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Freeze! CodePink Strikes Austin Mall with Anti-War Theater

On December 20, 2008, a group of Code Pink members and friends staged a ‘freeze action’ at the Barton Creek Mall in Austin, Texas. The message was ‘don’t buy war,’ encouraging shoppers to avoid buying war toys and to think about the horrors of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. To read more about this [...]

More troops for no-good war

It’s official: the U.S. is sending at least three brigades of troops to Afghanistan by summer. Defense Secretary Gates arrived in Afghanistan today and met with a lead U.S. commander David McKiernana, who has requested four additional brigades, including the one scheduled for January deployment, or 14,000 and 20,000 troops. The U.S. military has [...]

OFFICIAL RELEASE: CODEPINK speaks out against Maryland State Police spying program

CODEPINK women speak out against illegal spying by the Maryland State Police; Call for Obama administration to protect free speech, privacy rights of activists BALTIMORE – As part of a recently revealed illegal spying program, the Maryland State Police’s Department of Homeland Security erroneously listed three members of CODEPINK Women for Peace as suspected terrorists in the [...]

OFFICIAL RELEASE: Two CODEPINK Activists Arrested for Protesting Karl Rove

Two CODEPINK Activists Arrested for Protesting Karl Rove at Commercial Finance Association annual convention SAN FRANCISCO — Two members of the women’s peace group CODEPINK were arrested today at a financial convention in San Francisco when they took the stage along Karl Rove and staged a citizen’s arrest on charges of war crimes.

Breakin’ the Law, Breakin’ the Law!

NYC resident and activist (oh and famous actor) Tim Robbins, was apparently rebuffed at his polling place this AM. He says he’s been voting the same place for 15 years and was on the list for the primaries but was not on the list this AM. He was ready to get arrested

Embedded in Pink

Anne Elizabeth Moore, a PINKTank doula, wrote this embedded CODEPINK profile piece for In These Times in late September. Since one can’t turn around in the virtual world without bumping into a fancy electoral map, we thought we’d repost on the PINKTank today to honor this day of democracy in action. Thanks to all the [...]

Can’t Decide Whether to Laugh, Cry or Laugh so Hard I Cry

This article in New York Magazine shows Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi schooling National Review’s Byron York over the financial crisis. Simply amazing. Check it out.

Dogs on film

Americans love their tiny dogs. Beverly Hills Chihuahua raked in $17.5 million this past weekend, taking the top spot for the second weekend in a row. The newest war thriller Body of Lies, with Leo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe, saw only $13 million and a measly third place. (The folks who analyze this stuff thought [...]

Foxy ladies!

Top 10 reasons why today’s Hank “Fox in the henhouse” Paulson action totally rocked: