"I Was Born a Rebel" - Code Pink Co-Founder Medea Benjamin on "Reality Asserts Itself" (1/4)

[KoKo]

Ms. Benjamin tells Paul Jay her story, from suburban Long Island to a life of activism - February 16, 14

JAY: Well, the "young lady" President Obama referred to is now in our studio. And now joining us is Medea Benjamin. Thanks for joining us, Medea.

MEDEA BENJAMIN, COFOUNDER, CODE PINK AND GLOBAL EXCHANGE: Medea Benjamin is perhaps one of the nation's most prominent antiwar activists. She cofounded the women's-led grassroots activist group Code Pink in 2002. She's--also was cofounder and former codirector of Global Exchange, an international human rights organization in which Medea emerged as a key figure in the anti-sweatshop campaigns to change the garment and shoe industry. She worked for ten years as an economist, a nutritionist in Latin America and Africa for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Health Organization, and the Swedish International Development Agency. And she's written many books, including Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control.Thanks very much for joining us.BENJAMIN: Nice to be here, Paul.JAY: And I should add you're also a favorite target of Glenn Beck. But we'll get to that later, later in the interviews.So, as most of you know who watch Reality Asserts Itself, we start with a personal back story of our guest, a little bit about why they think what they think.

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[loudsue]

1. That woman is a true hero.

I wish that we had about 10,000 of her working around the country. We might turn this mess around.

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2. Why do we not see the truth this women speaks?

[KoKo]

3. She's always been seen as "Too Radical" by the DLC Establishment..So...

there's a Bit of "She's Too in Your Face!" and the RW: "I can't stand those women shouting in Congressional/Senate Hearings." (Unless it's Bachmann and Palin and MARCIA!

For some reason "Media Benjamin" reminds them of their SOULS/Consciences and how their Reading of the Old Testament somehow F'S them Up! They can't ever get it together Morally to SERVE the PEOPLE when they are falling all over themselves SERVING THEIR MASTERS...(CORPORATIONS).