CODEPINK Radio

The U.S. arms trade is complex. There are a lot of moving parts with not a whole lot of transparency. Listen to our episode "Weapons Sales 101" to learn the basics about the U.S. arms trade with the director of Forum on the Arms Trade Jeff Abramson! Jeff Abramson is a senior fellow for arms control and conventional arms transfers at the Washington DC-based Arms Control Association and also directs the Forum on the Arms Trade. Prior to re-joining the Arms Control Association in September 2019, he managed the Landmine and Cluster Munition Monitor, the de facto monitoring regime for the Mine Ban Treaty and Convention on Cluster Munitions. Immediately prior to joining the Monitor, he served as a policy advisor and director to the secretariat of Control Arms, the global civil society alliance that championed the adoption of the Arms Trade Treaty that for the first time established global regulations for the trade in a wide array of conventional weapons. He is former Deputy Director of the Arms Control Association and Managing Editor of their publication Arms Control Today. An arms trade expert, his work has been published in numerous journals and comments cited by major US and global media.

In this episode, CODEPINK Congress coordinator Marcy Winograd and co-host Medea Benjamin talk to Patrice Lawrence, executive director of UndocuBlack, and Paul Christian Namfy, an organizer with the Family Action Network Movement, about their demands the Biden administration halt mass deportations and detentions of Haitians fleeing political collapse, street gangs and impacts of the climate crisis. During the second half of the show, after a pause for Hatian creole music, Marcy interviews CODEPINK campaign organizer Nancy Mancias about CODEPINK's planned protests outside the next UN Climate Conference, the COP26, in Glasgow Scotland, October 31-November 12, 2021. CODEPINK will call on the COP26 to require climate agreement signatories report and reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of their militaries.

This week on CODEPINK radio we'll be discussing the sanctions on Venezuela. In the first segment Teri Mattson and Margaret Flowers interview William Castilo, Venezuela's Vice Minister for Anti-Blockade Policies, about the devastating economic war. In the second half of the program, Teri interviews Venezuelan Vice Minister Yvan Gil about $2 billion in Venezuelan funds currently being frozen by Portuguese bank Novo Banco - money that would otherwise be spent on healthcare for Venezuelans.

In this episode, we hear from the Chief Correspondent of the Globetrotter Independent Media Institute Vijay Prashad about the dire need for public anti-war actions as the U.S. government continues to allocate record-high military budgets and ignore urgent domestic needs. In the second half of the show, we will feature an interview with Tings Chak of The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Tings talks with CODEPINK co-founder Jodie Evans about her research on China’s massive campaign to eliminate poverty that has pulled 850 million people in China out of extreme poverty.

In this episode, we hear the voices of youth at the Global Climate Strike and activist and author Winona LaDuke on stopping the Line 3 pipeline threatening to contaminate indigenous lands.

In this episode, we hear from David Moore, Co-Founder of Sludge, and investigative news room focus on money in politics about his most recent article which details the members of Congress who personally profit from their investments in war profiteers.

This episode features a conversation between CODEPINK's Teri Mattson, the Tricontinental Institute's Vijay Prashad, CEPR's Alex Main and Friends of Latin America's Jill Clark-Gollub about U.S. hybrid war and sanctions on Nicaragua, with an emphasis on the RENACER Act, a bill that just passed in the Senate and would sanction over half the Nicaraguan population.

Join CODEPINK and the China Is Not Our Enemy campaign for an exclusive episode of CODEPINK Radio with historian Vijay Prashad and CODEPINK co-founder Jodie Evans on the United States' Forever Wars: From Afghanistan to China. Hear about the underlying connections between the U.S. Military Industrial Complex's war in Afghanistan, the escalation of its hybrid war on China, and why humanitarian war is an oxymoron.

In this episode, CODEPINK's Danaka Katovich interviews Dr. Abdullah Alodah, researcher at Democracy for the Arab World Now and son of Saudi prisoner of conscience Salman Alodah. Danaka and Dr. Alodah will discuss his fathers case and the legal system in Saudi Arabia. Following, Danaka will interview Kawthar Abdullah from Yemeni Alliance Committee to talk about the Saudi governmen't blockade on Yemen.

In this episode, Marcy Winograd, coordinator of CODEPINK Congress, features Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Chair of the 94-member Congressional Progressive Caucus, who discusses victories and challenges for progressives seeking to demilitarize foreign and domestic policies. Next, we turn to plans for climate activism here in the U.S. and abroad for November's UN Climate Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland. CODEPINK will join others in demanding the 197 participating nations require countries to report and reduce their military greenhouse gas emissions. Finally, thoughts on how peace activists can mobilize during the Congressional August recess for a reduced military budget.