Name: ABBY MARTIN - The Detriments of Today's System
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Abby Martin is an internationally known journalist

who hosted the no-holds-barred ‘Breaking the Set’ on Russia Today.

She currently writes and directs a weekly documentary series called The Empire Files,

She founded her own media organization, Media Roots,

and sits on the board of Project Censored,

one of the largest research groups in the country.

Abby’s empathy, passion and editorial independence makes her

a unique and relatable voice to those seeking honest independent media.

first of all, thank you so much for The Venus Project

And happy birthday to visionary Jacque Fresco.

This is a man who has spent his entire life

innovating for a better world, and I think

we need to give him one more round of applause, for that!

It’s a total honor to be asked to speak at your centennial celebration,

And it's great to meet so many people here who

already know my work from Russia Today, 'Breaking the Set.'

My new show on teleSUR is a little different. It’s a little bit

less energy, but a little bit more depressing, maybe.

It's called the Empire Files; it’s on teleSUR English and

provides crucial historical and political context

to the most pressing issues that we face today,

when we're looking at these issues in an isolated context,

especially reacting to the mainstream media 24-hour news cycle.

From the alliance with the brutal Saudi theocracy

to the US funding death squads across Latin America,

each chapter of the Empire Files really lays bare

another devastating effect of militaristic imperialism.

So definitely check it out, if you haven’t yet! on YouTube. Thank you.

because they are very acutely aware already

of the crisis of civilization that we face.

But I want to read a breathtaking statistic that I think really exemplifies

EVERYthing that’s wrong with the world we live in today.

than half of everybody living on the planet.

Think about that statistic for one second.

own more than half the world’s population!

The gap between the rich and poor is widening at an alarming rate.

The wealth of the poorest half, 3.6 billion people,

has fallen by $1 trillion dollars since 2010.

And at the same time, the wealth of the world’s richest 62

lucky mother fuckers has increased by more than half a trillion dollars!

This OBSCENE trajectory proves that when people make more money,

Instead, untaxed trillions sit hoarded offshore.

In the US, for the first time in over 50 years,

are living in poverty or are food insecure.

I mean, how are teachers supposed to meet standardized testing requirements

when they’re busy worrying about whether or not their students are eating food,

Instead of organizing to help those most in need,

our ruthless system criminalizes poverty and homelessness,

the extreme consequences of which are playing out all around us,

driving desperate people to commit violence,

This growing dysfunction is built into an economic structure

that institutionalizes barbarism and inequality.

But it’s not just a system in the abstract.

This global order installs powerful rulers.

I saw the way it works firsthand, throughout my career.

I didn’t start out wanting to be a journalist.

I began as an anti-war activist and organizer in college

But I quickly saw the issues I was rallying behind were either

being distorted or completely ignored in the media.

And witnessing the media’s complete obedience

to the criminal, murderous policies of the Bush administration,

I taught myself video production and just put myself out there

in the community, first San Diego and then Oakland,

the first citizen journalism project that I founded called Media Roots.

And it wasn’t just one issue. It was every issue,

because it all stems from the same criminal corrupt system.

From net neutrality to food justice, I wanted to build upon an

under-reported aggregate of stories that impacted everyone,

because I was convinced if people only knew what was happening!

If they only knew what this government was doing around the world,

then of course, they would organize to stop it.

But, informing the masses in today’s world is a daunting challenge,

It doesn’t take long in your political awakening to realize

that the establishment press we’ve all been trained to trust,

exists as just another arm of the corporatocracy,

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