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If “violence is a dead end,” why are we paying for it?

Friday, June 19, 2009

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In President Obama’s much-praised, criticized and analyzed speech in Cairo, he condescended at one point to lecture the Palestinians on their use of violence, contrasting it with the nonviolent strategy and tactics of African-American for their civil rights: “Palestinians must abandon violence. Resistance through violence and killing is wrong and does not succeed. For centuries, black [...]

Official release: Local taxpayers to rally TODAY outside of AIG New York offices

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

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WHAT: Local taxpayers to gather outside of AIG New York offices, demand their fair $80 million share of sale WHEN: 12 p.m. TODAY (April 15) WHERE: AIG headquarters @ 70 Pine St., New York, NY NEW YORK CITY — AIG is selling its Manhattan offices here — and local taxpayers want their fair share of the deal! Members of [...]

Official release: CODEPINK calls on Congress to reject Obama request for $83 billion for wars

Friday, April 10, 2009

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WASHINGTON — Representing the voice of millions of Americans and those worldwide, CODEPINK calls on Congress to reject President Obama’s outrageous request for an additional $83.4 billion to be spent on ineffectual, destabilizing, immoral wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Despite Obama’s campaign promise never to ask for war funding as a supplemental bill as opposed to [...]

Why should taxpayers reward the failures of Wall Street?

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

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VIDEO:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i9Oj7O8ZxQ When we heard that the CEO of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, would be speaking at an Institutional Investors Conference today, we ran over to say hello. A few minutes into his talk, CODEPINKer Desiree Fairooz and I calmly walked on the stage with our banner saying “We want our $$$ back.” Goldman Sachs, after [...]

“Beyond War” in NYC

Monday, April 6, 2009

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We felt pretty dismal, the dozen or so of us CODEPINK women gathered at Franklin and Lafayette Streets in lower Manhattan around 11:30 a.m. Saturday for United for Peace and Justice’s “Beyond War” mass mobilization on to Wall Street, designed to link poverty, the economic crisis, and racism with war and occupation. We were frozen, [...]

Inside the AIG hearing now!

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

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