WASHINGTON — This Mother’s Day weekend, in an inspiring, empowering vigil to hear the voices of women living under occupation, CODEPINK Women for Peace invites all women, men and children to spend 24 hours outside the White House in a family-friendly gathering of feminine energy, sister and motherhood, a self-reflective reclamation of the original purpose [...]
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 [...]
Friday, January 16, 2009
It was 11 a.m. this morning in our CODEPINK house here in Washington when we heard that Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni was going to be speaking at the National Press Club. “We gotta go,” was our immediate response. Even though we had a full plate preparing for our inauguration actions, we rounded up a few [...]
Friday, January 16, 2009
It is cold in Washington, DC. The 60-degree drop in temperature coming here from Orlando set me into a two day shiver, finally relinquishing its icy grip during a 30-minute scalding soak in the shower. But last night over a dozen CODEPINK activists from around the country gathered here and we celebrated our being together again at the PINK [...]
Sunday, January 4, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jan. 4, 2009 CONTACT Jean Stevens, CODEPINK national media coordinator, 646-723-1781 Candlelight vigil protesting massacre in Gaza outside Obama’s DC hotel begins TONIGHT WHAT: Nightly candlelight vigil to urge President-Elect Obama to speak out, call for ceasefire and stop killing of innocent Palestinians WHEN: 5:30 p.m. every evening beginning Sunday, Jan. 4 WHERE: Begin at 16th and [...]
Thursday, April 9, 2009
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