World BEYOND War: a new podcast

Medea Benjamin of CODEPINK and economist Ivan Velaszquz of Universidad Mayor San Andres and Konrad Adenauer Foundation in La Paz join Marc Eliot Stein and David Swanson to talk about the current crisis in Bolivia, with special attention to the indigenous rights movement, the question of electoral validity and the problem of external influence on Bolivian politics. (Music removed.)

Ireland has been a global beacon for peace since the Good Friday agreements of 1998, yet antiwar activists in Ireland are struggling to be heard about PESCO and the illegal use of Shannon Airport by USA military forces. We talk to Barry Sweeney, who brought World BEYOND War's #NoWar2019 conference to Limerick, Ireland, and hear inspiring clips from this conference including Nobel Peace Laureate Ma...

What is peace education? Tony Jenkins, Patrick Hiller, and Kozue Akibayashi use teaching and academic research to illuminate their activities against war. These three educators also contributed to "A Global Security System", the book that describes World BEYOND War's platform. These three educators join Marc Eliot Stein and Greta Zarro to talk about conflict resolution, peace science, feminism and...

Antiwar activists and environmental activists need to work together. Why doesn't this happen more often? In this episode of the World BEYOND War podcast, Ashik Siddique of the National Priorities Project and Alex Beauchamp of Food & Water Watch join Greta Zarro and Marc Eliot Stein to talk about the research and advocacy work they do every day, and how we can build bridges between two movements de...

Two notable literary novelists, Roxana Robinson ("Sparta", "Dawson's Fall") and Dawn Tripp ("Georgia", "Game of Secrets") join regular hosts Marc Eliot Stein and Greta Zarro for a unique discussion of the ways both fiction writers and antiwar activists try to use words to connect with strangers on urgent and heartfelt topics. We discuss USA in 2019, modern tribalism, the Quaker community, the lega...

How is the antiwar movement staying focused and unified as shocking provocations and unconscionable moral threats demand our attention, from USA to Iran to Venezuela to Gaza? In this special episode of the World BEYOND War podcast, WBW's board president Leah Bolger and executive director David Swanson join Greta Zarro and Marc Eliot Stein for an honest and realistic look at the challenges, concern...

We're talking about how art can amplify activism, elevate messages, grow movements and influence change. For episode 4 of the World BEYOND War podcast, Kim Fraczek of Sane Energy Project and Hanoi/DC-based activist Vy Vu join Greta Zarro and Marc Eliot Stein and talk about their experiences with creative activism, intersectionality, identity and where the antiwar movement is today.

In April 2019, an informal coalition of antiwar organizations including CodePink, Popular Resistance and ANSWER began protecting the Venezuelan embassy in Washington DC from an attempted takeover by the US federal government. We spoke to Margaret Flowers of Popular Resistance and Pat Elder of World BEYOND War, who are both inside the Venezuelan embassy and facing imminent arrest for resisting an o...

World BEYOND War's #NoToNATO rally and peace festival will "unwelcome" NATO, the world's most powerful military alliance, to Washington DC in April 2019. What is #NoToNATO all about? We've gathered four determined peace activists to share their own thoughts and perspectives on this often controversial and difficult topic: Shabbir Lakha from London, Liz Remmerswaal Hughes from New Zealand, Marc Eli...

On the fifth anniversary of the founding of World Beyond War, Marc Eliot Stein interviewed three of the founders, David Hartsough, David Swanson and Leah Bolger, to discuss five years of World Beyond War.