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Michael Prysner is an American political activist. He is the co-founder of March Forward!, an organization of active-duty members of the US military and veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars who encourages current active-duty service personnel to resist deployment.

Prysner is a US Army veteran who served in Iraq. His rank was corporal. According to Prysner, his duties in Iraq included ground surveillance, home raids and the interrogation of prisoners, and these experiences led him to take a radical anti-war stand.In 2008, Prysner ran a write-in campaign for the US House of Representatives for Florida's 22nd congressional district .

He is a member of Party for Socialism and Liberation. He is also a member of A.N.S.W.E.R..In November 2011, Prysner was arrested in Occupy Los Angeles. He was released after posting bail.Prysner is also a producer and co-writer for the program The Empire Files, with Abby Martin. Michael Prysner and Abby Martin reportedly received death threats for their reporting on protests from the Venezuelan opposition.He performed the rap "Skit 6" on the album Soundtrack to the Struggle.

✵ 15. June 1983
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“Poor and working people in this country are sent to kill poor and working people in other country to make the rich richer. Without racism, soldiers would realize that they have more in common with the Iraqi people than they do with the billionaires who send us to war.”

Michael Prysner

"Our Real Enemies"

“Racism within the military has long been an important tool to justify the destruction and occupation of another country. It has long been used to justify the killing, subjugation and torture of another people. Racism is a vital weapon employed by this government.”

Michael Prysner

"Our Real Enemies"

“We are told we are fighting terrorists. The real terrorist was me. And the real terrorism is this occupation.”

Michael Prysner

"Our Real Enemies"

“I threw families onto the street in Iraq, only to come home and find families thrown onto the street in this country, in this tragic and unnecessary foreclosure crisis. We need to wake up and realize that our real enemies are not in some distant land. They're not people whose names we don't know and cultures we don't understand. The enemy is people we know very well and people we can identify. 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.”

Michael Prysner

"Our Real Enemies"

“The ruling class, the billionaires who profit from human suffering care only about expanding their wealth, controlling the world economy. Understand that their power lies only in their ability to convince us that war, oppression and exploitation is in our interest. They understand that their wealth is dependent on their ability to convince the working class to die to control the market of another country. And convincing us to kill and die is based on their ability to make us think that we are somehow superior.”

Michael Prysner

"Our Real Enemies"

“Millions in this country without health care, jobs or access to education must watch this government squander over $ 450 million a day on this occupation.”

Michael Prysner

"Our Real Enemies"

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