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Crashing Santa Monica’s tax day “tea party”

Official release: Local taxpayers to rally TODAY outside of AIG New York offices

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 [...]

Why should taxpayers reward the failures of Wall Street?

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 [...]

“Beyond War” in NYC

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, [...]

Official release: TONIGHT: CODEPINK weary taxpayers hold overnight vigil, in pink bed, outside Rayburn on eve of AIG hearing

CODEPINK holds overnight vigil for a People’s Bailout on eve of second AIG hearing Will represent public outrage when Geithner and Bernake testify WHAT: CODEPINK to camp/vigil outside House building, attend second AIG hearing WHEN: MIDNIGHT TONIGHT (camp-out/vigil) through 10 a.m. March 24 (hearing) WHERE: Outside Rayburn House Office Building (camp-out/vigil); 2128 Rayburn House Office Building (hearing), Washington WASHINGTON — [...]

CODEPINK LA outside AIG!

CODEPINK LA rallied outside of AIG headquarters last night and it was awesome — we had banners that said “AIG - Jail Not Bail” “FAILOUT” and called for Geithner to be fired, an end to government bailouts and an end to WAR bailouts. Check out photos here!

Inside the AIG hearing now!

There is a garden in New Orleans…

I went back to check up on our Seeds of Peace Garden in the 9th Ward this past weekend.  I was able to spend some fun time with our NOLA-CP coordinator Sarah Rath and our powerhouse with the camera, Kelly Van Pelt.  We talked about things CODEPINK NOLA can do to support the local community, [...]

OFFICIAL RELEASE: CODEPINK women to proclaim “Yes, we can-can live in peace!” at historic Obama inauguration

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CODEPINK women to proclaim “Yes, we can-can live in peace!” at historic Obama inauguration, call on Obama to keep promises to end war

Punked by pink: where’s the bailout for us?

In a few minutes, the House finance committee will face CEOS of “the Big Three” American auto companies and debate whether it should approve a bailout for the auto industry. CODEPINK will be at the hearing (they were yesterday — check out this Associated Press photo of Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson staring disdainfully at Medea [...]