Podcasts about women against war

For more than two decades, the Grannies for Peace with Women Against War have gathered for Mothers' Day at the Albany Tulip Festival to show support for peace. This year's theme is let Compassion Bloom in these troubling times. Maureen Aumand talks with Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magainze.

Today, on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine: First, Mark Dunlea talks with Joseph Gerson, Co-founder of Committee for a Sane US China Policy, about his upcoming talks on US tariffs on China, and China-Taiwan-US relations during a forum organized by Women Against War. Then, Brea Barthel reports on what's coming up with the Love Your Block Albany program. After that, Retired National Weather Service meteorologist Hugh Johnson joins us for our weekly look at climate and his weather forecast. Later on, as part of the weekly Everybody Moves series Joanna Dreby talks with Emilly Obuya a professor at Russell Sage College and migrant from Kenya. Finally, we have Marsha Lazarus interviewing Layla Khafaga on her Palestinian and Muslim heritage and empowering the community

Joseph Gerson, Co-founder of Committee for a Sane US China Policy, will speak at a forum organized by Women Against War and others on Tuesday, April 1st at 7 PM about: From Tariffs to Taiwan: Trump, China & Competition for 21st Century Dominance. The event is at St. Vincents, 900 Madison Ave, Albany. He will also speak on April 2, 12:40-1:40 PM, Siena College, Siena Hall, Classroom 119, and from 5-7 PM, Skidmore College, Ladd Hall, Classroom 107. He talks with Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine. (Full interview)

Pat Beetle, a long time icon of the peace movement in the Capital District, passed away recently a few months shy of her 100th birthday. A co-founder of groups such as Women Against War, Alternatives to Violence Project, and Grannies for Peace. she was a Quaker who was long active in the movement for nuclear disarmament. Local peace activist and poet Dan Wilcox shares his remembrances about Pat.

On Saturday May 11, Grannies for Peace will hold its 21st annual Mother's Day Vigil at the Tulip Festival. The early advocates of Mother's Day in the United States originally envisioned it as a day of peace, to honor and support mothers who lost sons and husbands to the carnage of the Civil War. This year's theme is Gaza: Send Food Not Bombs. Marcia Hopple of Women Against War talks to Mark Dunlea of Hudson Mohawk Magazine about the event.

On Tuesday April 16th the film Spaces of Exception will screen at the Sanctuary for Independent Media. Filmmaker Matt Peterson will be there joined by Kanerahtiio (Gah-nay-dee-oh) Roger Jock who was in the film and first-generation Palestinian American Layla Aburas Khafaga for a discussion about the film. Hudson Mohawk Magazine producer Elizabeth (EP) Press spoke to the directors of Spaces of Exception. The event is co-sponsored by iEAR Presents, Jewish Voices for Peace, Palestinian Rights Committee, Women Against War, Saratoga Black Lives Matter, and Extinction Rebellion Capital Region. You can visit https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/spaces-of-exception/ for more information about the screening and discussion.

As part of Hudson Mohawk Magazine's special segments for the holidays, we have an overview of peace issues covered in 2023: the Ukraine war; Gaza; and nuclear disarmament. We air a peace segment each Wednesday. We start with several competing voices in response to a local presentation by Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink, about Ukraine, followed by Maureen Aumand explaining why Women Against War supports a ceasefire. Of the many peace segments we have aired on Israel and Gaza, we start with comments in support of a ceasefire made at a Dec. 4 meeting of the Albany Common Council. Next, we hear from journalist Chris Hedges before his Dec. 6 talk on Gaza at the media sanctuary. We finish with Joseph Gerson of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament, and Common Security talking about nuclear weapons. With Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

As part of Hudson Mohawk Magazine's special segments for the holidays, we have an overview of peace issues covered in 2023: the Ukraine war; Gaza; and nuclear disarmament. We air a peace segment each Wednesday. We start with several competing voices in response to a local presentation by Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink, about Ukraine, followed by Maureen Aumand explaining why Women Against War supports a ceasefire. Of the many peace segments we have aired on Israel and Gaza, we start with comments in support of a ceasefire made at a Dec. 4 meeting of the Albany Common Council. Next, we hear from journalist Chris Hedges before his Dec. 6 talk on Gaza at the media sanctuary. We finish with Joseph Gerson of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament, and Common Security talking about nuclear weapons. With Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

