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TONIGHT on Bill Moyers: Online Discussion on Afghanistan

Please tune into Bill Moyers tonight and join the online conversation on the Moyers Blog about the larger military strategy in Afghanistan: www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog Bill Moyers Journal, Friday, January 30, 2009 on PBS http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/about/airdates.html On the heels of the American drone attacks on suspected terrorist compounds in Pakistan, Bill Moyers Journal takes a closer look at [...]

Official release: CODEPINK women travel to Gaza TODAY to witness damage and demand a lifting of the blockade; Plan to meet with women’s groups, Hamas officials

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE     Jan. 30, 2009    CONTACT Jean Stevens, CODEPINK national media coordinator, 646-723-1781 CODEPINK women travel to Gaza TODAY to witness damage and demand a lifting of the blockade; Plan to meet with women’s groups, Hamas officials WHAT: CODEPINK women to visit Gaza, examine damage, meet with women’s groups and Hamas officials WHEN: Jan. [...]

In memory of Betty Merle, Sacramento coordinator

In honor of Betty Merle, the coordinator of CODEPINK Sacramento, who passed away Dec. 29: Betty “little ol’ Okie girl” Merle (b. March 13, 1938) launched CODEPINK in her adopted state’s capitol, Sacremento, with friend Jo Souvignier. At a celebration of Betty’s life on January 10, 2009, filled with tears, laughter and many good memories, [...]

VIDEO: Medea talks to YES! Magazine at the Inauguration

Medea Benjamin speaks to YES! Magazine about Obama’s promises and the incoming administration at President Barack Obama’s inauguration. This video was originally posted on YES! Magazine’s site here.

USA Today Op-Ed: End the Occupation

This was originally posted in USA Today on January 22, 2009. Under the disastrous Bush years, the U.S. military invaded a country that posed no threat to the United States, destroyed its infrastructure and plunged it into chaos. This led to the death and displacement of millions of Iraqis, squandered the lives of more than [...]

The World Has Changed by Alice Walker

From ALICE WALKER: A poem honoring the people who don’t believe this is happening. I wanted to write a poem for the people who are still saying, “Oh, no, this can’t happen,” you know, because all along the line of this struggle to get Barack Obama to the White House, people feared that something awful [...]