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Benjamin disputes the statement that she wanted anyone arrested here. Kellen T 17:46, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
I understand the validity of mentioning David Horowitz's criticism of Benjamin. However, since Horowitz makes it his job to accuse virtually all leftists as being Communist sympathizers, I wonder how one makes a determination to include his criticisms and at what length? Does he get a nice long paragraph in the entry for every prominent proponent of universal health care, lifting the embargo on Cuba or ending the US occupation of Iraq?
On Fox news they called her a trust fund baby. True? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.206.165.32 ( talk • contribs)
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User:Thoughtman keeps removing this article from Category:American anti-Iraq War activists.
A person qualifies for the category if she (a) is opposed to the war in Iraq and (b) is an American residing in America who has said publicly either that (i) she believes that the Iraq War was illegal from the beginning or (ii) she believes that the Iraq War is being waged imprudently and she has become publicly known as a critic of the war or the justifications used to launch it.
This article is largely made up of instances of Benjamin's public protests against the war in Iraq. In my view, she clearly satisfies the criteria for inclusion in the category. What do other editors think?— Malik Shabazz ( talk · contribs) 03:19, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
It's not an appropriate category and the only reason others like her are on there is because of Shabazz! -- Thoughtman ( talk) 17:14, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
For those with issues over the white house taunting reference, it's not a text reference -- the Reuters photo clearly shows Benjamin in costume at the gate of the White House. Can't get much more clear than a photo of the person being discussed doing the thing being discussed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.54.77.14 ( talk) 16:22, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
From the first sentence of the article: "Medea Benjamin (born Susan Benjamin on September 10, 1952) is an American politician, and political activist, famous for...."
She has dabbled in politics, but I wouldn't characterize her as a politician. "Political Activist" is more accurate. She's never held a political office. She has run for several offices, but like most third party candidates, she's not running with an expectation/hope/plan of winning the election. The description in the first sentence of the article should probably be changed. At a minimum, "politician" should not be used as the first characterization of her. Maybe move it somewhere else in the introduction? Strike it altogether?
Examples: Is Ross Perot a politician? I think businessman is more accurate. Ralph Nader? Consumer advocate.
I'll concede that using the same logic, Bill Clinton would be called a lawyer; George H.W. Bush would be called a businessman...but we must consider, and factor what they're *best* known for. -- Lacarids ( talk) 02:23, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
The comment alludes to remarks made by Benjamin to Horton's questions. If Benjamin CONSENTED TO BE INTERVIEWED--which she did--then her opinions are ON THE RECORD. The addition, therefore, is about Benjamin IMPLICATING HERSELF IN HER REPLIES.
As it stands the Wiki article reads like a sanitized panegyric to her ego.
Here is the interview link:
http://original.antiwar.com/scott/2009/10/07/is-medea-benjamin-confused/
MB:
"We spoke to a lot of women...[who] were stuck inside their homes.
"We just want to do it in a way that is not going to lead to a Taliban takeover that will put women back inside the home."
Brilliant! MB's worst nightmare--which she sees fit to project upon "women," in toto: That a woman might be 1) at home 2) with (gasp!) children!
An obvious casus belli, i.e., continue the airstrikes, the drone attacks, the internecine slaughter. Empire is going to help to establish a civil society (according to Benjamin), while NOT engaging militarily ("not too much anyway!")--even though we here at home have yet to see civility and equity in 233-years of investor class oppression--so that misandrist Benjamin can rest easy at night knowing she helped manumit an Afghani woman "FROM THE HOME."
Stonewhite 02:19, 9 May 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stonewhite ( talk • contribs)
Right! Nor, apparently, ought it matter what Todd Chretien thinks--according to your utterly enlightened metric...: Todd Chretien, a leading member of the International Socialist Organization, wrote, in "A Reply to Norman Soloman and Medea Benjamin" on CounterPunch:
“ Medea Benjamin... and many other liberal and progressive leaders tell us that a Kerry regime "would be less dangerous" than Bush. This may or may not be true... But, even IF Kerry is "less dangerous," he will be MORE capable of wreaking havoc on Iraq, Palestine, Venezuela, abortion, gay rights, civil rights and unions IF we sacrifice our political movement to getting behind him.... Tragically, rather than building on the great start we made in 2000... many of the very same people who helped that effort are trying to wreck it this time around [by] condoning, if not actually leading, a campaign to vilify [ Ralph Nader and Peter Camejo ] as "Republicandupes"... any movement that ever aims to win, must learn to stand up for itself precisely when it is darkest.
