| Eyes on Yemen! \nChat with peacemakers and experts on Zoom: \nTuesday\, Apr 1 at \n5PM PT/8PM ET\n \n \n
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We have lots of questions. For starters\, why was Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg\, a former IDF soldier\, accide ntally included in the Signal chat on bombing Yemen? Are the war planners so chummy with this “reporter” that they accidentally looped him in? More importantly\, what does Trump hope to accomplish by attacking Yemen? He vo wed to “completely annihilate” Yemen.
\nIsn’t it illegal for the exe cutive to take military action without congressional authority?
\nYe men\, an impoverished country of 35 million people\, stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people\, vowing to stop ships from navigating the Red Sea to transport weapons and fuel to Israel. US bombs can wreak havoc on Yemen’s residential neighborhoods but those bombs cannot erase the will of the Yemeni people to demand an end to US-Israel genocide.
\nIt’s al l about Iran\, according to the Trump White House\, which claims Yemen is an Iranian proxy with no agency of its own. Even think tanks like the Broo kings Institute and the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) say this is not true–Iran is more a willing partner in wanting to end Israel’s genocide t han a puppeteer manipulating Yemen.
\nJoin us for a discussion of Ye men and its role in the Palestinian resistance.
\nChat with peacemak
ers and experts
\nTuesday\, Apr 1 at 5pm PT / 8 pm ET:
Featured Guest:
\nAtiaf Al-Wazir taught Political Dialogue and Cross-Cultural Communication at Univ ersité Catholique de Lille in France\; and Research Methodology at the Med iterranean School of Business (MSB) in Tunisia. She also Head of the Peace Program at the Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) in Belgium wher e she worked on peace education\, with a focus on anti-racist pedagogy and demilitarizing education. As a researcher\, Atiaf’s action-oriented resea rch explores the role of social movements – with special attention to the Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region\, the intersection between art and politics\, challenging media narratives\, and militarism in the ag e of technology.
\nIn 2011\, Atiaf documented the Yemeni uprising an d co-founded SupportYemen\, a storytelling collective. She is the co-autho r of Change Square\, a photo book on Yemen’s revolution. In 2020\, she gav e a TEDx talk at Berkeley University\, entitled “The Other Side of Yemen’s War” which focused on the dangers of a single story.
\nErik Sperling is the Executive Director of Just Foreign Policy. He has worked as Senior Adviser and Counsel in the offices of Congressman Ro Khan na and Congressman John Conyers. He has a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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