December 5th, the Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace, Palestinian Rights Committee, Troy Area Labor Council and Women Against War hosted Miko Peled at the Behtlehem library. Peled is the son of an Israeli General who served in the 1967 war and the grandson of a signer of the Israeli Declaration of Independence. He himself was a special forces Red Beret soldier in the Israeli military until he became disenchanted with the direction he saw his country taking and became a peace and human-rights activist. Many pro-israeli activists tried to have the talk shut-down and attempted to disrupt the talk itself. This excerpt of the talk begins with Peled being asked by moderator David Banks to explain what people mean when they say that Israel's treatments of Palestinians qualifies as apartheid.

Best-selling author, foreign correspondent, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges addressed the Middle East crisis with a talk titled "The Genocide in Gaza" on December 6, 2023 at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in North Troy NY. Chris Hedges, the former Middle East Bureau Chief for The New York Times, spent seven years covering the conflict between Israel and Palestine. He is the author of numerous books including the New York Times bestsellers War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America and Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, which he co-authored with the cartoonist Joe Sacco. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University and the University of Toronto. He has also taught students in the college degree program offered by Rutgers University in the New Jersey prison system for a decade, the subject of his book Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison. This talk was co-sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace, Albany Chapter; Muslim Solidarity Committee and Project SALAM; Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace; Palestinian Rights Committee-Upper Hudson Peace Action; RPI Muslim Student Association; UAlbany Muslim Student Association; Women Against War. The presentation was made possible by volunteer labor and thousands of small donations from patrons of The Sanctuary for Independent Media. The Sanctuary for Independent Media is a telecommunications production facility dedicated to community media arts, located in an historic former church at 3361 6th Avenue in North Troy, NY. The Sanctuary hosts screening, production and performance facilities, training in media production and a meeting space for artists, activists and independent media makers of all kinds. www.mediasanctuary.org

Christine Ahn, founder of Women Cross DMZ, will show her film Crossings at the Bethlehem Town Library on Friday June 16 at 6:30 PM at an event sponsored by Women Against War. Crossings tells the story of the group of international women peacemakers, including renowned activists Gloria Steinem, Christine Ahn, Ann Wright and Medea Benjamin, who set out in 2015 on a risky journey across the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, calling for an end to the 70-year war that has divided the Korean peninsula and its people. WIth Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

Grannies for Peace ( a project of Women Against War)will hold its annual Mother's Day vigil for peace at the Tulip Festival on Saturday, May 13th at 1:00PM at the Moses statue. Maureen Aumand joins Mark Dunlea of Hudson Mohawk Magazine to discuss this year's theme, the impact of the military on the environment.

Medea Benjamin is the co-founder of the women-led peace group CODEPINK. She is also co-founder of the human rights group Global Exchange, the Peace in Ukraine Coalition. Medea has been an advocate of social justice for 50 years and is author of 10 books. Her most recent book, co-authored with Nicolas J.S. Davies, is "War in Ukraine: Making Sense of a Senseless Conflict." Women Against War is hosting Medea Benjamin in the Capital Region.

Women Against War and Grannies for Peace are calling for the U.S. to support a ceasefire in the Ukraine. She discusses the issue with Mark Dunlea for the weekly peace segment for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.

