If you would like to add your name to the mailing list to receive 3-5 posts per week, send a note to Nancy K at codepinknyc@gmail.com. Gaza Digest 97, 7/2/09 News Clips: Israel will not impose a complete halt on settlement construction on occupied Palestinian land as demanded by the United States, a senior official said Thursday; [...]
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
WASHINGTON — After this morning’s Israel’s abduction of 21 human rights workers, including Noble laureate Mairead Maguire and former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, from their aid ship to Gaza while in international waters, the women’s peace group CODEPINK calls on the Israeli government to immediately release the passengers on the ship, the Spirit of [...]
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
This past rainy Sunday in New York City, the clouds parted for a few hours so that a group of bikini-clad CODEPINKers could shine their light upon a dark issue: Israel’s abuse and war crimes toward the people of Palestine.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
CODEPINK hand-delivered a letter to Sex & The City star and Oxfam ambassador Kristin Davis at an Ahava beauty products promotional event at Lord & Taylor in New York City, June 10. Davis is a paid spokesperson for Ahava, which obtains and manufactures its products in an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied Palestinian West [...]
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
CAIRO — An American group arriving here tomorrow from war-torn Gaza will deliver a letter penned by Hamas officials to Pres. Obama, who will be in Cairo delivering his landmark speech to the Arab world. At 9 a.m. June 4, the delegation of journalists, social workers, professors and activists will carry the letter to [...]
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
I’m in Cairo now with retired Col. Ann Wright and fellow activist Tighe Barry with some great news to report. The day started out with a 3 a.m. call from one of our delegations in Al Arish saying that secret police had contacted them at 2 p.m. to intimidate them and say they would not [...]
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
While I was being tackled by security guards at Washington’s Convention Center during the AIPAC conference for unfurling a banner that asked “What about Gaza?,” my heart was aching. I wasn’t bothered so much by the burly guards who were yanking my arms behind by back and dragging me-along with 5 other CODEPINK members-out of [...]
Monday, May 4, 2009
WASHINGTON — During Israeli Pres. Shimon Peres’ speech today at the annual AIPAC (American Israeli Political Action Committee) policy conference at the Washington Convention Center, CODEPINK members raised banners saying “Want Peace? End the Occupation,” “What About Gaza?,” and “No Money for War Crimes.” As the six activists were forcibly dragged away from the stage, they [...]
Monday, April 6, 2009
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, [...]
Thursday, July 2, 2009
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