CODEPINK Radio

Listen to CODEPINK Congress (11/16/21) with Bernadette Demientieff, Executive Director of the Gwich'in Steering Committee in Alaska, sharing the indigenous nation's victories in convincing banks not to loan money for oil drilling on ancestral lands-also Boston University Professor Neta Crawford on the importance of avoiding the term "national security threat" when talking about the climate crisis...

On this episode, join CODEPINK and the China Is Not Our Enemy campaign to hear from Indigenous CHamoru scholars and activists Dr. Kenneth Kuper and Dr. Isa Arriola about how the native peoples, land, and environment of Guam & the CNMI are being impacted and harmed by the US’s military buildup in its escalating war on China. Then, in the 2nd half of the show, hear from Prabir Purkayastha, edito...

In this episode, CODEPINK Congress coordinator Marcy Winograd and co-host Medea Benjamin talk to Patrice Lawrence, executive director of UndocuBlack, and Paul Christian Namfy, an organizer with the Family Action Network Movement, about their demands the Biden administration halt mass deportations and detentions of Haitians fleeing political collapse, street gangs and impacts of the climate crisis....

This week on CODEPINK radio we'll be discussing the sanctions on Venezuela. In the first segment Teri Mattson and Margaret Flowers interview William Castilo, Venezuela's Vice Minister for Anti-Blockade Policies, about the devastating economic war. In the second half of the program, Teri interviews Venezuelan Vice Minister Yvan Gil about $2 billion in Venezuelan funds currently being frozen by Port...

In this episode, we hear the voices of youth at the Global Climate Strike and activist and author Winona LaDuke on stopping the Line 3 pipeline threatening to contaminate indigenous lands. We also go to the House floor for debate between AOC and Republicans on the military budget and Congressman Ro Khanna on his amendment to cut off funds for Saudi Arabia's war on Yemen. During the second half of...

This episode features a conversation between CODEPINK's Teri Mattson, the Tricontinental Institute's Vijay Prashad, CEPR's Alex Main and Friends of Latin America's Jill Clark-Gollub about U.S. hybrid war and sanctions on Nicaragua, with an emphasis on the RENACER Act, a bill that just passed in the Senate and would sanction over half the Nicaraguan population.

Join CODEPINK and the China Is Not Our Enemy campaign for an exclusive episode of CODEPINK Radio with historian Vijay Prashad and CODEPINK co-founder Jodie Evans on the United States' Forever Wars: From Afghanistan to China. Hear about the underlying connections between the U.S. Military Industrial Complex's war in Afghanistan, the escalation of its hybrid war on China, and why humanitarian war is...

In this episode, Marcy Winograd, coordinator of CODEPINK Congress, features Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Chair of the 94-member Congressional Progressive Caucus, who discusses victories and challenges for progressives seeking to demilitarize foreign and domestic policies. Next, we turn to plans for climate activism here in the U.S. and abroad for November's UN Climate Conference (COP26) i...

This week on CODEPINK radio join Matthew Hoh, Ann Wright, Dr. Zaher Wahabfor, Phyllis Bennis and CODEPINK's Medea Benjamin for a discussion on Afghanistan With the collapse of the US-backed Afghan government and the Taliban set to return to a position of power they occupied 20 years ago, who is responsible for this colossal failure? Who should be held accountable and how? And what can we do to mak...

With the collapse of the US-backed Afghan government and the Taliban set to return to a position of power they occupied 20 years ago, who is responsible for this colossal failure? Who should be held accountable and how? And what can we do to make sure that lessons are learned that will stop the US government from future invasions/occupations?    Army Colonel Ann Wright, former State Dept...

This week on CODEPINK radio, we hear from three young Cuban women in an excerpt taken from a recent CODEPINK webinar on Cuba. In the second half of the program, CODEPINK's Teri Mattson will interview Diego Sequera of Mision Verdad, an independent Venezuelan think tank, about the upcoming dialogue in Mexico between the Venezuelan government and various factions of the opposition.