Women played an essential role in the international struggle against fascism during the interwar period, though their work has been neglected in broader historiography. In Anti-Fascism, Gender, and International Communism (Routledge, 2022), Jasmine Calver provides a comprehensive history of the Comité mondial des femmes contre la guerre et le fascisme (the International Committee of Women Against War and Fascism, or CMF), an international women's organization concerned with confronting the impact of fascism on women and children across the globe. Examining the CMF's key figures and campaigns during its short 1934-41 tenure, Calver reveals its place at the forefront of global debates about the threat posed by fascism and imperialism. This book explores how the professional women activists and the working-class women who populated the organization developed a committee which advocated for women on a global scale. CMF campaigns around the Spanish Civil War, rising Nazism in Germany, the Sino-Japanese War, and the Italian invasion of Ethiopia show its international ambitions. Using newly-available sources to assess CMF congresses, correspondence, travels, and publications, Calver uncovers the complexities of its links to the Communist International, and its status as an early Popular Front organization. The book comes at an important time to reevaluate the successes and failures of historical efforts to combat rising fascist movements. Rebecca Turkington is a PhD Candidate in History at Cambridge University studying transnational women's networks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Women played an essential role in the international struggle against fascism during the interwar period, though their work has been neglected in broader historiography. In Anti-Fascism, Gender, and International Communism (Routledge, 2022), Jasmine Calver provides a comprehensive history of the Comité mondial des femmes contre la guerre et le fascisme (the International Committee of Women Against War and Fascism, or CMF), an international women's organization concerned with confronting the impact of fascism on women and children across the globe. Examining the CMF's key figures and campaigns during its short 1934-41 tenure, Calver reveals its place at the forefront of global debates about the threat posed by fascism and imperialism. This book explores how the professional women activists and the working-class women who populated the organization developed a committee which advocated for women on a global scale. CMF campaigns around the Spanish Civil War, rising Nazism in Germany, the Sino-Japanese War, and the Italian invasion of Ethiopia show its international ambitions. Using newly-available sources to assess CMF congresses, correspondence, travels, and publications, Calver uncovers the complexities of its links to the Communist International, and its status as an early Popular Front organization. The book comes at an important time to reevaluate the successes and failures of historical efforts to combat rising fascist movements. Rebecca Turkington is a PhD Candidate in History at Cambridge University studying transnational women's networks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Women played an essential role in the international struggle against fascism during the interwar period, though their work has been neglected in broader historiography. In Anti-Fascism, Gender, and International Communism (Routledge, 2022), Jasmine Calver provides a comprehensive history of the Comité mondial des femmes contre la guerre et le fascisme (the International Committee of Women Against War and Fascism, or CMF), an international women's organization concerned with confronting the impact of fascism on women and children across the globe. Examining the CMF's key figures and campaigns during its short 1934-41 tenure, Calver reveals its place at the forefront of global debates about the threat posed by fascism and imperialism. This book explores how the professional women activists and the working-class women who populated the organization developed a committee which advocated for women on a global scale. CMF campaigns around the Spanish Civil War, rising Nazism in Germany, the Sino-Japanese War, and the Italian invasion of Ethiopia show its international ambitions. Using newly-available sources to assess CMF congresses, correspondence, travels, and publications, Calver uncovers the complexities of its links to the Communist International, and its status as an early Popular Front organization. The book comes at an important time to reevaluate the successes and failures of historical efforts to combat rising fascist movements. Rebecca Turkington is a PhD Candidate in History at Cambridge University studying transnational women's networks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies

Women played an essential role in the international struggle against fascism during the interwar period, though their work has been neglected in broader historiography. In Anti-Fascism, Gender, and International Communism (Routledge, 2022), Jasmine Calver provides a comprehensive history of the Comité mondial des femmes contre la guerre et le fascisme (the International Committee of Women Against War and Fascism, or CMF), an international women's organization concerned with confronting the impact of fascism on women and children across the globe. Examining the CMF's key figures and campaigns during its short 1934-41 tenure, Calver reveals its place at the forefront of global debates about the threat posed by fascism and imperialism. This book explores how the professional women activists and the working-class women who populated the organization developed a committee which advocated for women on a global scale. CMF campaigns around the Spanish Civil War, rising Nazism in Germany, the Sino-Japanese War, and the Italian invasion of Ethiopia show its international ambitions. Using newly-available sources to assess CMF congresses, correspondence, travels, and publications, Calver uncovers the complexities of its links to the Communist International, and its status as an early Popular Front organization. The book comes at an important time to reevaluate the successes and failures of historical efforts to combat rising fascist movements. Rebecca Turkington is a PhD Candidate in History at Cambridge University studying transnational women's networks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

