That’s right! You can Vote to End the War in Iraq. Change.org is taking Ideas for Change in America, and you can vote here: http://www.change.org/ideas/view/leave_iraq_now From the War in Iraq to the violence in Gaza to Afghanistan and even a bloated military budget, War is SO Over! So vote to make leaving Iraq one of the [...]
Friday, January 2, 2009
On New Year’s Day, Deepak Chopra sends this letter to President-Elect Obama on how to create peace. Join CODEPINK in making a personal New Year’s Resolution for Peace here. 9 Steps To Peace for Obama in the New Year by Deepak Chopra You have been elected by the first anti-war constituency since 1952, when Dwight D. Eisenhower was [...]
Monday, December 29, 2008
Let Obama Know Peace is a Priority. The Obama Transition Team has once again opened up for questions on their official site, Change.gov. Questions can be voted up or down by members of the community and the Obama Team will answer the most popular questions after the New Year. Let Obama know that peace, including [...]
Monday, December 29, 2008
Note from the Editor: Col. Ann Wright is a 29 year US Army/Army Reserves veteran and a former US diplomat, who resigned in March 2003 in opposition to the war on Iraq. She recently spent two weeks in Iran meeting with Iranian officials and civilians with two other CODEPINK women, Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans. [...]
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A rally calling on the Iraqi Government to free Muntadhar Al-Zeidi, the man who threw his shoes at George W. Bush, will be held Monday, December 29 at noon in front of the Iraqi consulate to the United States, located at 1801 P Street NW in Washington, DC. The rally is timed to immediately [...]
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
TAKE ACTION HERE In our recent visit to Iran, we saw among the young university women what an important role model Shirin Ebadi is to them. As a female law student told us, “Shirin is our hero. That’s why many of us decided to study law. We want to be like her and help the women [...]
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT Women’s peace group creates petition to Iranian president Calls for safe reopening of Iranian human rights centers, commitment to human rights work WASHINGTON, D.C. — After learning of the shutdown of two renowned Iranian human rights organizations Sunday, CODEPINK Women for Peace have created a letter of petition to Iranian President Ahmadinejad calling for [...]
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Several dozen activists from CODEPINK, Iraq Veterans Against War and other allies and a large press contigent gathered around noon today outside the White House to toss shoes at “George W. Bush” and call for the release of the Iraqi journalist arrested and beaten after throwing his shoes Sunday at Pres. Bush during a Baghdad [...]
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
“Yes We Can-Can start talking with Iran-ran….” Aside from our snappy new song to be debuted at the Inauguration (with some hot dance moves) we just launched our “Let’s Talk” campaign with a citizen-diplomacy trip to Iran in November 2008, where we held meetings with officials and the people of Iran to make human connections [...]
Thursday, December 11, 2008
I just wrote a piece for Huffington Post on yesterday’s appalling murder of six Afghan police and one Afghan civilian at the hands of the U.S. military. Check it out here. Coming on today’s statement from Defense Secretary Gates on his plans for more troops to be sent to Afghanistan by summer, it’s even more clear [...]
Monday, January 5, 2009
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