"SURGE against AFGHANISTAN" ACTION ALERT
BE READY TO TAKE TO THE STREETS
3:30pm Gather at MRS; March to downtown BART
4:00pm BART to Powell St BART
5:00pm PROTEST Obama's Surge Against Afghanistan
March & Die-In

We will not tolerate an escalation against Afghanistan – under Bush, under Obama – a surge is a surge – and we must NOT TOLERATE it! On the day that Obama announces this "SURGE", we must surge into action! East Bay folks meet at the MRS and march to downtown Berkeley BART. Converge in SF at the Powell St BART. March and Die-In.

CodePINK Womyn's NO DRONES Peace Encampment w/Cindy Sheehan
Nov 26th – Dec 2
Creech AFB Indian Springs, Nevada
Take 5 Days of ACTION Against the DRONES

See www.nodrones.com for all the latest details, and check out the calendar. We start this time with a Fast beginning Thanksgiving thru 11/29; 11/28 Bus, CodePINK Truck, Caravan from Bay Area to Indian Springs; 11/30 Court appearances in Las Vegas for those arrested in September; 12/1 Dawn to Dusk Action at Creech; 12/2 Early morning action at Creech and then head back to the Bay!

The Adventures of Sam Slam
(Super Activist Mother)
Written and performed by Sherry Glaser-Love
Sunday Nov 8th, 6:00pm
Redwood Gardens, 2951 Derby St, Berkeley

The awesome solo performance artist Sherry Glaser-Love brings SAM (Super Activist Mom) SLAM back to the stage at Redwood Gardens, a benefit for our NO DRONES action! We will have dinner (pot luck most likely) and then sit back and let SAM entertain, enlighten, and inspire us! Redwood Gardens, 2951 Derby St, Berkeley. RSVP, to help organize, and for car pool info 510-540-7007 or email info@nodrones.com

Malalai Joya, the bravest woman of Afghanistan, will be reading from her book "A Woman Among War Lords" in several Bay Area locations

This is the link: http://www.afghanwomensmission.org/cgi-bin/cal/calendar.pl?calendar=&month=11

Sister Solidarity Action Against the Drones
MRS, Monday July 13th 7:30am

Help take action against the Drones and stand in solidarity with the women who are now in Nevada at Creech AFB protesting these horrific, anti-human assassins. Gather 7:30am in front of the MRS, 64 Shattuck Square, Berkeley.

This MRS recruits especially pilots, teaching them to kill from the air, whether by manned bombers or unmanned drones. We MUST take action! Bring public awareness to these ‘new’ computer automated killing machines that kill randomly around the world without risking U.S. lives.

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.

1. involving as many communities as possible: getting bikes donated by individuals; classrooms; bike organizations, companies, businesses; and other corporations
    
2. 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!
    
3. 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
    
4. 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.

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!

Mothers' Day, 5/10, Sunday

6:45pm Hot PINK "One Step forward, 3 Steps Back" Follies at La Pena: An evening to inform, inspire and incite!

Starring the brilliant, talented, HOT PINK Activists of the Bay Area. Music, Spoken Word, Dance, Comedy, Theater! And the rich rightwing b… Mrs. T Bill Banks! The charismatic Carrie Gerendasy, musician extraordinaire Shazam, song bird Lisa Cohen! Womyn Walking Tall Stilt Walkers! And many, many more!

So our new president is taking steps forward! And steps back! And what dance are we the women of this country doing?

Join us this Mothers’ Day, May 10th, Sunday, La Pena, 3105 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley 4 blocks east of the Ashby BART. $10 more if you can, less if you can’t: NO ONE TURNED AWAY! For more info contact CodePINK at 510-540-7007

Download Flyer: Click Here

Mothers' DAY March at NOON across Golden Gate!

"From the bosom of the devastated earth, a voice goes up with our own:"

DISARM, DISARM!

Help make our voices heard, MARCH with us across the Golden Gate Bridge, as we reclaim the true intent of Mothers’ Day: A day to gather as women and figure out how to have peace in our world!