Nor, ought it matter what David Horowitz thinks:
Conservative writer David Horowitz's FrontPageMag has attacked her as "a long-time Castro acolyte," and written:
“ Many of the causes that Ms. Benjamin espouses are Communist in nature. The Washington "peace" rally at which she spoke last month, for instance, was organized by the Workers World Party, a Communist organization... In years past, she staunchly opposed US military aid to those fighting against Communist forces in Central America... She favors the creation of a government-sponsored universal health care system funded by taxpayer dollars. She exhorts the US government to lift its trade embargo against Cuba – a nation she notably lauds as a place where people have managed to "thrive despite the odds" against them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stonewhite ( talk • contribs) 00:23, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
can you say "hypocrite"? these are just two examples, dear...Need more? I'll oblige you...
are you, in fact, the gatekeeper for codepink? or, a happy recipient of "feminist" baksheesh? or a lesbian/misandrist intent on keeping the article "pure"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stonewhite ( talk • contribs) 00:05, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
I concede nothing: lesbian/misandrist is NOT of necessity a biased pejorative identification betraying contempt (i.e., heterosexual/misogynist sycophancy being equally galling)--nor was it intended as anything more than an attempt at accurate political identification--but, apparently you've just betrayed your own lack of "PC" by believing it so... and, by the way, this side-stepping of the issue is part and parcel of what the criticism of MB is about--now, we can obviate said criticism as you've jumped tracks with this faux, "wounded party" idea, versus what might have been an acknowledgement of the article's "advertisement" nature... and, good for you! having studied the slave narratives in graduate school, we learned that one of the only means of defense that the slave held in pre-emancipation South was his/her prodigious skill in prevarication...connect the dots to correlate to your own movement's nonsense...
":All fixed."
and, finally, apparently the only thing that's "fixed" is your own thick-headedness
Stonewhite 00:42, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Is this a press release? Lot's of peacock language in this entry: the woman who brought Nike to its knees . . . key player ... headed a powerful coalition. . . etc.
Also, her political views are presented as self-evidently true: the problem of unfair trade as promoted by the World Trade Organization. . . "fighting the market manipulation by the big energy companies and rate hikes that cause hardship for low-income ratepayers and small businesses". . . "fair trade" alternatives that are beneficial to both producer and consumer. . . the need to stop giving Israel $3 billion in US tax-dollars etc. 76.226.40.251 ( talk) 13:44, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
I rewrote the section on Benjamin's interruptions of Obama on May 23. I kept in all of the citations, but made corrections and added details. There were many, many reasons that the whole section had to be rewritten, but I will keep this brief:
1) There were no details whatsoever regarding the nature of her interruptions. There were several quotes from Obama, but none from Benjamin; in fact, nothing of the content of the interruptions was stated. Both voices must be discussed in the article, with primacy granted to Benjamin -- since it is her article.
2) The section contained misleading statements and falsehoods. Obama did not "allow her to stay"; she was thrown out. She would have been thrown out earlier, according to Benjamin, except for her threats to "make a scene" to the Secret Service and its subsequent bafflement. He did not say that she needed to listen "as well as courageously speak"; he said nothing of courage. Moreover he did not say her voice was "worth paying attention to" and then later "challenge her to listen"; it occurred in the opposite order. I could find nothing of Benjamin saying that she "generally supports the President" -- I followed all of the links and found nothing; moreover, she has regularly criticized his policies. Further, Obama did not announce "new policies including the beginning of the process for closing Guantanamo's prison"; by the President's own admission in the speech, his policy has, for a long time, included closing Guantanamo.
3) None of the many citations included the whole exchange, nor was there any transcript. My new citations include both.
