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Violence Derailed Independence Movement; Created US Empire

July 6, 2026

As people in the United States mark 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, stories of the Founding Fathers abound but much of this analysis misses the deeper account of how a decade of nonviolent resistance to the British Empire contributed to independence and was subverted by a military campaign led by oligarchic generals. Clearing the FOG speaks with author and nonviolence organizer Rivera Sun about that period where people used their power through boycotts, protests, and the creation of alternative institutions to become independent, and how this worried the wealthy class, which then wrote a property rights Constitution that was anti-democratic and founded a republic that permitted the ownership of people.

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Rivera Sun is an award-winning author and a visionary writer whose work aims to awaken and empower readers of all ages. For nearly a decade, her popular Dandelion Trilogy has sold thousands of copies annually. Her acclaimed Ari Ara Series has been enjoyed by readers of all ages, taught in classrooms, and read by peace groups. Her high-quality literature captures the imagination with a blend of utterly compelling stories and social justice themes.

Rivera is the founding editor of the prize-winning Nonviolence News. Over 5 years, she co-hosted two radio shows broadcasted nationwide on Pacifica Network stations. Rivera is a frequent guest presenter at universities, libraries and schools, and peace and justice organizations. Her syndicated articles have been published in hundreds of journals nationwide. As a trainer and educator, Rivera has facilitated sold-out workshops in writing, peace studies, and nonviolent action. She also hosts popular book discussion groups for readers of all ages and has run successful community publishing campaigns for 8 novels. She regularly posts literary and social justice-themed content to her 5,000 Facebook friends/followers and 24,500 Twitter followers, as well as maintaining a personal newsletter to 1500+ readers and fans.

In 2020, her novel The Lost Heir was nominated for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the nation’s most prestigious peace literature prize. In 2015, she conducted a 50-city, grassroots-organized speaking tour for The Dandelion Insurrection. Rivera Sun attended Bennington College on full scholarship, including a major scholarship from the Harcourt Foundation. Rivera Sun currently serves on the Advisory Board of World BEYOND War and the board of Backbone Campaign, and works with Pace e Bene’s Campaign Nonviolence with tens of thousands of people across the country and globe. www.riverasun.com

Right Wing Backlash To Pink Tide Intensifies In Latin America

June 29, 2026

The United States and its allies have escalated their war on Latin America – killing hundreds of fisher people with impunity, invading and kidnapping the President and First Lady in Venezuela, tightening economic blockades, and manipulating elections. Clearing the FOG speaks with Claudia O’Brien-Moscoso of the Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team about recent right wing gains in countries such as Colombia, Peru and other countries in retaliation to the popular gains of the Pink Tide and how social movements are fighting back. O’Brien-Moscoso describes the international campaign to build a Zone of Peace in Our Americas.

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Claudia “Clau” O’Brien-Moscoso is an organizer and member of the Black Alliance for Peace Haiti/Americas Team. Originally from Barrios Altos, Lima, she grew up in Kearny, New Jersey. She attended college, lived, and organized in New York City for 15 years, and is now based in Lima, Perú, writing about Latin America and the Caribbean for the Black Agenda Report.

Congress Slips Netanyahu’s Plan For Military Integration Into NDAA

June 22, 2026

As the Obama-era Memorandum of Understanding on US military financial aid to Israel is set to expire, Congress has added a provision to the National Defense Authorization Act for 2027 (Section 224) that would fully integrate the Israeli and US militaries, making the countries mutually dependent and giving the Zionist state full access to US intelligence. Clearing the FOG speaks with Benjamin Freeman of The Quincy Institute about the dangers of this section. For example, the new law would increase the power of the Israeli lobby over US politics, remove any limits on financial support, and end Congressional authority or oversight over aid to Israel. He also discusses what people can do to stop it.

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Ben Freeman is director of the Democratizing Foreign Policy program at the Quincy Institute. Ben is the co-author, with William Hartung, of the recently released The Trillion Dollar War Machine: How Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us at Home. He investigates money in politics, defense spending, and foreign influence in America. He is the author of The Foreign Policy Auction, which was the first book to systematically analyze the foreign influence industry in the United States. Before joining the Quincy Institute, Ben founded the Foreign Influence Transparency Initiative at the Center for International Policy, served as Deputy Director of the National Security program at Third Way, and was a National Security Fellow at the Project On Government Oversight. At the latter, he spear-headed creation of the “Foreign Influence Database,” a repository of propaganda distributed by foreign agents that was previously unavailable online.

Ben earned a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University, where he taught in the Political Science Department and the Bush School of Government and Public Service. He is currently a faculty member at the Institute for Defense and Business, where he teaches seminars on the defense budget process and the foreign influence industry.

