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Why should taxpayers reward the failures of Wall Street?

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, [...]

“Beyond War” in NYC

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, [...]

Inside the AIG hearing now!

Official release: On day of Obama’s Union speech, CODEPINK tells Obama his war funding check has bounced

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE        CONTACT Jean Stevens, media coordinator, 646-723-1781. On day of Obama’s Union speech, CODEPINK tells Obama his war funding check has bounced Urges him to reduce deficit by defunding war WHAT: CODEPINK delivers giant check of war spending marked “insufficient funds” before Obama speech WHEN: 1 p.m. Feb. 24 – TODAY WHERE: East [...]

Punked by pink: where’s the bailout for us?

In a few minutes, the House finance committee will face CEOS of “the Big Three” American auto companies and debate whether it should approve a bailout for the auto industry. CODEPINK will be at the hearing (they were yesterday — check out this Associated Press photo of Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson staring disdainfully at Medea [...]

What, what, what would you do?

Cofounder Medea Benjamin and Indypendent writer Arun Gupta posted an incredible column on Common Dreams today, inspired by the historic election yesterday, that calls for a grassroots mass-mobilization of communities nationwide to create a plan to solve the economic crisis and reinvest in America. They write: Because the “free market” has proven a farce and [...]