Fortress On A Hill (FOH) Podcast Fortress On A Hill (FOH) Podcast

Gretta Zarro from World Beyond War and Ana Milosavljevic join us for a wide-ranging discussion on the state of the anti-war movement and deciding whether to make connections with allies with whom we may not share all the same values.



Greta Zarro has a background in issue-based community organizing. Her experience includes volunteer recruitment and engagement, event organizing, coalition building, legislative and media outreach, and public speaking. Greta graduated as valedictorian from St. Michael’s College with a bachelor’s degree in Sociology/Anthropology. She previously worked as New York Organizer for leading non-profit Food & Water Watch. There, she campaigned on issues related to fracking, genetically engineered foods, climate change, and the corporate control of our common resources. Greta and her partner run Unadilla Community Farm, a non-profit organic farm and permaculture education center in Upstate New York.  Greta is the Organizing Director at World BEYOND War. Greta can be reached at greta@worldbeyondwar.org.

Ana Milosavljevic is an anti-war activist from Boston who in the past 4 years helped to organize protests against war profiteer recruiting on college campuses, against a war with Iran after the assassination of General Soleimani, and against US involvement in the ongoing war in Yemen. She is now studying journalism in Lisbon, Portugal.



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Fortress On A Hill is hosted, written, and produced by Chris ‘Henri’ Henrikson, Danny Sjursen, Keagan Miller, and Jovanni Reyes. https://bit.ly/3yeBaB9

Intro / outro music “Fortress on a hill” written and performed by Clifton Hicks. Click here for Clifton’s Patreon page: https://bit.ly/3h7Ni0Z

Cover and website art designed by Brian K. Wyatt Jr. of B-EZ Graphix Multimedia Marketing Agency in Tallehassee, FL: https://bit.ly/2U8qMfn

Note: The views expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts alone, expressed in an unofficial capacity, and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Army, Department of Defense, or the U.S. government.

Henri and Jovanni chat with Eugene Puryear from BreakThrough News about his career as a journalist and a community organizer, the state of the anti-war movement to include a few comments on the Rage Against The War Machine rally, and a few other topics.  Enjoy!

Eugene Puryear is a longtime journalist and community organizer currently based in New York City. As a high school student in Charlottesville, Va, Eugene organized a walkout when the war in Iraq began in 2003. He helped to manage a number of the large-scale demonstrations that took place against the continuing U.S. war and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. He was a crucial leader In the struggle to free the Jena Six in 2007, was a founder of the anti-gentrification group Justice First as well as the Jobs Not Jails coalition, DC Ferguson Movement and Stop Police Terror Project-D.C. Puryear is the author of the book Shackled and Chained: Mass Incarceration in Capitalist America and worked for four years as the lead host of “By Any Means Necessary” a public affairs radio program in Washington D.C. Currently, he is a host at BreakThrough News, a social justice media project based in New York.



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A special thanks to our Patreon honorary producers – Fahim’s Everyone Dream, James O’Barr, James Higgins, Eric Phillips, Paul Appell, Julie Dupris, Thomas Benson, Janet Hanson, Daniel Fleming, Michael Caron, Ren Jacob, Rick Coffey, Scott Spaulding, Spooky Tooth, and the Statist Quo Podcast. You all are the engine that helps us power the podcast. Thank you so much!!!

Not up for something recurring like Patreon, but want to give a couple bucks?! Visit https://paypal.me/fortressonahill to contribute!!

Fortress On A Hill is hosted, written, and produced by Chris ‘Henri’ Henrikson, Danny Sjursen, Keagan Miller, and Jovanni Reyes. https://bit.ly/3yeBaB9

Intro / outro music “Fortress on a hill” written and performed by Clifton Hicks. Click here for Clifton’s Patreon page: https://bit.ly/3h7Ni0Z

Cover and website art designed by Brian K. Wyatt Jr. of B-EZ Graphix Multimedia Marketing Agency in Tallehassee, FL: https://bit.ly/2U8qMfn

Note: The views expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts alone, expressed in an unofficial capacity, and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Army, Department of Defense, or the U.S. government.

