The future will be here in April and Code Pink: Women for Peace has already won it (thus answering President Obama's State of the Union call to "win the future"). The color coded threat warnings our government has been bombarding us with since shortly after September 11, 2001, will be gone. The fear-mongering tactic that Code Pink was named in mockery of will have been mocked right out of existence.
To listen to the corporate media, Code Pink cannot be taken seriously because decorum and politeness are universal values of a much higher order than peace or justice. (Code Pink has been known to disrupt a formal event or two, in addition to all its other work advocating for peace.)
UPDATE: CODEPINK activists just delivered our report card to the White House in DC in advance of the President’s State of the Union address — Check out the awesome video of this action here. Tonight President Obama will give the annual State of the Union Address. How would you grade his efforts to create a [...]
Tonight, President Obama to give talk from a memorial service for the shooting victims in Tucson. It will be broadcast live on TV at 8pm ET, or you can watch it on your computer right here.
CODEPINK Tucson activists co-organized a press conference on 1/11/11 with local peace groups. Watch the video here...
Code Pink’s Tucson Chapter extends loving and supportive thoughts to all the lives touched by this violent action. Citing contempt for the shooter and seeking retribution are not the ways to heal the wounds and to address the root concerns of this tragedy, however. Our wish is that everyone affected by Saturday’s massacre will finds ways to transition from pain to healing. To move from suffering to strength...
Thursday, January 27, 2011
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