Michael Prysner (1983 - )
Wed Jun 15, 1983
Michael Prysner, born on this day in 1983, is an American veteran and anti-war activist who produces and co-writes The Empire Files with Abby Martin and co-hosted "Eyes Left" with Afghanistan War veteran Spenser Rapone.
Prysner served in Iraq as a corporal and cites his duties there, including ground surveillance, home raids, and the interrogation of prisoners, as leading him to take an anti-war stance.
Prysner has also co-founded "March Forward!", an organization of active-duty members of the U.S. military and veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars that encourages current active-duty service personnel to resist deployment.
In 2011, Prysner gave a speech now known as the "Our Real Enemies" address, in which he argued that domestic enemies pose a greater threat to the average U.S. resident than foreign ones. An excerpt reads:
"We need to wake up and realize that our real enemies are not in some distant land...The enemy is a system that wages war when it's profitable. The enemy is CEOs who lay us off our jobs when it's profitable. It's the insurance companies who deny us health care when it's profitable. It's the banks who take away our homes when it's profitable. Our enemies are not five thousand miles away. They are right here at home."
- Date: 1983-06-15
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