Medea Benjamin was a previous guest on September 5, 2006.
She was recently on the O’Reily Factor talking about her recent arrest while protesting Condoleezza Rice.
I haven’t been able to find video of the show, but you can read the transcript here.
Below is the video of her arrest that she speaks about with Bill O’Reilly:
Here’s an opt-ed piece David recently wrote for opednews.com:
If you haven’t already, you really should read Chris Hedges’ book “War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning.” The portrait of war and wartime propaganda and emotion is brilliant and deadly accurate. But the headline is misleading. War does not give us lasting solid self-assured meaning. War gives us a temporary high that is rooted in desperate self-deception. Hedges’ book carries on the cover a photo of people with candles and U.S. flags, holding hands, eyes closed, mouths open. These people are smoking crack, they’re taking a two-week cruise of the Caribbean, they’re on stage at American Idol, they’re kneeling in church, they’re tapping shoes in airport men’s rooms. These people are escaping from their lives, not building lives that mean something to them.
Danielle Schenandoah was the first Native Woman, along with her then 10 year old daughter Jolene, to speak at the United Nations, addressing violations of Indigenous Peoples Rights, including Crimes Against Humanity. She is world-renown and highly respected.
Danielle is active with the following organizations: Founder of Kahnahiyo Seed Preservation, Oneidas For Democracy.org, Tribal Corruption.com
Collaberative work with: Sacred Lands.org Syracuse Peace Council
Presentations given at: United Nations Permanent Forum for Indigenous Peoples 2004 & 2005 5th Annual Algonquin Peoples Conference Al-Awada Palestine International Coalition Conference New York University Columbia University Yale University Hamilton College University of Massachusetts Trent University - Ontario Colgate University Tufts University - Boston Syracuse University Smithsonian Institute in NYC and Washington DC New York Foundation for the Arts - panelist Pacifica Radio Blue Stocking Cafe NYC
Because Danielle has spoken out against the Oneida Nation’s corrupt gambling casino enterprise, she had been illegally taken across state lines to a federal prison where her “crime” was listed as “native american indian”. She has also been harassed, denied healthcare, and at one point had her home bulldozed and her children taken away. Now she is on the verge of being left homeless yet again.
Tragedy in the form of a car accident has also left one of her children Clarisse with serious injuries requiring Danielle’s fulltime care which means that the mounting medical expenses and lack of income amount to a serious situation where they could lose their house.