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Surya McEwen

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356 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
SURYA MCEWEN: 80 Hour Detention was "A Different Level of Aggression"

You have nothing to say to these people.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
SURYA MCEWEN: 80 Hour Detention was "A Different Level of Aggression"

Engaging in conversation is fairly meaningless unless it's in one of those moments like with Ben Gavir or something where you want to like undermine the little propaganda thing that he's doing where it's useful.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
SURYA MCEWEN: 80 Hour Detention was "A Different Level of Aggression"

I mean, my close friend Kat was the woman at the beginning who yelled out free, free Palestine to Ben-Gavir's face and then kind of got slammed from that.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
SURYA MCEWEN: 80 Hour Detention was "A Different Level of Aggression"

She's a great leader among the movement.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
SURYA MCEWEN: 80 Hour Detention was "A Different Level of Aggression"

She's an amazing, amazing human being.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
SURYA MCEWEN: 80 Hour Detention was "A Different Level of Aggression"

I'm just kind of fucking with her saying that because I know she's going to hear this.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
SURYA MCEWEN: 80 Hour Detention was "A Different Level of Aggression"

So much, so much, so much.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
SURYA MCEWEN: 80 Hour Detention was "A Different Level of Aggression"

It's just a bit of a joke that we have.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
SURYA MCEWEN: 80 Hour Detention was "A Different Level of Aggression"

But, yeah, she's amazing.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
SURYA MCEWEN: 80 Hour Detention was "A Different Level of Aggression"

Like everyone really in the movement is.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
SURYA MCEWEN: 80 Hour Detention was "A Different Level of Aggression"

Yeah.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
SURYA MCEWEN: 80 Hour Detention was "A Different Level of Aggression"

It's pretty incredible, the collectivity involved.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
SURYA MCEWEN: 80 Hour Detention was "A Different Level of Aggression"

But, yeah, I mean it's that particular video that they put out, like on one level it's shocking how brazen it is that they feel like, oh, I can just put this out and be proud of it and, yeah,

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
SURYA MCEWEN: 80 Hour Detention was "A Different Level of Aggression"

The response from it obviously has been good.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
SURYA MCEWEN: 80 Hour Detention was "A Different Level of Aggression"

Like there's been so much attention on that.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
SURYA MCEWEN: 80 Hour Detention was "A Different Level of Aggression"

But two things.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
SURYA MCEWEN: 80 Hour Detention was "A Different Level of Aggression"

One thing is that they clearly didn't show like extreme violence.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
SURYA MCEWEN: 80 Hour Detention was "A Different Level of Aggression"

They showed us being humiliated, held in like stress positions, which is a violent thing to do.

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
SURYA MCEWEN: 80 Hour Detention was "A Different Level of Aggression"

But they clearly also didn't show like violence

It's A Lot with Abbie Chatfield
SURYA MCEWEN: 80 Hour Detention was "A Different Level of Aggression"

throwing grenades into the yard or beating people or um sexual violence like extreme sexual violence like most of the grotesque violence we experienced you can't get a sense of that from those videos so it's like it's also carefully calibrated in a certain way and it's a peculiar feeling the uproar around people being in stress positions like it's like