Michael O’Neil gets Amped Up with Ryan Knight

Amped Up with Ryan Knight

Ryan Knight

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3.6 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2021

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Ryan Knight chats with Green Party communications director Michael O’Neil about the urgent need to end Israeli apartheid and free Palestine, the growing movement for ranked-choice voting and proportional representation, and what the Green Party needs to do moving forward. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/AmpedUp/support

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0:00.0	Before we get started with today's episode of Amped Up with Ryan Knight, we want to let you know that we have exclusive bonus content on Patreon at Patreon.com slash Amped Up.
0:20.0	You can find the video versions of all our interviews as well as bonus content with me
0:24.8	Ryan's producer Rob Vermeudez so make sure you check out our bonus content today at
0:29.4	patreon.com slash amped up Thanks for your support and enjoy the show.
0:34.0	Welcome to amped up. This is your host Ryan Knight and our guest today is Michael
0:38.9	O'Neill. Michael is the communications manager for the Green Party. Michael welcome to amped up
0:44.0	thanks for having you Ryan
0:45.0	Yeah, it's a pleasure to have you
0:47.0	look I want to start off and ask you about Palestine because in the past few days
0:52.0	Israeli airstrikes across Gaza have killed at least 53
0:55.6	Palestinians including 14 children. This comes just a few weeks after the Human Rights
1:01.8	Watch released their report concluding that Israel's
1:04.8	government is committing the crimes of apartheid and persecution against the
1:09.5	Palestinian people. Yet both the Democrats and the Republicans
1:14.5	continue to fund Israel and fund these crimes
1:17.3	against humanity being waged against the Palestinian people.
1:21.5	Does the Green Party stand with the Palestinian people?
1:25.0	And is it time for the United States
1:26.6	to stop funding this apartheid state?
1:31.3	It's way past time for the United States to stop funding the apartheid state policies
1:39.7	practiced by the state of Israel And with the election of Joe Biden, who was a cheerleader for
1:50.3	violent repression of the Palestinian people throughout his time as a senator and as vice president.
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