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VOTE to End the War in Iraq!

That’s right!  You can Vote to End the War in Iraq.  Change.org is taking Ideas for Change in America, and you can vote here: http://www.change.org/ideas/view/leave_iraq_now From the War in Iraq to the violence in Gaza to Afghanistan and even a bloated military budget, War is SO Over! So vote to make leaving Iraq one of the [...]

“The System Isn’t Set Up for the Applicants”

All the news we hope to print! - War is SO over party in Times Square!

The Iraq War is SO over!!!! Time to celebrate!!!! We got the “news” this morning along with the rest of New York City (and Los Angeles, D.C., Chicago…) in a special edition of The New York Times today!!! Hundreds of people distributed them in New York Times black smocks in subways and on street corners [...]

Maine ladies got it going on

CODEPINK in Maine totally rocks. Just came across this story in the central Maine newspaper, the Kennebec Journal’s Morning Sentinel: SKOWHEGAN — Local members of the national peace activist organization Code Pink will stage an “I Miss America” pageant on Sunday beginning at noon on the Margaret Chase Smith bridges in downtown Skowhegan. Contestants wearing pink formal [...]

U.S. military men sexually assault one-third of fellow female soldiers

Three years ago, an American soldier LaVena Johnson of Missouri bought candy, soda and lip balm one night near her base in Iraq. She went to meet friends to go jogging. But she never made it — her body was found the next day in a burning tent with a broken nose, black eye, and [...]

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 [...]

goodbye denver

It has been an amazing week. You wouldn’t know it from the media, but CODEPINK was everywhere! By the end of the week, you couldn’t walk down the 16th Street pedestrian mall without seeing people wearing “I am peace delegate pins”, carrying our Peace Fans, or–most popular of all–prominently displaying our Make Out Not War [...]