Good News In History, September 10

Good News In History, September 10
Good News In History, September 10 Happy 73rd Birthday to one of America’s seminal peace activists, Medea Benjamin. Founder of the feminist anti-war group Code Pink: Women for Peace, Benjamin has been one of the loudest, most sensible voices opposing American militarism over the last half-century. Whether Republican or Democrat, whoever holds the reigns of power in the US during her life has been subject to untiring urging for the end of foreign regime change wars as a tool of US foreign policy. She is also a committed labor rights activist, and founded a large fair trade certification program called Global Exchange. READ how she campaigns for peace… (1952) Medea Benjamin – credit, uploaded by Benjamin to Wikimedia Commons, CC 3.0. BY-SA After the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, she created the Occupation Watch Center in Baghdad to monitor the United States military and the war’s effect on civilian populations. Through this center she brought Iraqi women to the United States to speak…