As Barack Obama is sworn in as President of the United States of America next week, we – as progressives, activists, and organizers – are more mindful than ever of the promises Obama made during his election campaign – as well as the great challenges he has ahead of him. After nearly six years of [...]
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
Monday, December 29, 2008
Note from the Editor: Col. Ann Wright is a 29 year US Army/Army Reserves veteran and a former US diplomat, who resigned in March 2003 in opposition to the war on Iraq. She recently spent two weeks in Iran meeting with Iranian officials and civilians with two other CODEPINK women, Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans. [...]
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
TAKE ACTION HERE In our recent visit to Iran, we saw among the young university women what an important role model Shirin Ebadi is to them. As a female law student told us, “Shirin is our hero. That’s why many of us decided to study law. We want to be like her and help the [...]
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT Women’s peace group creates petition to Iranian president Calls for safe reopening of Iranian human rights centers, commitment to human rights work WASHINGTON, D.C. — After learning of the shutdown of two renowned Iranian human rights organizations Sunday, CODEPINK Women for Peace have created a letter of petition to Iranian President [...]
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
“Yes We Can-Can start talking with Iran-ran….” Aside from our snappy new song to be debuted at the Inauguration (with some hot dance moves) we just launched our “Let’s Talk” campaign with a citizen-diplomacy trip to Iran in November 2008, where we held meetings with officials and the people of Iran to make human connections [...]
Friday, January 16, 2009
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