{"id":16305,"date":"2012-05-15T12:04:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T19:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/?p=16305"},"modified":"2012-05-15T16:45:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T23:45:28","slug":"matthew-hickson-unites-the-political-divide-separating-left-from-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/2012\/05\/15\/matthew-hickson-unites-the-political-divide-separating-left-from-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Hickson unites the political divide separating Left from Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Hickson is living proof that today&#8217;s youth are willing and able to serve as beacons for positive change in our politically fractured world.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Born in New York and now a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Matt Hickson actively supported Barack Obama&#8217;s Presidential campaign in 2008. Immersing himself in campus concerns such as public workers&#8217; rights and the slashing of educational budgets, he now sees and recognizes the media-promoted dissonance between the political Left and Right whose focus veers away from the poor and oppressed.<\/p>\n<p>As a student activist, Matt has taken part at shareholders&#8217; meetings, such as those held by Reynolds Tobacco and Bank of America. He is one of the organizers for &#8220;The Coalition to March on Wall St South&#8221; which aims to express the will and voice of the people at the Democratic National Convention scheduled in September in Charlotte, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wallstsouth.org\/\">March on Wall Street South<\/a><br \/>\nBuilding People&#8217;s Power During the DNC, Charlotte NC<br \/>\nSep. 1-6, 2012<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Hickson is living proof that today&#8217;s youth are willing and able to serve as beacons for positive change in our politically fractured world.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,39,12],"tags":[4409,3030,6591,6589,6588,6587,1419,6593,4443,6592,6590],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16305"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16305"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16319,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16305\/revisions\/16319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/radio.rumormillnews.com\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}