{"id":71807,"date":"2026-04-15T13:55:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/putting-your-body-on-the-line-inside-the-us-movement-against-war-in-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T13:55:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:55:37","slug":"putting-your-body-on-the-line-inside-the-us-movement-against-war-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/putting-your-body-on-the-line-inside-the-us-movement-against-war-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Putting your body on the line\u2019: inside the US movement against war in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protests coincide with a congressional vote to stop arming Israel and a movement to withhold income taxes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/apr\/15\/iran-war-live-news-us-naval-blockade-strait-of-hormuz-pakistan-peace-talks-middle-east-crisis-latest\">Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On Monday afternoon, dozens of people sat down in front of the New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand\u2019s Manhattan office. Shedding their casual-business attire, they revealed matching shirts that read \u201cFUND PEOPLE NOT BOMBS\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>They were some of hundreds of protesters \u2013 including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/chelsea-manning\">Chelsea Manning,<\/a> actor Hannah Einbinder and artist Molly Crabapple \u2013 to tell Gillibrand and the Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer that they disapprove of the US sending more weapons to Israel, as the two countries wage wars in Iran, Lebanon and Palestine. Nearly a hundred protesters, including Manning, actor Hari Nef and New York congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier, were arrested after the group shut down traffic on Third Avenue.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/15\/anti-war-protest-iran\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protests coincide with a congressional vote to stop arming Israel and a movement to withhold income taxes Middle East crisis \u2013 live updates On Monday afternoon, dozens of people sat down in front of the New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand\u2019s Manhattan office. Shedding their casual-business attire, they revealed matching shirts that read \u201cFUND PEOPLE NOT &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Putting your body on the line\u2019: inside the US movement against war in Iran\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/putting-your-body-on-the-line-inside-the-us-movement-against-war-in-iran\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Putting your body on the line\u2019: inside the US movement against war in Iran\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}