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October 5, 2023

11 Arrested at Protest Demanding Sen. Bernie Sanders Support Peace Talks for Ukraine
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Peace activists are demanding lawmakers push for a diplomatic solution
to the war in Ukraine instead of sending more weapons. On Wednesday,
Capitol Police arrested 11 members of the antiwar group Code Pink as
they occupied the office of Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders.
Code Pink's Medea Benjamin read a statement Sanders delivered in
February 2022 calling for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.

Medea Benjamin: "'So let's sit down. Let's negotiate. And let's come up
with a diplomatic solution.' That is the good Bernie. That's the Bernie
we want, not the other Bernie who is OK'ing billions and billions of
dollars in weapons and says you can't talk to Putin. And we have a
one-word answer to Bernie when he says you can't talk to Putin, because
he's said that to us. We say, 'Try.' Right? Try. We want to see what the
result of Biden talking to Putin is, right?"



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