Tonight our CODEPINK delegation in Cairo returned to Tahrir Square after the terrible events of this afternoon, when Mubarak's thugs busted up their peaceful protest with rocks, sticks and molotov cocktails. Hundreds have been wounded--their hands, legs, arms wrapped in bloody bandages. Despite the beatings, thousands of people are still camped out in the square--absolutely determined to stay there until Mubarak goes.
Now is the time that the Egyptian people need our solidarity. Don't let there be one more "Made in the USA" teargas canister hurled at these people. Don't let there be one more U.S. bullet or U.S. weapon aimed at them.
After several canceled flights, I am finally on my way to Egypt to join my CODEPINK colleagues who are already there. We were supposed to be leading a delegation to Gaza right now, traveling through the Sinai to get to Gaza's southern border. The Rafa crossing into Gaza has been closed, our delegation is unable to leave Cairo, and we have been caught up in the breath-taking people's movement that is sweeping Egypt. CODEPINK’s Tighe Barry has been out on the streets of Cairo all week long. You can hear a compelling report from him here.
Just when Wikileaks revealed ten more deaths of innocent Iraqis at the hands of Blackwater mercenaries, the wife of Blackwater CEO Erik Prince was busy trying to convict peace activists for trespassing. On Tuesday, October 26 in the Fairfax County Courthouse, Joanna Prince took CODEPINK cofounder Medea Benjamin to trial. On the witness stand, [...]
Check out these video highlights from Free Speech TV's coverage of the historic One Nation Working Together March on Saturday, October 2nd. Organizers estimate that over 175,000 people attended the rally and march. Below is video of Thom Hartmann and Rosa Clemente's live interview with Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK: Women for Peace.
This interview aired live to 35 million households on Free Speech TV via DIRECTV channel 248, DISH Network channel 9415, and streamed on freespeech.org to thousands of online viewers.
Medea Benjamin was the first speaker Friday night, July 23, 2010, at the United National Peace Conference in Albany, New York. Her rousing speech called for building coalitions between different social and grassroots movements to reallocate war funding and resist the military industrial complex. Medea speaks at the United National Peace Conference Share the link [...]
The Hummer is dead. Not even the Chinese could revive it. The Hummer was emblematic of a Rambo-like era, culture, lifestyle, and political philosophy disrespectful to both human beings and mother nature. It is now time to bury the militaristic, gas-guzzling, polluting 8,400-pound hunks that drove environmentalists and peaceniks crazy as they cruised down our city streets.
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
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