{"id":6106,"date":"2009-04-16T12:01:19","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T20:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/?p=6106"},"modified":"2009-04-16T12:12:46","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T20:12:46","slug":"protesters-at-u-north-carolina-stop-anti-immigrant-speech-by-us-congressman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/04\/protesters-at-u-north-carolina-stop-anti-immigrant-speech-by-us-congressman\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters at U North Carolina stop anti-immigrant speech by US congressman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News &#038; Observer: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/immigration\/story\/1486087.html\">Protest stops Tancredo&#8217;s UNC speech<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\nCHAPEL HILL &#8212; UNC-CH police released pepper spray and threatened to use a Taser on student protesters Tuesday evening when a crowd disrupted a speech by former Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo opposing in-state tuition benefits to unauthorized immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of protesters converged on Bingham Hall, shouting profanities and accusations of racism while Tancredo and the student who introduced him tried to speak. Minutes into the speech, a protester pounded a window of the classroom until the glass shattered, prompting Tancredo to flee and campus police to shut down the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News &#038; Observer: Protest stops Tancredo&#8217;s UNC speech CHAPEL HILL &#8212; UNC-CH police released pepper spray and threatened to use a Taser on student protesters Tuesday evening when a crowd disrupted a speech by former Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo opposing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/2009\/04\/protesters-at-u-north-carolina-stop-anti-immigrant-speech-by-us-congressman\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2266],"tags":[3394,1389,1288954,2539,2853],"class_list":["post-6106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-protests","tag-free","tag-immigration","tag-protests","tag-tuition","tag-university-of-north-carolina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6119,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106\/revisions\/6119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/workplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}