CODEPINK Radio

This week we are joined by Women and Gender Studies Students at DePaul University who share their current research projects as well as their feminist frameworks and methodologies. Themes include transnational feminism, black and latinx feminisms and radical resistance through care and community.

This week we are joined by Lauren Rosenfeld from CODEPINKs Peace Collective and Rose and Michelle from the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Michelle, Rose, and Lauren just got back from a youth delegation to Cuba where they got to tour the international school of Medicine and witness Cuban elections.

A Roundup: This week, Nancy Mancias, CODEPINK's campaign organizer, is discussing her experience at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. We are hearing about Nancy's first impressions, and challenges and opportunities at this year's United Nations Climate Change conference. A little bonus at the end of our show: economist Jeffrey Sachs will talk about the possibility of an alternative global currency through BRICS.

In this episode of CODEPINK Radio, we focus on the midterm elections and their potential impact on US foreign policy in Europe and the Middle East. In the first half of our program, CODEPINK Congress host Marcy Winograd talks with guests Phyllis Bennis, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, Scott Horton, editorial director of Antiwar.com and Erik Sperling, executive director ofJust Foreign Policy. In the second half of our show, author Jeffrey Sachs, a former economic advisor to Russia, proposes a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine.

In this episode Marcy Winograd, coordinator of CODEPINK Congress, interviews her co-host Medea Benjamin on Medea's recent solidarity trip to Cuba and post midterm election prospects for lifting sanctions on the island nation Next, Tamara Lorincz of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom challenges NATO as an offensive alliance that threatens world peace, and finally we hear from Helen Jacard and Gerry Condon of Veterans for Peace on The Golden Rule, an anti-nuclear sailboat journey to promote the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

The COP27 UN Climate meeting is happening in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, now: November 6 to November 18, 2022. A climate summit is more urgent than ever. So, why are activists across the world protesting it? Join CODEPINK radio and special guests, including Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Mohamed Ismail, for an important conversation on COP27 - who is participating, where it’s happening, what is being discussed, and what isn’t.

On this week's episode, Teri interviews Jemima Pierre of Black Alliance for Peace about the most recent US-sponsored intervention efforts in Haiti. Jemima discusses the root causes of growing protests in the country and the US's role in fomenting violence

This week we are joined by Palestinian organizers Nour, Rifqa, and Alexis who are reporting back from their recent trip to Palestine. We discuss their tour of Lifta, a village destroyed by the Zionist forces during the Nakba. They compare and contrast occupation from Ramallah to Haifa, and discuss what people in the US should be doing.

Co-authors Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies discuss their new book, "War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict" on Democracy Now and CODEPINK Congress, followed by interviews with World Beyond War's Alice Slater on NATO vs. the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and RootsAction's Norman Soloman on the Defuse Nuclear War Campaign.

In this episode we hear from whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg on the importance of defusing nuclear war as we come up on the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Later, we hear from the Institute for Policy Studies' Basav Sen discuss the IMF and World Bank's questionable efforts on climate change as activists from throughout the Global North and South hold a week of action outside of the financial institutions' annual fall meetings in Washington, DC.