The Real Story: Palestine Resists: A Conversation with Abby Martin and Mike Prysner of The Empire Files
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
4.7 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
The Israeli government is waging war against the Palestinian people and attempting to carry out mass ethnic cleansing of the city of Jerusalem as part of ongoing historic efforts to evict the Palestinian people from their homelands. This has led to a historic level of resistance in Jerusalem, Gaza, the West Bank and in Palestinian communities within the current Israeli borders.
Brian is joined by Abby Martin and Mike Prysner of The Empire Files. The Empire Files' full-length documentary movie “Gaza Fights for Freedom” is now available for free online. Check out their work at TheEmpireFiles.tv
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | The war waged by the Israeli government against the Palestinian people and the efforts to carry out mass ethnic cleansing of the city of Jerusalem as part of the ongoing historic efforts to evict the Palestinian people from their homelands has led to a historic level of resistance from the people in Jerusalem, from Gaza, from the West Bank, and within |
| 0:22.7 | Arab communities throughout the area of historic Palestine, including those within the current |
| 0:29.0 | Israeli borders. |
| 0:31.4 | We need a new system. |
| 0:33.6 | We need a new society. |
| 0:35.5 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:40.3 | but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to The Real Story on the Socialist program. I'm your host, Brian Becker, and we are happy to be joined today by Abby Martin and Mike Prysner. |
| 1:15.5 | They produce invaluable video and podcast resources through the Empire Files. |
| 1:22.1 | Check out their work at the EmpireFiles.tv and their Patreon at patreon.com forward slash Empire Files.tv and their Patreon at patreon.com forward slash empire files. |
| 1:32.0 | As Israeli rockets and missiles pound civilian targets inside of Gaza, as resistance forces |
| 1:38.9 | target Israel with rockets, as this struggle continues to escalate following the Netanyahu government's announcement |
| 1:46.9 | that it had rejected a ceasefire offer from Hamas and intends in fact to widen their assault. |
| 1:54.2 | We talk with Abby Martin and Mike Prysner who have decided to make their full-length documentary movie Gaza Fights for Freedom |
| 2:04.3 | to be available to everyone for free. You can find it on the Empire Files YouTube channel. |
| 2:12.1 | Abby Martin, Mike Prysner, welcome. Thanks so much for having us. Appreciate you having us on, |
| 2:16.9 | Brian. Thank you for joining. |
| 2:20.0 | Abby, let's talk first about your movie and your decision this week. Undoubtedly, there was |
| 2:26.2 | huge expenses with making a full-length documentary as you have, but the movie is now free. |
| 2:32.4 | Talk about the movie. Talk about your decision. |
| 2:35.8 | Absolutely. In light of just the horrific attacks on occupied Palestine and of course the bombardment |
| 2:42.0 | of Gaza, which is an open-air prison with two million people living there, we felt like we had no |
| 2:48.6 | choice but to make the documentary available for free because it really does provide such essential context to the situation. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Socialist Program, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Socialist Program and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.