A talk given by Nancy Kricorian at a Celebration of Grace Paley: Speaking Truth to Power, Barnard Center for Research on Women and Gender, 12/11/09 * I met Grace Paley in the early 80’s when I was an undergraduate at Dartmouth College. At the time Grace and I were both members of the Upper Valley Committee Against [...]
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Today, on the 8th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan, the Senate passed the 2010 Defense Budget with 93 yays to 7 nays. The bill allocates $128 billion to continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This does not include any amounts allocated by additional war supplemental bills. To date, we have already spent over a [...]
Thursday, August 13, 2009
At CODEPINK, I’m responsible for reading and responding to our “info” email address. I recently received an email that included this: “Code Pink is a bunch of hypocrites. Why are you remaining silent while Obama sends 27,000 more young Americans to a surge in Afghanistan?” There’s been a steady stream of this kind of criticism [...]
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
A handful of people have called various CODEPINK offices these past few days, asking us, “Where’s your outrage against Obama?”
Friday, July 31, 2009
In an “unusually blunt” memo, senior American military adviser in Baghdad Col. Timothy R. Reese concluded that it is time “for the U.S. to declare victory and go home,” even though Iraq faces some problems including corruption, poor management and the inability to resist Shiite political pressure.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
I just posted this new piece, “Put Down The Pom-Poms,” to Huffington Post (and it’s circulating elsewhere, like on CommonDreams) on Vice President Biden’s comments last week that war in Afghanistan is a justified “sacrifice” to “protect” Americans from terrorism. As someone who helped found CODEPINK six years ago in response to the Bush administration’s [...]
Monday, December 14, 2009
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