Gather 11:45am in either parking lot on the north or south side of the bridge, and then march at noon to the center! Look for the PINK! Wear PINK! Bring 3’x3’ signs, or just BE THERE!

Download Flyer: Click Here

MMMEG (Monthly Monday Meet Eat and Greet)

Join us Monday, March 30th, 6:00pm. This month Francesca Roveda will share her documentary & perspectives on Sudan; Margot Smith will share her documentary on the Beijing Women's Conference. Come dine on scrumptious Mediterranean faire and schmooze with CP women. $13 more if you can, less if you can't. RSVP 510-540-7007 Mudrakers Café, 2801 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley. RSVP 510-540-7007

Save the date: 5/10 Mothers' Day
Hot PINK "One Step forward, 3 Steps Back" Follies 7:00pm La Pena

Julia Ward Howe in 1870 in the original Mother's Day Proclamation instructs us to leave home, gather together as women to decide how we are to live in peace in our world. We have adapted the follies for Mother's Day, starring Mrs. T Bill Banks and the awesome women (and a couple of men) of CodePINK, some of the Average Dyke Band members, mystery guests, as we take a look at the new administrations steps!

100th Anniversary IWD International Women's Day Celebration
March, and Pot Luck: Honoring Women from Afghanistan

We are planning a Celebration, March, and Pot Luck for this 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, Sunday March 8th, 2009.

We will start the day with a March across the Golden Gate Bridge at noon; then we have scheduled a Potluck and Program at Redwood Gardens, 2951 Derby St, in Berkeley from 4-8pm.

Our focus continues to be END WAR NOW - and this International Women's Day, we are focusing on the women of Afghanistan and the U.S. threat to send more of our troops to occupy that country. One of our overriding goals: "Yes We CAN Help Obama CHANGE Direction: from Iraq to the U.S.A., NOT Afghanistan."

We'd like the program Sunday afternoon to be full of information and sharing about Afghanistan and her people, as well as our government's call to war. And conclude with actions for changing direction.

Thus far on the program, we have a short documentary of IWD Beijing by Margot Smith, music and dance by Carrie Gerendasy, Shazam, Becky Lyman, and Evelie Delfino Såles Posch; and presentations about Afghanistan, RAWA, and Malalai Joya by Neda Raheen, Janet Weil, and Marie Bravo.

We especially stand in solidarity this IWD with RAWA (Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan), who proclaim the following for March 8th:

• For us, the 8th March means the day to express horrifying miseries and the burning pains our women are passing through and the exposure of the criminals responsible for this catastrophe.
   
• For us, the 8th March means the day to covenant upon the blood of the martyred women who lost their lives for the cause of freedom, women's rights and human dignity.
   
• For us the 8th March means the day of solidarity and standing up against fundamentalism of any kind either Jehadi or Taliban.

We are also planning to launch our "30,000 Hot Pink Bikes - not Soldiers - to Afghanistan: a Woman-to-Woman, Girl-to-Girl" Endeavor on International Women's Day.

And we invite everyone to bring a dish to share – something from your (great) grandmother's cuisine! Call 510-540-7007 ASAP or email info bayareacodepink.org

As always, we NEED your HELP!
1. Are you willing to cook a dish from your (great) grandmother's cuisine to share?
2. Are you willing to help flyer, spread the word, invite folks to these events?
3. Are you willing to work on the program?
4. Are you willing to work on getting co-sponsors for this awesome day?
5. Are you willing to present, or will ask someone you know to present?
6. Anything else you can think of that you're willing to do?

Call 510-540-7007 or email ASAP!

