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January 12, 2023

"We Need Negotiations, Not More War": CodePink Disrupts Defense Policy Talk 
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In other news from the nation's capital, members of the group Code Pink
disrupted a Brookings Institute defense policy talk with Congressmember
Adam Smith Wednesday to call for a diplomatic end to the Ukraine war.

Medea Benjamin: "Democrats have to step forward, have to put the
pressure on the Biden administration and say, 'We need negotiations, not
more war.'"

Olivia Di Nucci: "The real security - real national security is
addressing climate crisis, getting people housed, and not focusing on
weapons. We have $880 billion going to war, we need to go to social
services."



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