His work has appeared in numerous media outlets, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and Politico. Ben has appeared on CNN, BBC, NPR, Fresh Air with Terry Gross and numerous other media outlets. He has also testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Community’s Struggle Over Desecrated African Cemetery Is Foundational To Ending White Supremacy

June 15, 2026

The Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition (BACC) has been fighting for eleven years to stop construction on top of a desecrated African cemetery and to build a museum to honor and educate about the erased history of the death camps that profited from the breeding of African girls, who are buried there, for forced labor. In what is considered a progressive bastion, Montgomery County in Maryland, not a single politician has supported their struggle. Clearing the FOG speaks with BACC co-founder Dr. Marsha Coleman- Adebayo about their efforts on the streets, in legislative bodies and in the courts and why their work is foundational to ending white supremacy.

**Warning: Sensitive content regarding human trafficking, rape, pedophilia and KKK terrorism.**

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Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, a civic activist, was born on August 18, 1952 in Detroit, Michigan to Majestice Thompson Coleman and Samuel Coleman. She graduated from Detroit’s Mumford High School in 1970. Coleman-Adebayo attended Barnard College of Columbia University in New York City, where she earned her A.B. degree in economics and political science in 1974. She went on to receive her Ph.D. degree in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1982.

Coleman-Adebayo joined American University in Washington D.C. as an assistant professor in the School of International Service and as the academic director of the Washington Semester Program between 1981 and 1984, while also working as a senior research analyst with the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc., in 1983 and 1984. The following year, Coleman-Adebayo was hired as a program officer and congressional liaison in the United Nations Sudano-Sahelian Office in New York, New York. In 1988, she joined the World Wildlife Fund as a senior social scientist, responsible for program development, supervision, and coordination of programs in West and Eastern Africa until 1990. That year, she became a senior policy analyst with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), eventually serving as a liaison to the White House and the Government of South Africa under President Nelson Mandela. After uncovering that a U.S. chemical company was causing environmental harm through its mining of vanadium in South Africa and filing a suit against the EPA on the basis of discrimination in 2000, Coleman-Adebayo founded the No FEAR Coalition, a civil rights and whistleblower organization, in 2002. The No FEAR Act (Notification and Federal Employee Antidiscrimination and Retaliation Act) was passed the same year. In 2011, she published her book, No Fear: A Whistleblower’s Triumph Over Corruption and Retaliation at EPA, with the Chicago Review Press.

Coleman-Adebayo joined the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service as an adjunct professor in 2002 and George Mason University as a scholar in residence in 2007. In 2016, she became president and CEO of the Bethesda African Cemetery Coalition (BACC), a historic African burial ground containing the bodies of enslaved and post-emancipated Africans.

Coleman-Adebayo has served as a member and first lady of Macedonia Baptist Church since 1990. She joined the Black Farmers Association in 2006 and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) in 2023. She is also a member of the Coalition to Save Thoroughfare Cemetery and has served on the board of directors of the National Whistleblower Center.

Coleman-Adebayo has received numerous awards and honors, including the EPA Public Service Award in 1993, the Valuable Employee Award in 1994, the EPA Unsung Hero Award for Community Service in South Africa and a Bronze Medal Award in 1999, an Award for Outstanding Service from Blacks in Government in 2003, and Good Housekeeping magazine’s Woman of the Year Award in 2003, among others.

Coleman-Adebayo and her husband, A. Segun Adebayo, have two children, and they reside in Bethesda, Maryland.

End Sportswashing Of US Crimes And Elite Capture Of The People’s Games

June 8, 2026

The 2026 World Cup, taking place in North America, begins on June 11. In the United States, the games will be played in 11 cities from coast to coast with ‘security’ being provided by federal agencies, including ICE, which have been terrorizing communities, detaining travelers, residents, and citizens in inhumane conditions, and committing violence with impunity. The Anti Fascist Football Coalition opposed holding the games in the US to avoid legitimizing a country that supports genocide in Palestine and is waging illegal wars, and is now calling for a boycott. Clearing the FOG speaks with Maria Hernandez, an organizer with UNITE HERE Local 11 in Los Angeles, where stadium workers are still fighting for a contract and assurances of their safety in a space where ICE agents are present, and Ajamu Baraka of the Black Alliance for Peace, who explains the boycott and why we must take the games back from the billionaire class.

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Maria Hernandez is an organizer with UNITE HERE local 11 in Los Angeles.

Ajamu Baraka is a geopolitical analyst, organizer, writer, human rights defender, and veteran of the U.S. Black Liberation Movement with over 53 years of work in the U.S. and internationally. Read his full bio here.

