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Retired Colonel Ann Wright reacts to the self-immolation of Aaron Bushnell and discusses why people kill themselves to try to stop a war. Journalist Talia Jane, who broke the story, joins us live from a vigil at the Armed Forces Recruitment Center. And Assal Rad discusses the media's biased treatment of Bushnell as well as Palestinians.

Ann Wright is a 29 year US Army/Army Reserves veteran who retired as a Colonel and a former US diplomat who resigned in March 2003 in opposition to the war on Iraq. She served in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia and Mongolia. In December 2001 she was on the small team that reopened the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. She is the co-author of the book "Dissent: Voices of Conscience." Read her article "Why Would Anyone Kill One’s Self In an Attempt to Stop A War?" https://covertactionmagazine.com/2024/02/26/why-would-anyone-kill-ones-self-in-an-attempt-to-stop-a-war/ 

Talia Jane is an independent reporter and videojournalist who reports via Twitter @taliaotg, covering social movements and protests as well as researching far-right propaganda and extremism. Jane’s work has appeared on CBS, ABC, NBC, New York Times, WNYC/Gothamist, and a slew of other outlets, with writing published in Vice, Teen Vogue, Hell Gate, It’s Going Down, and more. Support: patreon.com/taliajane

Dr. Assal Rad is a scholar of Middle East history. She works on research and writing related to U.S. foreign policy issues, the Middle East, and contemporary Iran. Her writing can be seen in Newsweek, The National Interest, The Independent, Foreign Policy and more, and she has appeared as a commentator on BBC World, Al Jazeera, CNN, and NPR. She completed a PhD in History from the University of California, Irvine in 2018 and is the author of The State of Resistance: Politics, Culture, and Identity in Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2022). Follow Assal on X/Twitter: @AssalRad (https://twitter.com/AssalRad)


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Aaron Bushnell's Death With Col. Ann Wright, Journalist Talia Jane & Historian Assal Rad

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On the other side of the world, Aaron Bushnell's body burned in the same way the bodies of innocent people are burning every day in Gaza. As he burned he shouted repeatedly, "free Palestine."

Song For Aaron Bushnell

The recent self-immolation by serviceman Aaron Bushnell to protest U. S. support of the Israeli killings in Palestine brings to light past military service member protests on the U. S. involvement in wars. Mike Ferner, National Director of Veterans for Peace, talks about his change to conscientious objector status following his experiences in Vietnam. Ferner discusses the "madmen arsonists who are running the country" and how the weapon manufacturers are pushing the country to light the fires of war around the world.

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The extreme act of protest by US Air Force member Aaron Bushnell prompts Dee and Kate to explore the history of self-immolation as the ultimate act of defiance and a drastic form of suicide as well as look into the veracity of other forms of combustion that are more spontaneous. Driver calls in with a story about a special chair and a caller learns that the Shangri-Las invented barking in a recent Overkill episode. Sign up for the Sick and Wrong Patreon to hear Second Show, SW archives, and the bonus minisode Serial Killer Star Signs.

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The holocaust that is underway in Gaza is being enabled by the US government and denied by the mainstream US press.

Wadi Gaza is Arabic for Babi Yar and Aaron Bushnell is American for Szmuel Zygelboym

RIP Aaron Bushnell, faithful soldier of the Palestinian people. Aaron was a 25-year-old active-duty Air Force servicemember who roared the words Free Palestine into the collective consciousness, not once but six times, on Sunday, February 25, 2024 @ 10:54am ET until he could not, collapsing and succumbing to the fumes of his own smoldering body, in uniform, in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC. 

I say we have not mourned nearly enough. And if you care to disagree, the guilt will start to eat away at us, one way or another. We say: mourn harder.

For those of us still in mourning, it doesn't end, much like the ocean. But it has been a "step one" for me in killing the imperialist ego. Mourning as ego death to see through that space is made for others, dead and alive, inside and among us. Mourning as a ritual of responsibility foremost to others. It is not easy. It can get fucking choppy. So we find our rocks, our collaborators. I am grateful to you beyond words. I guess this is what is meant by community building practices. Mourning as binding agent, the kind that dually ripens our spirits for a more fortified, more fruitful resistance.

Time and again, acid cuddles in its confirmatory power. Nothing more essential than community, nothing more political than music. So we action in both and leave all trace, on the radio, in a cassette tape, on the cornice of a building somewhere downtown. Radio as vessel for the spirits of the resistance. Radio as programming of necessary truths. Radio as it was, a medium.
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Thank you for your time in advance. And big thanks to Dane for the continuous support. Love community radio.

And even if you won't be playing this back but find yourself reading this, I urge each and everyone of you to find a way to meaningfully remember Aaron Bushnell's impact. Memory is everything, and even then the ruling class will still point a gun at it, as it collapses burning to death. Remember everything. Manufactured amnesia no more.

To say RIP Aaron Bushnell is an incinerating shriek for a free Palestine. RIP Aaron Bushnell. Free Palestine. ♡
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As aired on KCHUNG PUBLIC on Thursday, March 7th, 2024, 11am-1pm PT, live from the MOCA Geffen, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, California.

LAVALAMPRADIO w/ sabroh & dj dj mars ❀ RIP AARON BUSHNELL (1998-2024) ❀ March 2024 ❀

The Congress wants to ban Tik Tok so that is a good reason for Harvey and Jim to join Tik Tok to see why and we think we found out.  It is all about the young people getting their news.  Nothing is going to freak Congress out more than young people getting independent news.  Then we talk about an article from Al Jazeera relating Rachel Corrie to Aaron Bushnell to Viola Liuzzo and other people recognized by the marginalized.  We finish up wondering about the hullabaloo surrounding the Oscars and the movie Zone of Interest.

3.21.24  Veterans for Peace, from Tik Tok, to people standing up for the marginalized, to the Oscars

Beatrice speaks with Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu about attempts to dismiss Aaron Bushnell’s self immolation as mental illness, and why settler colonialism relies so heavily on drawing lines between madness and “reason.”

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Transcript:
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As this year comes to a close, we’re releasing a Best of 2024 series—by no means objective, and making plenty of tough decisions to leave a few favorites out. We’ll be back January 13th with new episodes.

Original description: Beatrice speaks with Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu about attempts to dismiss Aaron Bushnell’s self immolation as mental illness, and why settler colonialism relies so heavily on drawing lines between madness and “reason.”

This episode was originally released on February 29, 2024.

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Best of 2024: Legitimate Protest and the Construction of "Reason" w/ Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu

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