Editing Medea Benjamin (section)

=== Organizations ===
[[File:Medea Benjamin 5.jpg|250px|thumbnail|right|Benjamin speaking at a Code Pink rally in 2004.]]
In 1988, with her husband, [[Kevin Danaher (activist)|Kevin Danaher]], and Kirsten Moller, Benjamin co-founded the San Francisco-based [[Global Exchange]], which [[advocate]]s [[fair trade]] alternatives to what she describes as corporate globalization. In 2002, with [[Jodie Evans]] and others, she co-founded the [[feminism|feminist]] [[anti-war]] group [[Code Pink: Women for Peace]], which advocated for an end to the [[Iraq War]], the prevention of future wars, and [[social justice]]. Benjamin has been involved with the anti-war organization [[United for Peace and Justice]].

She later created the Occupation Watch Center in [[Baghdad]] (IOWC) to monitor the United States military, and the war's effect on civilian populations. Through this center, she brought U.S. military family members to see the  conditions under which enlisted personnel served, and to speak out against the war, in Congress and at the [[United Nations]], in 2003.<ref name="Peace Memorial">{{cite web |url=http://www.uspeacememorial.org/Registry.htm |title=US Peace Registry: Individuals |publisher=US Peace Memorial |access-date=January 10, 2013}}</ref>

She is a member of the Board of Directors of [[Liberty Tree]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution|url=https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/liberty-tree-foundation-for-the-democratic-revolution/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240314165008/https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/liberty-tree-foundation-for-the-democratic-revolution/|archive-date=March 14, 2024|website=[[InfluenceWatch]]|url-status=live}}</ref>