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 [...]
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Bruce Bueno de Mesquite uses mathematical analysis and game theory to predict war, political events, power shifts, etc. His work is controversial – but shockingly accurate. In the video below, he speaks at TED making three predictions on the future of Iran. Take a look. His most interesting point in his talk was that international [...]
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i9Oj7O8ZxQ When we heard that the CEO of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, would be speaking at an Institutional Investors Conference today, we ran over to say hello. A few minutes into his talk, CODEPINKer Desiree Fairooz and I calmly walked on the stage with our banner saying “We want our $$$ back.” Goldman Sachs, [...]
Monday, April 6, 2009
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, [...]
Thursday, April 9, 2009
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