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Eyes on
Yemen!
Chat with peacemakers and experts on Zoom:
Tuesday, Apr 1 at
5PM PT/8PM ET
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Dear John,
We have lots of questions. For starters, why was Atlantic
Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg, a former IDF soldier, accidentally
included in the Signal chat on bombing Yemen? Are the war planners so
chummy with this “reporter” that they accidentally looped him in? More
importantly, what does Trump hope to accomplish by attacking Yemen? He
vowed to “completely annihilate” Yemen.
Isn’t it illegal for the executive to take military action without
congressional authority?
Yemen, an impoverished country of 35 million people, stands in
solidarity with the Palestinian people, vowing to stop ships from
navigating the Red Sea to transport weapons and fuel to Israel. US
bombs can wreak havoc on Yemen’s residential neighborhoods but those
bombs cannot erase the will of the Yemeni people to demand an end to
US-Israel genocide.
It’s all about Iran, according to the Trump White House, which
claims Yemen is an Iranian proxy with no agency of its own. Even think
tanks like the Brookings Institute and the Council on Foreign
Relations (CFR) say this is not true–Iran is more a willing partner in
wanting to end Israel’s genocide than a puppeteer manipulating
Yemen.
Join us for a discussion of Yemen and its role in the Palestinian
resistance.
Chat with peacemakers and
experts
Tuesday, Apr 1 at 5pm PT / 8 pm ET:
Featured Guest:
Atiaf Al-Wazir taught Political Dialogue and
Cross-Cultural Communication at Université Catholique de Lille in
France; and Research Methodology at the Mediterranean School of
Business (MSB) in Tunisia. She also Head of the Peace Program at the
Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) in Belgium where she worked
on peace education, with a focus on anti-racist pedagogy and
demilitarizing education. As a researcher, Atiaf’s action-oriented
research explores the role of social movements – with special
attention to the Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region, the
intersection between art and politics, challenging media narratives,
and militarism in the age of technology.
In 2011, Atiaf documented the Yemeni uprising and co-founded
SupportYemen, a storytelling collective. She is the co-author of
Change Square, a photo book on Yemen’s revolution. In 2020, she gave a
TEDx talk at Berkeley University, entitled "The Other Side of Yemen's
War" which focused on the dangers of a single story.
Erik Sperling is the Executive Director of
Just
Foreign Policy. He has worked as Senior Adviser
and Counsel in the offices of Congressman Ro Khanna and Congressman
John Conyers. He has a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and
a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Take Action!
Tell Harvard and University of New
Hampshire: Revoke Professorships of War Criminals!
Harvard and University of New
Hampshire (UNH) are platforming war criminals of the former Biden
administration — U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and
White House Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa Brett
McGurk — hiring them as professors while suppressing students’
dissent. At a time when university administrations — in collusion with
the U.S. government — expel, deport, and disappear students for
standing against genocide, employing war criminal sends a clear
message to students: shut up and let the war criminals
speak.
The recently targeted and
martyred journalist Hossam Shabat said, “If our voice is killed, then
be our voice.” As journalists in Gaza were and continue to be killed,
university students rose up in solidarity. Now, they’re facing
unrelenting repression, so we must speak against the genocide and
condemn universities for silencing students who talk about it. There
are no institutions coming to save us — demanding accountability
is our duty.
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Leaders
Join our CODEPINK Congress Google
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And finally, view the entire CODEPINK
Congress archives here.
Onward toward peace and
justice,
Medea, Marcy, Grace and the entire
CODEPINK team
