{"id":6581,"date":"2020-07-20T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/?p=6581"},"modified":"2020-07-20T12:50:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T16:50:22","slug":"pirate-news-defunding-the-police-housing-voting-and-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/2020\/07\/20\/pirate-news-defunding-the-police-housing-voting-and-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate News: Defunding the Police, Housing, Voting and You!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Steve, James, Malt and Joe talk about the latest Massachusetts news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fewE3DKWa34\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Joe talks about a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowellsun.com\/2020\/07\/18\/protesters-march-to-defund-lowell-police-department\/\">recent protest in Lowell to defund the police<\/a>;<\/li><li>Steve discusses <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridgema.gov\/CDD\/Projects\/Housing\/affordablehousingoverlay\">what Cambridge is doing to encourage affordable housing<\/a>;<\/li><li>James gives the run down on mail-in ballots for the upcoming elections:<ul><li>You should be mailed an application for a mail-in ballot, but if not, get a copy at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.state.ma.us\/ele\/eleev\/early-voting-by-mail.htm\">https:\/\/www.sec.state.ma.us\/ele\/eleev\/early-voting-by-mail.htm<\/a>;<\/li><li>Applications must reach your local election office by August 26 for the State Primary and October 28 for the State Election.<\/li><li>State Primary ballots need to be back at your local election office by 8 p.m. on September 1. <\/li><li>State Election ballots need to be postmarked no later than November 3 and must be back at your local election office no later than November 6.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>While we didn&#8217;t cover it this week, we are keeping our eye on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lowellsun.com\/2020\/07\/18\/mayor-of-portland-to-trump-get-your-troops-out-of-the-city\/\">Trump sending federal law enforcement into Portland, OR without state or local approval<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5IKeDrkd27U&amp;list=PLx2c_9B8YzXnOIN1tieiRgqc2rx2JmjLb\">Check out our older Pirate News shows<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve, James, Malt and Joe talk about the latest Massachusetts news. Joe talks about a recent protest in Lowell to defund the police;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,23,32,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-liberties","category-elections","category-slider","category-podcasts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1W8mg-1I9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6581"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6585,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581\/revisions\/6585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspirates.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}