{"id":1424,"date":"2016-03-13T21:01:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T10:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refugeeadvocacynetwork.org\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2016-03-13T21:01:42","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T10:01:42","slug":"grandmothers-against-detention-freedom-ride-to-canberra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refugeeadvocacynetwork.org.au\/?p=1424","title":{"rendered":"Grandmothers Against Detention: Freedom Ride to Canberra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Grandmothers and Friends of Grandmothers.<\/p>\n<p>We are going to tell our elected representatives we will NOT stand by and allow the detention of babies, children, and their families.<\/p>\n<p>WE will NOT stand by and watch 267 asylum-seekers in Australia be returned to Nauru &#8211; babies, children and families. We\u2019ve participated in numerous rallies, vigils, walks, chants and postcard and letter-writing campaigns. Now we\u2019re heading for Federal Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re going to insist that incarcerating children breaks our international obligations under the Human Rights Convention<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/refugeeadvocacynetwork.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Newsletter-20-Feb-extract-Freedom-Ride.docx\" rel=\"\">Newsletter 20 Feb extract Freedom Ride<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Grandmothers and Friends of Grandmothers. We are going to tell our elected representatives we will NOT stand by and allow the detention of babies, children, and their families. WE will NOT stand by and watch 267 asylum-seekers in Australia be returned to Nauru &#8211; babies, children and families. We\u2019ve participated in numerous rallies, vigils, walks, chants and postcard and letter-writing campaigns. Now we\u2019re heading for Federal Parliament. We\u2019re going to insist that incarcerating children breaks our international obligations under&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-press-releases","post-has-thumbnail"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Grandmothers Against Detention: Freedom Ride to Canberra - Refugee Advocacy Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/refugeeadvocacynetwork.org.au\/?p=1424\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"adm1ncontrol\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/refugeeadvocacynetwork.org.au\\\/?p=1424#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/refugeeadvocacynetwork.org.au\\\/?p=1424\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"adm1ncontrol\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/refugeeadvocacynetwork.org.au\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/8421c2cda9cbc056a6d7a3338507e20b\"},\"headline\":\"Grandmothers Against Detention: Freedom Ride to Canberra\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-03-13T10:01:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-03-13T10:01:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/refugeeadvocacynetwork.org.au\\\/?p=1424\"},\"wordCount\":99,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/refugeeadvocacynetwork.org.au\\\/?p=1424#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/refugeeadvocacynetwork.org.au\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/03\\\/Grandmothers-against-detention.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\",\"Press Releases\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/refugeeadvocacynetwork.org.au\\\/?p=1424#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/refugeeadvocacynetwork.org.au\\\/?p=1424\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/refugeeadvocacynetwork.org.au\\\/?p=1424\",\"name\":\"Grandmothers Against Detention: Freedom Ride to Canberra - 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