{"id":249352,"date":"2014-02-22T09:42:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T05:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=249352"},"modified":"2014-02-22T09:44:28","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T05:44:28","slug":"protests-against-pension-reforms-continue-with-march-of-lights-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2014\/02\/22\/protests-against-pension-reforms-continue-with-march-of-lights-video.html","title":{"rendered":"Protests Against Pension Reforms Continue with &#8216;March of Lights&#8217; (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Several thousand residents protesting the new funded pension system introduced in Armenia on Jan. 1, 2014, held a &quot;March of Lights&quot; on Friday night.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRecall, the new system introduced a compulsory component by which 5&ndash;10% of the monthly salaries of those born after 1973 are required go to one of two private pension funds selected by the government.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tParticipants gathered outside Matenadaran (the Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts) sporting headlamps and carrying drums, chanting &quot;We are against the mandatory [pension system]!&#8221;, &#8220;Join us!&#8221;, and &#8220;No to the funded [pension system]!&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe march then proceeded down Mashtots Ave. to Republic Square, ending at Liberty Square near the Opera.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<em>Details in the video below.&nbsp;<\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<iframe width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_juo76fTrss?wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several thousand residents protesting the new funded pension system introduced in Armenia on Jan. 1, 2014, held a &#8220;March of Lights&#8221; on Friday night.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11703,53142],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}