CODEPINK Radio

In this week's episode, CODEPINK Congress Coordinator Marcy Winograd interviews economist, public policy analyst and prolific author Jeffrey Sachs on how the bloated military budget drives the debt crisis. Sachs estimates US debt at $24-trillion dollars, much of it the result of US wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Ukraine, as well the maintenance of 800 military bases abroad, development of new w...

In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers, documenting decades of lies and mistakes in Vietnam. At 91, he faces a new battle: inoperable cancer. Join CODEPINK for “Daniel Ellsberg Week” to celebrate the life’s work of Daniel Ellsberg. Guest speakers include: Gabriel Shipton, John Kiriakou and Jesselyn Radack. 

March 2023 witnessed the beginning of campaign season for Guatemala’s general elections. With less than three months before the June 25 vote, concerns are mounting among national and international observers over the integrity of the process due to Guatemala’s Supreme Electoral Tribunal having blocked several opposition candidates from running. This includes candidates of the Movement for the Liber...

Today, we bring you the voices of those gathered at the Latin America and Caribbean policy forum recently held in Washington DC. The forum was titled, “In Search of a New U.S. Policy for a New Latin America: Burying 200 Years of the Monroe Doctrine.”

If we want to thwart the climate crisis, we must address the elephant in the room: The Pentagon. Join us as our WING campaigners Teddy Ogborn and Jodie Evans host a teach-in on the environmental impacts of US militarism, with a special focus on WINGs shareholder activism to hold BlackRock, one of the world's largest investment firms, accountable for worsening the climate crisis and perpetuatin...

Although the 4T has not fulfilled everyones expectations, it has, in four years, created a governing movement that is taking control of its energy resources (including the nationalization of lithium) and is adopting a role of regional leadership in Latin America: two sins the United States has not historically forgiven anywhere. In this episode Teri Mattson talks with Kurt Hackbarth, author of &qu...

Episode 188: DC Anti-War Protest & McGovern on Ukraine: In this episode, CODEPINK's Marcy Winograd brings us voices from the Saturday, March 18th DC anti-war protest, "Fund People's Needs, Not the War Machine." Demonstrators called on the Biden administration to support a ceasefire in Ukraine and stop preparation for war with China. In the second half of the show, former CIA...

Why do governments and gangs alike target land defenders, and what can we do to fight back? Join Teddy Ogborn (CODEPINK), for a discussion with land defenders organizing against the destruction of crucial natural environments. Hear from Matthew Johnson, who organizes in Atlanta to defend the Weelaunee Forest from the construction of "Cop City," Briceida Lemos Rivera, a peace and environmental acti...

Join Danaka Katovich (CODEPINK), James Leas (Save Our Skies VT), Paul Maillet (Retired colonel and former Green party candidate), and moderator Tamara Lorincz (VOW, WILPF) for a conversation on Lockheed Martins F-35 Fighter Jet and Canadas decision to buy them.

In the past two weeks, the US has been taken over by a frenzy over a Chinese weather balloon. Ignoring the continuous US aggression towards China, warmongers are using the balloon to drive fear and hate. The manufacture of consent for war dehumanizes Chinese people as well as ourselves. In this episode, re-humanize Chinese people and ourselves with CODEPINK co-founder Jodie Evans and Tings Chak ab...

From Ukraine to Uvalde we see the crises of which Rev. Dr. King warned, militarism, materialism, racism and the prospect of spiritual death. This special episode addresses how we may better work for peace. Presenters will be Medea Benjamin (CODEPINK), Ash-Lee Henderson (Highlander Center), Tiffany Loftin (The Debt Collective), Rev. Liz Theoharis (Poor People’s Campaign), and Luis Rodriguez (Tia Ch...

In this episode, we interview Alejandro Rusconi about the Seventh Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States, (CELAC), which was held Tuesday, January 24 in Buenos Aires and hosted by CELAC President Pro-Tempore Alberto Fernandez, current President of Argentina. We will discuss the role of social movements in creating a comprehensive agenda for regional integration and multilat...

