Feminism Is About Justice, Not War

May 23, 2024

Former Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for dismissing pro-Palestinian student protesters as being ignorant of the history of the Middle East. like Clinton face accusations of equating freedom for women with war-making.聽

At a recent held in Denver, Colorado, progressive women leaders pushed back against this notion and reaffirmed the consistency of feminism with peace and justice. Among them were Christine Ahn, founder and executive director of , international coordinator of the campaign, and co-founder of the ; as well as Marie Berry, director of the Si茅 Ch茅ou-Kang Center for International Security and Diplomacy and associate professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver.

Ahn and Berry spoke with YES! Senior Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on YES! Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about the Feminist Peace Summit.

Sonali Kolhatkar joined YES! in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of聽YES! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent 无码视频 Institute鈥檚 Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of聽Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice聽(2023) and聽Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence聽(2005). Her forthcoming book is called聽Talking About Abolition聽(Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women鈥檚 Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Master鈥檚 in Astronomy from the University of Hawai鈥檌, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on 鈥淢y Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host鈥� in her 2014聽聽of the same name.