Write to World Affairs Council’s President Jane Wales: War Criminals are not welcome in San Francisco! Watch Citizens Arrest Ehud Olmert video! Take a few minutes to contact Jane Wales (JWales@wacsf.org) to express your outrage that the World Affairs Council invited former Israeli Prime Minister to speak last night! Write a short, personal note. Here [...]
Thursday, October 22, 2009
San Francisco – More than 22 activists, including several CODEPINKers, were arrested after disrupting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s speech to the World Affairs Council on Thursday, October 22, 2009 at the Westin St. Francis Hotel (Union Square). Inside the auditorium, activists read the names of the children killed in Gaza last winter, publicly charging [...]
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Sara Nichols is an environmental and political activist, retired environmental attorney, and board member of Women’s Campaign International. She was a delegate on CODEPINK’s recent visit to Afghanistan. Below she writes about some of the local perspectives and challenges she discovered in Afghanistan. I thought day one was as interesting as a day could get. But [...]
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
The G 20 may be over, but our important work continues. "Now is an important time for activists to continue speaking out about the imperialistic wars being funded and supported by our government," says Francine Porter from Codepink. It's up to women to continue to raise awareness and pressure Congress about the imperialistic wars launched by our country in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the continual support of military and financial aid to Israel to continual the bruit al occupation against Palestine.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
From Jodie Evans: I am just returning from my 10-day trip to Afghanistan. As we left, a farm was bombed and eight members of a family were killed. Eight U.S. soldiers also lost their lives in an insurgent raid on their outpost. And today marks the 8th anniversary of the US Invasion of that war [...]
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Zoya's gripping memoir opens with her donning the burqa in stifling heat to cross the border at a Taliban checkpoint, returning to Afghanistan after five years as a refugee in Pakistan. She is smuggling RAWA literature documenting atrocities committed by Taliban militants, and will surely die if this is discovered. But as a woman, her burqa and a decoy male relative are the only passports required. The screen chafes her eyelids, and she can see neither ground nor sky. A fitting introduction to the woman called Zoya, pillar of the Jamiat-e Inqalabi Zanan-e Afghanistan (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, or RAWA).
Friday, October 23, 2009
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