CODEPINK & Global Exchange cofounder Medea Benjamin, and LA and DC CODEPINK activist Tighe Barry are traveling to Pakistan as a CODEPINK human rights delegation to Pakistan. A letter from Medea per this delegation and its mission follow. Codepinkalert.og will have blogs and reports from Medea and Tighe on the site as they are received. […]
UN SECURITY COUNCIL MUST LISTEN TO IRAQ'S PEOPLE AND PARLIAMENT
Please forward this letter widely and ask that recipients take action. The signers of this letter are some of the most involved and informed individuals in the Progressive community. Take a moment to consider that pressure must begin to come from the global community to get the U.S. out of Iraq. Our supposed leaders in […]
Pakistan, societal dissociation, and Sapir-Whorf
Okay… do you get it now? We’ve supported a military dictatorship in Pakistan since 1999 and enabled this rogue dictatorship’s development and ownership (and thus USE) of nuclear weaponry. Yes — we — not our government… not our administration, not any other euphamistic term that downplays our individual responsibility for allowing this to happen. Listen […]
Update on Liz's condition
Thought I should update you all per Liz’s condition. Received this email this morning from the Phoenix CODEPINK Coordinator. Yesterday, Liz was released from jail after 30 hours, despite the vice-chair of the House Foreign Relations Committee calling the Capitol Police several times to request her release. While she was in quite a bit of […]
Phoenix CODEPINKER Kept in D.C. Jail Overnight
UPDATE on Liz’s condition (from a Phoenix friend): “I just got off the phone with Dana in Washington. She says that she’s heard that Liz is fine, although the Capitol Police broke her glasses and her head was cut in the scuffle. She apparently did not go to the hospital. She, Medea, and Lori will […]
Liz Hourican, from Phoenix, roughed up and arrested by Capitol Hill police
, Liz Hourican of Phoenix was assaulted and injured by Capitol Hill Police today when the police defied the policy of the House Foreign Relations Committee to escort Citizen Protesters from the room without arrest if they are nonviolently disruptive vocally or written signs. “The blood of millions of Iraqis is on your hands!” yelled […]