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Episode 308: Let's Talk About the War Economy
CODEPINK's regional organizing manager Jasmine introduces our co-director Danaka and Lindsay Koshgarian, Program Director of National Priorities Project, as they lead a conversation about the all-encompassing war economy taken from our most recent session of Feminists Resisting Fascism: CODEPINK Summer School.
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Episode 308: Let's Talk About the War Economy
CODEPINK's regional organizing manager Jasmine introduces our co-director Danaka and Lindsay Koshgarian, Program Director of National Priorities Project, as they lead a conversation about the all-encompassing war economy taken from our most recent session of Feminists Resisting Fascism: CODEPINK Summer School.
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Episode 307: Resistance to U.S. Empire
In this episode of CODEPINK Radio, host Marcy Winograd and Medea Benjamin discuss efforts on Capitol Hill to stop further US military involvement in Iran and expose the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation as a dangerous front for the Israeli military. David Swanson, executive director of World Beyond War, and Ann Wright, board member of CODEPINK, share their participation in European protests to shut down Ramstein Air Base and denounce NATO as a warfare alliance raiding public treasuries. In the second half of the podcast, we hear segments from Danny Haiphong's Left Lens podcast featuring Mohammad Marandi, professor at the University of Tehran, and Ali Abunimah, executive director of the Electronic Intifada
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Episode 306: War Is Not the Answer, Militarism Is Not the Answer
On this week's episode of CODEPINK Radio, CODEPINK's West Coast Organizer Ryan Wentz introduces CODEPINK co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, as they lead a conversation about US militarism, taken from our most recent CODEPINK summer school session.
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Episode 305: Bases Off Cyprus - Cyprus as a key node in the Anglo-American Empire
This week on CODEPINK Radio, CODEPINK's Digital Content Producer & Bases Off Cyprus Coordinator, Nuvpreet Kalra, speaks with Matthew from Genocide-Free Cyprus. They discuss the role of Cyprus and British bases in facilitating US-Israeli attacks on Iran, genocide against the Palestinian people, and US imperialism writ large.
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Episode 304: What does accountability look like in this stage of imperialism?
Campaign Manager Makayla Heiser is joined by Washington DC local, national, and international organizer, educator, and community leader Olivia DiNucci to discuss what accountability looks like in this current moment as war criminals are living amongst us as they actively are being funded by, funding, supporting, and backing a genocide of Palestinians. Olivia shares her experiences as well as ways others can hold those in power accountable, not just in the halls of Congress but also in their own local communities.
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Episode: 303: Solidarity in the Belly of the Beast
This week on CODEPINK Radio, CODEPINK's engagement manager, Grace Siegelman, interviews Jodie Evans on her fast in solidarity with the people of Gaza and Claudia De la Cruz traces the roots of U.S. imperialism, revealing how military dominance and colonial expansion laid the groundwork for modern forms of fascism and racialized violence.
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Episode 302: Uprooting Zionist Lies, Seeding Peace
This week on CODEPINK Radio, Jodie Evans and Noura Khoury dig into what it means to resist silence in the face of genocide, the media war on truth, and our new #ViolenceDetox campaign challenging Zionist influence in media and culture. Then we shift gears with Marie Goodwin from the Local Peace Economy at CODEPINK and farmer Jonathan McRay of Silver Run Forest Farm, exploring how tending the land, building local resilience, and growing food with care are radical acts of resistance and seeds of a peace economy.
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Episode 301: When the Empire Comes to Town
NATO is holding its assembly in Dayton, Ohio. Hear our co-director Danaka Katovich talk to national and local organizers about the resistance to NATOs presence and how we grow to understand NATO. We also share a powerful reflection from Ajamu Baraka of the Black Alliance for Peace on NATOs global role as a tool of U.S. and European empire from Africa to Latin America to Ukraine.
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Episode 300: Nakba 77
In this Nakba Day episode, we begin with a powerful teach-in from Nour, CODEPINK's Palestine Campaigner, on the history of Palestine and the origins of the Nakba. Then Aaron sits down with Nour to discuss how this history shapes the present and why remembering it is essential to our struggles today.
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Episode 299: Breaking the Siege & Busting the Israel Lobby
In this episode of CODEPINK Radio, peace activists Ann Wright and Tighe Barry join us from Malta after their Gaza Freedom Flotilla was attacked by Israel in international waters, as they attempted to break the siege on Gaza. We then hear from former Congressman Jamaal Bowman about grassroots strategies to resist the Trump administration’s violent deportations of immigrants and to push back against AIPAC’s efforts to silence criticism of Israel’s assault on Gaza. Finally, CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin reports on the controversial visit of Israeli National Security.
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Episode 298: Tariffs & the US-China Trade War
Will 125% tariffs on China bring jobs back to the US or they a nonsensical escalation of the trade war with China? What's really going on? Hear from journalist and founder of the Geopolitical Economy Report, Ben Norton.
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Episode: 297: Reflections on Earth Month
Happy Earth Month! In this episode, we hear from Healani Sonada Pale of the Oahu Water Protectors, Brianna Ramos of the Diaspora Polante Collective, and CODEPINK's very own War is Not Green Campaigner and East Coast Regional organizer Aaron. Our first two guests discuss the effects of U.S. imperialism on the lands they are indigenous to, Hawaii and Puerto Rico, respectively. We end the episode with Aaron's reflections on a jam-packed Earth Month and the work we have ahead of us!
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Episode 296: Project Esther’s War on Dissent
In the first half of this episode of CODEPINK Radio, Marcy Winograd is joined by Brooke Lober and Barry Trachtenberg of Jewish Voice for Peace. Together, they unpack Project Esther, the Heritage Foundation’s troubling blueprint to suppress dissent and promote a Christian Zionist agenda across the country. In the second half, we turn to Los Angeles, where local activists testify before the school board, calling for an end to its partnership with the Anti-Defamation League. We also hear from Erik Sperling, executive director of Just Foreign Policy, and Dr. Aisha Jumaan, founder of the Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation, who speak out on Trump’s undeclared war on Yemen and the ongoing congressional efforts to bring it to an end.
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Episode 295: Disarm the Planet! Earth Month 2025
In this episode, Jasmine and Aaron go deeper into the connections between the anti-war and climate movements to highlight the importance of our WING campaign and the ultimate goal of disarming the planet. We then hear an excerpt from our recent Disarming Earth Day webinar on Land, Imperialism, and the Cost of War.
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Episode 294: They Are Greenwashing Occupation & Slandering Activists
In this episode, Danaka and Nour discuss the greenwashing of the occupation of Palestine, how the genocide has affected the environment in Gaza, and why mainstream environmental groups should care about Palestine. Then, Medea Benjamin joins the conversation to discuss the increased slander of CODEPINK by members of Congress.
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