6th Terror-versary of US Invasion into Iraq

Thursday Mar 19th

• 3:00pm Women STILL say NO WAR at the MRS: Join CodePINK women as we gather to raise our voices "Disarm, disarm!" Republicans = Iraq; Democrats = Afghanistan We MUST say NO. Troops home now and NO ESCALATION against Afghanistan. Send 30,000 hot pink bikes to Afghanistan, NOT 30,000 soldiers.
• 4:00p Press Conference: $500,000,000 for occupation against Iraq DAILY, $100,000,000 against Afghanistan DAILY and they say there's no money for schools, to prevent foreclosures? Our voices MUST be heard! We mourn the continued loss of life, we're outraged by the continued violence in our name. We MUST speak loud enough to be heard in Washington D.C. and around the world.
• 4:30pm March with WCW to the downtown Berkeley BART and UC Sproul Plaza, distribute UFPJ flyers to commuters, students!

Saturday Mar 21st

• 10:30am Women's Contingent gathers grassy area east of Justin Herman Plaza: Join CodePINK, GABNET, and other women as we form a Women's Contingent in the ANSWER 6th Terror-versary March in San Francisco. Bring signs, wear HOT PINK – look for the PINK and say Women STILL say NO to war, occupation, violence! Call 510-540-7007 for more info
• 9:00-5:00pm Help staff the booth in Civic Center Plaza: email or call 510-540-7007 if you are willing and able to take a shift or two!

Marines have Landed in Berkeley
and opened a Military Recruiting Station!

We are shocked and saddened to inform you that the Marines have opened an Officer Recruiting Station in Berkeley, just blocks from Berkeley High School, UCB, and Berkeley City College.

And we are also even more determined to SHUT DOWN this recruiting station! And we need your help!

We will have a counter-recruitment presence EVERY WEDNESDAY from 7:30a.m. until 4:30p.m. PLEASE sign up for a 2 hour shift, all day, or any part of the day!

Our plans are many-fold:

1. to have a daily presence (Download Flyer in MS Word format) in front of and inside the recruiting station
    
2. to ask the Berkeley City Council on Oct 23rd to enforce all our anti-war resolutions and make us a "military-free" zone by shutting down this station
    
3. to ask the landlord to terminate their lease (Download Petition asking Marines to leave in MS Word format)
    
4. to call every day, 510-705-8060 several times a day & ask them nicely to SHUT DOWN! Just let them know we are a military-free town and to please respect the people of Berkeley and LEAVE
    
5. to circulate a petition (Download Petition asking Marines to leave in MS Word format) for Berkeley residents to sign asking them to leave

The recruiting station is open Monday thru Friday from 8-4 daily at 64 Shattuck Square, just south of University & a few blocks from downtown Berkeley BART. We are hoping you and your organization will choose one day to be responsible for all shifts!

We have designated five 2 hours shifts beginning at 7:30a.m. and ending at 4:30p.m.
    7:30-9:30
    9:30-11:30
    11:30-1:30
    1:30-3:30
    2:30-4:30

HOT Post Inaugural PINK Follies
January 30th, Friday, 6:45pm

We're have a show! Starring the brilliant, talented, HOT PINK Activists of the Bay Area. Music, Dance, Comedy, Theater! Introducing the rich rightwing b… Mrs. T Bill Banks! Plus our (in)famous mystery guests who will be revealing!

So we have a new president. We have hope. We have change. What will that look like to you, to us, to our nation? Yes we can, help Obama change direction? Help Obama stay the course? What will it be?

An evening to inform, inspire and incite! January 30th, 6:45pm at the Berkeley UU Fellowship Hall, 1925 Cedar St. at Bonita in Berkeley.

$10 more if you can, less if you can't: NO ONE TURNED AWAY
For more info contact CodePINK at 510-540-7007

To be in the show or to help with the myriad of things needed, call Dolores at 510-540-0771 or the CodePINK office at 510-540-7007

Camp Hope: Yes We CAN Help Obama CHANGE Direction!
Road Tour and Wall of Hope

The CodePINK Truck is on the move again! On a cross country "Camp Hope" Tour where we are stopping in cities and towns across the nation, from California to the Inauguration in D.C., collecting the hopes of people for our next president and year.

