u201d, and \u201cUkraine today, Europe tomorrow\u201d amongst others. Two little girls proudly presented signs stating, \u201cI love Ukraine\u201d. Chants wrang through Lafayette Square of \u201cUS with Ukraine\u201d and \u201cstronger sanctions on Russia\u201d. At one point the crowd broke out in song, singing the Ukrainian national anthem. The overall feeling in front of the White House was that of solidarity for Ukraine in this time of Russian aggression.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The leader of the protest encouraged attendees not to give up on Ukraine once they got home. He asked everyone to tell their friends to write to Congress and the White House to demand assistance to Ukraine and stronger sanctions on Russia. The leader concluded the protest with words of encouragement stating, \u201cYou are in power to educate yourselves, your neighbors, your co-workers, and those around you on what is happening.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michaela had similar sentiments saying, \u201cA lot of people don\u2019t educate themselves on issues in eastern Europe, such as Ukraine or Belarus, people are starting to educate themselves and it shouldn\u2019t stop at just Ukrainian issues.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devon Mitchell Hundreds of people gathered in front of the White House this Thursday calling on President Biden to take a tougher stance on Russia, a day after Russia launched a military assault on Ukraine. Roanoke College students participating in the Washington Semester participated in the pro-Ukraine protest.\u00a0 Junior Michaela Johnson attended the protest feeling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":6615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-6613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-summer2019"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Devon-Ukraine.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}