{"id":987,"date":"2023-08-02T10:07:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T10:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=987"},"modified":"2023-10-11T07:44:02","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T07:44:02","slug":"16-23-kenya-tax-attacks-violence-against-protests-about-cost-of-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=987","title":{"rendered":"#16-23 Kenya Tax Attacks\u00a0\u2026 Violence against protests about cost of food"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Faced with record high foreign debt, Kenya&#8217;s government passed a new finance bill to raise taxes. Part of it has been paused by the Supreme Court, but the increase in the fuel levy has now been imposed. A 100% increase in fuel tax affects everything from food to transport and beyond &#8211; devastating the nation&#8217;s poorest (of whom there are many). Spontaneous demonstrations and protests, and an opposition-party-called 3 day demonstration have all been met with police brutality &#8211; despite a right to protest being in Kenya&#8217;s Constitution. Interviews cover politics and logistics of demonstrating and alternative means to get the point across.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Naila Abdullah is a community activist with Sisters for Justice. Harriet Muganda, works with a broad coalition called the Fast Action Movement.&nbsp;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Credits: Interviews by Diana Wanyonyi. Script and editing. Frieda Werden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radio4all.net\/files\/wingsradionews@gmail.com\/WINGS-16-23KenyaTaxAttacks-28_58-128kbps.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.radio4all.net\/files\/wingsradionews@gmail.com\/WINGS-16-23KenyaTaxAttacks-28_58-128kbps.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faced with record high foreign debt, Kenya&#8217;s government passed a new finance bill to raise taxes. Part of it has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,20,4,9,157,19,26,164,151,227,218,41,36,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","category-environment-agriculture","category-all","category-archive","category-civil-liberties","category-environment","category-food","category-globalization","category-governance-law","category-kenya","category-money","category-political-parties","category-politics","category-regional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=987"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":990,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987\/revisions\/990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}