{"id":8324,"date":"2018-04-17T19:18:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T19:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8324"},"modified":"2018-04-17T19:18:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T19:18:23","slug":"marchers-to-demand-texas-politicians-respect-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8324","title":{"rendered":"Marchers to Demand Texas Politicians \u201cRespect Science\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Organizers expect a large crowd at the April 21 March for Science rally at the State Capitol in Austin. (MarchforScience)<\/p><\/div>\n

by Mark Richardson<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

AUSTIN, Texas \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Organizers of Austin\u2019s annual\u00a0March for Science<\/a>\u00a0hope to send a message to state lawmakers \u2013 stop politicizing, and start respecting science. The march and rally, scheduled for Saturday, will coincide with the city\u2019s annual Earth Day celebration.<\/p>\n

Planners expect a crowd of several hundred to participate this year.<\/p>\n

Jose Medina, deputy communications director for the event organizers, says in the current political climate, people need to be reminded just how important science is to their everyday lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the vast majority of people see science as a benefit, something that has helped us in many, many ways,\u201d Medina says. \u201cSo, they\u2019re kind of fearful of science coming under attack and maybe holding back what would otherwise be some pretty important advancement.\u201d<\/p>\n

The global March for Science movement was created in 2017 by such groups as the\u00a0American Association for the Advancement of Science<\/a>,\u00a0The Nature Conservancy<\/a>, and others.<\/p>\n

Marches were planned in mid-April in at least seven Texas cities, and hundreds more across the U.S. and around the world. The main march in Washington, D.C., last weekend drew an estimated 5,000 people.<\/p>\n

Medina says Austin\u2019s march had about 600 participants last year, and at least that many are expected at this year\u2019s event.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur event will begin with some pro-science activities on the State Capitol grounds,\u201d he adds. \u201cThen we\u2019ll do a rally and following the rally we\u2019ll do the march, which will go from the Capitol to the Earth Day celebrations at Huston-Tillotson University in East Austin.\u201d<\/p>\n

He notes some of the state\u2019s conservative politicians are dismissive of science, and says the marchers \u2013 who are also voters \u2013 want policies based on factual evidence, not partisan ideology.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe hope that elected officials, both from the local level to the state government, take note that there are plenty of people who love and support science, and see and appreciate all its benefits,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n

The rally starts at 10 A.M., the march begins at noon. The Austin event is sponsored by\u00a0Earth Day ATX<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Texas Freedom Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Mark Richardson AUSTIN, Texas \u2013\u00a0Organizers of Austin\u2019s annual\u00a0March for Science\u00a0hope to send a message to state lawmakers \u2013 stop politicizing, and start respecting science. The march and rally, scheduled for Saturday, will coincide with the city\u2019s annual Earth Day celebration. Planners expect a crowd of several hundred to participate this year. Jose Medina, deputy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8326,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8324\/revisions\/8326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}