I’m CODEPINK’s local groups coordinator, and I just returned Tuesday from a 10-day interfaith Fellowship of Reconciliation peace delegation to Iran, a group of 14 Americans. Here’s my diary of the last days of the trip!
Friday, December 5, 2008
I’m CODEPINK’s local groups coordinator, and for the past two weeks, I’ve been part of the eighth Fellowship of Reconciliation delegation to Iran, a group of 14 Americans. The delegation left the evening of Nov. 26 from New York City to Tehran, and will return December 7. (Join the virtual delegation by checking out [...]
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Rae Abileah, a CODEPINK organizer in Iran for an interfaith citizen’s diplomacy trip, has sent some great new photos of some members of her group visiting the city of Ishafan. Enjoy!
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
WASHINGTON, D.C — As President-Elect Obama continues to shift toward the right with Cabinet appointments, three American women returned from a ground-breaking citizen diplomacy trip to Iran this week calling for real policy change, including direct talks without preconditions and the lifting of economic sanctions. In the seven-day trip, Medea Benjamin, Jodie Evans and Col. (retired) [...]
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Monday, December 1, 2008
Two young Jewish-American women, including CODEPINK organizer extraordinaire Rae Abileah, are currently on a two-week citizen diplomacy trip in Iran working for political and religious peace. Abileah, 26, of California’s Bay Area and Ariel Vegosen, 28, of New York City, are two of a handful of Americans visiting there in an interfaith group to meet [...]
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Medea and I (CODEPINK co-founders) are spending the week in Iran on a citizen’s diplomacy visit, engaging with Iranian women’s groups and officials to build bridges and create peace from the ground up. We arrived Friday. Here’s a bit of our experience Monday (bit of time delay in getting this up…sorry!) It is our third day [...]
Monday, November 24, 2008
The James Carville of Iran Yesterday was our “Government Meeting” day. When we first asked to meet with people in the government, I don’t think we truly understood that it was that big of an ask. It just doesn’t happen. When we asked the two women members of Parliament if they’d met any other people from [...]
Monday, November 24, 2008
Jodie and I (CODEPINK co-founders) are spending the week in Iran on a citizen’s diplomacy visit, engaging with Iranian women’s groups and officials to build bridges and create peace from the ground up. We arrived Friday. Here’s a bit of our experience Sunday! Before our first meeting, Jodie and I took a morning walk, looking at [...]
Thursday, December 11, 2008
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