Posted by Tex Dworkin in Stop Funding War, World News & Events on 5th January, 2011 | No Comments
On December 27, 2009, on the one-year memorial of the major Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip, concerned people from around the world met in Cairo to travel to Gaza, despite the siege, for the Gaza Freedom March, calling for an end to the siege of Gaza. Only 100 marchers were allowed into Gaza; protests in Cairo generated international attention. Over 150 solidarity actions occurred around the world including Israel, the West Bank, Switzerland, New York, and Minnesota. Check out the video for more on this.
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Posted by Admin in Uncategorized on 11th December, 2010 | No Comments
Reflecting on the close of the UNFCCC climate talks, Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK and Global Exchange, writes of her experience on the ground in Cancun.
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Posted by Zarah Patriana in Featured, Stop Funding War on 9th December, 2010 | No Comments
When news came out yesterday that Berkeley’s City Council was considering passing a resolution to honor Pfc. Bradley Manning for leaking information to Wikileaks and call for his release, FOX News approached Medea Benjamin to appear on “America Live with Megyn Kelly” to discuss her reaction to the resolution.
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Posted by Medea Benjamin in Stop Funding War, World News & Events on 29th October, 2010 | 3 Comments
It’s too bad that Stewart is ridiculing antiwar activism, while promoting his slacktivist Rally for Sanity.
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Posted by Zarah Patriana in Stop Funding War on 3rd September, 2010 | No Comments
See what’s going on behind the scenes in the “peace negotiations” between Israeli and Palestinian officials, announced by Secretary Clinton for September 1st, 2010.
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Posted by Zarah Patriana in Stop Funding War, World News & Events on 9th August, 2010 | No Comments
Last Monday, President Obama gave a speech before the Disabled American Veterans national convention in Atlanta, Georgia stating that the US military is on target and will withdraw all its combat troops from Iraq by the end of August. Global Exchange and CODEPINK join in on a statement in hopes to get out the truth that the Iraq war was based on lies, left Iraq in tatters, drained our resources and MUST NOT be repeated for years to come in Afghanistan.
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Posted by Zarah Patriana in Featured, Stop Funding War, World News & Events on 27th July, 2010 | No Comments
Not since the Pentagon Papers have the inner workings of war been exposed to the public in such an explosive fashion as with the Wikileaks’ revelations on the Afghan war. The Afghan War Diary is composed of over 90,000 leaked military documents that expose the harrowing truth of the war in Afghanistan, revealing widespread corruption, soaring Taliban attacks, cover-ups, excessive civilian casualties and more.
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Posted by Medea Benjamin in Stop Funding War, World News & Events on 30th June, 2010 | No Comments
General Petreaus is being confirmed today as the new commander of the war in Afghanistan. His confirmation hearing in Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, chaired by Senator Carl Levin, was noteworthy only because of the Senators’ refusal to ask critical questions about the 9-year-old war that has claimed the lives of over 1,000 soldiers and countless Afghans. The only debate in the hearing centered on whether there should be a timeline of July 2011 to begin the drawdown of US forces, or whether our commitment should be open-ended. There was, however, one heated exchange the media missed because it happened just after the hearing ended.
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Posted by Zarah Patriana in World News & Events on 25th June, 2010 | No Comments
On Wednesday, Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Global Exchange and CODEPINK was detained, questioned and denied entry to Canada when trying to cross the border from Detroit. DemocracyNow! speaks with Medea about the incident.
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Posted by Tex Dworkin in Stop Funding War, World News & Events on 24th June, 2010 | No Comments
On Monday June 21 members of CODE PINK: Women for Peace buried a Hummer on this wildly artistic street, the Heidelberg Project, that is a symbol of hope and revitalization in a city devastated by economic downturn. Check out pictures and video from the event.
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