Jovanni talks with director / actress Talia Lugacy and actors / anti-war activists Kevin Basl and Jan Berry about the inter-generational connections shown in This Is Not A War Story, a film now showing on HBOMax, which deals with veteran trauma and moral injury in ways which I guarantee that you’ve never seen in a film before.



We’re now on Telegram!!!! Please come join us and talk about militarism and anti-imperialism: https://t.me/fortressonahill

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Not a contributor on Patreon? Sign up to be one of our patrons today! – https://www.patreon.com/fortressonahill

A special thanks to our Patreon honorary producers – Fahim’s Everyone Dream, James O’Barr, James Higgins, Eric Phillips, Paul Appell, Julie Dupris, Thomas Benson, Janet Hanson, Daniel Fleming, Michael Caron, Ren Jacob, Rick Coffey, Scott Spaulding, Spooky Tooth, and the Statist Quo Podcast. You all are the engine that helps us power the podcast. Thank you so much!!!

Not up for something recurring like Patreon, but want to give a couple bucks?! Visit https://paypal.me/fortressonahill to contribute!!

Fortress On A Hill is hosted, written, and produced by Chris ‘Henri’ Henrikson, Danny Sjursen, Keagan Miller, and Jovanni Reyes. https://bit.ly/3yeBaB9

Intro / outro music “Fortress on a hill” written and performed by Clifton Hicks. Click here for Clifton’s Patreon page: https://bit.ly/3h7Ni0Z

Cover and website art designed by Brian K. Wyatt Jr. of B-EZ Graphix Multimedia Marketing Agency in Tallehassee, FL: https://bit.ly/2U8qMfn

Note: The views expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts alone, expressed in an unofficial capacity, and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Army, Department of Defense, or the U.S. government.

Professor Robert Buzzanco joins us to discuss the end of the Vietnam War, to include fragging and dissent among the troops, the horrors that came with the Christmas bombings, and how the finalized peace treaty was incredibly close to one negotiated years before the armistice, much like the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Robert Buzzanco is a history professor at the University of Houston and co-host of the Green & Red Podcast and is the author of Vietnam and the Transformation of American Life, Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era and many other publications about the Vietnam War.



We’re now on Telegram!!!! Please come join us and talk about militarism and anti-imperialism: https://t.me/fortressonahill

Main website: https://www.fortressonahill.com

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Email us at fortressonahill@protonmail.com

Check out our online store on Spreadshirt.com. T-shirts, cell phone covers, mugs, etc.: https://bit.ly/3qD63MW

Not a contributor on Patreon? Sign up to be one of our patrons today! – https://www.patreon.com/fortressonahill

A special thanks to our Patreon honorary producers – Fahim Shirazee, James O’Barr, James Higgins, Eric Phillips, Paul Appell, Julie Dupris, Thomas Benson, Janet Hanson, Tristan Oliver, Daniel Fleming, Michael Caron, Zach H, Ren Jacob, Howard Reynolds, Rick Coffey, and the Statist Quo Podcast. You all are the engine that helps us power the podcast. Thank you so much!!!

Not up for something recurring like Patreon, but want to give a couple bucks?! Visit https://paypal.me/fortressonahill to contribute!!

Fortress On A Hill is hosted, written, and produced by Chris ‘Henri’ Henrikson, Danny Sjursen, Keagan Miller, and Jovanni Reyes. https://bit.ly/3yeBaB9

Intro / outro music “Fortress on a hill” written and performed by Clifton Hicks. Click here for Clifton’s Patreon page: https://bit.ly/3h7Ni0Z

Cover and website art designed by Brian K. Wyatt Jr. of B-EZ Graphix Multimedia Marketing Agency in Tallehassee, FL: https://bit.ly/2U8qMfn

Note: The views expressed in this podcast are those of the hosts alone, expressed in an unofficial capacity, and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of the Army, Department of Defense, or the U.S. government.

This is Chapter 4 of Danny’s first book, The Ghost Riders of Baghdad. If you’d like to hear the rest, please consider becoming a patron at https://www.patreon.com/fortressonahill.

Jovanni and I talk with Jesse Nevel, national chair of the Uhuru Solidarity Movement. We discuss the horrifying raid conducted by the FBI against the African People's Socialist Party (APSP) and its chairman Omali Yeshitela, among a slew of other APS...