{"id":13164,"date":"2019-10-31T13:20:14","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T20:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=13164"},"modified":"2019-10-31T13:20:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T20:20:16","slug":"chesa-boudin-son-of-1960s-radicals-runs-for-san-francisco-da-on-criminal-justice-reform-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2019\/10\/31\/chesa-boudin-son-of-1960s-radicals-runs-for-san-francisco-da-on-criminal-justice-reform-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Chesa Boudin, Son of 1960s Radicals, Runs for San Francisco DA on Criminal Justice Reform Platform"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/embed\/story\/2019\/10\/30\/chesa_boudin_san_francisco_district_attorney\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Chesa Boudin is running for San Francisco district attorney as the latest candidate in a wave of decarceral prosecutors running for office across the United States. Bernie Sanders and other leading progressives have endorsed Boudin, who is a public defender and the child of Weather Underground activists Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert. His parents were imprisoned when Boudin was a toddler. These experiences have given him a first-hand view of \u201chow broken our criminal justice system is,\u201d he says. \u201cMy earliest memories are going through steel gates and metal detectors just to see my parents, just to give them a hug.\u201d Boudin is running on a platform of ending cash bail and dismantling the War on Drugs, seeking to end \u201ctough on crime\u201d tactics and restore civil rights. Bay Area voters will cast their ballots Nov. 5. (DemocracyNow.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chesa Boudin is running for San Francisco district attorney as the latest candidate in a wave of decarceral prosecutors running for office across the United States. Bernie Sanders and other leading progressives have endorsed Boudin, who is a public defender and the child of Weather Underground activists Kathy Boudin and&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2019\/10\/31\/chesa-boudin-son-of-1960s-radicals-runs-for-san-francisco-da-on-criminal-justice-reform-platform\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13165,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13164\/revisions\/13165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}