CODEPINK Radio

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.

What makes one country a friend of Cuba and another not?  Today's episode includes a conversation with CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin about the irony of the US designating Cuba a State Sponsor of Terror and what can be done to change this status..  Next we talk with Franco Metaza, Director General of Foreign Affairs for the Argentina National Senate.  Argentina has succeeded Mex...

CODEPINK Radio is an energizing program focused on ending wars and militarism, and building a peace economy. Listen weekly to robust conversation and inspiration from grassroots peacemakers in places like Korea, Yemen, Venezuela and Iran, peacemakers in our nation's capital who are confronting warhawks in the White House and in Congress, and peacemakers in our communities who are modeling the acti...

In this episode of CODEPINK Radio, Marcy Winograd interviews CODEPINK activists Colonel Ann Wright and Paki Wieland about their participation in the NO to NATO protests in Spain. Wright and Wieland joined thousands of demonstrators calling for the dissolution of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in the days leading up to the NATO summit in Madrid. Protesters say NATO expansion threatens ...

Episode 151: Queer Liberation Means Decriminalization, Demilitarization, Decolonization.

In this episode we will listen to some of the anti-militarism contingent organizers of the Mass Poor People’s and Low Wage Workers’ Assembly that took place on June 18th, 2022 and learn about the making of and next steps after a weekend of art, protest, music, and collaboration.

This week's episode focuses on Biden's policy towards Cuba, with remarks from Fulton Armstrong, as well as an excerpt on a panel from the People's Summit, in which James Early draws links between Pan-Africanism and the Americas. We will also have CODEPINK co-director Danaka Katovich's speech from the Poor People's Campaign moral assembly on June 18.

In this episode, we take you to the People's Summit in Los Angeles, a counter-narrative to the US Summit of the America's, boycotted by Mexico's president and other Latin American heads of state. At the People's Summit, CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin welcomes grassroots ambassadors from the Global South and calls for the abolishment of the Organization of American States.  In the second h...

In this episode, CODEPINK's Leonardo Flores and Teri Mattson discuss former Defense Secretary Mark Esper's revelations about the hybrid war on Venezuela. In the second half, Leonardo and Claudia de la Cruz from the People's Forum, discuss the People's Summit for Democracy.

On this episode of CODEPINK radio, Ariel Gold hears from fellow CODEPINK co-director Danaka Katovich who just returned from participating in a youth delegation to Cuba to call for an end to the U.S. blockade. During the second half of the show, CODEPINK Congress coordinator Marcy Winograd discusses Biden's proposed increase in the military budget with Lindsay Koshgarian and Monica Montgomery.