4) Use of the word "heckling." The oxford dictionary tells us that to "heckle" means: to "interrupt (a public speaker) with derisive or aggressive comments or abuse." Benjamin uncontroversially interrupted the president. But were her comments/questions "derisive"? "Aggressive"? Filled with "abuse"? The only possible way her remarks could be construed is as "aggressive"; but then it fails the test for 2/3 of the possibilities. It also fails the test for what I think is the connotation of the word "heckle", which usually involves a nastiness and lack of constructive criticism. Clearly Benjamin brought up issues that Obama did not address, contrary to his repeated claims in the speech. He never brought up the killing of the 16-year old, for example.
5) Style. The paragraph contained strange constructions like: "numerous further outbursts" and "continued repeated interruptions". I thought it best to write more simply.
These are just a few of the problems the section had. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wiki.correct.1 ( talk • contribs) 21:35, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
Three different sections tell the story of her interruption to the Obama speech on Guantanamo. Some are better than others. I think the story belongs in at most two places (a brief entry in the intro, and the story under Activism / Drones). Other opinions? Gnuish ( talk) 06:38, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
I couldn't agree more, but I'm not up to doing it. And the effort may be in vain; the authors of the three sections may try to fix the "error" of deleting one or two of them entirely. (They obviously aren't in the habit of looking through the article for redundancy.) I also note, having just read the entire speech transcript including Benjamin's remarks, that at least two of the three sections quote her wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.249.196.188 ( talk) 18:33, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
I agree article is redundant. But if anyone edits it the Wiki regime police will repeatedly revert it and the admins will ban the original editor for "vandalism" which means disagreeing with an admin or politically connected editor. Long live censorship on Wikipedia.
This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because a variety of third-party publications such as the Washington Post, Huffington Post, ABC News, etc. that establish notability. -- Bahooka ( talk) 22:21, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
User:Sportfan5000 has chosen to make the external links that did not conform to our guideline a "further reading" section instead. I don't see how those provide any value to this article whatsoever. Anyone else have thoughts? Thargor Orlando ( talk) 15:34, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
User:Sportfan5000 was a sock of a banned user, and his comments should be disregarded here. Collect ( talk) 18:07, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
As somebody who teaches Greek classics I've been amazed by her name for some time. Surely an interviewer has at some time asked her what she was symbolizing by renaming herself Medea? With all the provocative Greek myths to choose from, why choose the name of a woman jilted by her husband for a younger woman, who murders her children in revenge? I'm not making this up. The myth is best known from Euripides's famous play, "Medea," in which, Wikipedia summarizes, "Jason leaves Medea when Creon, king of Corinth, offers him his daughter, Glauce.[2] The play tells of Medea avenging her husband's betrayal by killing their children." I'm not asking us to start psychoanalyzing Medea Benjamin. I'm saying she gives her opinions about everything in the else in the world, so she must have given her reasons for the name at some time. Why not Athena, or Diana, or, if you want to call attention to yourself as unheard prophet, Cassandra? Why on earth "Medea?" A woman who murders her children? Profhum ( talk) 07:37, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
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"In May 2019 she said US sanctions against Venezuela had reportedly caused the deaths of at least 40,000 people and that removing sanctions would be the best way of alleviating the suffering of the Venezuelan people. [1]"
I haven’t been able to find anything indicating that the Real News Network is unreliable. The text comes from Benjamin herself as part of an interview with the Real News Network. The same views appear on other sites so it is clear that she does hold these views. Given it is her page it seems reasonable that her views should appear on it. What do other editors think? Burrobert ( talk) 15:31, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
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Should the following text be added to Benjamin's wiki page in the Venezuela section?
In May 2019 she said US sanctions against Venezuela had reportedly caused the deaths of at least 40,000 people and that removing sanctions would be the best way of alleviating the suffering of the Venezuelan people. [1]
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To add to this article: Benjamin's publicly stated views on Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. 204.11.189.94 ( talk) 13:07, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
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Benjamin disputes the statement that she wanted anyone arrested here. Kellen T 17:46, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
I understand the validity of mentioning David Horowitz's criticism of Benjamin. However, since Horowitz makes it his job to accuse virtually all leftists as being Communist sympathizers, I wonder how one makes a determination to include his criticisms and at what length? Does he get a nice long paragraph in the entry for every prominent proponent of universal health care, lifting the embargo on Cuba or ending the US occupation of Iraq?
