{"id":1598,"date":"2022-03-02T14:55:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T14:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2022-03-02T14:55:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T14:55:51","slug":"aft-president-weingarten-condemns-russian-invasion-of-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/aft-president-weingarten-condemns-russian-invasion-of-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"AFT President Weingarten condemns Russian invasion of Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/uupinfo.org\/images\/uupdate\/22\/220224.jpg\" alt=\"uupdate 02-24-22\" title=\"AFT President Weingarten condemns Russian invasion of Ukraine\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>AFT President Randi Weingarten condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine in a Feb. 24 press statement, below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis unprovoked and unjustified Russian invasion is not just an assault on the democratic people of Ukraine, but also a flagrant violation of international law. We condemn it unreservedly because it traduces the fundamental principle that wars of aggression can never be the answer to disputes among nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTens of thousands of innocent lives are now in the sights of an oppressive, autocratic dictator who seeks to establish Russian hegemony and military domination in Eastern Europe. Putin lives in an alternate reality where he wants to go back to the bloody age of empire. Luckily, the Biden administration understands the grievous threat he poses the world and is levying economic and diplomatic sanctions against the Russian state and its oligarchic rulers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe stand in solidarity with our fellow unionists in the Ukrainian labor movement; with the educators, students and families in Ukraine; and with their democratic government in this moment of their trial and need.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aft.org\/press-release\/aft-president-randi-weingarten-condemns-russian-invasion-ukraine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a>&nbsp;to read the statement on AFT\u2019s website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFT President Randi Weingarten condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine in a Feb. 24 press statement, below: \u201cThis unprovoked and unjustified Russian invasion is not just an assault on the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1599,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions\/1599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uuphost.org\/purchase\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}