Medea Benjamin
Nobel Peace Prize Nominee
Previously Aired On: September 5, 2006 - Listen to this Show!
Medea Benjamin, Nobel Peace Prize nominee and founder of Code Pink, a powerful and charismatic force in human rights activism, has struggled for social justice in Asia, Africa and the Americas for over 20 years. Medea is the Founding Director of the human rights organization Global Exchange. Benjamin is a leading activist in the peace movement in the United States and helped bring together the groups forming the coalition United for Peace and Justice.
She is the author of numerous books. Prior to founding Global Exchange in 1988, Medea worked for ten years as an economist and nutritionist in Latin America and Africa for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Health Organization, the Swedish International Development Agency, and the Institute for Food and Development Policy.
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