On Fox news they called her a trust fund baby. True? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.206.165.32 ( talk • contribs)
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User:Thoughtman keeps removing this article from Category:American anti-Iraq War activists.
A person qualifies for the category if she (a) is opposed to the war in Iraq and (b) is an American residing in America who has said publicly either that (i) she believes that the Iraq War was illegal from the beginning or (ii) she believes that the Iraq War is being waged imprudently and she has become publicly known as a critic of the war or the justifications used to launch it.
This article is largely made up of instances of Benjamin's public protests against the war in Iraq. In my view, she clearly satisfies the criteria for inclusion in the category. What do other editors think?— Malik Shabazz ( talk · contribs) 03:19, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
It's not an appropriate category and the only reason others like her are on there is because of Shabazz! -- Thoughtman ( talk) 17:14, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
For those with issues over the white house taunting reference, it's not a text reference -- the Reuters photo clearly shows Benjamin in costume at the gate of the White House. Can't get much more clear than a photo of the person being discussed doing the thing being discussed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.54.77.14 ( talk) 16:22, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
From the first sentence of the article: "Medea Benjamin (born Susan Benjamin on September 10, 1952) is an American politician, and political activist, famous for...."
She has dabbled in politics, but I wouldn't characterize her as a politician. "Political Activist" is more accurate. She's never held a political office. She has run for several offices, but like most third party candidates, she's not running with an expectation/hope/plan of winning the election. The description in the first sentence of the article should probably be changed. At a minimum, "politician" should not be used as the first characterization of her. Maybe move it somewhere else in the introduction? Strike it altogether?
Examples: Is Ross Perot a politician? I think businessman is more accurate. Ralph Nader? Consumer advocate.
I'll concede that using the same logic, Bill Clinton would be called a lawyer; George H.W. Bush would be called a businessman...but we must consider, and factor what they're *best* known for. -- Lacarids ( talk) 02:23, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
The comment alludes to remarks made by Benjamin to Horton's questions. If Benjamin CONSENTED TO BE INTERVIEWED--which she did--then her opinions are ON THE RECORD. The addition, therefore, is about Benjamin IMPLICATING HERSELF IN HER REPLIES.
As it stands the Wiki article reads like a sanitized panegyric to her ego.
Here is the interview link:
http://original.antiwar.com/scott/2009/10/07/is-medea-benjamin-confused/
MB:
"We spoke to a lot of women...[who] were stuck inside their homes.
"We just want to do it in a way that is not going to lead to a Taliban takeover that will put women back inside the home."
Brilliant! MB's worst nightmare--which she sees fit to project upon "women," in toto: That a woman might be 1) at home 2) with (gasp!) children!
An obvious casus belli, i.e., continue the airstrikes, the drone attacks, the internecine slaughter. Empire is going to help to establish a civil society (according to Benjamin), while NOT engaging militarily ("not too much anyway!")--even though we here at home have yet to see civility and equity in 233-years of investor class oppression--so that misandrist Benjamin can rest easy at night knowing she helped manumit an Afghani woman "FROM THE HOME."
Stonewhite 02:19, 9 May 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stonewhite ( talk • contribs)
Right! Nor, apparently, ought it matter what Todd Chretien thinks--according to your utterly enlightened metric...: Todd Chretien, a leading member of the International Socialist Organization, wrote, in "A Reply to Norman Soloman and Medea Benjamin" on CounterPunch:
“ Medea Benjamin... and many other liberal and progressive leaders tell us that a Kerry regime "would be less dangerous" than Bush. This may or may not be true... But, even IF Kerry is "less dangerous," he will be MORE capable of wreaking havoc on Iraq, Palestine, Venezuela, abortion, gay rights, civil rights and unions IF we sacrifice our political movement to getting behind him.... Tragically, rather than building on the great start we made in 2000... many of the very same people who helped that effort are trying to wreck it this time around [by] condoning, if not actually leading, a campaign to vilify [ Ralph Nader and Peter Camejo ] as "Republicandupes"... any movement that ever aims to win, must learn to stand up for itself precisely when it is darkest.
