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Medea Benjamin

@medeabenjamin

Cofounder of peace group CODEPINK. Author. Peace activist. Wannabe salsa dancer :)

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How can members of Congress not even pretend to care when confronted with the reality of the war crimes they’re funding?

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Every “progressive” should be fighting for Gaza. The threats facing the people of Gaza are threats to all of us. As long as women, children, and men can be bombed with impunity in Gaza, it can happen anywhere. As long as millions of civilians can be intentionally starved, it can…

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If Samantha Power can recognize there's famine in Gaza, why can't she say the reason?

Gaza's famine demands urgent shipments of food aid, but it won't make much difference if we keep sending the bombs and ammunitions Israel uses to attack aid workers and aid recipients.

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If Samantha Power can recognize there's famine in Gaza, why can't she say the reason?

Gaza's famine demands urgent shipments of food aid, but it won't make much difference if we keep sending the bombs and ammunitions Israel uses to attack aid workers and aid recipients.

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Rep. Mace: 'If you support Gaza you support terrorism' - According to Nancy Mace, demanding safety for millions of civilians is terrorism, but bombing schools, hospitals, churches, aid convoys, and innocent families is “self-defense.” These racist lies are the only way she can…

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Today, we disrupted a freedom of press hearing to demand action to protect journalists in Gaza. The 103 journalists killed in just 150 days have surpassed the total around the world in all of 2022. Before the hearing, we read a statement from RSF and honored the names of…

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Yesterday, Rep. John James (R-MI) accused us of being funded by the Chinese Communist Party in response to a protest in the Senate.

While we’ve never taken any money from foreign governments, Rep. James has taken a whopping $165,426 from pro-Israel groups.

Countless people…

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'Stop genocide!' — Our group leaving today's HFAC hearing
Members of HFAC have received over a million from AIPAC just this year alone and while Samantha Power is lauded as a 'genocide expert,' she's done nothing to confront Biden's backing for the genocide in Gaza.

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At Samantha Power's HFAC Hearing: 'I am a nurse! Healthcare workers say stop the genocide! They're executing doctors!'

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BREAKING: More disruptions of USAID’s Samantha Power’s afternoon testimony in the House.

“Over 14,000 children are dead because you are bribed!”

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Today, Helen stood up and disrupted 'Genocide expert' and USAID head Samantha Power as she testified to Congress.

While Power has praised officials who resigned in protest of genocide in the past, she refuses to do so in the face of the Biden's support for the genocide in Gaza

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Just got kicked out of Congress for singing because apparently it’s prohibited. But hey, sending more weapons to Israel to commit genocide? Totally fine.

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‼️BREAKING!! This morning, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III testified to Senate Armed Services Committee on the hundreds of billions of dollars he's requesting for war next year.

We came with one clear message:
STOP THE GENOCIDE IN GAZA!

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“We’re here today to let them know that we’re aware of their complicity in genocide”

Report from DW News on our protest at the German Embassy in DC yesterday in support of Nicaragua’s case at the ICJ:

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WATCH: This morning, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III testified to Senate Armed Services Committee on the hundreds of billions of dollars he's requesting for war next year.

We came with one clear message:
STOP THE GENOCIDE IN GAZA!
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