{"id":39008,"date":"2023-05-20T12:54:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T12:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/05\/20\/welsh-independence-march-in-swansea\/"},"modified":"2023-05-20T12:54:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T12:54:54","slug":"welsh-independence-march-in-swansea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=39008","title":{"rendered":"Welsh independence march in Swansea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Thousands of people are taking part in a rally calling for Welsh independence. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The event in Swansea comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-63100986\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">an estimated 10,000 marched in Cardiff<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-wales-62020631\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">8,000 in Wrexham<\/a> last year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Organisers, pro-independence groups Yes Cymru and AUOB (All Under One Banner) Cymru, estimated about 5,000 at Saturday&#8217;s march. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Plaid Cymru MP Liz Saville Roberts said it was being staged &#8220;against the injustices we face as a nation &#8211; on rail funding, water, and the attacks on peaceful protest&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">She said campaigners were &#8220;marching and protesting loudly &#8211; in defiance of Westminster&#8217;s attacks on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-65410634\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">right to protest<\/a> &#8211; carrying on a proud Welsh tradition, not just of standing tall against injustice, but rising above it to create something better&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cyre3e3ze3ko?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Thousands of people are taking part in a rally calling for Welsh independence. The event in Swansea comes after an estimated 10,000 marched in Cardiff and 8,000 in Wrexham &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}