United States Grips Cuba In ‘Medieval Siege’, Threatens Invasion

June 1, 2026

Only one tanker of oil has been delivered to Cuba this year as the United States imposes a brutal economic blockade enforced through a naval occupation and threats of force. The ramifications are tremendous – industries and transportation have shut down, what little food is available is rotting due to lack of refrigeration and hospitals are unable to provide life-saving care. Clearing the FOG speaks with Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK, who has been leading humanitarian delegations to Cuba, about the crisis, retaliation against her and others for their efforts and the possibility of a military invasion.

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Medea Benjamin is the co-founder of the women-led peace group CODEPINK. She is also co-founder of the human rights group Global Exchange, the Peace in Ukraine Coalition, Unfreeze Afghanistan (which advocates for returning the $7 billion of Afghan funds frozen in U.S. banks), ACERE: The Alliance for Cuba Engagement and Respect, and the Nobel Peace Prize for Cuban Doctors Campaign.

Medea has been an advocate for social justice for 50 years. Described as “one of America’s most committed — and most effective — fighters for human rights” by New York Newsday, and “one of the high profile leaders of the peace movement” by the Los Angeles Times, she was one of 1,000 exemplary women from 140 countries nominated to receive the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the millions of women who do the essential work of peace worldwide.

She is the author of 11 books, including Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control, Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the U.S.-Saudi Connection, Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran and War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict, coauthored with Nicolas J.S. Davies. Her most recent book, coauthored with David Swanson, is NATO: What You Need to Know.

At Santa Marta Conference, Challenges To Climate Justice Continue

May 25, 2026

At the end of April, Colombia and the Netherlands co-hosted a climate conference in Santa Marta that brought nearly 60 nations together to strategize on ways to transition off of fossil fuels. The genesis for the conference is the failure of the United Nations Conference of Parties process over the past 30 years to respond effectively to the growing climate crisis. Clearing the FOG speaks with climate activist and author, Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright, who was part of an Afro-descendant delegation to the conference and a people’s summit that took place before the Santa Marta Conference. Rogers-Wright discusses the challenges we continue to face in building a climate justice movement that focuses on the integral crises of White Supremacy, racism, imperialism, colonialism and patriarchy.

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Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright is an international climate and environmental liberation advocate, a racial justice practitioner, and a writer and policy expert residing in the United States with his family and their mischievous cat, “Evil” Ernie. He is a proud and active member of the Black Alliance for Peace and the Movement for Black Lives. His radio program, “Full Spectrum with Anthony Rogers-Wright,” airs on the Mighty WPFW network every Tuesday at 6:00 PM EST.

It’s Time To Take Down The Medical-Industrial Complex

May 18, 2026

The healthcare crisis in the United States is worsening – the prices of insurance and care are rising, more people are becoming uninsured and life expectancy is declining. The Republicans don’t have a solution to the crisis and Democrats are, once again, pushing a false solution. In an election year, we have an opportunity to push for a healthcare system that puts patients over profits. Clearing the FOG speaks with Dr. Ana Malinow of NationalSinglePayer.com about a new campaign: the Declaration of Independence from the Medical-Industrial Complex. Dr. Malinow also describes the current state of the US healthcare system, how it compares to other countries, and a new report on Moral Injury in physicians.

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Dr. Ana Malinow: Before retiring as clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of California-San Francisco, Dr. Ana Malinow spent three decades working as a pediatrician with immigrant, refugee, and underserved children and adolescents in Ohio, Texas, Pennsylvania, and California. Prior to working at UCSF, she was associate residency program director at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, and before that, associate professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and attending physician in the pediatric emergency and ambulatory center at Ben Taub General Hospital. Dr. Malinow is the recipient of the 2007 Award for Excellence at Baylor Pediatric Grand Rounds on Health Care, the 2007 AAMC Nominee for Humanism in Medicine Award, and the recipient of the Seeds of Hope Results Award in 2009 given to individuals fighting to bring an end to poverty.

Born in Argentina, Dr. Malinow completed her medical degree at Case Western Reserve University, residency in pediatrics at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, and master’s degree in health care policy and management from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Malinow is a past president of Physicians for a National Health Program and co-founder of Health Care for All Texas, Doctors for Change, and the Movement to End Privatization of Medicare, and a lead organizer for National Single Payer.

