CODEPINK Radio

This week on CODEPINK Radio, Jodie Evans speaks with actor, author, and longtime peace activist Peter Coyote about his journey from the 1961 anti-nuclear protest at the White House to a lifetime of organizing for peace and justice. Together, they discuss the dangers of militarism, money in politics, Christian nationalism, and why real change begins when ordinary people organize and act together.

On this episode of CODEPINK Radio, we unmask Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s colonial chokehold on Venezuela and meet CODEPINK organizer Makayla Heiser to learn more about CODEPINK chapters challenging Rubio’s extortion and Trump’s ICE raids.

Dr. Maha Nassar, an associate professor at the University of Arizona, presents the chant “From the River to the Sea” as a call for liberation that embraces Palestinian personal ties to the land of Palestine. Dr. Nassar was a guest on the CODEPINK Summer Series: Challenging Zionism in Schools. Note, that teachers in some school districts may be required to present opposing viewpoints and citations in their lesson plans.

This week on CODEPINK Radio, Marcy Winograd and Medea Benjamin bring us another edition of Empire on the Rocks from the UK, highlighting efforts to build a global Jewish anti-Zionist movement. In the second half, Marcy features highlights from CODEPINK’s Challenging Zionism in Schools summer series with Emmaia Gelman, who examines the history and political role of the ADL, and Merrie Nijimy, who shares strategies for organizing educators in support of Palestinian rights and responding to political pushback in schools.

In this episode, CODEPINK host Marcy Winograd interviews Ben Freeman of the Quincy Institute on the war budget that fuses the US and Israeli militaries. In the second half of the program, we bring you highlights of CODEPINK'S summer series: Challenging Zionismin Schools. Guests include Adam Sanchez, an editor at "Rethinking Schools" magazine, and Rick Chertoff, co-author with Marcy Winograd of "What's Missing in Holocaust Education?"

Key Links

Congress Quietly Moves to Integrate U.S.-Israeli Militaries (Ben Freeman. Responsible Statecraft. 5/29/26)https://responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-us-military/CODEPINK Summer Series: Challenging Zionism in Schools (2026)Workshop #1: Decoding the Narrative (video)
https://www.codepink.org/summerworkshopsdaily?utm_campaign=final_summer_school_2026_follo&utm_medium=email&utm_source=codepinkWhat's Missing in Holocaust Education (Marcy Winograd & Rick Chertoff. Rethinking Schools. 2025)https://rethinkingschools.org/articles/whats-missing-in-holocaust-education/Rethinking Schools
http://www.rethinkingschools.orgEducators Beware: The Anti-Defamation League is not the Social Justice Partner it Claims to Be (Nora Lester Murad. Rethinking Schools. 2024)
https://rethinkingschools.org/articles/educators-beware-the-anti-defamation-league-is-not-the-social-justice-partner-it-claims-to-be/

On Empire on the Rocks, Marcy Winograd & Medea Benjamin discuss CODEPINK’s media complicity in the war machine and CODEPINK’s demands to meet the press. On the second half of our program, Marcy interviews activists with Hands off Cuba on their recent trip to the island nation to support international worker solidarity.

On this episode of CODEPINK Radio, host Marcy Winograd highlights CODEPINK disruptions of Capitol Hill hearings with architects of foreign and domestic wars: SOS Rubio and Sec. DHS Mullen. On the second half of the program, Marcy interviews Nuvpreet, coordinator of CODEPINK’s Bases Off Cyprus campaign, on protests over the UK’s role in transporting weapons to Israel.

On the first half of this episode, cohosts Marcy Winograd and Medea Benjamin discuss CODEPINK Solidarity with Cuba, despite intimidation from the Trump administration. On the second half of our program, Marcy interviews podcaster Teri Mattson and CODEPINK's War is Not Green campaigner Aaron Kirshenbaum on Colombia's climate conference to transition the Global South.

On this episode, host Marcy Winograd features CODEPINK’s response to reports the Trump administration wants to investigate CODEPINK for bringing baby food to Cuba during Trump’s blockade of the island. Then we turn to special guest Ann Wright, CODEPINK Board member, who reports from Istanbul where she organizes flotillas to break the Israeli siege on Gaza. This episode also features CODEPINK-San Pedro’s Peace Week resistance to the military’s Fleet Week parade of warships.

On this episode of CODEPINK Radio, co-hosts Marcy Winograd and Medea Benjamin discuss the US empire’s last gasps and the push-back at home as residents rise up against data surveillance centers. During the second half, Marcy talks to Megan Russell, CODEPINK’s China campaigner, on Trump & the oligarchs’ visit to China to scout new markets and rescue the US dollar from Trump’s disastrous war on Iran.

Key Links

The U.S.-China Tech Race, Resource Wars, and the Cost of Militarization (Megan Russell, CODEPINK Blog, 5/12/26)

https://codepink.substack.com/p/the-us-china-tech-race-resource-wars

Solidarity with Gaza Flotilla Needed NOW! (Col. (Ret) Ann Wright and Huwaida Arraf, U.S. Boats to Gaza (CODEPINK Substack, May 18, 2026)

https://codepink.substack.com/p/solidarity-with-gaza-flotilla-needed

Data Centers and the War Economy Action Steps

https://www.codepink.org/datacenters

“Data centers are both products of and for war, imperialism, and extraction.”