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, [...]
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Gotta love tourists. What began as a relatively mild, 60-person crowd of CODEPINK women, Rainforest Action Network folks and others protesting the bailout today near the Wall St. charging bull statue boomed into an incredible brouhaha when tourists blanketing the area were totally tickled and bug-eyed by the action. They snapped photo after photo of [...]
Monday, September 29, 2008
From the Indypendent, Sept. 28: Time for a Taxpayers Revolt By Medea Benjamin and Arun Gupta September 28, 2008 | Posted in IndyBlog , National | Email this article Congress will be voting this week on the biggest give-away of our tax dollars to the financial sector in our nation’s history. Despite attempts by legislators to portray this as [...]
Monday, April 6, 2009
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