Medea Benjamin

**Medea Benjamin** (an haife ta a **Susan Benjamin** a ranar 10 ga Satumba, 1952) yar  gwagwarmayar siyasar Amurka ne wanda, tare da Jodie Evans da sauransu, suka kafa Code Pink .  Har ila yau, ta kafa haɗin gwiwa, tare da mijinta na lokacin Kevin Danaher, ƙungiyar masu ba da shawara ta kasuwanci ta Global Exchange . Benjamin shi ne dan takarar jam'iyyar Green Party a zaben majalisar dattijai ta Amurka a 2000 a California, yana gudana a karkashin sunan Medea Susan Benjamin. Ta zo matsayi na uku da kuri'u 326,828 (3.1%). 

## Rayuwa ta farko
Medea Benjamin an haife ta Susan Benjamin a ranar 10 ga Satumba, 1952, 'yar Alvin da Rose Benjamin. Ta girma a Freeport, New York, a kan Long Island, kuma tana da zuriyar Yahudawa. Mahaifinta, Alvin Benjamin (1920-2012), ya kasance mai haɓaka ƙasa mai arziki, shugaban Kamfanonin Benjamin .  

A lokacin shekara ta farko a Jami'ar Tufts, ta sake ba da kanta suna bayan halayyar almara ta Girka Medea . Samuel Moyn ya rubuta cewa Benjamin "yana son yadda sunan ya yi sauti, kuma ta ji fassarar mata game da bala'in Girka da ke nuna cewa Medea ba ta taɓa kashe 'ya'yanta ba kuma al'adun ubanni ne kawai suka zarge ta". : 268 

She also joined the Students for a Democratic Society.  Later she dropped out of school and hitchhiked through Europe and Africa, teaching English classes to earn money. She later returned to the United States and received master's degrees in public health from Columbia University and in economics from The New School. Benjamin worked for ten years as an economist and nutritionist in Latin America and Africa for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Health Organization, the Swedish International Development Agency, and the Institute for Food and Development Policy.&#x5B;**&#x5D;

## Ayyuka

### Ƙungiyoyin

A shekara ta 1988, tare da mijinta na lokacin, Kevin Danaher, da Kirsten Moller, Benjamin ta kafa Babban Kasuwancin Duniya na San Francisco, wanda ke ba da shawarar hanyoyin cinikayya masu kyau ga abin da ta bayyana a matsayin hada-hadar kamfanoni. A shekara ta 2002, tare da Jodie Evans da sauransu, ta kafa kungiyar mata masu adawa da yaki Code Pink: Women for Peace, wacce ta ba da shawara don kawo karshen Yaƙin Iraki, rigakafin yaƙe-yaƙe na gaba, da Adalci na zamantakewa. Benjamin ya shiga cikin kungiyar yaki ta United for Peace and Justice .

Daga baya ta kirkiro Cibiyar Kula da Ayyuka a Bagadaza (IOWC) don saka idanu kan sojojin Amurka, da kuma tasirin yakin a kan fararen hula. Ta hanyar wannan cibiyar, ta kawo 'yan uwa na soja na Amurka don ganin yanayin da ma'aikatan da suka yi aiki, da kuma yin magana game da yakin, a Majalisa da Majalisar Dinkin Duniya, a shekara ta 2003. 

Ita memba ce ta Kwamitin Daraktoci na Liberty Tree . 

A shekara ta 2000, Benjamin ya tsaya takara a matsayin dan takarar Green Party yana kalubalantar Sanata na Amurka daga California, Dianne Feinstein .  Ta ba da shawarar albashi mai rai, kula da lafiya na duniya da jinkirta Abinci mai ƙwayoyin halitta. A lokacin yakin neman zabe, Benjamin da abokin hamayyarta na Jamhuriyar Republican Tom Campbell sun shiga cikin abubuwan hadin gwiwa, gami da taron manema labarai na hadin gwiwa، suna nuna adawarsu ga Feinstein (amma kuma ba su yarda da juna ba kan batutuwa da yawa).  Benjamin ya samu kuri'u 99,716, 74%, a zaben fidda gwani na Green Party, da kuri'u 326,828, 3.08% na jimlar kuri'un zabe. Tun daga wannan lokacin ta kasance mai aiki a cikin Green Party kuma ta goyi bayan kokarin da Progressive Democrats of America suka yi.

A cikin 2015, Green Party ta kirkiro majalisar ministoci, tana mai suna Benjamin a matsayin Sakataren Gwamnati na Inuwa.

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