Guest blogger Annette Rondano is a small business owner and single mother of two in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I call on the women of the world to unite and create One Decade of International Women’s Rule. Ten years is all we will need to make the world livable again. Our priorities would look like a mother’s [...]
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Peace, Mothers throughout the world, How blessed we are to communicate today and join our spirits in the true spirit of the day - “Disarm!” Though I am unable to come to D.C., it is such a comfort to gather with you here at the Ocean Mother’s edge in Cambria, California. I will spend the day [...]
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
While I was being tackled by security guards at Washington’s Convention Center during the AIPAC conference for unfurling a banner that asked “What about Gaza?,” my heart was aching. I wasn’t bothered so much by the burly guards who were yanking my arms behind by back and dragging me-along with 5 other CODEPINK members-out of [...]
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Women know that war is SO over. We know it in our hearts, in our guts, in our wombs. We know that the madness in Iraq and Afghanistan has to end, that we cannot keep sending our children to kill the children of mothers across the globe. Last month at an appearance in Turkey, President [...]
Monday, April 20, 2009
From http://www.brusselstribunal.org/SouadAlAzzawi_Numbers.htm Six years into the occupation… - 72 months of destruction - $607 Billions spent on the war - 2 Million Barrels of oil being sold per day - 2 Million Displaced Iraqis inside of Iraq - 3 Million Iraqis forced to leave the country - 2615 professors, scientists, and doctors killed in cold blood - 338 dead journalists - $13 Billion misplaced by [...]
Monday, April 20, 2009
Below is a must-read Op-Ed from Sunday’s New York Times on the women of Afghanistan. In the discussion of troop surges and withdrawals and development and Taliban, we must give the women of Afghanistan a seat at the table. We must listen and lift up their voices in the fate of the future of Afghanistan. Here’s [...]
Friday, March 6, 2009
Our international women’s delegation arrived in Cairo on Thursday and are on buses across Egypt to the Rafah border. They hope to cross into Gaza tomorrow with the aid. Several of the delegates are tweeting the journey. Here’s the latest tweet: Kim1811: Just got through first security checkpoint en route to Rafah. 2 buses full [...]
Thursday, March 5, 2009
In the past few weeks, we have seen an outpouring of love and support for the women of Gaza through our International Women’s Day actions. Over 25 fundraisers have taken place across the U.S., 60 delegates signed up to travel to Gaza, and we have received funds for over 2,500 baskets of goodies and aid [...]
Thursday, February 26, 2009
“Afghanistan needs troops–but it needs troops of doctors, troops of teachers, troops of Peace Corps volunteers, and troops of farmers to go and replant the fruit orchards.” –Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO of Global Fund for Women After Obama’s recent announcement that he will send more troops to Afghanistan, CODEPINK called on the Administration to instead send [...]
Monday, January 26, 2009
This was originally posted in USA Today on January 22, 2009. Under the disastrous Bush years, the U.S. military invaded a country that posed no threat to the United States, destroyed its infrastructure and plunged it into chaos. This led to the death and displacement of millions of Iraqis, squandered the lives of more than 4,000 [...]
Sunday, May 10, 2009
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