About Brace Belden
Brace Robert Belden (born October 13, 1989) is an American podcaster, union activist, and former volunteer fighter who served with the People's Protection Units (YPG), a Kurdish militia, during the Syrian Civil War from 2016 to 2017. He is best known for co-hosting the popular left-wing podcast TrueAnon with Liz Franczak, which focuses on political conspiracies and elite power structures. Belden gained initial notoriety through his Twitter account @PissPigGranddad, where he documented his experiences fighting ISIS alongside Kurdish forces. After returning to the United States, he became a prominent labor organizer, helping establish the first craft brewery union in U.S. history at Anchor Brewing Company in 2019. == Early life and background == Belden was born in San Francisco and grew up in Corte Madera, California. He is Jewish and comes from a middle-class family; his father works as a journalist at a local television station and his brother works in technology. When Belden was six years old, his mother died by suicide. Belden has said he was "a troubled teen". He attended five different high schools, including Monarch School, a boot camp he ran away from before being arrested for public intoxication in Mission Dolores Park. === Political development === Belden has identified as a Marxist since his teenage years and protested the Iraq War when he was 13.
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