Dearest Comadres and Sistahs:

It is with great sadness yet deep joy that I will take my leave at the end of this month (July) and begin my Joiyssey south out of this country.

I am filled with sadness at the thought of not seeing you, working with you, creating awesome actions with you, standing out in the streets with you, singing on the way to jail with you, meeting with you, debating with you, joining you for our next protest – but most of all, speaking TRUTH to POWER with you!

Yet I am also filled with deep joy I will be able to bring with me the immeasurable love, support, strength I have gained through knowing you and sharing these things with you over the past 8 years.

I hope you will be able to come to any or all of the July events and protests listed below so we can bid each other a fierce “Fare Thee Well” as we carry on!

With love, power, solidarity,
Xan (Sam) Joi
Your Local Coordinator, SF Bay Area Chapter, East Bay

Monthly First Wednesday Potluck & Meeting

Wednesday, July 7th, 6:30pm
Grey Panthers Office
1403 Addison St, Berkeley
Afghanistan is STILL on the agenda, as is Iraq and Pakistan; 33 billion war 'supplemental' is STILL on congress's table; BP and drilling; and we welcome our new East Bay Coordinator Team! Bring an organic (if possible) dish to share, agenda items, your wonderful creative, brilliant selves.

MMMEG/AUCTION Volunteer Brunch

Saturday, July 10th, 11:00am
Xan's home
Come share food and work assignments for the MMMEG/Auction – we still need 5 more volunteers. Check out www.bayareacodepink.org/auction or call 510-540-7007 for more info & to sign up!

MMMEG: "Memory Keepers" and Womens Art & Antique Exhibition & Auction

July 18th, Sunday, noon-6
Redwood Gardens
2951 Derby St, Berkeley
See www.bayareacodepink.org/auction
Our last – unless YOU step forward – MMMEG will be a combined "Memory Keepers" performance, potluck, open mike; and a Women's Art & Antique Auction and Exhibit.

Max Dashu presents "Restoring Women to Cultural Memory"; music by Shazam, Becky, and others.

Plus Xan Joi's 30 year collection of womyn will be on exhibit and for sale by auction at 2:00pm.

Our historical 'memories' have most often been selected and perpetuated thru the eyes of white men giving us a history seen from war to war, battle to battle. And further determining our 'heroes' as those enabling wars and battles.

Beginning at noon, preview, make and share our own memories, giving us a herstory from working to create and honor womyn's values of compassion, protecting life, creating peace to becoming memory keepers of our own heroic actions and lives.

For more information, to perform, help with the auction, step up to bottom-line the MMMEG's, go to www.bayareacodepink.org/auction or call 510-540-7007

PLEASE DONATE NOW

We cannot do this without your financial assistance. Any donation can be tax deductible. Send your checks into CodePINK, P.O. Box 5172, Berkeley, Ca 94705 or go to the donate page and click on the donate button. THANK YOU!

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.