Medea Benjamin
@medeabenjamin
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Cofounder of peace group CODEPINK. Author. Peace activist. Wannabe salsa dancer :)
Washington DC and San Francisc
Joined May 2008
Marine Corps veteran Phil Tottenham reminds us what Armistice Day was really about: Not glorifying war, but ending it. Let’s reclaim November 11th as a day for peace, not war. Read: https://t.co/Lwr8K9LjKd
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Please support Palestinian American grandmother Janine Saleh, being falsely sued by Zionists. Here is the Peace Defenders Legal Fund.
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🇵🇸 **Stand with Janine: Help Us Defeat Injustice!!!!Pro- peace activist Janine, a fearless mother/grandmother who has dedicated her life to challenging our government’s complicity in genocide. Now,...
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Watch the film. Share it. Bring it to your campus or community: email:
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JOIN CODEPINK and find a Earth's Greatest Enemy Screening Near You!
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From Iraq to Palestine, from Sudan to the Pentagon our struggles are one. Abby Martin’s Earth’s Greatest Enemy exposes how U.S. militarism drives the climate crisis and calls us to unite beyond silos and borders for a habitable future.
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Sami Hamdi will finally be free. But he should’ve never been detained. A British journalist held by ICE for speaking out against Israel’s genocide, his case shows how quickly the U.S. abandons free speech when it’s used to defend Palestinians. Why was he treated like a criminal
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Since 2023, a brutal war has raged between Sudan’s military and the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces. The RSF just seized El Fasher, leaving behind massacres, sexual violence, and famine. The weapons? They’re coming from the United Arab Emirates, a top buyer of U.S. arms. It’s
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Today, MY SON SAMI HAMDI stands before an immigration judge in California. His visa was canceled by the Department of Homeland Security — without his knowledge. They did not like some of his views and are seeking his deportation. He’s 35. Today, for the first time in his life,
Humanity can easily discern right and wrong. Racism, Islamophobia, anti-semitism, genocide, and war crimes need no explanation or definitions for humanity to recognise them and stand firmly against them. I believe in humanity and the natural good that exists in human beings.
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British journalist Sami Hamdi has been detained by ICE since October 26 after arriving in the U.S. on a valid visa for a speaking tour. His “crime”? Speaking out for Palestinian rights. ICE revoked his visa mid-trip and locked him up in a California detention center. Speaking
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Last night, the Senate failed to pass a resolution to block a U.S. war in Venezuela by a vote of 49-51. Trump isn't escalating attacks because of drug trafficking. He's only interested in oil and U.S. control over Venezuela and the entire region. This is not what the people of
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So fulfilling that the sandwich thrower was found not-guilty. Hope it gives Trump, his troops in our cities and his gestapo ICE agents something to chew on 😀
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The man who threw a Subway sandwich at a federal officer in the early days of the Trump administration’s law enforcement surge in Washington, DC, earlier this summer has been found not guilty of...
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Senator @LindseyGrahamSC calls Venezuela "an existential threat" to the US. That is insane. The real threat is that Graham and his fellow hawks want to drag us into another quagmire--feeding the war machine instead of the American people.
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Lol. Racist, Islamophobe @RepFine says Tucker Carlson is the most dangerous antisemite in America. Why? Because Carlson represents millions of MAGA people who don't want to keep supporting Israel. That's not anti-semitism. It's anti-genocide.
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To the Republicans who just voted against the War Powers Act: polls show that MOST Americans oppose an invasion of Venezuela. We don't want more war. Hands off Venezuela. Colombia. Mexico. Hands off Latin America and the Caribbean.
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The US public overwhelmingly opposes a US invasion of Venezuela. So why did every Republican Senator, except two, give Trump the authority to do just that? What happened to America First?
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Republicans Senators, minus Rand Paul and Murkowski, are so afraid of Trump that they all voted to give away their constitutional authority to declare war on Venezuela. They "trust Trump". Really??? And do they trust Marco Rubio???
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On the Venezuela War Powers Resolution, It's sad that only 2 republicans voted in favor. Final vote was 49 in favor, 51 opposed. So much for "America First" and for upholding their constitutional authority by stopping the executive branch from taking illegal military actions.
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Ahead of today's vote on the Venezuela war powers resolution in the Senate, this is how Senators are defending their support for Trump's oil war: 1. Fighting "narco-terrorists" 2. Denying it's a war 3. Saying it's business as usual 4. Avoiding comment 5. Pretending it's legal
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