CODEPINK Radio

On this episode of CODEPINK Radio, Jodie Evans delves into the racism that is part and parcel to war. She is joined by Local Peace Economy coordinator, Kelly Curry to talk about the recent Asian American attacks and how we can plant seeds of peace. Then, she is joined by award winning director Peter Getzels to talk about the censorship of his film on the poverty alleviation of China.

This week's radio show discusses the Biden Administration's decision to halt "offensive" support for the Saudi-led war on Yemen. We open with Dr. Cornel West's remarks from the January 25th World Says No to War on Yemen Global Day of Action Webinar. CODEPINK's Danaka Katovich interviews Jehan Hakim from the Yemeni Alliance Committee about the January 25th Global Day of Action for Yemen and gets Je...

Cynthia Lazeroff and Robert Kajiwara join CODEPINK co-founder Jodie Evans, to talk about ways to be engaged to stop the growing cold war towards China.

This week on CODEPINK radio, Teri Mattson speaks with journalist Vijay Prashad about his recently released book: Viviremos: Venezuela Vs. Hybrid War. Later, Leonardo Flores speaks with Natasha Ora Bannan about Biden's policy toward Latin America, focusing on Cuba and Puerto Rico.

This week on the CODEPINK radio air waves, co-founder Jodie Evans talks to Severine von Tscharner Fleming and to CODEPINK’s Local Peace Economy Organizer Kelly Curry about how to plant seeds of peace and divest ourselves, our time, our talent and money from the war economy. Listen here!

This week CODEPINK's Danaka Katovich and Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation’s Arwa Mokdad are joined by Atiaf Alwazir to discuss Storytelling as Resistance.

In this week's episode, we address feminism from Palestine to the U.S. Our own Ariel Gold speaks to Yafa Jarrar, the daughter of imprisoned Palestinian feminist and lawmaker Khalida Jarrar. They discuss why her mother is such a threat that Israel is detaining her without charge or trial. 

In this week's episode, we explore the grassroots campaign from Paris to California against the largest asset manager in the world, Blackrock. On the first part of the show, CODEPINK's Nancy Mancías takes us to Paris, France, to talk about the trial of an Extinction Rebellion activist who held an action in the Blackrock offices there.  Then CODEPINK's Kelsey Zazanis talks to a student activis...

In this week's episode, CODEPINK's Teri Mattson talks to Patricio Zamorano about the referendum in Chile. For the second part of the show, Leonardo Flores and Thomas Becker give us an election update from Bolivia.

This week on CODEPINK radio the China Is Not Our Enemy campaign is excited to be with Tings Chak 翟庭君, John Cavanagh , and our very own Leonardo Flores ! As we get closer to election night in the US, Leonardo inspires us with the results and analysis of Bolivia’s recent election live from the ground. Then we hear beautiful truths about China from Tings Chak 翟庭君 of The Tricontinental and Dong...

This week, CODEPINK's national co-director Ariel Gold talks with Dr. James Zogby, president and founder of the Arab American Institute. They discuss the upcoiming election and what a Biden presidency would mean for Arab-Americans and the struggle for Palestinian rights. The second part of today’s program includes CODEPINK's Middle East coordinator Danaka Katovich discussing Saudi Arabia's male gua...

For the first half of the show, CODEPINK co-founders Jodie Evans and Medea Benjamin discuss foreign policy in the time of elections and for the second half of the show, CODEPINK co-director, Ariel Gold speaks to Jewish Israeli activist and author Miko Peled. They discuss how he came to be an activist for Palestinian rights, why he supports a one state solution, and the horrible UAE-Israel normaliz...

This week Tobita Chow, of Justice is Global, joins CODEPINK cofounder, Jodie Evans in a discussion on how peace activists are striving to deescalate rising tensions between the US and China. On the second part of the show, Jodie Evans and Margaret Kimberley of Black Agenda Report, explore how to disrupt that messaging of hate and lies directed at China and build bridges of Peace.

This week James Zogby, founder and president of the Arab American Institute and former member of the DNC Executive Committee, joins CODEPINK’s Ariel Gold to discuss the 2020 DNC draft platform and how it address Palestinian rights. On the second part of the show, she talks to Saudi legal scholar Abdullah Alaoudh about the shifting sands in the Saudi regime as the king's health declines and MbS is...

What is going on in Portland? This week we talk to two activists on the ground in Portland, OR, Cody Urban from CODEPINK and Tiffany Tag from Bayan Portland. They'll discuss how local activists are responding to the presence of militarized police forces, including unmarked Federal agents and a local campaign to end Portland State University's relationship with Boeing. The second half of the show f...

CODEPINK's Latin America team compares and contrasts the interventionist foreign policy of the US versus the more humanitarian foreign policy of Cuba. Latin American campaign coordinators Leonardo Flores and Teri Mattson illustrate presidential candidate Joe Biden's historical support of US interventionism in Latin America specific to Venezuela and the region in general. CODEPINK co-founder Medea...

CODEPINK Co-founder, Medea Benjamin, is joined by fellow CODEPINK team members. Ariel Gold, the Middle East campaign coordinator, discusses the current Isreal/Palestine conflict and how we are pushing Biden (and Trump) to adopt a just foreign policy. Leonardo Flores, from the Latin America team, gives an update on our campaign to award Cuban doctors the Nobel Peace Prize for the global aid they ha...

Co-founder Jodie Evans is joined by Eugene Puryear, Marian Moore , and Laura Flynn. Eugene Puryear is a community activist and journalist for BreakThroughNews.org. He talks to us about the first hand action hes witnessing on the very streets of Minneapolis, Philadelphia, and New York and how to keep this movement going. Marian Moore and Laura Flynn are longtime Minneapolis community activists and...

Teri Mattson and Paki Wieland are joined by Rev. Liz Theoharis and Liv Cella from the Poor People's Campaign. The PPC is getting ready for A National Call for Moral Revival, a Poor People's Mass and March on Washington as a digital gathering the 20th of June. Liv shares her financial struggles caused by student debt and the impact it has had on her life. The digital gathering is a call for student...

Terri Mattson and Paki Wieland are joined by Gareth Porter, an American historian, investigative journalist, author and policy analyst specializing in U.S. national security issues. They discuss policies that favor military endeavors and how it affects American society as well as ways in which we can work towards divestment and dismantling of the Military Industrial Complex.

This week, Nancy Mancias discusses the upcoming BlackRock virtual protest and the divest from the war machine campaign with Jan Weinberg, Yousef Zakaria from CODEPINK NYC, and Greta Zarro from World BEYOND War.

Carley Towne, CODEPINK's National Divest Campaign Coordinator, is joined by Lindsay Koshagarian from National Priorities Project, and Isaac Evans-Frantz from Actioncorps, and Cody Urban from CODEPINK. The discussion surrounds divesting from the War Machine and the different avenues which one can take within their communities.

Terri Mattson and Paki Wieland are joined by Manolo Enrique and CODEPINK's Carley Towne. Manolo Enrique gives an account of Cuba's response to the global pandemic; how Cuban citizens and doctors are struggling because of the U.S. blockade but finds solidarity in China and several other countries around the world. Carley Towne talks about CODEPINK's divestment campaign and how you can participate o...

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 languag...

Jodie Evans is this week's host! She is the co-founder of CODEPINK and called in from her home in Venice joined by Ariel Gold and Kenneth Bailey. Jodie discusses how we can cultivate local peace economies in the time of the coronavirus. Ariel reports on the situations in the Middle East with the pandemic and what actions you can take with CODEPINK to demand peace and justice. Kenneth Bailey from D...