Jubilee Day 5: Shireen Al-Adeimi on the war in Yemen

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🗓️ 8 January 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Eli speaks to assistant professor at Michigan State University and writer for In These Times, Shireen Al-Adeimi, about the ongoing war in Yemen—its causes, its human cost, and the role of the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations. This episode is also available as a transcript: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/01/interview-shireen-al-adeimi-on-the-u-s-backed-war-in-yemen This transcript may vary slightly from the audio, as it has been edited for clarity. "Biden Must End The War on Yemen": https://inthesetimes.com/article/president-biden-obama-yemen-war International Day of Action on Yemen (Jan 25th 2021): https://masspeaceaction.org/event/international-day-of-action-on-yemen/ This episode was edited by Dan Thorn of Pink Noise Studios in Somerville, MA.

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0:00.0	Hello, current affairs listeners. This is contributing editor Eli Massey, and we have a very special guest today.
0:05.7	We are joined by Shireen al-Odimi. Hello, Shereen. Hi.
0:09.6	Shireen is an assistant professor at Michigan State University in the Department of Teacher Education.
0:15.7	And since 2015, she has been active in working to raise awareness about the war in Yemen and bringing an end to U.S.
0:23.4	involvement. Thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for having me. Of course. So I just first wanted to
0:29.9	start by finding out how you first got involved in advocacy around the war in Yemen. You were actually
0:36.8	born in Yemen. Do I have that right?
0:38.6	Yes, I was born in Yemen and moved out of Yemen when I was 12. My family moved to Canada.
0:45.0	And I guess when the war started in 2015, I was a doctoral student. I wasn't politically involved
0:52.7	before 2015 in any way she performed. But I guess when the war
0:56.9	started, I felt like there weren't that many people who were, first of all, speaking out against
1:02.2	the war. It was still something that was very rarely discussed. Additionally, there weren't a lot of
1:08.5	people who were highlighting the role of the U.S.
1:14.8	And even though I wasn't a U.S. citizen at the time, I was living here in the U.S.
1:16.3	I'd been living here for many years. And I felt like it was really up to us to shed light on this issue if people weren't going to be speaking about this.
1:24.3	Or it didn't even know that the U.S. was involved.
1:27.0	It didn't register like as a U.S. was involved. It didn't, it didn't register
1:28.5	like as a U.S. war in Yemen. I created a Twitter account the day that the war began just to learn
1:33.5	more. I remember a cousin once telling me that if you really want to know what's going on in the
1:37.5	world during Twitter. So I created an account that day. And then I was just kind of learning,
1:43.4	familiarizing myself with the conflict in Yemen.
1:45.9	I'd kind of been disconnected from Yemeni politics for a while. And then once I felt like I could
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