Jenna Lennon, 19, of Chicago, and her mother Elizabeth joined us for our 24-hour vigil in Lafayette Park, their first CODEPINK event ever. They were both psyched and deeply passionate about our mission, and we were thrilled to have them! Jenna penned this beautiful, loving piece of her thoughts on the weekend for us. Enjoy!
Monday, March 2, 2009
Today I joined Medea Benjamin, Blaine Clark, Leslie Angeline, Jay Marx, David Swanson, Cindy Sheehan and Bev Rice at the incredible Capitol Power Plant mass action today at the Capitol Plant in Washington, protesting its “clean coal,” timed with the incredible PowerShift 2009 Conference that began Friday night. (Here’s me, Desiree, Leslie, and Medea with [...]
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT Jean Stevens, media coordinator, 646-723-1781. On day of Obama’s Union speech, CODEPINK tells Obama his war funding check has bounced Urges him to reduce deficit by defunding war WHAT: CODEPINK delivers giant check of war spending marked “insufficient funds” before Obama speech WHEN: 1 p.m. Feb. 24 - TODAY WHERE: East side of Capitol Building (where [...]
Monday, January 12, 2009
Kathy Kelly, a co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence (kathy@vcnv.org), writes on her view of Gaza from Arish, a town near the Rafah border between Egypt and Gaza. As I write, we can hear the dull thud of explosions in the distance. Israeli airstrikes continue to blast targets in southern Gaza. Merciless bombing of the [...]
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Ariel Vegosen, a Jewish peace activist based in New York City and friend to CODEPINK, has been visiting Israel and Palestine for the past month and was there when Israel began its attack on Gaza. She wrote this piece on her experience from her temporary home in Jenin, Palestine. As Israel invaded Gaza I sat with both [...]
Friday, January 2, 2009
On New Year’s Day, Deepak Chopra sends this letter to President-Elect Obama on how to create peace. Join CODEPINK in making a personal New Year’s Resolution for Peace here. 9 Steps To Peace for Obama in the New Year by Deepak Chopra You have been elected by the first anti-war constituency since 1952, when Dwight D. Eisenhower was [...]
Monday, December 29, 2008
Note from the Editor: Col. Ann Wright is a 29 year US Army/Army Reserves veteran and a former US diplomat, who resigned in March 2003 in opposition to the war on Iraq. She recently spent two weeks in Iran meeting with Iranian officials and civilians with two other CODEPINK women, Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans. [...]
Thursday, December 11, 2008
It’s official: the U.S. is sending at least three brigades of troops to Afghanistan by summer. Defense Secretary Gates arrived in Afghanistan today and met with a lead U.S. commander David McKiernana, who has requested four additional brigades, including the one scheduled for January deployment, or 14,000 and 20,000 troops. The U.S. military has [...]
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
The Iraq War is SO over!!!! Time to celebrate!!!! We got the “news” this morning along with the rest of New York City (and Los Angeles, D.C., Chicago…) in a special edition of The New York Times today!!! Hundreds of people distributed them in New York Times black smocks in subways and on street corners [...]
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Like the rest of the world, CODEPINK is emboldened by Sen. Barack Obama’s victory in a historic presidential election.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
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