Nor, ought it matter what David Horowitz thinks:
Conservative writer David Horowitz's FrontPageMag has attacked her as "a long-time Castro acolyte," and written:
“ Many of the causes that Ms. Benjamin espouses are Communist in nature. The Washington "peace" rally at which she spoke last month, for instance, was organized by the Workers World Party, a Communist organization... In years past, she staunchly opposed US military aid to those fighting against Communist forces in Central America... She favors the creation of a government-sponsored universal health care system funded by taxpayer dollars. She exhorts the US government to lift its trade embargo against Cuba – a nation she notably lauds as a place where people have managed to "thrive despite the odds" against them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stonewhite ( talk • contribs) 00:23, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
can you say "hypocrite"? these are just two examples, dear...Need more? I'll oblige you...
are you, in fact, the gatekeeper for codepink? or, a happy recipient of "feminist" baksheesh? or a lesbian/misandrist intent on keeping the article "pure"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stonewhite ( talk • contribs) 00:05, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
I concede nothing: lesbian/misandrist is NOT of necessity a biased pejorative identification betraying contempt (i.e., heterosexual/misogynist sycophancy being equally galling)--nor was it intended as anything more than an attempt at accurate political identification--but, apparently you've just betrayed your own lack of "PC" by believing it so... and, by the way, this side-stepping of the issue is part and parcel of what the criticism of MB is about--now, we can obviate said criticism as you've jumped tracks with this faux, "wounded party" idea, versus what might have been an acknowledgement of the article's "advertisement" nature... and, good for you! having studied the slave narratives in graduate school, we learned that one of the only means of defense that the slave held in pre-emancipation South was his/her prodigious skill in prevarication...connect the dots to correlate to your own movement's nonsense...
":All fixed."
and, finally, apparently the only thing that's "fixed" is your own thick-headedness
Stonewhite 00:42, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
Is this a press release? Lot's of peacock language in this entry: the woman who brought Nike to its knees . . . key player ... headed a powerful coalition. . . etc.
Also, her political views are presented as self-evidently true: the problem of unfair trade as promoted by the World Trade Organization. . . "fighting the market manipulation by the big energy companies and rate hikes that cause hardship for low-income ratepayers and small businesses". . . "fair trade" alternatives that are beneficial to both producer and consumer. . . the need to stop giving Israel $3 billion in US tax-dollars etc. 76.226.40.251 ( talk) 13:44, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
I rewrote the section on Benjamin's interruptions of Obama on May 23. I kept in all of the citations, but made corrections and added details. There were many, many reasons that the whole section had to be rewritten, but I will keep this brief:
1) There were no details whatsoever regarding the nature of her interruptions. There were several quotes from Obama, but none from Benjamin; in fact, nothing of the content of the interruptions was stated. Both voices must be discussed in the article, with primacy granted to Benjamin -- since it is her article.
2) The section contained misleading statements and falsehoods. Obama did not "allow her to stay"; she was thrown out. She would have been thrown out earlier, according to Benjamin, except for her threats to "make a scene" to the Secret Service and its subsequent bafflement. He did not say that she needed to listen "as well as courageously speak"; he said nothing of courage. Moreover he did not say her voice was "worth paying attention to" and then later "challenge her to listen"; it occurred in the opposite order. I could find nothing of Benjamin saying that she "generally supports the President" -- I followed all of the links and found nothing; moreover, she has regularly criticized his policies. Further, Obama did not announce "new policies including the beginning of the process for closing Guantanamo's prison"; by the President's own admission in the speech, his policy has, for a long time, included closing Guantanamo.
3) None of the many citations included the whole exchange, nor was there any transcript. My new citations include both.
4) Use of the word "heckling." The oxford dictionary tells us that to "heckle" means: to "interrupt (a public speaker) with derisive or aggressive comments or abuse." Benjamin uncontroversially interrupted the president. But were her comments/questions "derisive"? "Aggressive"? Filled with "abuse"? The only possible way her remarks could be construed is as "aggressive"; but then it fails the test for 2/3 of the possibilities. It also fails the test for what I think is the connotation of the word "heckle", which usually involves a nastiness and lack of constructive criticism. Clearly Benjamin brought up issues that Obama did not address, contrary to his repeated claims in the speech. He never brought up the killing of the 16-year old, for example.
