SANTA MONICA — Inside upscale cosmetics stores here and in Marina del Rey in a two-hour “tour,” bikini-clad activists streaked with mud of the women’s peace group CODEPINK will rally with chants and signs to expose the dirty truth of the Israeli cosmetics company, Ahava Dead Sea Laboratories: that it profits from its exploitation and [...]
Monday, March 9, 2009
On International Women’s Day, March 8, about 50 LA activists gathered at the entrance to the Universal Hilton Hotel where the annual AIPAC fundraiser was being held. We arrived about 30 minutes early to eight cop cars lined up in wait. The press outreach had been effective as three local cameras were arriving along with [...]
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Guest-blogger Patricia Foulkrod, an acclaimed director and producer based in Los Angeles, describes her experience last night attempting a citzens’ arrest of former Bush chief of staff Karl Rove at Loyola Marymount University. Her most recent documentary, “The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends,” follows Iraq soldiers from recruitment to basic training, from battlefield orders [...]
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Mary Perkins Harris, an inspiring Los Angeles-based CODEPINK leader, has written this beautiful piece in the wake Thursday’s U.S. Airways plane crash into the Hudson River outside New York City. Everyone survived. They’re calling the U.S. Airways crash a miracle. It’s not a miracle, it’s America. We’ve forgotten who we really are in America. Beaten down by [...]
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
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