Teri Mattson and Paki Wieland are joined by Lindsay Koshgarian, Helena Cobban, and Leonardo Flores. Lindsay is with the National Priorities Project and discusses how the Unite States was severely unprepared to deal with the pandemic due to lack of funding while over-funding the military. Helena from Just World Educational brings to light the current situation in Syria and the importance of language when speaking on their government. Finally, CODEPINK's own Leonardo speaks on Venezuela and #WagtheDog.

Episode 34 - In Conversations with National Priorities Project and Just World Educational

Join the antiwar group CODEPINK for our weekly radio show every Thursday! Each week features a different CODEPINK organizer hosting robust conversations with grassroots peacemakers all over the world from Korea to Yemen to Venezuela to Iran and beyond. Tune in to get weekly updates on the global antiwar movement and learn all about peacemakers in communities worldwide confronting warhawks wherever they may find them.

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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 244: Advocacy across decades

 In this episode of CODEPINK Radio, host Marcy Winograd talks to former State Department diplomat Ann Wright on challenging Israel's settler colonialism with an emergency flotilla to break the siege on Gaza. Nour, CODEPINK's Palestine campaigner, unpacks her paper, "Israeli Greenwashing: The Myth of Environmentalism in a Settler Colonial State," and author and community organizer Eric Mannshares lessons from the 60s in building a powerful anti war movement.

Episode 243: Myths of Settler Colonialism

Tune in this week to learn all about the local peace economy - what is it, and why does it matter? We'll hear from CODEPINK co-founder Jodie Evans about why she started integrating local peace economy work into her anti-war activism and how you can begin to grow the local peace economy in your community. We'll also hear from presenters and attendees at the recent Bioneers conference in Berkeley, CA about how the local peace economy is alive in their lives right now. How do we grow the seeds of peace in our community? Join us to find out.

Episode 242: The Local Peace Economy

In the first half of this episode, CODEPINK Congress co-hosts Marcy Winograd and Medea Benjamin speak with Norman Solomon, author of the book: War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of its Military Machine. Solomon offers suggestions on cultivating relationships with editors, writing OpEds and framing persuasive arguments to break through the propaganda that manufactures consent for endless war. On the second half of the program, Marcy interviews Brian Mier, Telesur English correspondent in Brazil, on the threat of fascism in Brazil and beyond as social media exacerbates global polarization. Also featured is Naledi Pandor, South Africa's Minister of International Relations, on a visit to the US to stave off congressional attacks in the wake of South Africa's World Court case against Israel's genocide in Gaza.


Links: 
War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of its Military Machine by Norman Solomonhttps://thenewpress.com/books/war-made-invisible
The Hybrid War Against Lula by Brian Mier (COUNTERPUNCH. 3/20/24)https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/20/the-hybrid-war-against-lula/

Episode 34 - In Conversations with National Priorities Project and Just World Educational

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