Stop the Next War Now / Inner Ocean Action Guide (ePub)

Medea Benjamin is the founding director
of Global Exchange and cofounded
codepink with Jodie Evans. She also
helped bring together the groups forming
United for Peace and Justice.
Medea has traveled several times to
Afghanistan and Iraq, where she organized
the Occupation Watch Center. At
the start of 2005 she accompanied
military families whose loved ones had
been killed in the war to bring a shipment
of humanitarian aid to the Iraqi people.
In 2000, she was the Green Party candidate
for the U.S. Senate from California.
Her campaign mobilized thousands
of Californians around issues such as paying
workers a living wage, providing universal
health care, and building schools,
not prisons.
Medea is a key figure in the antisweatshop
movement, having spearheaded campaigns against companies such
as Nike and Gap. In 1999, Medea helped expose indentured servitude among
garment workers in the U.S. territory of Saipan, which led to a billion-dollar
lawsuit against seventeen retailers.
She is the author or coauthor of eight books, including the award-winning
Don’t Be Afraid, Gringo, and helped produce TV documentaries such as
Sweating for a T-Shirt.

Jodie has worked on behalf of community, social-justice, environmental, and political causes for more than thirty years. Her book Twilight of Empire: Responses to Occupation includes her journal entries for trips to Iraq. She serves on the boards of Rainforest Action Network, Drug Policy Alliance, Bioneers, the Garden Project, Community Self-Determination Institute, 826 LA, and the Circle of Life Foundation. A mother of three, Jodie is a harpist, gardener, and potter when not working to end war.

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