Abbie vimr11/19/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Martin worked for a time as an investigative journalist for a San Diego-based online news site until moving back to Northern California. In 2004, she campaigned for John Kerry's presidential campaign, but became disillusioned with the left–right paradigm, a concept proposing that societies have a tendency to divide themselves into ideological opposites. She received an undergraduate degree in political science and minored in Spanish. "I began to critically ask 'What is really going on?'" By the time she was a sophomore at San Diego State University, she began questioning what she called the "selling" of the Iraq War by the media. "I didn't want him going to war, let alone fighting in one," she recalls. She became interested in journalism when her old high school boyfriend enlisted in the military after the September 11 attacks in 2001. Martin grew up in Pleasanton, California, where she attended Amador Valley High School, graduating in 2002. In 2019, she released the film documentary, The Empire Files: Gaza Fights for Freedom. She hosted Breaking the Set on the Russian state-funded network RT America from 2012 to 2015, and then launched The Empire Files in that same year as an investigative documentary and interview series on Telesur, later released as a web series. Martin appeared in the documentary film Project Censored The Movie: Ending the Reign of Junk Food News (2013), and co-directed 99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film (2013). She helped found the citizen journalism website Media Roots and serves on the board of directors for the Media Freedom Foundation which manages Project Censored. Abigail Suzanne Martin (born September 6, 1984) is an American journalist, TV presenter, and activist. ![]()
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