EMERGENCY ACTION ALERT: 11:00am KRON TV
Van Ness & O'Farrell, SF
We MUST take to the streets the day Obama signs this $92 BILLION War Supplemental. We expect that to be the second week in June.
We are planning a Naked Truth Reporting Action. We will gather 11:00am in front of KRON TV on Van Ness at O'Farrell, and we intend to do a Media Stride from there. The media is NOT reporting, so we MUST do the reporting! Watch for details. Click here for flyers to hand out, numbers to CALL NOW! May 12th MS doc – May 19th MS doc
Email info@bayareacodepink.org or call 510-540-7007 and let us know YOU will BE THERE.
Opportunities for civil disobedience, non-violent action, all who are able to follow women's lead are welcome and needed! Click here to download activist list sign-up (MS Excel doc)
It is with the deepest, heart-wrenching grief and utmost fury, we are witnessing this new Obama administration in cahoots with our Congress acting together not only to perpetuate the wars that Bush began, but to escalate those wars.
Last Thursday, May 14th the House voted to give Obama $92 BILLION MORE dollars of our money, the current War Supplemental (on top of the billions already allocated), to escalate wars against Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Only 60 of 435 Congress people voted no, including our most awesome Barbara Lee.
This Thursday, May 21st, the Senate voted 86-3 for the $92 BILLION dollar War Supplemental.
This in a time – although NO time would be right – when so many of us are losing our homes, jobs, health care, and too many our lives; let alone the fact that war is just plain crazy horrific gargantuan terror destroying life and our planet.
We MUST act together. PLEASE transform your anger, your disappointment, your pain into action.
TOGETHER WE WILL END WAR NOW
SAD VOTER PINK Tea Party
After the 2004 election, we had the "Mad Voter Pink Tea Party"; after the 2006 election we had the "Glad Voter Pink Tea Party".
Now after Obama's first 100 days, we are forced to hold the "Sad Voter Pink Tea Party", Sunday, June 28th 6:00pm at Redwood Gardens, Berkeley.
We will begin with a potluck so bring your favorite dish, dessert, drink to share! We have invited Barbara Lee, Cynthia McKinney, Helen Caldicott and other fierce women to join us. Testimonies, Song, Strategies, Dance, Spoken Word!
We intend to leave with goals for changing Obama's war directions!
Watch for details. Or call 510-540-7007 to participate!
To DRONE or NOT To Drone!
This anti-human use of drones to destroy people, places, and the environment is probably the most urgent military crime we need to face today.
Join our ELIMINATE DRONES campaign! We caravan to Creech AFB outside of Las Vegas, Nevada and set up a CodePINK Women's Encampment to "GROUND DRONES" from July 2nd -14th. We will do direct actions (both on the trip down and once we get there), engage in dialogue with soldiers and base employees, lobby Senator Reid, banner in Las Vegas, and more.
To get on the NO DRONES list serve, just send an email to info@bayareacodepink.org
Watch for details. Or call 510-540-7007 to participate!
30,000 Hot Pink Bikes – not soldiers – to Afghanistan:
A Woman-to-Woman, Girl-to-Girl Endeavor
We intend to send 30,00 bikes to Afghanistan, NOT troops! We want to make this a multi-purpose campaign and inspiring movement on many levels.
- involving as many communities as possible: getting bikes donated by individuals; classrooms; bike organizations, companies, businesses; and other corporations
- taking the donated bikes to middle school classrooms and having youth paint & decorate the bikes hot pink, teach them how to write "peace", etc., in Pashto and Dari, and include a geography/history/cultural lesson as well – maybe send a pen pal letter with the bike!
- riding hot pink bikes in burkas to Washington D.C. and/or congress peoples' homes to make clear the message BIKES not BOMBS to Afghanistan
- challenging the biker community who has been very AWOL since last spring to send 30,000 Harleys to Afghanistan!
Come to our first organizing meeting Monday, February 23, 6:00pm at Mudraker's Café, 2801 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley or call 510-540-7007 to get involved.
Bay Area CodePINK East Bay's Office has moved!
It is with great sadness and regret we have to inform you that our lovely and inspiring CodePINK office has shut her doors! Due to extreme financial hardship, we can no longer keep those doors open.
We want to sincerely extend our deepest thanks and appreciation to all the multitude of CodePINKers as well as community supporters who worked together for the past almost 7 years keeping our doors open.
Many of you dropped in with words of encouragement, gratitude and often with donations. Others were monthly contributor pledgers, some were one time contributers, still others contributed time and energy, a must for running an office.
Although we could not have done it without your help, we especially need to thank those long-term monthly pledgers: Brenda Hillman, Jean Hyams, and Jay Lalezari whose faithful, consistent contribution we could count on every month!
And special deepest thanks also to the original team who refused to allow the office to close several years ago: Brenda Hillman, Jane Maxwell, Corrine Goldstick, and Cynthia Johnson.
And our appreciate to everyone else whose name we may not know but whose contribution none-the-less has sustained us.
We have a new number 510-540-7007 and a P.O. box 5172, Berkeley 94705 should you perhaps want to continue and begin contributing or send us a note!
Together we WILL END WAR NOW!
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
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.
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