{"id":76,"date":"2015-03-07T02:54:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T02:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/?p=76"},"modified":"2015-03-07T02:54:22","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T02:54:22","slug":"water-wars-in-ireland-irish-govt-fears-global-media-coverage-of-political-policing-anti-austerity-activists-say-rt-news%e2%80%8f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;WATER WARS&#8221; in IRELAND &#8211; Irish govt fears global media coverage of \u2018political policing,\u2019 anti-austerity activists say \u2014 RT News\u200f"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>&#8220;WATER WARS&#8221; in IRELAND &#8211; Irish govt fears global media coverage of \u2018political policing,\u2019 anti-austerity activists say \u2014 RT News<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/231783-political-policing-quash-dissent\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/231783-political-policing-quash-dissent\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Irish TD Paul Murphy, who was removed from his house at 7am on Monday by police, told RT the arrests were\u00a0<em>\u201cpolitically motivated,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and designed to intimidate Ireland\u2019s anti-water charges movement.<\/p>\n<p>The movement opposes the Irish government\u2019s recent policy shift on water taxation. Campaigners warn the government&#8217;s water charges are a veiled austerity tax that many Irish citizens can&#8217;t afford to pay.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;WATER WARS&#8221; in IRELAND &#8211; Irish govt fears global media coverage of \u2018political policing,\u2019 anti-austerity activists say \u2014 RT News http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/231783-political-policing-quash-dissent\/ Irish TD Paul Murphy, who was removed from his house at 7am on Monday by police, told RT the arrests were\u00a0\u201cpolitically motivated,\u201d\u00a0and designed to intimidate Ireland\u2019s anti-water charges movement. The movement opposes the Irish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-posts","category-water-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}