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This week on CODEPINK Radio: As the Trump administration deploys the National Guard to cities like D.C. and Chicago under the pretext of “fighting crime,” communities are instead met with intimidation, militarization, and deepened harm. Local organizers know what truly reduces violence: investing in housing, youth programs, mental health care, and real economic justice, not flooding neighborhoods...

Marcy Winograd and co-host Teri Mattson connect the dots from Medea Benjamin’s hurricane-relief mission in Cuba to Trump’s military escalation around Venezuela and Rep. Ilhan Omar’s push to end unauthorized hostilities. They spotlight Pepperdine’s hire of Johnny Moore and the Gaza “humanitarian” scandal, lift up divest-from-war campaigns, and echo Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on how mass incarcer...

Two centuries after it was first declared, the Monroe Doctrine is alive and dangerous. In this episode, CODEPINK Radio unpacks how the U.S. still uses this colonial relic to justify economic domination, coups, and military buildup across Latin America. Historian Steve Ellner joins us to trace the Doctrine’s evolution from 1823 to today’s hybrid wars. Then, Venezuelan voices on the ground reveal ho...

This week on CODEPINK Radio , Marcy Winograd and Medea Benjamin kick off a brand-new segment of  Empire on the Rocks  with a fiery round of “One Truth, Two Lies.” From Governor Newsom’s squirming AIPAC moment to Chicago’s mayor calling for a general strike and Trump’s missile strikes on Venezuelan boats, Marcy and Medea expose how empire operates at home and abroad, and who’s standing up to it. Tu...

This week, tensions between Washington and Beijing are escalating once again. Trump accuses China of “holding the world captive” after it placed export controls on rare earth minerals, the same materials the U.S. relies on to build advanced weaponry. But what’s really behind this narrative? Join us as we unpack the U.S. push for confrontation with China, from economic warfare to military buildup,...

In this episode, co-hosts Marcy Winograd and Medea Benjamin debut"Empire on the Rocks," a segment that analyzes top news stories through an anti-war lens. Topics include US-Israel ongoing genocide in Gaza, the Israel/ICE axis, troops in US cities and the Ellison/Trump/Rubio/Blair cabal.  On the second half of this episode, Marcyspeaks with our CODEPINK Palestine campaigner Jenin about th...

In this episode, the co-founders of Art. Coop join Jodie Evans to explore the intersection between creativity, culture, and community building. Art.coop is a network of artists and groups who use creative way to support and explore the Local Peace Economy.

In this episode, hear excerpts from the War Is Not Green Movement Building Mini-Summit in NYC titled Drawing the Line: At the Pentagon, for the Planet.

In this episode, CODEPINK talks to Ashish Prashar, a political strategist and human rights activist, to talk about Airbnb’s role in occupation and how we can work towards corporate accountability.

"In this episode we look back at out 2025 CODEPINK Summer School and revisit the lessons we can take with us into the future of anti-imperialist organizing. "

"In this episode of CODEPINK Radio ""Labor for Palestine,"" host Marcy Winograd spotlights the role unions can play in stopping US-Israel genocide in Gaza. Chris Smalls, co-founder of the Amazon Labor Union and Freedom Flotilla participant, calls on the AFL-CIO and the ILWU, to refuse to load ships with weapons bound for Israel. On the second half of our program, Merrie Na...

Author, journalist, political commentator and executive director of The Tricontinental Institute, Vijay Prashad joins co-hosts Alina Duarte and Teri Mattson for an in depth analysis of the XVII BRICS Summit held in Rio de Janeiro July 6 & 7

CODEPINK's National Co-Director Danaka Katovich discusses the second annual People's Conference for Palestine with Tara from the Palestinian Feminist Collective. Then Bob Suberi joins the show live from the West Bank after the funeral for slain Awdah Hathaleen, who was killed by an Israeli settler.

CODEPINK's China Is Not Our Enemy Coordinator Megan Russell is joined by Carl Zha and Danny Haiphong for a conversation about authoritarianism and suppression of opposition movements.

In this episode of CODEPINK Radio, Jodie Evans of CODEPINK's Local Peace Economy project discusses with Sabrina Meherally of Pause + Effect how common ideas about gifting, reciprocation, and our responsibility to each other has been warped by the war economy. We learn how to experience a renewed sense of relationality by embracing reciprocity from a Peace Economy lens. The commons was a place...

CODEPINK's War Is Not Green Campaigner and East Coast Regional Organizer Aaron introduces Kari from Nodutdol to discuss the past and present of US/Western Imperialism in the Korea, and the upcoming People's Summit for Korea. Then, here a clip from another member of Nodutdol Erica, from a webinar where we dive deeper into the environmental impact of imperialism in Korea. Lastly, we close wi...

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

"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 sh...

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.

This week on CODEPINK Radio, CODEPINK's Digital Content Producer & Bases Off Cyprus Coordinator 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.

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...

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.

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,...

NATO is holding its assembly in Dayton, Ohio. Hear our co-director Danaka Katovich talk to national and local organizers about the resistance to NATO's presence and how we grow to understand NATO.

In this Nakba Day episode, we begin with a powerful teach-in from Nour, our 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.