5) Style. The paragraph contained strange constructions like: "numerous further outbursts" and "continued repeated interruptions". I thought it best to write more simply.
These are just a few of the problems the section had. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wiki.correct.1 ( talk • contribs) 21:35, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
Three different sections tell the story of her interruption to the Obama speech on Guantanamo. Some are better than others. I think the story belongs in at most two places (a brief entry in the intro, and the story under Activism / Drones). Other opinions? Gnuish ( talk) 06:38, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
I couldn't agree more, but I'm not up to doing it. And the effort may be in vain; the authors of the three sections may try to fix the "error" of deleting one or two of them entirely. (They obviously aren't in the habit of looking through the article for redundancy.) I also note, having just read the entire speech transcript including Benjamin's remarks, that at least two of the three sections quote her wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.249.196.188 ( talk) 18:33, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
I agree article is redundant. But if anyone edits it the Wiki regime police will repeatedly revert it and the admins will ban the original editor for "vandalism" which means disagreeing with an admin or politically connected editor. Long live censorship on Wikipedia.
This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because a variety of third-party publications such as the Washington Post, Huffington Post, ABC News, etc. that establish notability. -- Bahooka ( talk) 22:21, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
User:Sportfan5000 has chosen to make the external links that did not conform to our guideline a "further reading" section instead. I don't see how those provide any value to this article whatsoever. Anyone else have thoughts? Thargor Orlando ( talk) 15:34, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
User:Sportfan5000 was a sock of a banned user, and his comments should be disregarded here. Collect ( talk) 18:07, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
As somebody who teaches Greek classics I've been amazed by her name for some time. Surely an interviewer has at some time asked her what she was symbolizing by renaming herself Medea? With all the provocative Greek myths to choose from, why choose the name of a woman jilted by her husband for a younger woman, who murders her children in revenge? I'm not making this up. The myth is best known from Euripides's famous play, "Medea," in which, Wikipedia summarizes, "Jason leaves Medea when Creon, king of Corinth, offers him his daughter, Glauce.[2] The play tells of Medea avenging her husband's betrayal by killing their children." I'm not asking us to start psychoanalyzing Medea Benjamin. I'm saying she gives her opinions about everything in the else in the world, so she must have given her reasons for the name at some time. Why not Athena, or Diana, or, if you want to call attention to yourself as unheard prophet, Cassandra? Why on earth "Medea?" A woman who murders her children? Profhum ( talk) 07:37, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
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The following text was recently removed from the page with a summary that the source was unreliable:
"In May 2019 she said US sanctions against Venezuela had reportedly caused the deaths of at least 40,000 people and that removing sanctions would be the best way of alleviating the suffering of the Venezuelan people. [1]"
I haven’t been able to find anything indicating that the Real News Network is unreliable. The text comes from Benjamin herself as part of an interview with the Real News Network. The same views appear on other sites so it is clear that she does hold these views. Given it is her page it seems reasonable that her views should appear on it. What do other editors think? Burrobert ( talk) 15:31, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
References
The consensus is to exclude this material because of insufficient sourcing. There is no prejudice against revisiting this if a high quality source can be found to support this material.
Should the following text be added to Benjamin's wiki page in the Venezuela section?
In May 2019 she said US sanctions against Venezuela had reportedly caused the deaths of at least 40,000 people and that removing sanctions would be the best way of alleviating the suffering of the Venezuelan people. [1]
Burrobert ( talk) 14:44, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
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I just created a "Notes" section in this article distinct from "References", with the former "References" becoming "Notes" and the new "References" containing a single citation to a book. I did this to allow me to reference that book in the text by the common citation tradition of "Surname (year, page)", which I will add in a minute.
I've started doing this in other articles, because the refereed scientific journal that published a substantial revision of a Wikiversity article seems to require that style AND it doesn't seem inconsistent with the Wikipedia:Manual of Style.
I mention this, in case others might question this change. I hope you find it acceptable and even appropriate and maybe useful. DavidMCEddy ( talk) 13:07, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
To add to this article: Benjamin's publicly stated views on Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. 204.11.189.94 ( talk) 13:07, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
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