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DESCRIPTION:Join CODEPINK Congress as we educate, activate and mobilize for peace 
 legislation!\n\nWe 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.\n\nIsn’t it illegal for the 
 executive to take military action without congressional 
 authority?\n\nYemen, 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.\n\nIt’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.\n\nJoin us for a discussion of Yemen and its role in the Palestinian 
 resistance.\n\nFeatured Guests:\n\nAtiaf 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. \n\nIn 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.\n\nErik 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.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/03/30/18875080.php
SUMMARY:Eyes on Yemen! Codepink Congress Capitol Calling Party
LOCATION:Zoom\nhttps://www.codepink.org/cpc401
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