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.

Episode 154: Friends and Enemies

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Join CODEPINK's Feminist Foreign Policy Project Coordinator, Grace Siegelman, as she interviews CODEPINK Co-founder Jodie Evans, CODEPINK Members Naseebah and Shaz and Raging Grannies Vicki and Mary as they discuss the importance of disrupting Congress on Mother's Day, what being a grandmother, mother and caretaker means within the movement for liberation and what more we can do everyday to fight for justice and liberation in Palestine and for the liberation of all peoples. 

Episode 248: A Mothers' Call for Peace in Gaza

Join CODEPINK'S Palestine Campaigner Nour for another episode from the university encampments in solidarity with Gaza. Listen to conversations with one of the marshals at DePaul University's student encampment, Yolanda Judeh, as well as Nour's mother, Osrie, as they reflect on the effects of oppression and repression on the structure of Palestinian communities. Yolanda shares her perspective from the United States while Osrie speaks about her experience growing up in the West Bank in Palestine. 

Episode 247: Community Response to Oppression & Repression

Join CODEPINK Co-Director Danaka Katovich as she interviews Co-Founder Jodie Evans about her time at the UCLA and USC encampments for Gaza and CODEPINK's Grace Siegelman about her time at the Northwestern encampment. For the second half, Danaka and Nour report live from DePaul University's new encampment for Gaza. 

Episode 246: Live from the Encampments

Jodie and Megan talk about their work to lay a path to peace in the face of endless tentacles of the US driving a war on China and finishing our final guest Krista discussing the difficulties being a proud Chinese American

Episode 245: Discovering China in a hostile environment

Tune in this week for an episode with CODEPINK 's newest member, Julia Norman, to discuss 'Advocacy across decades'. Guests, Paki Wieland and Mona Sadeq share their experiences as activists and advocates, particularly for Palestine. As retired women and mothers, they share some of their insights as to what activism means to them, and how they continue to advocate for peace and justice with women's organizations. Mona, a Palestinian American herself, also leads listeners into a thoughtful and sobering conversation about how we respond to the horrors we are seeing unfold in Gaza, and how that asks all of us, self-proclaimed activists or not, to raise our voices and act with urgency.

Episode 154: Friends and Enemies

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