Hello everyone, Sally writing from Amman, Jordan. I’m wearing a couple hats here - I’m a very active member and at times spokeswoman for Code Pink, but I’m also a law student, and I’m traveling with Yale Law School’s Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP). IRAP helps displaced Iraqis get official refugee status from the UN [...]
Monday, December 15, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT Jean Stevens, CODEPINK media coordinator, 646-723-1781 Peace Activists Take Shoes to White House in Solidarity with Shoe-Throwing Iraqi Journalist Call for his release and tribute to Iraqis who have suffered under US occupation WHAT: Peace activists to gather with shoes in solidarity to Iraqi journalist WHEN: 11 a.m., Weds. Dec. 17 WHERE: In front of White House, [...]
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Cofounder Medea Benjamin and Indypendent writer Arun Gupta posted an incredible column on Common Dreams today, inspired by the historic election yesterday, that calls for a grassroots mass-mobilization of communities nationwide to create a plan to solve the economic crisis and reinvest in America. They write: Because the “free market” has proven a farce and the [...]
Monday, October 27, 2008
Tons in the news this past week: Janine Boneparth, Rae Abileah, Keiko Schnelle, Nancy Mancias and Blaine Clarke of CODEPINK in San Francisco made headlines everywhere (!!) with their disruption of Karl Rove (and Janine’s attempted citizen’s arrest) at the Mortgage Banker Association’s conference. Here’s one in the Wall Street Journal, two in the Times (this [...]
Thursday, October 23, 2008
The New York Times ran a story today about Barbara Harris, 71, of CODEPINK NYC, “a retired teacher and longtime peace advocate … on a personal crusade to block recruiters for the United States military from contacting New York City high school students.” She’ll be out at a New York City high school tonight — other [...]
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
CODEPINK in Maine totally rocks. Just came across this story in the central Maine newspaper, the Kennebec Journal’s Morning Sentinel: SKOWHEGAN — Local members of the national peace activist organization Code Pink will stage an “I Miss America” pageant on Sunday beginning at noon on the Margaret Chase Smith bridges in downtown Skowhegan. Contestants wearing pink formal [...]
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 21, 2008 CODEPINK Activists Stage Arrest of Karl Rove for Lying to Congress about the Iraq War at Mortgage Bankers Annual Convention
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CODEPINK co-founder disrupts mortgage bankers convention: Calls for a moratorium on foreclosures and bailouts with taxpayer money
Monday, October 20, 2008
Hey, y’all. Just a quick recap of CODEPINK in the news this past week….
Thursday, October 16, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT Jean Stevens, CODEPINK media coordinator, 646-723-1781 Queens woman loses son in Iraq, now her home to foreclosure scam: where’s the bailout for Americans?
Sunday, December 28, 2008
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