Yesterday’s arrest of CODEPINKer Alicia Forrest has stirred up many questions among reporters covering the convention protests. Are the police brutal? Their numbers disproportionately great? Do Forrest, or any other protester, do anything to provoke them? Linda Milazzo, of Huffington Post, asks, “Is this really what democracy looks like?”
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Reuters interview with Anne Toepel, the 41-year-old elementary school teacher who founded the Denver-Boulder chapter of CODEPINK.
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Today’s New York Daily News report, “Rambunctious Clinton loyalists make anti-war protestors look sober, savvy“–ha ha ha ha ha, it’s funny for two reasons, one of them being the anonymous CODEPINKer text-message I got late last evening regarding bloody marys–relays the nastiness and disruptions caused by moderate democrats formerly backing the former first lady for [...]
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
The Rocky Mountain News has published shocking footage of the arrest of CODEPINK member Alicia Forrest, 24, of Los Angeles, here. At a press conference outside the Denver City Jail at 3:30 p.m., the details of the arrest were described. She will be released from Denver City Jail sometime within the next couple hours, according [...]
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Special report by Linda Milazzo–At the very core of patriotism is the desire to preserve and enhance democracy. For true patriots — those who take their love of nation beyond the confines of their cushy sofas and wide screen TVs — there are no limits to their efforts to hold leaders accountable to uphold the [...]
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Special Report by Janet Weil, SF CA–More than seventy CODEPINKers converged on Denver from at least 26 states around the country yesterday, Sunday, August 24, to bring our joyous, intense woman spirit and our peace and “war is not green” messages to the DNC. Nine of us took the Peace Train from the Bay Area; [...]
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
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