"Fighting for Peace as US Seeks Major Power Conflict:" Brian Becker's Speech on Nov. 19
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
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🗓️ 22 November 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
This weekend, Brian spoke at the "The Real Path to Peace in Ukraine" event in NYC, which inaugurated a new, multi-national, grassroots movement to advocate for the end to the current war in Ukraine. He spoke about the need for negotiations in Ukraine over escalation.
To see the whole program, including Former Green Party Presidential Nominee Jill Stein, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research Director Vijay Prashad, BreakThrough News Host Eugene Puryear, The People's Forum Co-Director Claudia de la Cruz, and CODEPINK Founder Medea Benjamin, watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asndac1ETFk.
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| 0:00.0 | A major anti-war assembly took place in New York City on Saturday, November 19th. |
| 0:08.0 | The meeting featuring prominent leaders of the anti-war movement called for an end to NATO expansion |
| 0:14.0 | and demanded that the U.S. negotiate in good faith as a way to end its proxy war with Russia. |
| 0:20.0 | A new anti-war movement is being born in the United States. |
| 0:24.6 | We need a new system. |
| 0:26.6 | We need a new society. |
| 0:28.6 | We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, |
| 0:32.6 | but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. I'm In this special episode of The Socialist Program, we are bringing you a keynote speech made by Brian Becker, the host of the Socialist Program, that was delivered on Saturday, November 19th, |
| 1:12.4 | in New York City at the People's Forum. |
| 1:15.1 | This important event inaugurated a new anti-war movement in the United States. |
| 1:20.2 | Other featured speakers included Professor Noam Chomsky, Dr. Jill Stein, who ran for president |
| 1:26.5 | on the Green Party ticket twice, |
| 1:28.9 | journalist and author Vijay Prashad, Claudia de la Cruz of the People's Forum, |
| 1:35.0 | Manolo de los Santos, the other co-director of the People's Forum, Medea Benjamin of Code Pink, |
| 1:41.7 | and our friend and colleague Eugene Per Year, host of the Freedom |
| 1:45.3 | Side on Breakthrough News. |
| 1:47.9 | Eugene and Brian are both leaders of the Answer Coalition, which stands for Act Now to |
| 1:53.2 | Stop War and End Racism. |
| 1:56.4 | The following speech delivered by Brian Becker helps frame the launching of the event and the new anti-war movement in the United States. |
| 2:04.6 | Thank you, Manolo. |
| 2:07.6 | And thank you to all of the other speakers, and we have two great speakers following me coming up, |
| 2:14.6 | Eugene Per Year and Vijay Prashad. |
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