Rep. Barbara Lee on Afghanistan and a Life of ‘Speaking Truth To Power'

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🗓️ 7 September 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Congresswoman Barbara Lee, who has represented the northwestern portion of Alameda County for more than 20 years, was the sole vote against war in Afghanistan in 2001. This moment is central to the new documentary from director Abby Ginzberg, Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth To Power. The film depicts Rep. Lee's decades-long career, tracing her early political awareness as a student at Mills College and UC Berkeley through her work on civil rights, AIDS funding and anti-poverty work. We'll talk with the Congresswoman and the documentary's director about her career and her recent statement that, there has never, and will never, be a U.S. military solution in Afghanistan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:11.7	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. There's a new documentary about East Bay Congresswoman Barbara Lee from director Abby Ginsburg, Barbara Lee, speaking truth to power. The film is filled with local and national political heavyweights, tracing Lee's growing political involvement from student activism at Mills College in UC Berkeley through her work on civil rights, AIDS funding, and anti-poverty
1:16.8	legislation. We'll talk with the Congresswoman and the documentary's director about the
1:21.0	representative's career and her recent statement that there has never and will never be a U.S.
1:26.4	military solution in Afghanistan.
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1:54.8	After September 11, momentum immediately built for revenge, an impulse that arrived in Congress as a blanket presidential authorization to use military force in prosecuting the war on terror.
2:01.4	Every single member of Congress voted for it, except one.
2:06.2	Congresswoman Barbara Lee, representing a chunk of the East Bay, had been in the national legislature just three years.
2:12.4	And it was only three days after 9-11 when she stood up alone against the war and made this emotional
2:21.2	speech.
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