Medea Benjamin on Civil Disobedience in the Trump Era, Transgender Identity Around the World: United States, Resisting Occupation: Ukrainian Filmmaker Entering 3rd Month of Hunger Strike

By Worldview Staff
Members of Code Pink from left, including Sergei Kostin with the rainbow flag at left, Paki Wieland, white hair holding the sign, Leah Brown, holding the sign right, Medea Benjamin and Tighe Barry, rally in support of Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers in front of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 7, 2018.
Members of Code Pink from left, including Sergei Kostin with the rainbow flag at left, Paki Wieland, white hair holding the sign, Leah Brown, holding the sign right, Medea Benjamin and Tighe Barry, rally in support of Iran's nuclear deal with world powers in front of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 7, 2018. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
Members of Code Pink from left, including Sergei Kostin with the rainbow flag at left, Paki Wieland, white hair holding the sign, Leah Brown, holding the sign right, Medea Benjamin and Tighe Barry, rally in support of Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers in front of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 7, 2018.
Members of Code Pink from left, including Sergei Kostin with the rainbow flag at left, Paki Wieland, white hair holding the sign, Leah Brown, holding the sign right, Medea Benjamin and Tighe Barry, rally in support of Iran's nuclear deal with world powers in front of the White House in Washington, Monday, May 7, 2018. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster

Medea Benjamin on Civil Disobedience in the Trump Era, Transgender Identity Around the World: United States, Resisting Occupation: Ukrainian Filmmaker Entering 3rd Month of Hunger Strike

By Worldview Staff
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On today’s show:

  • Medea Benjamin is co-founder
    of the women-led peace group CodePINK, and she joins us to discuss civil
     disobedience in the Trump era and her new book, Inside Iran: The Real History and Politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
  • In our final edition in our series about transgender identity around theworld, Worldview production assistant Anna Waters interviews Gavin Grimm, a teenage transgender activist who sued his school district for the right to use the boys’ bathroom. 
  • WBEZ Film Contributor Milos Stehlik speaks with some of the people leading the movement to release Oleh Sentsov.