He saw the authors we have had on this year. Go to booktv. Org you can see any author but tonight we want to show you two of them. Ow was coat pink founded . Guest we were a group of women environmentalists that were sitting together in a retreat right every 9 11 right after 9 11, talking about how to deal with the climate crisis, and during our lunch break we started talking about the 9 11 attack, the pending war with iraq, the u. S. Had just invaded afghanistan, and we were talking about how horrible it was that the u. S. Was about to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9 11, and we started laughing about the color code alerts. Remember the george w. Bush alerts, yellow, orange, red, and said it was to keep people in a state of fear, and that we needed another color coded alert to say, theres a different way of dealing with this. We go after whoever attacked us, not wholesale invasion of countries, thats when we came up with the idea of codepink. We originally wanted to by c
Buyer of u. S. Weapons. Country that is invading other countries and actually killing lots of innocent people. It is saudi arabia. Look at yemen, the thousands of minute people killed. Crushed the uprising in bahrain where i have been teargassed and saudis crushing this beautiful nonviolent peoples uprisings, and where were most of the hijackers from on 9 11 . So i could go on and on. I should go on and on. I should say, what. The internal rerepresentation door re repression in saudi arainarch around allowed to drive, cant vote, lefthand ray loued to go out without a guardian, and we have didnt been doing we take on individual cases, peter, like am necessary city does, of work amnesty does, like working with particular critical prisoners inch saudi arabia we have been work only the case of the blogger, because of his blogging about things that he was considering might be good to change in the saudi government, he was sentenced to ten years in jail and a thousand lashes. So, i was very
Others have been our guest. Medea benjamin of codepink women for peace has been here and lynne cheney and tom hartman as well. Those are the authors we have had on this year. You can go to booktv. Org and watch the full interview with any of these authors. Tonight we will show you with Medea Benjamin and lynne cheney. We will begin with ms. Benjamin. Host Medea Benjamin, when and how was codepink founded . Guest peter, we were a group of women environmentalist that were sitting together in a retreat right after 9 11 talking about how we could deal and we g about the attack and the u. S. Invading ask and we were talking about how horrible it was that the United States was about to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9 11. We started laughing about the color coded alerts. Remember the george w. Bush alerts with the yellow, orange, and red saying how it was to keep people in a state of fear and that we needed another colorcoded alert to say there is a different way of dealing wit
Host Medea Benjamin, one of the books youre reading this peter schrag dares clinton cash. Why . I am reading that book because i have been looking at saudi arabia. And why is it that there is all this talk about iran and the bad regime, but if you want to look at a really bad regime, look at saudi arabia. A country that has been responsible for spreading extremist ideologies all over the world, the country that is the largest buyer of u. S. Weapons, the country invading other countries and killing lots of innocent people in saudi arabia. Look again and, thousands of innocent People Killed now crush the uprising in bahrain where i have been tear gassed inside is crashing the beautiful nonviolent peoples uprising. And almost the hijackers on 9 11. I could go on and on. I should say what about the internal repression of women in saudi arabia. They are not even allowed to drive, cant vote in national elections, arent allowed to go out without a guardian. I forgot to say weve been doing a l
Things you could be doing with her time, but if she picked up this mantle we would be with her, we would be behind her, we would do everything we could to make sure Hillary Clinton is the first woman president of the United States of america. [cheers and applause] and am going to make my comments very brief because i have just one thing to say. It is without a doubt that the single most qualified, by far, of any person in this race for president is secretary of state Hillary Rodham clinton. [cheers and applause] and so we just need to always remember that. Because theres a lot of people who will be talking about how women are just supporting women because are women. What a bunch of bull, right . We are supporting Hillary Clinton because she is going to be one of the greatest president s of the United States of america that we have ever seen. [cheers and applause] so with that im going to deduce a great friend of mine. We used to do this on the circuit when we were both running and it w