In this episode, Medea Benjamin and Hadiya Afzal of Unfreeze Afghanistan explain the Biden administration’s recent move to create a $3.5 billion fund "Afghan Fund" through a Swiss bank, and what it means for Afghanistan's economy and resources. We are also joined by Marcy Winograd, who updates us on the state of the war in Ukraine and how the peace movement is responding.

Episode 163: What's happening with Afghanistan's funds?

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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 163: What's happening with Afghanistan's funds?

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