11/19/21 Russell Wray on the Antiwar Movement, Protesting and the Military’s Impact on the Environment

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Scott interviews activist Russel Wray from Ellsworth Maine. Wray has been protesting the wars every Sunday since 2002. He discusses his journey to the antiwar movement and how it’s changed since he began his weekly protests. Wray is also a member of a group that’s trying to fight back against the Navy’s sonar practices, which he says are unnecessarily dangerous to marine life. Discussed on the show: Earth’s Greatest Enemy Documentary Russel Wray is an anti-war activist from Ellsworth Maine and a member of Citizens Opposing Active Sonar Threats, an advocacy group working to bring attention to the U.S. Navy’s unnecessary killing of marine life. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Dröm; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt; Lorenzotti Coffee and Listen and Think Audio. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton Show.
0:12.6	I'm the Director of the Libertarian Institute,
0:15.0	editorial director of anti-war.com.
0:17.8	Author of the book, Pools Arran,
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0:57.0	I guess he was there visiting, and he met Russell with his sign where he's been standing every Sunday since 2002 in the
1:06.6	run up to Iraq War II. This time his sign says defund the Pentagon and my friend was telling me he had a really good
1:16.3	conversation and recommended an interview so I decided to go for it so welcome to
1:21.2	the show Russell how are you doing sir thank you very much
1:24.2	Scott I'm doing fine thanks happy to have here so you've been standing out
1:30.9	there protesting ever since 2002 were you always an anti-war
1:34.4	activist before that? Well I have been yeah I mean going back to my time in high school when I when I was became aware of what
1:48.3	war was about somewhat and I had a this was back during the conscription lottery and the Vietnam War was still going on.
1:58.0	And I had a very low number and I had applied for conscientious objector status and was rejected.
2:08.7	And a few months after I was rejected, the conscription lottery ended, but I never intended ongoing.
2:18.8	So I'm not sure exactly where that came from.
2:20.8	I think it had a lot to do with just the feelings, the mood at the time. People, you know, were really, the anti-war movement was alive and well at that time and I had no intention of going.
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