Code Pink: Brace for even more protests in Philly

View Code Pink: Republicans aren't excited for Donald Trump An excerpt of Madera Banjamin's interview with POLITICO on Wednesday. Produced by Beatrice Peterson.

Democrats may face even more protests at their convention next week in Philadelphia than have greeted the GOP gathering in Cleveland, Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin said Wednesday.

Benjamin, a former Bernie Sanders supporter who has endorsed Green Party candidate Jill Stein, also took shots at Democratic standard-bearer Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy record.


Clinton is “somebody who has been pushing the military solution for a lot of the problems, especially in the Middle East, instead of pushing much more for diplomatic solutions,” Benjamin said in an interview with POLITICO.



Code Pink will also be in Philadelphia next week to protest the Democratic convention, and Benjamin said she will be there with a group of Sanders supporters.

Even so, she said, “On the social issues, we feel that the Democrats a lot better than the Republicans on the issues we care about.”

As for the Republican convention, Benjamin said she has been surprised at how many delegates have spoken to her about their unhappiness with Republican nominee Donald Trump.

“It’s a very divided party,” she said. “It’s a party, I think, that a lot of the people are scratching their heads and saying, ‘How the hell did we come up with Donald Trump as a candidate?’”

Benjamin said Code Pinks outburst earlier this week in which a protester sneaked into the Republican convention and displayed a sign that read, “Yes we can end war,” has garnered her organization more attention than it has received in recent years. The group plans to protest outside delegates’ hotels in Cleveland and will continue to march this week with activists from organizations such as Black Lives Matter.



View Code Pink: Republicans aren't excited for Donald Trump An excerpt of Madera Banjamin's interview with POLITICO on Wednesday. Produced by Beatrice Peterson.