Activists Are Risking Their Lives To Break The Brutal Blockade On Gaza

May 11, 2026

Under international law, all countries that have signed onto the Genocide Convention are mandated to both prevent and stop genocides, and yet the genocide of Palestinians, particularly in Gaza, has continued unabated. Given the failure of most governments to fulfill their duties, civilians from around the world are organizing humanitarian flotillas to break through the blockade on Gaza. Clearing the FOG speaks with James Marc Leas, a lawyer and Palestine solidarity activist who is in Italy to support the Freedom Flotilla Coalition. He discusses the conditions in Palestine, the laws, and Israel’s illegal seizure of Global Sumud Flotilla boats and activists.

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James Marc Leas is a patent attorney and a past co-chair of the NLG Palestine Subcommittee. He drafted submissions to the ICC prosecutor on behalf of the Palestine Subcommittee that showed that neither the facts nor the law fit Israel’s claim that it acts in “self-defense” against rockets. He collected evidence in Gaza immediately after Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012 as part of a 20-member delegation from the US and Europe and authored or co-authored articles describing findings, including “Why the Self-Defense Doctrine Doesn’t Legitimize Israel’s Assault on Gaza.” He participated in the 2009 NLG delegation to Gaza immediately after Operation Cast Lead and contributed to its report, “Onslaught: Israel’s Attack on Gaza and the Rule of Law.” Over 20 of his articles on Israeli attacks on Palestine have been published on Truthout, Counterpunch, Mondoweiss, Opednews, and the Huffington Post. He has been an active member of the campaign to end Israel’s wars and occupations since 1982. Before becoming an attorney, James was an engineer at IBM, and he holds over 40 patents for his inventions. While an IBM employee he led a vigorous campaign to end IBM sales to South Africa. He also served as a staff physicist for the Union of Concerned Scientists in its Washington, DC office for a year in the aftermath of the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant. He is a graduate of MIT and completed all but the dissertation toward a PhD in physics from the University of Massachusetts. He is a member of the Vermont Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, and NLG. He can be reached at jimmy@vermontpatentlawyer.com. You will find his reporting on Substack under the title Cancel the F35.

Korean Atomic Bomb Victims Organize Peoples Tribunal For Justice

May 4, 2026

In 1945, tens of thousands of occupied Koreans were forced to live in Japan, primarily as impoverished workers. When the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 70,000 Koreans were impacted. Though they and their succeeding generations have been severely harmed by the exposure to radiation, they still have not received recognition, an apology or compensation for their suffering. A delegation of atomic bomb victims just completed a tour of the United States and testified before the United Nations. Clearing the FOG speaks with Shim Jin-tae, Han Jeongsun and a representative of Solidarity for Peace and Reunification of Korea (SPARK) about their experiences and their struggle for a nuclear-free world. Translation provided by Hyunsook Elizabeth “Echo” Cho.

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Shim Jin-tae

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As Congress Automates The Draft, It’s Time To End The Selective Service System

April 27, 2026

Buried in the 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is a provision to automatically register all males at the age of 18 with the Selective Service System (SSS) that, if not stopped, will go into effect this December. Clearing the FOG speaks with Edward Hasbrouck of Resisters.info. Hasbrouck was a draft resister in the early 1980’s who was sent to prison for refusing to register. He discusses how a small number of resisters, who were willing to speak out, proved that the government could not enforce a draft. He adds that this new effort will similarly fail and how we can abolish the system altogether, and stop the United States’ endless wars.

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Edward Hasbrouck is the editor and publisher of Resisters.info, the most comprehensive non-governmental source of information about the draft, draft registration, and draft resistance in the USA. In the 1980s, he worked as an organizer with the National Resistance Committee and as co-editor of “Resistance News”, the national journal of draft resistance. As one of only 20 vocal nonregistrants prosecuted before the government abandoned enforcement of draft registration, he was convicted of willful refusal to present himself for and submit to registration with the Selective Service System, and served four and a half months in a Federal Prison Camp in 1983-1984. In 2019, he was the only draft resister invited to testify before the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service at its hearings on the future of Selective Service. The recipient of a Social Courage Award from the Peace and Justice Studies Association “for exemplifying courage and honor in speaking truth to power”, he is a member of the War Resisters League and the Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild, and works as a travel writer and as a consultant to a human rights project. As a person too old to be likely to be drafted, his continued work against age-based military conscription is an expression of his primary political identification as an older ally to young people in their struggle for youth liberation.

War On Free Speech Expands To Detention, Sanctions Of Individuals

April 20, 2026

The plutocratic power structure in the United States is clamping down on our right to know and to dissent by illegally detaining individuals who speak out or shutting down their access to financial services. Clearing the FOG speaks with political analyst Ali Alizadeh about the unlawful detention of Iranian public policy PhD student at Virginia Tech, Yousof Azizi, who is frequently a guest on major media outlets. The second guest is Rainey Reitman of the Freedom of the Press foundation, who discusses her new book, “Transaction Denied: Big finance’s power to punish speech.”

