New York City hasn’t earned a reputation as being the most environmentally-friendly. And despite a thriving farmer’s market system citywide, many wonder where to find any “green” activism like that in Portland, OR or other cities.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
CODEPINK women rocked out at the amazing PowerShift ’09 conference this past weekend in Washington and Capitol Power Plant action Monday, carrying bright pink “War Is Not Green” banners and spreading the word of the links among war, energy consumption, pollution and environmental destruction. Leslie Angeline and Blaine Clarke gave this great interview to a [...]
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 [...]
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Like the rest of the world, CODEPINK is emboldened by Sen. Barack Obama’s victory in a historic presidential election.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Three years ago, an American soldier LaVena Johnson of Missouri bought candy, soda and lip balm one night near her base in Iraq. She went to meet friends to go jogging. But she never made it — her body was found the next day in a burning tent with a broken nose, black eye, and [...]
Thursday, September 4, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT Medea Benjamin, 415-235-6517 Nancy Mancias, 415-342-6409 ST. PAUL — Two activists of the women’s peace group CODEPINK disrupted John McCain’s speech Thursday night at the Republican National Convention, immediately following another activist of the anti-war veterans group, Iraq Veterans Against War. At the start of McCain’s speech, veteran Adam Kokesh of [...]
Monday, August 17, 2009
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