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 [...]
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?
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
A wonderful e-mail has been circulating today. It describes how Alice Paul, Lucy Burns and other women of the 1900s — two generations after Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton — were beaten, jailed, trashed in the newspapers and taunted by crowds when they snuck into private venues, stood in lines illegally, chained themselves [...]
Friday, August 29, 2008
A few days ago the Denver Post ran a piece on the parking-lot restricted and wholly sanctioned—yet totally ineffective—protest zone set up for the throngs at the DNC. As Lynne Gravel remarks in the article, “The delegates can’t see [it.]” CODEPINKer Liz Hourican, ever ready to draw attention to political ridiculousness, kneels in the protest [...]
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Yesterday’s arrest of CODEPINKer Alicia Forrest has stirred up many questions among reporters covering the convention protests. Are the police brutal? Their numbers disproportionately great? Do Forrest, or any other protester, do anything to provoke them? Linda Milazzo, of Huffington Post, asks, “Is this really what democracy looks like?”
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Today’s New York Daily News report, “Rambunctious Clinton loyalists make anti-war protestors look sober, savvy“–ha ha ha ha ha, it’s funny for two reasons, one of them being the anonymous CODEPINKer text-message I got late last evening regarding bloody marys–relays the nastiness and disruptions caused by moderate democrats formerly backing the former first lady for [...]
Monday, August 25, 2008
CODEPINK has just learned that delegates will be meeting with protesters — of all sorts — at 2 p.m. today in Skyline Park (16th and Arapahoe) to discuss their issues in their protests. Some members of CODEPINK and others will be there with their message for peace. In addition, at 2 p.m. today, many members of [...]
Monday, December 29, 2008
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