"Waging Peace"


In 2002, as a part of collective actions taken to protest the pre-emptive attack on Iraq, Global Exchange co-founder, Medea Benjamin, together with 100 other women on the footsteps of Capitol Hill initiated, CODEPINK: Women for Peace. The name, CODEPINK, plays on the Bush Administration's color-coded homeland security advisory system that signals terrorist threats. While Bush's color coded alerts are based on fear, the CODEPINK alert is based on compassion and is a call for women and men to "wage peace."

Global Exchange, in addition to co-creating CODEPINK: Women for Peace, has been a leading force in the peace movement by co-founding the largest anti-war coalition in the United States, United for Peace and Justice.