Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

let's turn to two peace activists in Ojai, California, who led a trip to Iran this past spring as part of a people-to-people diplomatic mission of peace and friendship.

Nuri Ranegei, an Iranian-American, and Alan Shorb support the work not only of Code Pink, but also of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

First, background on our guest.

Nouri was born in Iran in 1940 and has been an activist for peace for over 70 years.

She came to the U.S. nearly 60 years ago.

got her master's degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin while teaching Farsi.

She has been a member of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and was active in the Iranian Student Association during her student days in Iran before the 1953 U.S. coup that overthrew the government of Mossadegh, Iran's democratically elected leader, who planned to nationalize Iran's oil industry.

After emigrating to the U.S., Nouri visited Iran in the last days of the Shah's regime to visit an ill relative.

So that was, it was definitely well worth it, and I hope, um, Ve- Veterans for Peace comes out with some clips.

I hope the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom will.

Yeah, yeah.

Uh, I'm sure they'll put it on their website-

So thanks to Margaret Flowers and her podcast, Clearing the Fog, and Bruce Gagnon for helping us understand how insane a space force is.

Okay, before we go, I now want to remind you that on Saturday, October 10th, so that's in a couple of days, Veterans for Peace will join the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, U.S. That's W-I-L-P-F-U-S.

And the American Friends Service Committee, AFSC, to hold the People's Tribunal.

And this tribunal is gonna hold US government officials accountable for their complicity in the genocide in Gaza.

Not everyone is on board with this, but Jane Addams is a really powerful voice and she goes on to do all sorts of interesting things over the course of the 20th century.

She helps to found the NAACP, helps to found the Women's International League of Peace and Freedom, helps to found the ACLU and remains at the center of this kind of progressive swirl when it's at its peak in the early 20th century and when it dies away later.

I warned you I was going to tell you a few stories from my recent road trips.

So if you are in Chicago, you can go to Hull House.