{"id":995,"date":"2006-04-21T09:53:02","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T17:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/04\/free_roger.html"},"modified":"2006-04-21T09:53:02","modified_gmt":"2006-04-21T17:53:02","slug":"free_roger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/free_roger.html","title":{"rendered":"Free Roger!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join in the Roger Toussaint jail vigil <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/62718.htm\">starting Monday<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Transport Workers Union boss has planned daily vigils by workers outside the Manhattan House of Detention beginning Monday, when his 10-day sentence for leading last year&#8217;s illegal strike begins.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Take a stand,&#8221; proclaim fliers passed out by the union yesterday, urging workers to accompany Toussaint when he surrenders at Brooklyn Supreme Court Monday, and then protest his incarceration throughout the week.<\/p>\n<p>Jailhouse block parties are planned outside the jail from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. the rest of the week.<\/p>\n<p>Train operators, conductors and some bus operators are told to come Tuesday; the car-equipment division Wednesday; the rest of the bus drivers and mechanics Thursday; and station agents and track workers Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to support our leader,&#8221; one bus driver said. &#8220;I will not miss it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join in the Roger Toussaint jail vigil starting Monday: The Transport Workers Union boss has planned daily vigils by workers outside the Manhattan House of Detention beginning Monday, when his 10-day sentence for leading last year&#8217;s illegal strike begins. &#8220;Take a stand,&#8221; proclaim fliers passed out by the union yesterday, urging workers to accompany Toussaint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law_order","category-tragicomic_ironic_obnoxious_or_absurd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}