Today we’ll be talking with an international feminist activist, Dr. Maha Hilal, author of Innocent Until Proven Muslim as well as hear excerpts from our CODEPINK MLK Peace Vigil in Washington DC from last week and invite you to our International Women’s Day of action for the cost of war on women and femmes and the call for peace.

This episode features excerpts from a Christmas Eve sermon by Rev. William Barber of Repairers of the Breach and the Poor People’s Campaign, comments from former Congressman Dennis Kucinich, long a peace champion, a report back from Moscow from Reiner Braun of the International Peace Bureau in Germany and an interview with professor Nicolai Petro, author of the new book, “The Tragedy of Ukraine: W...

As 2022 comes to a close, Shea of CODEPINK's Divest from the War Machine campaign interviews the people working to divest their communities from war, militarism, and climate crisis. We will hear from organizers based in Chicago, IL; Chattanooga, TN; and Corvallis, OR along with Greta Zarro, organizing director of World BEYOND War.

As more progressive leaders are elected to power in Latin America, we are seeing a concerted effort by right-wing governments to destabilize popular movements. This week we speak to Peruvian artist Daniela Ortiz about the intensification of protests in Peru after former president Pedro Castillo was incarcerated for attempting to dissolve the congress to prevent a legislative coup. We will also spe...

This week we are joined by Lauren Rosenfeld from CODEPINKs Peace Collective and Rose and Michelle from the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Michelle, Rose, and Lauren just got back from a youth delegation to Cuba where they got to tour the international school of Medicine and witness Cuban elections.

In this episode Marcy Winograd, coordinator of CODEPINK Congress, interviews her co-host Medea Benjamin on Medea's recent solidarity trip to Cuba and post midterm election prospects for lifting sanctions on the island nation Next, Tamara Lorincz of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom challenges NATO as an offensive alliance that threatens world peace, and finally we hear from He...

On this week's episode, Teri interviews Jemima Pierre of Black Alliance for Peace about the most recent US-sponsored intervention efforts in Haiti. Jemima discusses the root causes of growing protests in the country and the US's role in fomenting violence

This week we are joined by Palestinian organizers Nour, Rifqa, and Alexis who are reporting back from their recent trip to Palestine. We discuss their tour of Lifta, a village destroyed by the Zionist forces during the Nakba. They compare and contrast occupation from Ramallah to Haifa, and discuss what people in the US should be doing.

In this episode we hear from whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg on the importance of defusing nuclear war as we come up on the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Later, we hear from the Institute for Policy Studies' Basav Sen discuss the IMF and World Bank's questionable efforts on climate change as activists from throughout the Global North and South hold a week of action outside of the fin...

In this episode, we are joined by Carlos Ron to discuss the illegal seizing of a Venezuelan plane, which by U.S. orders has been grounded in Argentina since June. We then talk to Rev. Chris Ferguson about the absurdity and inhumanity of U.S. policy towards Cuba, specially when it comes to its designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism. Cuba is currently hosting peace talks between the ELN guerril...

On this episode, Marcy Winograd Interviews Bert Knorr of the International Committee of Democratic Socialists of America about the Peace In Ukraine Coalition, which also includes CODEPINK and Veterans for Peace. Learn about the coalition's call for a ceasefire in Ukraine and their Week of Action September 12-15. Their mantra? Billions for climate, health care and housing--not more weapons to escal...

CODEPINK marks 4 years since Saudi Arabia dropped a bomb on a school bus in Dahyan, Yemen killing 40 children on their way to a field trip. We are joined by Dr. Shireen Al-Adeimi, Dr. Aisha Jumaan, Dr. Alberto Minujin, and Yemeni organizer Aseel Fara.

What does it mean to work on divesting from war in 2022? In this episode of CODEPINK radio, Divest from the War Machine organizer Shea talks with members of the Divest Chicago from War coalition on their local organizing work, the role of economic activism in our movements today, and what the Chicago coalition is doing right now.