[Peace-discuss] [Peace] 3pm today: "EMERGENCY: Is the US going to war with Russia over Ukraine?" Code Pink webinar

[Robert Naiman]

I apologize to Karen Aram and Stuart Levy.

We have a problem on Yemen at CODEPINK. The problem is Susan “Medea”
Benjamin. “Medea” is undercutting Yemeni-American leadership on ending
unconstitutional U.S. participation in the Saudi
war-blockade-famine-genocide in Yemen.

There were 70 people last night on the “emergency” CODEPINK event on Yemen
organized by Danaka Katovich, who is the is the Middle East and Peace
Collective coordinator for CODEPINK. The marquee presenter at Danaka’s
event was Dr. Aisha Jumaan, the most prominent Yemeni-American expert
speaking out and organizing against unconstitutional U.S. participation in
the Saudi war-blockade-famine-genocide in Yemen.

There were 500 people yesterday afternoon on the “emergency” CODEPINK event
on Ukraine organized by Medea. Which was scheduled by Medea the same day as
Daneka’s CODEPINK Yemen event, after Danaka had already scheduled the
“emergency” CODEPINK Yemen event.

The marquee presenter at Medea’s event, which she scheduled against
Danaka’s event, was Col. Larry Wilkerson. During Medea’s Ukraine event,
Larry Wilkerson said “Yemen War Powers,” because that’s who Larry Wilkerson
is. But Medea never said “Yemen War Powers,” because that’s who Medea is.

Why is Medea doing this? Why is Medea undercutting Yemeni-American
leadership on ending unconstitutional U.S. participation in the Saudi
war-blockade-famine-genocide in Yemen? Ego? Ignorance? Is she jealous of
Danaka, does she feel threatened by Danaka’s leadership? Is it some Green
Party thing? I don’t know.

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 10:53 PM Stuart Levy <stuartnlevy at gmail.com> wrote:

> I wish I could also have been on tonight's call about Yemen.   That seems
> like a fight that could be won in the near term.
>
> I don't know whether we can affect the frantic rhetoric over Russia.
> Maybe a little.   Of course it isn't new, just more extreme.   When Oliver
> Stone came to speak at Ebertfest in I think 2014, he was pointing out then,
> that politicians with support of media had returned to Cold War
> language.    Even if it never turns into a hot war, marinating ourselves in
> aggrieved blood soaked rhetoric is bad for our already unhealthy national
> mind.
>
> I don't want to see advocates of addressing either cause dismissing people
> who want to address the other.    It's pointlessly ugly.
>
> And as was pointed out on the Code Pink Ukraine call today, the latter
> influences the former: it will now be *harder* to get Congress to close
> the Saudi/UAE war spigot because of the warmongering over Russia.
>
> I've taken (some) actions in support of Yemen and against our provision of
> weapons for the Saudis/UAE in the past.    I'd be happy to take them in the
> future.   I hadn't heard until this morning about tonight's Code Pink
> mobilization for action on Yemen.
>
> Robert, I hope you will continue letting the peace list know of events
> like that.   It does us a good service, and may bring in some supporters.
>
>      Stuart
>
>
>
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