Dear President Barack Obama, When you spoke in North Dakota last April, I was the one boo-ing as you called the Afghanistan war “the good war.” Writing today, I feel some compunction to apologize. The trouble is, I don't know how else to be heard by my leaders.
Friday, December 4, 2009
Here lie the dashed hopes, concerns, crushed dreams and disappointments of nearly 2,000 Americans. They made it to the inbox of White House officials through our handy dandy tool. 30 minutes after sending the alert we received a call from the White House. Read Jodie Evans’ report of it here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My daughter (15) and I continue [...]
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
This article was originally posted on the Women’s Media Center. October 7, 2009 With the eighth anniversary of our invasion of Afghanistan nearing and a leaked letter from our general in Afghanistan that he wants another 40,000 troops before the funding for the last request of 21,000 has really been fully voted on, we felt it was [...]
Friday, August 21, 2009
In a lead-up to his excellent initial analysis of the Afghan election on his blog today, president of the Global Americana Institute Juan Cole posted this tidbit:
Thursday, August 13, 2009
At CODEPINK, I’m responsible for reading and responding to our “info” email address. I recently received an email that included this: “Code Pink is a bunch of hypocrites. Why are you remaining silent while Obama sends 27,000 more young Americans to a surge in Afghanistan?” There’s been a steady stream of this kind of criticism [...]
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
A handful of people have called various CODEPINK offices these past few days, asking us, “Where’s your outrage against Obama?”
Thursday, December 10, 2009
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