Katy Keenan, a CODEPINKer of Seattle, penned this piece published now on the progressive online journal, Common Sense 2, describing her experience joining dozens of others CODEPINK women in DC at January’s inauguration festivities and actions. It’s touching, fresh and captures the CODEPINK experience from “the inside” well. Check it out! America looks great in [...]
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Medea Benjamin speaks to YES! Magazine about Obama’s promises and the incoming administration at President Barack Obama’s inauguration. This video was originally posted on YES! Magazine’s site here.
Monday, January 26, 2009
From ALICE WALKER: A poem honoring the people who don’t believe this is happening. I wanted to write a poem for the people who are still saying, “Oh, no, this can’t happen,” you know, because all along the line of this struggle to get Barack Obama to the White House, people feared that something awful [...]
Friday, January 16, 2009
It is cold in Washington, DC. The 60-degree drop in temperature coming here from Orlando set me into a two day shiver, finally relinquishing its icy grip during a 30-minute scalding soak in the shower. But last night over a dozen CODEPINK activists from around the country gathered here and we celebrated our being together again at the [...]
Thursday, January 15, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CODEPINK women to proclaim “Yes, we can-can live in peace!” at historic Obama inauguration, call on Obama to keep promises to end war
Thursday, December 11, 2008
I just wrote a piece for Huffington Post on yesterday’s appalling murder of six Afghan police and one Afghan civilian at the hands of the U.S. military. Check it out here. Coming on today’s statement from Defense Secretary Gates on his plans for more troops to be sent to Afghanistan by summer, it’s even more [...]
Friday, March 20, 2009
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