by Medea Benjamin U.S. Corporal Gregory S. Stultz, 22, of Brazil, Indiana, died on February 19, 2010 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. According to icasualties.org, Stultz’s death marks the grim milestone of 1,000 American soldiers killed in Operation Enduring Freedom. This week has also been a grim one for civilian casualties as a result [...]
Monday, August 24, 2009
CODEPINK Phoenix recently joined a Teabaggers/Screamers/Deathers Healthcare Rally as “Billionaires for Wealthcare.” The irony just flies over many of the protesters’ heads. Check it out:
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
WHAT: Local taxpayers to gather outside of AIG New York offices, demand their fair $80 million share of sale WHEN: 12 p.m. TODAY (April 15) WHERE: AIG headquarters @ 70 Pine St., New York, NY NEW YORK CITY — AIG is selling its Manhattan offices here — and local taxpayers want their fair share of the deal! Members of [...]
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i9Oj7O8ZxQ When we heard that the CEO of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, would be speaking at an Institutional Investors Conference today, we ran over to say hello. A few minutes into his talk, CODEPINKer Desiree Fairooz and I calmly walked on the stage with our banner saying “We want our $$$ back.” Goldman Sachs, after [...]
Monday, April 6, 2009
We felt pretty dismal, the dozen or so of us CODEPINK women gathered at Franklin and Lafayette Streets in lower Manhattan around 11:30 a.m. Saturday for United for Peace and Justice’s “Beyond War” mass mobilization on to Wall Street, designed to link poverty, the economic crisis, and racism with war and occupation. We were frozen, [...]
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
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