Mary Perkins Harris, an inspiring Los Angeles-based CODEPINK leader, has written this beautiful piece in the wake Thursday’s U.S. Airways plane crash into the Hudson River outside New York City. Everyone survived. They’re calling the U.S. Airways crash a miracle. It’s not a miracle, it’s America. We’ve forgotten who we really are in America. Beaten [...]
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 [...]
Friday, January 16, 2009
As Barack Obama is sworn in as President of the United States of America next week, we – as progressives, activists, and organizers – are more mindful than ever of the promises Obama made during his election campaign – as well as the great challenges he has ahead of him. After nearly six years of [...]
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 [...]
Thursday, January 15, 2009
I’ve been fasting since Sunday, one of about 100 fasters nationwide (including 40 of us in D.C.), part of Witness Against Torture’s 100 Days Campaign to mark the seventh-anniversary of Guantanamo prison and call for Obama to close it within his first 100 days, as promised. We’ll break the fast on inauguration day. Here’s my [...]
Thursday, January 15, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CODEPINK women to proclaim “Yes, we can-can live in peace!” at historic Obama inauguration, call on Obama to keep promises to end war
Saturday, January 17, 2009
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