This week on the show, rabble editor Nick Seebruch speaks to Medea Benjamin, co-founder of women-led peace group Code Pink. Code Pink is a grassroots NGO with an anti-war mandate.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine began on the morning of February 24, 2022, which makes today the one year anniversary.
Today, Seebruch and Benjamin discuss the global efforts Code Pink and like-minded organizations have made to encourage a peaceful resolution to this war.
Reflecting on the one year anniversary of the war, Benjamin says: “I feel like the human community has not evolved far enough to recognize that this way of dealing with conflicts is not only unjust, inhumane – but untenable.”
Named as a “high profile leader [in] the peace movement” by the Los Angeles Times, Medea Benjamin is the co-founder of Code Pink and co-founder of the human rights group Global Exchange. Benjamin has been an advocate for social justice for more than 40 years. And she is also an author. Her latest book is War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict, co written by Nicolas J. S. Davies.
Benjamin appeared on rabble radio in May of last year to speak with Libby Davies about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. You can listen to that episode here.
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