The Gaza War & NATO: What You Need to Know
Gaza and NATO: Webinar Video
CODEPINK

Thank you to all who joined us for CODEPINK Congress: Afterward: The Gaza War & NATO: What You Need to Know with Norman Solomon, Medea Benjamin and David Swanson. If you weren’t able to tune in live, you can watch the recording below! (Please press “like’ and leave a supportive comment)!

Guest Speakers

Norman Solomon is National Director of RootsAction.org and Executive Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. He is the author of many books, including “War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of its Military Machine,” which now includes “Afterward: The Gaza War.”

A collection of Solomon’s “Media Beat” columns, published from 1992-2009, won the George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language. Solomon’s incisive analysis and scathing foreign policy critiques are also hallmarks of his other books, including War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death and Target Iraq: What the News Media Didn’t Tell You (co-authored with foreign correspondent Reese Erlich) published in January 2003, two months before then-President George W. Bush ordered the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Medea Benjamin is a co-founder of CODEPINK and the fair trade advocacy group Global Exchange. She is the co-author with David Swanson of NATO: What You Need to Know, and co-author with Nicolas J.S. Davies of War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless War. In 2012, she was awarded the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation’s Peace Prize; she is also recipient of the 2014 Gandhi Peace Award and the 2010 Martin Luther King, Jr. Peace Prize from the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

David Swanson is Executive Director of WorldBeyondWar.org, a global nonviolent movement to end war and Campaign Coordinator for RootsAction.org.  He is the co-author with Medea Benjamin of NATO: What You Need to Know. and other books, including  War Is A Lie, Leaving World War II Behind, and War Is Never Just. He blogs at DavidSwanson.org and, and hosts Talk World Radio. He is a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and U.S. Peace Prize recipient.

Take Action! Call your Congresspeople
at (202) 224-3121! And use our script below!

Dear ______, I am your constituent in zip code: ____, calling to tell you I don’t want you to vote another dime for Israel’s genocide in Gaza or for a continuation of the war in Ukraine. No more weapons for Israel or Ukraine. We need permanent ceasefires now.

Resources from last night:

• Sign our CODEPINK Petition: Call off WWIII!
• War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine By Norman Solomon
• NATO: What You Need to Know By Medea Benjamin and David 
• Justice for Aysenur Ezgi Eygi

Thank you all for a great year of CODEPINK Congress! And join us for our next CODEPINK Congress on Oct 1! RSVP Now!

In the meantime, you can watch archived Capitol Calling Parties here (select Congress Recording)!