{"id":9725,"date":"2017-09-08T10:32:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-08T17:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/?p=9725"},"modified":"2017-09-08T10:48:01","modified_gmt":"2017-09-08T17:48:01","slug":"jonathan-walton-arrested-at-daca-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/news\/jonathan-walton-arrested-at-daca-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Walton Arrested at DACA Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/mellon-ais\/\">Mellon Advancing Intercultural Studies<\/a> speaker and former UC Riverside Professor, Jonathan Walton, was one of the thirty-one professors arrested on Thursday at the DACA protest in Harvard Square.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><div style=\"width: 1510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2017\/9\/8\/profs-arrested-daca-protest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/180437_1323896.jpg.1500x1000_q95_crop-smart_upscale.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Reverend Jonathan L. Walton was arrested at a protest against the repeal of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program on Thursday afternoon. Photo: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/writer\/1213244\/Timothy_R._O\"><strong>Timothy R. O&#8217;Meara<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/div><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nBefore the arrests, several professors, one undocumented student, Massachusetts State Representative Marjorie C. Decker, and Memorial Church Minister Jonathan L. Walton spoke of the need to take action against the policy outside Massachusetts Hall to a crowd of roughly 300 students, faculty, and affiliates from five different universities. Khurana was also at the protest. Walton, who was later arrested, denounced the Trump administration in his remarks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are here to say to the U.S. President, to his Attorney General, and to all the insecure leaders of this nation, that no human being is illegal,\u201d Walton said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2017\/9\/8\/profs-arrested-daca-protest\/\">Professors Arrested at DACA Protest | News | The Harvard Crimson<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mellon Advancing Intercultural Studies speaker and former UC Riverside Professor, Jonathan Walton, was one of the thirty-one professors arrested on Thursday at the DACA protest in Harvard Square. &nbsp; Before the arrests, several professors, one undocumented student, Massachusetts State Representative Marjorie C. Decker, and Memorial Church Minister Jonathan L. Walton spoke of the need to take action against the policy outside Massachusetts Hall to a crowd of roughly 300 students, faculty, and affiliates from five different universities. Khurana was also at the protest. Walton, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9725"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9735,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9725\/revisions\/9735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ideasandsociety.ucr.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}