Interview Transcript: Medea Benjamin; How to Interrupt a President and Others; Part 1

Medea Benjamin:   I would say I do something like this probably about once a month.  Now, it wouldn't get up as high as the President, but we do go in to meetings at Right wing think tanks and try to question the people who are the presenters, sometimes just do it from the audience if there's a Q & A.  The other thing to remember is there was no Q & A during the Presidents speech.  Had there been a Q & A, I would have just waited for the Q & A and done it then.  So sometimes we just wait and ask people questions.  Sometimes if we're really angry about what they're saying, we'd speak up during the talk.  There have been occasions, especially at these Right wing think tanks, where we actually just go right up on the stage and try to present a different view.  It's really interesting to see how different people react, but we think it's  important to try to have an inside/outside strategy, do while we're having the protest on the outside, we always try to have one or two people go inside.

 

Rob Kall:   OK.  Have you prepped or trained other people to do this kind of thing?

 

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