CODEPINK Radio

What makes one country a friend of Cuba and another not?  Today's episode includes a conversation with CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin about the irony of the US designating Cuba a State Sponsor of Terror and what can be done to change this status..  Next we talk with Franco Metaza, Director General of Foreign Affairs for the Argentina National Senate.  Argentina has succeeded Mexico as the President of CELAC.  How does this Southern Cone nation envision the Americas and continue AMLO'S embrace of multilateralism including the nations of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela.

CODEPINK Radio is an energizing program focused on ending wars and militarism, and building a peace economy. Listen weekly to robust conversation and inspiration from grassroots peacemakers in places like Korea, Yemen, Venezuela and Iran, peacemakers in our nation's capital who are confronting warhawks in the White House and in Congress, and peacemakers in our communities who are modeling the actions of what a world of peace can look like.

In this episode of CODEPINK Radio, Marcy Winograd interviews CODEPINK activists Colonel Ann Wright and Paki Wieland about their participation in the NO to NATO protests in Spain. Wright and Wieland joined thousands of demonstrators calling for the dissolution of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in the days leading up to the NATO summit in Madrid. Protesters say NATO expansion threatens to destabilize the world and call on the US and other NATO countries to support diplomacy, not escalation--not more weapons--to resolve the war in Ukraine. At the summit, NATO members agreed to expand their high-readiness troops--those ready to go to war at any moment on land, in the air or the sea--from under 50,000 to 300,000, declared Russia a "direct threat" and labeled China "a security challenge." CODEPINK guests Wright and Wieland explain why they view NATO as the real threat to world peace.

Episode 151: Queer Liberation Means Decriminalization, Demilitarization, Decolonization.

In this episode we will listen to some of the anti-militarism contingent organizers of the Mass Poor People’s and Low Wage Workers’ Assembly that took place on June 18th, 2022 and learn about the making of and next steps after a weekend of art, protest, music, and collaboration.

This week's episode focuses on Biden's policy towards Cuba, with remarks from Fulton Armstrong, as well as an excerpt on a panel from the People's Summit, in which James Early draws links between Pan-Africanism and the Americas. We will also have CODEPINK co-director Danaka Katovich's speech from the Poor People's Campaign moral assembly on June 18.

In this episode, we take you to the People's Summit in Los Angeles, a counter-narrative to the US Summit of the America's, boycotted by Mexico's president and other Latin American heads of state. At the People's Summit, CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin welcomes grassroots ambassadors from the Global South and calls for the abolishment of the Organization of American States.  In the second half of our show, renowned linguist, author and anti-war voice Noam Chomsky slams US media for censoring debate over weapons shipments to Ukraine while silencing voices for negotiation.

This week's radio show is focused on two mass mobilizations: the People’s Summit in LA (a counter to the Summit of the Americas) and The Mass Poor People’s Assembly and Moral March on Washington. The midterms are coming up in the fall, but electoral politics are proving to not be meeting our communities’ needs. Instead, organizers and working people are building momentum from coast to coast.

How do you counter the lies that drive us to war? On this episode of CODEPINK radio, join Janine Jackson, program director of FAIR, the media watch group, as she discusses the current global situation. On the second half of our show, join us for a conversation with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson as he warns about war-mongering having gone nuclear: how the White House thinks it can win a nuclear war with Russia and how dangerous and disturbing this idea is.

In this episode, CODEPINK's Leonardo Flores and Teri Mattson discuss former Defense Secretary Mark Esper's revelations about the hybrid war on Venezuela. In the second half, Leonardo and Claudia de la Cruz from the People's Forum, discuss the People's Summit for Democracy.