Women played an essential role in the international struggle against fascism during the interwar period, though their work has been neglected in broader historiography. In Anti-Fascism, Gender, and International Communism (Routledge, 2022), Jasmine Calver provides a comprehensive history of the Comité mondial des femmes contre la guerre et le fascisme (the International Committee of Women Against War and Fascism, or CMF), an international women's organization concerned with confronting the impact of fascism on women and children across the globe. Examining the CMF's key figures and campaigns during its short 1934-41 tenure, Calver reveals its place at the forefront of global debates about the threat posed by fascism and imperialism. This book explores how the professional women activists and the working-class women who populated the organization developed a committee which advocated for women on a global scale. CMF campaigns around the Spanish Civil War, rising Nazism in Germany, the Sino-Japanese War, and the Italian invasion of Ethiopia show its international ambitions. Using newly-available sources to assess CMF congresses, correspondence, travels, and publications, Calver uncovers the complexities of its links to the Communist International, and its status as an early Popular Front organization. The book comes at an important time to reevaluate the successes and failures of historical efforts to combat rising fascist movements. Rebecca Turkington is a PhD Candidate in History at Cambridge University studying transnational women's networks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

Women played an essential role in the international struggle against fascism during the interwar period, though their work has been neglected in broader historiography. In Anti-Fascism, Gender, and International Communism (Routledge, 2022), Jasmine Calver provides a comprehensive history of the Comité mondial des femmes contre la guerre et le fascisme (the International Committee of Women Against War and Fascism, or CMF), an international women's organization concerned with confronting the impact of fascism on women and children across the globe. Examining the CMF's key figures and campaigns during its short 1934-41 tenure, Calver reveals its place at the forefront of global debates about the threat posed by fascism and imperialism. This book explores how the professional women activists and the working-class women who populated the organization developed a committee which advocated for women on a global scale. CMF campaigns around the Spanish Civil War, rising Nazism in Germany, the Sino-Japanese War, and the Italian invasion of Ethiopia show its international ambitions. Using newly-available sources to assess CMF congresses, correspondence, travels, and publications, Calver uncovers the complexities of its links to the Communist International, and its status as an early Popular Front organization. The book comes at an important time to reevaluate the successes and failures of historical efforts to combat rising fascist movements. Rebecca Turkington is a PhD Candidate in History at Cambridge University studying transnational women's networks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/european-studies

Women played an essential role in the international struggle against fascism during the interwar period, though their work has been neglected in broader historiography. In Anti-Fascism, Gender, and International Communism (Routledge, 2022), Jasmine Calver provides a comprehensive history of the Comité mondial des femmes contre la guerre et le fascisme (the International Committee of Women Against War and Fascism, or CMF), an international women's organization concerned with confronting the impact of fascism on women and children across the globe. Examining the CMF's key figures and campaigns during its short 1934-41 tenure, Calver reveals its place at the forefront of global debates about the threat posed by fascism and imperialism. This book explores how the professional women activists and the working-class women who populated the organization developed a committee which advocated for women on a global scale. CMF campaigns around the Spanish Civil War, rising Nazism in Germany, the Sino-Japanese War, and the Italian invasion of Ethiopia show its international ambitions. Using newly-available sources to assess CMF congresses, correspondence, travels, and publications, Calver uncovers the complexities of its links to the Communist International, and its status as an early Popular Front organization. The book comes at an important time to reevaluate the successes and failures of historical efforts to combat rising fascist movements. Rebecca Turkington is a PhD Candidate in History at Cambridge University studying transnational women's networks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Women played an essential role in the international struggle against fascism during the interwar period, though their work has been neglected in broader historiography. In Anti-Fascism, Gender, and International Communism (Routledge, 2022), Jasmine Calver provides a comprehensive history of the Comité mondial des femmes contre la guerre et le fascisme (the International Committee of Women Against War and Fascism, or CMF), an international women's organization concerned with confronting the impact of fascism on women and children across the globe. Examining the CMF's key figures and campaigns during its short 1934-41 tenure, Calver reveals its place at the forefront of global debates about the threat posed by fascism and imperialism. This book explores how the professional women activists and the working-class women who populated the organization developed a committee which advocated for women on a global scale. CMF campaigns around the Spanish Civil War, rising Nazism in Germany, the Sino-Japanese War, and the Italian invasion of Ethiopia show its international ambitions. Using newly-available sources to assess CMF congresses, correspondence, travels, and publications, Calver uncovers the complexities of its links to the Communist International, and its status as an early Popular Front organization. The book comes at an important time to reevaluate the successes and failures of historical efforts to combat rising fascist movements. Rebecca Turkington is a PhD Candidate in History at Cambridge University studying transnational women's networks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/french-studies

