Dear John,



You are invited to join our Tuesday CODEPINK CONGRESS Calling Party to talk with special guests about the events that have transpired in the year since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.



Chat with peacemakers and experts Tuesday,February 21st at 5 pm PT/8 pm ET:



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One year after Russia invaded Ukraine, the US and NATO continue to escalate the war with sophisticated weapons and military training of Ukrainian troops on US soil. While President Biden bemoans the need for an exit strategy for Russian leader Vladamir Putin, there seems to be little evidence of diplomatic efforts to push for a ceasefire and peace negotiations. Instead, Congress budgets over $100 billion for the war in Ukraine, with roughly half the money filling the coffers of military contractors in what some would call a giant money laundering scheme. 



Is there any hope on the horizon? Can the United Nations broker a peace? Does China hold the cards? What about a Korean-style armistice? Join us as we discuss answers to these questions and the role of the anti-war movement in resolving this crisis.



Featuring



Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian and journalist. Prashad is the author of forty books, including Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World, The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. His latest book The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power was written with Noam Chomsky. He is Executive Director of The Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and Chief Correspondent for Globetrotter. He is also the Chief Editor of LeftWord Books (New Delhi) and a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China. He has appeared in two films – Shadow World (2016) and Two Meetings (2017).



Helena Cobbanis the President of Just World Educational and an essayist at Globalities.org. Helena is a veteran global-affairs analyst and former long-time columnist for The Christian Science Monitor (Boston) and Al-Hayat (London). Of her seven sole-authored books, four dealt with the Middle East, the rest with more global topics. In 2010, she founded the publishing company Just World Books, which focuses on works relating to Palestinian rights and anti-militarism. As President of Just World Educational, she has led ground-breaking public inquiries into the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, US-China relations, the world balance in the wake of the Covid pandemic, and the Palestinians’ search for justice. She earlier spent many years as a member of both the Middle East Advisory Board of Human Rights Watch and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. She is a member of the Friends Meeting of Washington, D.C., where she lives.







Take Action!



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The US has budgeted an estimated $60 billion for weapons and military training for Ukraine. Half of that money will fill the coffers of military contractors. Meanwhile, over 30 million people in the US are food insecure and 100 million are steeped in debt. Rather than bring Ukrainian troops to the US to train for a year on an expensive weapons system, join us in telling the White House and Congress to demand a ceasefire, diplomacy and a weapons freeze!



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Google Group & Local Leaders



Join our CODEPINK Congress Google Group, a space for sharing events and actions. Request to be added here <[link removed]>!



Become a CODEPINK Congress liaison in your district to mobilize support for demilitarization and progressive foreign policy! Sign up here <[link removed]> as a volunteer organizer.



P.S. Our co-founder Medea Benjamin is currently on a book tour to talk about her latest release, War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict, co-authored with Nicolas Davies. If you are interested in bringing Medea to your community, in attending upcoming events in your area, or in ordering the book, click here for more info <[link removed]>!



Finally, if you missed our last meeting, you can view it here <[link removed]> on YouTube. View the entire CODEPINK Congress archives here <[link removed]>.



Onward toward peace and justice,

Medea, Marcy, Hanieh, Maha, and the entire CODEPINK team















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