CODEPINK Radio

This week on the CODEPINK radio air waves, co-founder Jodie Evans discusses the Feminst Foreign Policy Project. We hear from Christine Ahn, Gloria Steinem, Cindy Wiesner, Diana Duarte, and Medea Benjamin on what it means to have feminst foreign policy and how we should be approaching foreign policy with a Biden Presidency.

In this week's episode, we address feminism from Palestine to the U.S. Our own Ariel Gold speaks to Yafa Jarrar, the daughter of imprisoned Palestinian feminist and lawmaker Khalida Jarrar. They discuss why her mother is such a threat that Israel is detaining her without charge or trial. 

In this week's episode, we explore the grassroots campaign from Paris to California against the largest asset manager in the world, Blackrock. On the first part of the show, CODEPINK's Nancy Mancías takes us to Paris, France, to talk about the trial of an Extinction Rebellion activist who held an action in the Blackrock offices there.  Then CODEPINK's Kelsey Zazanis talks to a student activist from the University of California about the ongoing campaign against Blackrock

In this week's episode, CODEPINK's Teri Mattson talks to Patricio Zamorano about the referendum in Chile. For the second part of the show, Leonardo Flores and Thomas Becker give us an election update from Bolivia.

This week on CODEPINK radio the China Is Not Our Enemy campaign is excited to be with Tings Chak 翟庭君, John Cavanagh, and our very own Leonardo Flores! As we get closer to election night in the US, Leonardo inspires us with the results and analysis of Bolivia’s recent election live from the ground. Then we hear beautiful truths about China from Tings Chak 翟庭君 of The Tricontinental and Dong Feng Collective and some dismantling of the White House’s anti-China rhetoric from John Cavanagh of Institute for Policy Studies. Listen here!

This week, CODEPINK's national co-director Ariel Gold talks with Dr. James Zogby, president and founder of the Arab American Institute. They discuss the upcoiming election and what a Biden presidency would mean for Arab-Americans and the struggle for Palestinian rights. The second part of today’s program includes CODEPINK's Middle East coordinator Danaka Katovich discussing Saudi Arabia's male guardianship and Kafala systems with Dr. Hala Aldosari and Bethany Alhaidari.

This week, CODEPINK's National Co-Director, Carley Towne talks with CODEPINK’s Divest from the War Machine campaigner,Yousef Zakaria.  They discuss strategies and tactics activists can use to organize within local communities against the war machine.   The second part of today’s program includes a conversation with  CODEPINK's campaign organizer, Nancy Mancias, Sunrise Project campaigner, Roberta Giordano and members of Climate Finance Action about the need for BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, to divest from fossil fuels and weapons manufacturers.

This week Indian historian and journalist Vijay Prashad talks Cuban doctors about their experience: José Armando Arronte Villamarín, Specialist in General Integral Medicine, National Coordinator of the Cuban Medical Brigade in Jamaica. - Daymarelis Ortega Rodriguez, Chief of Brigade Henry Reeve in Barbados and former Chief of Cuban Medical Brigade in Antigua and Barbuda. - Nurse Yandy Pérez Perez, member of the Henry Reeve Brigade in Barbados, previously was part of a Cuban Medical Mission in Viet-Nam 2017- 2019 - Jany Cabrera, Specialist in General Integral Medicine, member of the Henry Reeve Brigade in Belize. Also actor and activist Danny Glover, with his long experience of working for peace and justice in Latin America and the Caribbean shares his thoughts about why he supports the Nobel Peace Prize for Cuba’s Henry Reeve Brigade.

This week CODEPINK’s co-founder, Jodie Evans, is joined by the Qiao Collective, a collective of the Chinese diaspora that challenges US aggression on China, to explore the ways in which we can approach the anti-China rhetoric, disarm it, and take the offensive for peace.

On September 7, Trump spoke out against the revolving door of U.S. weapons sales and endless wars. Pushing back against a report in the Atlantic that he had disparaged fallen U.S. soldiers as “suckers” and “losers,” he accused Pentagon leaders of wanting “to do nothing but fight wars so that all of those wonderful companies that make the bombs and make the planes and make everything else stay happy.” As part of his claim to be a peacemaker, he announced troop withdrawals from Iraq and has been bragging about the Israel-UAE peace deal.