| Eyes on Yemen! \nChat with peacemakers and experts on Zoom: \nTu esday\, 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\, accidentally included in the Si gnal chat on bombing Yemen? Are the war planners so chummy with this “repo rter” that they accidentally looped him in? More importantly\, what does T rump hope to accomplish by attacking Yemen? He vowed to “completely annihi late” Yemen.
\nIsn’t it illegal for the executive to take military a ction without congressional authority?
\nYemen\, an impoverished cou ntry of 35 million people\, stands in solidarity with the Palestinian peop le\, 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 neigh borhoods but those bombs cannot erase the will of the Yemeni people to dem and an end to US-Israel genocide.
\nIt’s all 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 Brookings Institute and the C ouncil on Foreign Relations (CFR) say this is not true–Iran is more a will ing partner in wanting to end Israel’s genocide than a puppeteer manipulat ing Yemen.
\nJoin us for a discussion of Yemen and its role in the P alestinian resistance.
\nChat with peacemakers and experts
\nTuesday\, Apr 1 at 5pm PT / 8 pm ET:
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Featured Guest:
\nAtiaf Al-Wazir taught Political Dialogue and Cross-Cultural Communication at Université Catholique de Lill e in France\; and Research Methodology at the Mediterranean School of Busi ness (MSB) in Tunisia. She also Head of the Peace Program at the Quaker Co uncil for European Affairs (QCEA) in Belgium where she worked on peace edu cation\, with a focus on anti-racist pedagogy and demilitarizing education . As a researcher\, Atiaf’s action-oriented research explores the role of social movements – with special attention to the Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region\, the intersection between art and politics\, challe nging media narratives\, and militarism in the age of technology.
\nIn 2011\, Atiaf documented the Yemeni uprising and co-founded SupportYemen \, a storytelling collective. She is the co-author of Change Square\, a ph oto book on Yemen’s revolution. In 2020\, she gave a TEDx talk at Berkeley University\, entitled “The Other Side of Yemen’s War” which focused on th e 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 Khanna and Congressman John C onyers. He has a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and a B.A. fro m the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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