Mike Prysner Speaking Truth to Power, April 9, 2011, Asheville, NC

Mike Prysner was one of the speakers at the event Speaking Truth to Power: a permanent state of war on April 9, 2011 in Asheville, NC.

Mike joined the US Army when he was 17, between his junior and senior years in high school. He left for basic training in June 2001 and was assigned to the 10th Mountain Division in Fort Drum, NY. In March 2003, his company was attached to the 173rd Airborne Brigade to take part in the initial invasion of Iraq.

"I left this Army with a new understanding of the system under which we all live and the nature of US foreign policy. But, I still had the same drive to fight for freedom, justice and equality as I did when I joined and I understood that fighting for those things meant fighting against the US government, not on behalf of it."

Upon separating from the US Army in 2005, Mike became an active organizer with the ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), mobilizing for mass anti-war demonstrations. In 2009, he and other veterans and active-duty troops formed the organization, March Forward! to build the anti-war and social justice movement within the military and among veterans.

Mike has become a noted commentator on the wars and US foreign policy, speaking around the country and internationally and appears regularly on a variety of media outlets.

He can be reached at www.MarchForward.org

Additional video segments of the other speakers (Gareth Porter, Ray McGovern, David LaMotte, Josh Stieber, Conor Curran and Brock McIntosh) are available on YouTube and the 2-disc DVD will be available for purchase at :
www.speakingtruthtopowerseries.wordpress.com

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[LacobrigusRomanicus]

Great speech man!

Greetings from Portugal.

[NotSoPinkPanther]

This guy is AWESOME. Respect.

[MovieFault]

yeeear best man fuck americaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[mymay84]

watch "Zeitgeist- Moving Forward" and "Zeitgeist- Addendum". There you can see how this system works.

[0515524847]

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other."

۞ James Madison ۞

[mikecorbeil]

Excellent speech.

[Anonywish]

The real war should be against the corporatocracy, military-industrial complex and the elite sociopaths/psychopaths that are holding on to a dead political system called capitalism!

Thanks from Scotland for speaking the truth Mike :)

[working2helpyou]

God Bless GREAT video! Let the TRUTH be known to ALL!

[NaomII1986]

human awakening even soldiers awaken cuz there is no war when there are no soldiers