Our dear friend Rachel Bagby, who lead us in song and spirit as we surrounded the White House with 10,000 women in 2003, has put together this oh-so-timely and oh-so-necessary website (votekindly.org). She always has her finger on the pulse of positivity. Thank you Rachel! We love you!
Friday, October 17, 2008
Retired Col. Ann Wright writes her response to a recent scathing editorial in Tuesday’s Fayetteville Times on the military’s shameful downplay of high rates of male soldiers sexual assaulting, raping and murdering female soldiers. The editorial was inspired by Wright — who served 29 years in the Army and in the State Department but publicly [...]
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
A wonderful e-mail has been circulating today. It describes how Alice Paul, Lucy Burns and other women of the 1900s — two generations after Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton — were beaten, jailed, trashed in the newspapers and taunted by crowds when they snuck into private venues, stood in lines illegally, chained themselves [...]
Friday, September 12, 2008
CODEPINK and other peace orgs — a whopping 12 — are gearing up for Sept. 20, the day of our Million Doors for Peace campaign! We’re recruiting thousands of people to knock on one million of their neighbors’ doors and ask them to sign a pledge to bringing the troops home within one year. Katrina [...]
Thursday, September 11, 2008
I have to tell you right off that I cannot be neutral on Barack Obama versus John McCain. I am a progressive for Obama. I understand CODEPINK is a 501c-3 and cannot endorse candidates. That said, I strongly support CODEPINK's efforts to pressure the Obama campaign on Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and etcetera etcetera.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
According to a new poll, white women fans of Obama are jumping ship to vote for McCain/Palin, because — of course! — Palin is a woman. Forget her positions on the war, abortion, drilling, evolution, health care, education for all — she’s XX! Has ovaries! She’s a mommy! By golly, that’s all women need to [...]
Thursday, October 30, 2008
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