Australian Filmmaker, activist, and Gaza Flotilla participant Juliet Lamont talks about her experience being kidnapped, beaten and se*ually assaulted by Israeli soldiers who beat, se*ually assaulted and even injected unknown substances into other participants as well. But first, Lawrence Grandpre of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS), a grassroots think-tank which advances the public policy interest of Black people in Baltimore, talks about a political scandal that involves blackmail, infidelity, tough of crime legislation and Zionism. Then Katie talks to Iranian journalist Samira Mohyeddin about Iran, Palestine, Lebanon and media complicity in genocide.

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Lawrence Grandpre is a political commentator at Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle (LBS), a grassroots think-tank which advances the public policy interest of Black people, in Baltimore, through: youth leadership development, political advocacy, and autonomous intellectual innovation. He uses his 15 years of research and policy advocacy experience to work with community organizations and researchers to produce research and drive social change toward community self-determination.

Juliet Lamont is an award winning filmmaker, poet and playwright. She was the 2013 recipient of the David and Joan Williams Documentary Fellowship, which recognises and rewards creative ambition, intellectual rigour and innovation in documentary cinema. Her latest feature documentary, A COLD WAR, explores the battle between Greenpeace and Russian energy giant Gazprom that resulted in thirty activists sent to prison facing fifteen years for piracy. Her film MISS NIKKI AND THE TIGER GIRLS screened in the main competition at the 2012 IDFA, the 2013 Foxtel Australian Documentary Prize at the Sydney Film Festival and opened the prestigious Margaret Mead Film Festival in New York.

Samira Mohyeddin (‪@SamiraMohyeddin‬) is a multi award winning journalist, producer and broadcaster. For nearly a decade, she was a producer at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation CBC Radio on their national flagship daily program, The Current. She was also a host and producer for CBC Podcasts. Samira resigned from the CBC in 2023 and began her own media company, On The Line Media, which brings audiences the voices they most need to hear from to help them make sense of the world and focuses on critical and contextual journalism and informed commentary.

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