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Ali Alizadeh is an Iranian political analyst and presenter of Jadeel TV living in the United Kingdom. He is a member of the Yousof Azizi Defense Committee. See YousofAzizi.com.

Rainey Reitman is a writer and civil liberties advocate who has been at the forefront of today’s most urgent battles for digital rights. She has led viral advocacy campaigns, spoken internationally on civil liberties, and appeared widely on radio, television, and in print. Her writing explores the intersection of technology and human rights. Reitman is the cofounder and president of the board of directors of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, a nonprofit defending journalism.

Proposed Railroad Mega-Merger To Put Corporate Profits Over People

April 13, 2026

In recent decades, the railroad industry has consolidated from more than 40 Class One Rail carriers to only six with disastrous results for the rail workers and the public. Despite a 1990’s moratorium on mergers, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern are applying for a new merger, the first one to be transcontinental. Workers, passengers, farmers, and other industries are joining forces to stop this merger. Clearing the FOG speaks with Ron Kamikow, a co-founder of Railroad Workers United, about the state of our rail system, the impact of the potential merger and the campaign against it. Kamikow says the UP-NS merger would definitely lead to further consolidation and would disrupt the supply chain at a time when it is already fragile.

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Ron Kamikow – Prior to hiring out as a brakeman with Conrail in 1996, Brother Ron served as President of AFSCME Local #634 in Madison, WI. In 2005, Ron co-founded Railroad Operating Crafts United (ROCU), and in 2008, was a Founding Member of Railroad Workers United (RWU), serving on the Steering Committee until 2024 as General Secretary and Organizer. A former brakeman, conductor, and engineer on Conrail and later Norfolk Southern in Chicago (UTU #168) and Elkhart, IN (UTU #194), Ron has worked for Amtrak in Milwaukee (BLET #27), Chicago (BLET #40), and Reno, NV (BLET #51) where he recently retired (2023) after 20 years as a passenger engineer with the company. Ron recently served as his Division’s Vice President and Delegate, and continues to represent the local as Delegate to the Northern Nevada Central Labor Council (NNCLC). He remains active in RWU, serving on various committees.

The Polycrisis, Worsened By War, Is Devastating Our Global Food System

April 6, 2026

The US-Israeli war on Iran and the resultant fuel shortages are already negatively-impacting the global economy. One aspect that isn’t gaining much attention is the impact of the war on an already fragile food system. Shortages and the rising prices of oil, fertilizer and pesticides are forcing farmers to make difficult choices and will lead to food scarcity this Fall. To understand where we are and what we can do to support food security, Clearing the FOG speaks with Kayla Dones of DD Geopolitics and Lauren Borsheim, a food policy analyst for Food and Water Watch who has been tracking the new Farm Bill legislation.

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‘We Won’t Die For Israel’: Military Members Seek A Way Out Of War

March 23, 2026

On February 28, the Trump administration, in partnership with the Zionist state of Israel, launched an illegal attack on Iran that has broadened to involve the region. Prior to the attack, Iran notified the United Nations that they would view all US assets in the area as legitimate targets for their defense. US military bases and hotels where troops were staying have been bombed. Now, the administration is threatening a ground invasion and is mobilizing Marine Expeditionary Units. Clearing the FOG speaks with Mike Prysner of the Center on Conscience and War about the large increase in military members seeking conscientious objector status. And we bring back a portion of an earlier interview with James Branum of the Military Law Task Force about other options for active military members.

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Mike Prysner, Executive Director of the Center on Conscience and War, a veteran of the Iraq War and a renowned anti-war organizer, brings over two decades of experience in advocacy, media, and direct support for service members navigating the complexities of military service and individual conscience. Prysner gained international recognition following his 2007 testimony at the Winter Soldier hearings, where his powerful denunciation of the occupation resonated with millions. Since then, he has remained a fixture in the peace movement, organizing fellow Iraq veterans and leading high-profile civil disobedience actions against the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. Beyond his activism in the streets, Prysner has been a pioneer in creating educational resources for active-duty personnel. In an era where military recruitment and influence have shifted heavily into digital spaces, Prysner’s expertise in new media is a strategic asset for CCW. His work on projects like the Eyes Left podcast and The Empire Files has already proven successful in reaching service members where they are. Under his leadership, the Center plans to modernize its outreach tools, bringing its more than 85-year legacy of advocacy to a broader, more diverse audience of young people and active-duty personnel.

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