Women played an essential role in the international struggle against fascism during the interwar period, though their work has been neglected in broader historiography. In Anti-Fascism, Gender, and International Communism (Routledge, 2022), Jasmine Calver provides a comprehensive history of the Comité mondial des femmes contre la guerre et le fascisme (the International Committee of Women Against War and Fascism, or CMF), an international women's organization concerned with confronting the impact of fascism on women and children across the globe. Examining the CMF's key figures and campaigns during its short 1934-41 tenure, Calver reveals its place at the forefront of global debates about the threat posed by fascism and imperialism. This book explores how the professional women activists and the working-class women who populated the organization developed a committee which advocated for women on a global scale. CMF campaigns around the Spanish Civil War, rising Nazism in Germany, the Sino-Japanese War, and the Italian invasion of Ethiopia show its international ambitions. Using newly-available sources to assess CMF congresses, correspondence, travels, and publications, Calver uncovers the complexities of its links to the Communist International, and its status as an early Popular Front organization. The book comes at an important time to reevaluate the successes and failures of historical efforts to combat rising fascist movements. Rebecca Turkington is a PhD Candidate in History at Cambridge University studying transnational women's networks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Friday, April 8th, at 11 AM, women will stand in silence, dressed in black, on the State Street steps of the Legislative Office Building (198 State St., Albany) – calling for peace in Ukraine. Maureen Aumand of Women Against War talks about the event with Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Radio Network.

A peace rally took place at Townsend Park in Albany on March 5 sponsored by the Green Party along with Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace. The event called for diplomacy and negotiation to end the war in Ukraine and was against the militarism of US, NATO, and Russia. We hear from Peter Lavenia of the Green Party, Mabel Leon of Women Against War and Grannies for peace, and Dan Wilcox of Veterans for Peace.

On May 17 (tax day this year), Women Against War will hold a webinar to mark the Global Days of Action on Military Spending. Maureen Aumand, one of the panelists, discusses the bill by Senator Markey to divert $96 billion in funding from a new nuclear missile system to provide vaccines to all that need it worldwide. Hosted on World Beyond War website at 10:30 AM, the other panelists will include Kevin Martin of Peace Action, and Dr. Larry Wittner. By Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Radio Network.

There are definitely people that have heard about Mary Phelps Jacob--she patented the modern bra, and I personally thank her for that. But...have you heard about Caresse Crosby--the woman she transformed into once she married Harry Crosby, embraced this new lifestyle in Paris, started a publishing company, became a ghost writer of erotica, founded Women Against War and Citizens of the World, and had an artist haven at a literal CASTLE in Rome? No? Well, let Jordan and I tell you that inventing the bra was honestly the tip of her iceberg sized life. From 1891-1970, Caresse Crosby not only became the literary godmother to the Lost Generation of expatriate writers in Paris, but she was an activist when most women weren't even ready to have their own opinions. She even started the Black Sun Press with Harry to publish the first works of many famous authors, including Hemingway. In this episode, my college and super fashionable friend Jordan and I talk about not only her life, her impact, but why she probably isn't discussed as much. SPOILER: It's not just the open affair with Harry during her first marriage. If you want to read the book by her great-granddaughter, Tamara Colchester, it is called The Heart is a Burial Ground.

Women and War. At a World Social Forum plenary titled "Wars Against Women, Women Against War," eminent feminists from the global South spoke out against the daily struggles that women face in times of both war and peace. Among them were Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy and Egyptian writer and former political prisoner Nawal el- Saadawi. The post Against the Grain – February 9, 2004 appeared first on KPFA.

Maureen Aumand talks about Women Against War's Ground the Drones Project