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Medea Benjamin Opens United National Peace Conference | VIDEO

Medea Benjamin was the first speaker Friday night, July 23, 2010, at the United National Peace Conference in Albany, New York. Her rousing speech called for building coalitions between different social and grassroots movements to reallocate war funding and resist the military industrial complex. Medea speaks at the United National Peace Conference Share the link [...]

The Hummer is Dead – Let’s Bury It and Build a New Economy

The Hummer is dead. Not even the Chinese could revive it. The Hummer was emblematic of a Rambo-like era, culture, lifestyle, and political philosophy disrespectful to both human beings and mother nature. It is now time to bury the militaristic, gas-guzzling, polluting 8,400-pound hunks that drove environmentalists and peaceniks crazy as they cruised down our city streets.

CODEPINK and Tea Party: A Love-Hate Affair?

For Tax Day, CODEPINK activists attended tea party rallies in various parts of the country to survey the right-wing activists on their military spending views. After all, if tea partiers are displaying so much rage over the national debt and paying taxes, they must certainly oppose the massively bloated Pentagon budget and the various wars that the United States is waging without due cause. Reports are trickling in that the conversation was actually civil between the two groups, with CODEPINK relatively more surprised and also more organized. That certainly beats the confrontational health care protests from last month. CODEPINK did interviews with over 50 participants in the Tea Party rally, getting their input about the cost of war and empire. We will soon be releasing the results of that survey.

Is shoe-throwing a crime?

I just published a piece on AlterNet, Common Dreams and OpEdNews, based on my interview with Hero Anwar Brzw, a Kurdish Iraqi woman studying peacemaking at Eastern Mennonite University. I spoke with her to learn her thoughts on whether Iraqi journalist Muthadar al-Zaidi committed a crime in throwing his shoes at Bush in December at [...]

Official release: Nine members of international women’s delegation stay behind in Gaza

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE     March 12, 2009    CONTACT: Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK co-founder, 018 9561919 or 972-059-706-4075 Tighe Barry, CODEPINK activist, 011-2019-4812932 (in Cairo) Jean Stevens, CODEPINK national media coordinator, 508-769-2138 (in U.S.) Nine members of international women’s delegation stay behind in Gaza A Palestinian delegate is detained at border, will attempt to cross again March 15 [...]

Gaza delegation: Pam Rasmussen’s diary

Pam Rasmussen, of Maryland, shares her experiences (with great photos!) on the 60-member aid delegation on her blog here. Here’s an excerpt from March 11: