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“War is not Green” at PowerShift; Pelosi a no-show

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

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CODEPINK women rocked out at the amazing PowerShift ‘09 conference this past weekend in Washington and Capitol Power Plant action Monday, carrying bright pink “War Is Not Green” banners and spreading the word of the links among war, energy consumption, pollution and environmental destruction. Leslie Angeline and Blaine Clarke gave this great interview to a CNS [...]

“War is not green!” at Capitol Plant mass action in Washington!

Monday, March 2, 2009

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Today I joined Medea Benjamin, Blaine Clark, Leslie Angeline, Jay Marx, David Swanson, Cindy Sheehan and Bev Rice at the incredible Capitol Power Plant mass action today at the Capitol Plant in Washington, protesting its “clean coal,” timed with the incredible PowerShift 2009 Conference that began Friday night. (Here’s me, Desiree, Leslie, and Medea with [...]

OFFICIAL RELEASE: CODEPINK declares Obama win a victory for the peace movement

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Like the rest of the world, CODEPINK is emboldened by Sen. Barack Obama’s victory in a historic presidential election.

U.S. military men sexually assault one-third of fellow female soldiers

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

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Three years ago, an American soldier LaVena Johnson of Missouri bought candy, soda and lip balm one night near her base in Iraq. She went to meet friends to go jogging. But she never made it — her body was found the next day in a burning tent with a broken nose, black eye, and [...]

OFFICIAL RELEASE: Two CODEPINK activists disrupt McCain’s RNC speech

Thursday, September 4, 2008

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE     CONTACT Medea Benjamin, 415-235-6517 Nancy Mancias, 415-342-6409 ST. PAUL — Two activists of the women’s peace group CODEPINK disrupted John McCain’s speech Thursday night at the Republican National Convention, immediately following another activist of the anti-war veterans group, Iraq Veterans Against War. At the start of McCain’s speech, veteran Adam Kokesh of Washington, D.C. emerged from [...]

CODEPINK activists interrupt Sarah Palin’s RNC speech at side of the stage!

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE     CONTACT Jodie Evans, co-founder, 310-913-4821 ST. PAUL — Two activists of the women’s peace group CODEPINK disrupted Sarah Palin’s speech tonight at the Republican National Convention when they approached the stage where Palin was speaking, adjusted their clothes to reveal pink slips that read “Palin is not a woman’s choice,” stood there at the [...]

Cheese! Peace platform

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

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A bright, shining moment in our “peace platform” action in Minneapolis this morning:

Cheese

Monday, August 25, 2008

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You Can’t Be Green and Be Pro-War

Monday, August 25, 2008

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This morning’s AP report “CODEPINK Faces Tough Odds for Public’s Attention” smartly used CODEPINK as an excuse to talk about the media’s lack of attention on the antiwar movement: These are hard times for peace activists. Despite CodePink’s flashy costumes and willingness to disrupt campaign events and congressional hearings — sometimes facing arrest for it — [...]

Police to “move the crowd” by “any means necessary” in Denver

Sunday, August 24, 2008

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Down at the Denver capital right this minute, witnesses say the police have given protesters five minutes to disperse, and on the megaphone, said they will “move this crowd by any means necessary.” Stay tuned – For the past few hours, hundreds of officers have gathered in the streets as activists from CODEPINK, Iraq Veterans Against War, [...]

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