Ann Wright and Raed Jarrar
Colleagues of Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin
Previously Aired On: July 26, 2006 - Listen to this Show!
Medea Benjamin was our orignially scheduled guest. The afternoon before the show, Medea Benjamin was arrested at the Capitol in Washington, DC. She was kind enough to send two of her colleagues from Code Pink, Ann Wright and Raed Jarrar, and it turned out to be a great show! Medea will be joining us again in the future.
Medea Benjamin, a powerful and charismatic force in human rights activism, has struggled for social justice in Asia, Africa and the Americas for over 20 years. She 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 also the co-founder of Code Pink: Women for Peace, a women’s group that has been organizing against the war in Iraq and pushing for a reorientation of budget priorities in the US to focus on heath care, education and housing, not war. In February 2003, Benjamin visited Iraq and met with weapon’s inspectors, women’s groups and ordinary Iraqi civilians.