This week on CODEPINK Radio, CODEPINK China is Not Our Enemy Campaign coordinator Madison Tang interviews Dr. Zhun Xu on his experience as an academic in both China and the United States, and on his analysis of the Western discourse surrounding Xinjiang and Hong Kong, two regions of China that the US gov’t & MSM have become increasingly fixated on in the past three years in order to manufactur...

On this episode, CODEPINK's Leonardo Flores will interview Dr. Jemima Pierre from the Black Alliance for Peace about the assassination of Haitian leader Jovenel Moise and the possibility of a U.S. intervention in the country. In the second half of the program, we will hear from several speakers, including Daniel Menocal of the Cuban Embassy and Angelica Salazar of ACERE (Alliance for Cuba Engageme...

On this episode, join us to hear from Dr. Catherine Wilkerson about how the U.S.'s scapegoating of China for the global pandemic is both a deflection of U.S. accountability to contain the virus and a propaganda strategy for manufacturing public consent for war with China. In the second half of the show, CODEPINK team member RJ Thomsen discusses the House Foreign Affairs Committee's markup for the...

In this special episode, CODEPINK's Director of Cultural Strategy, Ciara Taylor, joins Poor People's Campaign Zillah Wesley and CODEPINK's Danaka Katovich to give a history of Juneteenth and discuss the continuous struggle to end exploitation and violence in all its forms. 

In the first half of the program, CODEPINK's Teri Mattson speaks to Marco Castillo of Global Exchange about Vice President Kamala Harris's recent visit to Mexico and Guatemala. In the second half of the show. CODEPINK cofounder Medea Benjamin joins Leonardo Flores for a discussion about the recent elections in Peru.

Today our show is about the US Senate bill funding more aggression on China, Marcy Winograd reads all 1,145 pages and breaks it down for us. Scary stuff that is being railroaded to a vote. #ChinaIsNotOurEnemy

This episode features comments by drone whistleblower Daniel Hale, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist James Risen, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's half brother Gabriel Shipton, Julian Assange's attorney and partner Stella Moris, as well as Policy Director for Defending Rights and Dissent Chip Gibbons. Some of our guests were featured recently on CODEPINK Congress, a Tuesday night program, focuse...

In the first half of the program, CODEPINK's Teri Mattson speaks with Alexis Stoumbelis of CISPES, the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador, about the recent judicial coup in El Slavador. In the second half, CODEPINK's Leonardo Flores speaks with Zoe Alexandra of People's Dispatch about the violent repression of protests in Colombia.

On this show, we'll hear from Teri Mattson and Leonardo Flores about Ecuador's elections, where they were part of an electoral observation mission sent by CODEPINK.

On this show, we'll hear select segments from the Cold War Truth Commission that took place on March 21, 2021. We will be featuring talks from Ramsey Clark, Mickey Huff, Jeff Cohen, and CODEPINK’s Medea Benjamin, Jodie Evans, and Carley Towne that address various intersections between the Cold War, propaganda, and US imperialism and militarism across the globe.

CODEPINK's Teri Mattson interview Erika Takeo of Friends of the ATC to discuss the sanctions on Nicaragua. In the second half of the show, Leonardo Flores interviews Dr. Angelo Rivero Santos about Colombia's role in the hybrid war on Venezuela.

For this week’s episode we are joined by Carolyn Baker of the General Baker Instituse in Detroit and a member of the National Welfare Rights Union and Sheila Xiao of Pivot to Peace.  This episode explores the issue of poverty through a human rights framework—  how it has been addressed in China and how it continues to be ignored in the United States. Join the National Welfare Rights Unio...

CODEPINK's Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd, and Hanieh Jodat-Barnes were joined by four special guests: Huwaida Arraf, co-founder, International Solidarity Movement; Omar Baddar, political analyst & former deputy director, Arab American Institute; Ariel Gold, co-director, CODEPINK; and Estee Chandler, board member, Jewish Voice for Peace. They discussed the International Criminal Court’s inv...

On this episode we will listen to an excerpt of CODEPINK's Peacemaker Salon with Venezuela's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for North America and President of the Simon Bolivar Institute for Peace, Carlos Ron who talks about the outlook for Venezuela-US relations under Biden. On the second half of the show, CODEPINK's Leonardo Flores and Paul Christian Namphy discuss the unrest in Haiti