Women's Week Leading Up To Mothers' Day!

From Monday, May 5th until Friday May 9th, as a build-up to reclaiming the Mothers Day of Julia Ward Howe's Proclamation and as a protest against the $178 Billion more dollars proposed to continue funding the occupation of Iraq, we are planning a week of women-focused daily protests at the MRS! Such as:

• Monday, May 5th: Grandmothers Day of Action: we call on Grandmothers to volunteer to be recruited, instead of our youth
   
• Tuesday, May 6th: Mothers Day of Action: we Mothers bewail the loss of all our children, and as Mama Bears, we do not allow recruiters to take our youth
   
• Wednesday, May 7th: Daughters Day of Action: we call on daughters to do a wailing, mourning the loss of our fathers, the toll on the humanity of our fathers, the sorrow and pain of our fathers who have paid the price for destroying and/or harming human beings.
   
• Thursday, May 8th: Sistahs:
   
• Friday, May 9th: Witches, Crones, Sirens: perform rituals of leaving, cast a spell of peace and love over the station, rendering nil the recruiting of our youth to become fodder for this occupation of Iraq.
   
• Then on Sunday, Mother's Day, May 11th, we have the March over the Golden Gate Bridge at noon.

PLEASE call 510-524-2776 or email if you're willing to sponsor, participate, help organize, or just BE THERE!

No Military Predators in Our Town Campaign

CodePINK found out last September '07 that Marine Recruiters had invaded our peace-loving, anti-war town of Berkeley and set up an officer recruiting station targeting youth from U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley City College, and other colleges in the Bay Area. We have been holding "How Berkeley Can U BE" (see the Calendar) daily and weekly events and actions in front of the M.R.S.* (Marine Recruiting Station) to halt business as usual at the station.

In response to the pro-war unsubstantiated call for a boycott of Berkeley Businesses, we have launched the Berkeley Businesses for Peace Association and we are also calling for a Summer of Hope in Berkeley for the month of July.

Together we WILL SHUT DOWN military recruiting in our town!

Peace, "No Military Recruiting" Coalition Team
Click for more on the Regulating Military Recruiting Coalition

SOS: Looking for a few good women! and allies!

In July of '06, we launched an SOS campaign to Save our Site on Solano Ave. Our wonderful CodePINK office on Solano Ave was in danger of closing unless we could find 24 of you who were willing & able to pledge $50 per month - more if you can, less if you can't - to keep open our site! Many people generously stepped up to the plate with both pledges and one-time contributions to help support our office.

Now our office if being brought to you by the following CodePINK members:

As you probably know, our office is the ONLY CodePINK office in the nation, we believe, that is a visible and accessible storefront located on a major thoroughfare! We NEED this office to continue our amazing and vital work ending this war.

We are still looking for only more pledgees! If you are willing & able to by one of those final two, please fill out the pledge card & return TODAY! Help spread the word even if you are not able to donate yourself. Try to find ONE donor who is able to support us!

Remember, whether CodePINK works or not, is up to each and everyone of us. We get no funding, no monetary support from National CodePINK, no oil or tax windfalls!!! Pledge securely today!

Thank you! SOS - Save Our Site - Team

CodePINK is a women initiated & women led grassroots peace and social justice movement that seeks positive social change through proactive, creative protest and non-violent direct action.

CodePINK was started in direct response to the Bush administration's color-coded security alerts that are based on fear. CodePINK is a determined call for women & our supporters to "wage peace & justice" in our lives, our communities, our country, & around the world. We stand up to the Bush administration's attempt to attack not only our civil rights, but almost every social service & economic program for women, for children, for the poor, the unemployed, the elderly, the disabled in our country.

CodePINK, often aligning with other organizations, holds vigils for peace; marches against the war & occupation; speaks out against corporate - as in Halliburton, Bechtel - greed & profiteering; stands in solidarity with the women in Juarez, in Iraq, at Threemile Canyon Farms; targets all the entities that supply war, including political, corporate, military, media, and we the people through our compliance and our taxes.

Bay Area CodePINK has worked tirelessly locally and nationally to defeat the Bush agenda, defend our democracy, and protect our civil rights. We also participate in several campaigns as "No Military Predators in our Town" and "War Tax Resistance". We hold activist training camps, table at events, and do presentations & speakings for various institutions, organizations, groups and neighborhoods. We participate in marches, protest actions and community celebrations.

We meet weekly on Wednesdays: the 2nd Wednesday from 7-9 at Global Exchange, 16th & Mission across from the 16th Street BART; the 1st, 3rd & 4th Wednesdays from 7-9 at East Bay CodePINK, 1248 Solano Ave, Albany. Meetings are where actions & direction are discussed and decided upon; report backs are given about past actions; business is taken care of.

We vigil and protest every Wednesday in Berkeley from 7:30a.m. 5:00p.m. in front of the M.R.S (Marine Recruiting Station), 64 Shattuck Square (on Shattuck Ave just south of University Ave, where Shattuck runs one-way north). In San Francisco, from 5:15-6:15 in front of Diane Feinstein's office at Montgomery and Market Stress. (See Calendar for more details)

We also banner every Friday in Berkeley at 7:30-8:30a.m. on the University Ave Footbridge over the 80/580 freeways; and 4:30-5:30p.m. on the San Jose Ave overpass (see the Calendar for more details).

Sign up for the action list to keep informed of all actions and decisions made outside the monthly meetings and to discuss issues & upcoming events, actions, plans with bay area CodePINKers!

For further information, please see the rest of our website, email info@bayareacodepink.org, or call 510.524.2776.