About Sunsara Taylor

“I’ve
watched Sunsara Taylor stand her ground against the odious Bill O’Reilly on his
show and make her points with power and eloquence.  Having read some of her writings I can say
she speaks and writes clearly, vividly, boldly, on the critical issues of our
time.”

— Howard Zinn

You’re a lunatic…Miss Taylor, with all due respect, you’re a loon.”

— Bill O’Reilly

Click below to watch Sunsara Taylor’s recent appearances on FOX’s The O’Reilly Factor: Jan. 27, 2007 Jan. 4, 2007

SUNSARA TAYLOR is a spokesperson for the generation whose mission
must be to bring the Bush regime to a halt and bring into being a far better
world.  A co-founder of World Can’t
Wait — Drive Out the Bush Regime, she has traversed the country speaking
to the burning issues of our time: the Iraq war, torture, the rise of
theocracy and its assault on women, gays and science, as well as the criminal
treatment of Black people during Katrina and by police 24/7.  She challenges her audiences to fight these
horrors to win and takes responsibility for showing them how.

Before the war, Sunsara helped initiate the Not In Our Name movement and
was key in leading 2,000 students in the first anti-war walk-out.  Days after the Military Commissions Act
legalized torture, she produced and co-hosted an Evening of Conscience at NYC Cooper Union’s Great Hall
featuring Mark Ruffalo, Craig Murray and Olympia Dukakis.  On the opening day of Congress, she entered
the Spin Zone of the O’Reilly Factor
and calmly broke down how the Iraq
war fits the Nuremberg
standards for war crimes.

Sunsara reported live from Terri Schiavo’s hospice, two Justice Sunday
events, and the 2006 siege on the last abortion clinic standing in Mississippi.  Her three-part series on BattleCry
(truthdig.com, counterpunch.org, Revolution
newspaper) was the first to expose the militaristic stadium events that draw
tens of thousands of young people and the support of President Bush.  At the last such spectacular, after filling
the stage with gun-toting Navy SEALS who called the youth to join “God’s
Army,” BattleCry projected Sunsara’s face on the big screen, running a
(soundless) clip from her debate with BattleCry on O’Reilly Factor.

Sunsara’s audacity stems from her determination to see a world without
the horrors of the Bush Regime and, going beyond that, without the system of
capitalism that spawned such a monstrosity. 
She is dedicated to bringing into being the radically different and far
better world achievable through communist revolution as it has been
re-envisioned by Bob Avakian.

Having spoken on over 50 campuses, Sunsara has a reputation for
capturing an audience, pretty much any audience — from a massive street rally
to a forum with leading scientists to a cafeteria at a Black college.

Sunsara
co-hosts WBAI/Pacifica radio’s “Equal Time for Free Thought”
where as an uncompromising atheist she interviews cutting edge authors on the
dangers of the Christian right and offers commentary on the importance of
science, critical thinking and an unfettered search for the truth.

Taylor writes for Revolution
Newspaper (revcom.us), a regular contributor to CounterPunch.org,
and has written for Truthdig.com, Truthout.org, Znet.org, OnlineJournal.com,
and numerous other sites.  She’s on the
Advisory Board of World Can’t Wait — Drive Out the Bush Regime.

She has appeared in the New
York Times, Amsterdam News,
on the O’Reilly Factor, CNN’s Showbiz Tonight, Hannity & Colmes, Fox & Friends, Alan Colmes Radio, Air
America, Independent Film Channel’s SoapBox,
The Black Eagle with Joe
Madison, and countless local, Pacifica, web and college radio programs. 

 

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Sunsara Taylor: “what people are saying

“I’ve
watched Sunsara Taylor stand her ground against the odious Bill O’Reilly on his
show and make her points with power and eloquence.  Having read some of her writings I can say
she speaks and writes clearly, vividly, boldly, on the critical issues of our
time.”

— Howard Zinn

“You’re
a lunatic…Miss Taylor, with all due respect…you’re a loon.”

—
Bill O’Reilly

“Interviewing
Sunsara immediately enlivened my radical tendencies and I’ve yet to turn back.
Driven, energetic, determined, intelligent and best of all, a stellar speaker
who keeps O’Reilly in check with lines like ‘A fetus is not a baby, abortion is
not murder and women are not incubators!!’ 
It’s women like her that give me the strength to take on this world and
make me proud to be a woman.”

—
Jacquelyn Arsenuk, radical feminist radio host, “The F-Files”, WNHU

“Taylor, as always, was tough and confident
telling [O’Reilly] all the truths that drive him crazy.  She noted the criminality of the war,
torture, war crimes without taking a breath to give him an opening… Taylor was rolling along,
talking over Bill’s jabs without as much as a stutter.”

— NewsHounds.us

“Sunsara
is a Jedi Master who can control the Force to perform amazing feats.  Using her words of truth like a light saber, Sunsara neutered Bill O’Reilly
when she appeared on his show.”

— Missy Comley Beattie, Gold Star
Families for Peace

“Sunsara
Taylor is simply the perfect voice for the genuine antiwar movement in this
country, the movement that distinguishes criminal aggression from mere
‘mistakes,’ deliberate lies and disinformation from ‘intelligence flaws,’
imperialism as a system from imperialism as mere policy…She is a powerful
weapon of the movement to end the war, to thwart the moves towards an assault
on Iran, and to drive out the Bush regime.”

— Gary Leupp, Professor of History, Tufts University,
Author

“A
genuine antidote to the truly apathetic climate in which much of these issues
are debated, Sunsara poses an important question, a challenge, to the American
people.  Substantive and level headed,
Sunsara’s approach to deconstructing the complex problems surrounding the most
heated issues being debated today leaves the listeners of her speeches with the
most profound question of all, the world is truly on fire–and what are we
going to do about it?”

—
Anastasia, NYU Grad Student, Communications

“In
order for there to be a vibrant youth and student movement in this country,
there needs to be dynamic leaders who are willing to step up and let their
voices be heard.  Sunsara Taylor is one
of those leaders.  We had her speak in Texas and to hear Sunsara
is to be confronted by reality which can be harsh yet remain optimistic for a
better future.”