Abby Martin

I read the Washington sun.

Um, I read empire or I, anything that empire files, which is Abby Martin.

Uh, I, I take a look at that.

Um, I read, um, I read some of the lefty stuff, American Prospect, on occasion Mother Jones, that kind of a thing.

So this Gaza thing isn't like a new hat to me, right? This isn't like a problem I'm just hearing about.

I know who Abby Martin is.

So like, but when it goes from, oh well we starve them and we don't give them any rights and they're trapped in a human prison to we're bombing the human prison and then we're dropping leaflets so that everyone leaves one area of the human prison and then once they leave that area we bomb the area we told them to go to for safety that part is where I go okay Israel's bad bad and not just like this sort of malignant thing we don't

do anything about I think there's an analogy to be made here to the time when Catholics ran the world, when the Spaniards and the Portuguese literally cut the world in half, and this is your half, this is my half, and they were butchering Indigenous people in the millions and taking over the entire...

There were these people, you know, there's a person who is very, very good.

Her name is Abby Martin.

But she's so strident.

She says things in a way like she's the first person ever to think of this.

There are seniors coming.

They're converging on to Ottawa on September 19th for the big climate march, and then we are doing the screening of Earth's Greatest Enemy about the climate and environmental impacts of the US military, this excellent documentary by Abby Martin on September 20th in Ottawa.

And then on the 21st, which is International Peace Day, we've got a press conference at 11:00 and then the rally at the Prime Minister's office at 4:00.

So Canadians are joining our international activists that are trying to raise awareness about the destruction of militarism and the need to transition not just from fossil fuels, but from this military industrial complex into a clean, green, peaceful economy and future.

That was Tamara Lorincz, environmentalist, feminist, peace activist, and senior researcher with Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, and Keith Stewart, climate policy researcher and advocate with Greenpeace Canada.

Links to their organizations and others mentioned in the discussion are in the show notes to this episode.

Also be sure to check out events connected to the Global Week of Action for Peace and Climate Justice September 21st to 25th, including screenings of Abby Martin's new documentary, Earth's Greatest Enemy, on September 20th in Ottawa and September 24th at George Brown Polytechnic in Toronto.

And this is the Courage My Friends podcast.

Yeah.

Like, he has Abby Martin on his show, because a lot of her stuff feels like conspiracy theory.

Right.

Even though it's not, it's like, this is public information.

If you know, this show had been on the road for a little bit.

We were in Portland, Oregon on Monday, Labor Day, and we had Abby Martin and Mike Figueredo, and it was so great.

And yes, we made that available as an audio and also as a podcast video on youtube.com slash Franny Fio.

So you can check that out.

Like, how bizarre is that? [laughs]

Yeah, and that was the lawsuit that, uh, Abby Martin-

Yeah

... brought, uh, against the State of Georgia 'cause they tried to make her sign that to speak at a university.