The tour is inspired by the CodePINK women in Chicago where the mother Camp Hope and the Wall of Hope is happening right now in front of Obama's office. http://www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?id=4600

If you want a stop in your town, or to connect just to add your hope to the Wall, call the office at 510-540-7007 or email info@bayareacodepink.org. To keep track of the tour's progress, check out Inauguration Xan's journal www.codepinkjournals.blogspot.com

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

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!

Emergency 24-Hour Peace-In to support Council's stand for Peace:
Feb 11th Monday 7:00pm until 7:00pm Tuesday February 12th ,
Maudelle Shirek City Hall, 2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley.

The right has put out the call to invade our city 5:00a.m. on Tuesday morning Feb 12th.

They intend to spend the day further attempting to intimidate our peace-loving City and City Council while they hammer home THEIR war propaganda.

We are putting out the call for all peace-loving people to come to our Emergency 24-hour Peace-In Vigil in front of Old City Hall. Sign up – let us know we can count on you to BE THERE! For 24 hours or 2!!

http://volunteerforchange.org/e/1181?refcode=o23

This fight is about war and ending war. This is about recruiting our youth to be the fodder of war. It is not about the marines. It is not about being anti-American. It is not about rights, freedom, or apple pie.

It IS about this occupation of Iraq: about the 1.2 million dead Iraqis, 3950 dead U.S. soldiers, trillions of dollars of our tax payer money, the attack on our civil rights and constitution, torture, rape, wounded and neglected soldiers, suicide, depleted uranium.

It is about recruiting youth to be the occupying forces Iraq.

Women say ENOUGH! Basta! The People of Berkeley say ENOUGH! Basta!

We MUST take back the language from the right: END WAR NOW! We MUST take back the messaging. We must stand up for Peace.

Come to our 24-hour Peace-In. Bring your tent, sleeping bag, all your peace and anti-war banners, props, photos, hot pink fabric. Or just BE THERE!

7:00pm Monday February 11th until 7:00pm Tuesday February 12th , Maudelle Shirek City Hall, 2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Berkeley.

Remember: please sign up http://volunteerforchange.org/e/1181?refcode=o23

Marines have Landed in Berkeley and opened a Military Recruiting Station!
NO Military Predators in OUR Town!

We are shocked and saddened to inform you that the Marines have opened an Officer Recruiting Station in Berkeley, just blocks from Berkeley High School, UCB, and Berkeley City College.

And we are also even more determined to SHUT DOWN (Download flyer in MS Word format) this recruiting station! And we need your help!

We will have a CodePINK counter-recruitment presence (Download flyer in MS Word format) EVERY WEDNESDAY from 7:30am until 4:30pm PLEASE sign up for a 2 hour shift, all day, or any part of the day! (Download Sign up sheets in MS Word format)

CALL them today! Tell them politely to PLEASE LEAVE our City! Tell them why you want them to leave! 510-705-8060

For more information, click here.

PLEASE let us know what day you can take! Or what shift! Or join an existing shift! Call 510-524-2776 or email info@bayareacodepink.org

Together we WILL shut down this recruiting station NOW!!!

Code HOT PINK Alert: Pink Slip Squad

We are putting out the notice: Code HOT PINK Alert - our "first responders" Pink Slip Squad - GET READY to organize an immediate, coordinated & powerful response to further escalations of war:

• US attack on Iran...
• 50,000 more troops to Iraq...
• 3,000 US Combat Dead

1. Sign up to be on the Pink Slip Squad. Indicate if you can contact media, take photos or videos, make phone calls, or... other needed skills?
    
2. Meet within ONE HOUR after receiving the Code HOT PINK ALERT at the Federal Building nearest you
    
3. Agree to contact at least 5 other people you know or from our list
    
4. If possible, bring signs, banners, etc., or just come in your hottest pink!

We know we will need to respond soon to the benchmark figure of the 3,000 official US combat dead (the real figure is of course higher). Please begin making plans now for this grim milestone. Coordinated actions at the Federal Buildings will heighten visibility and public awareness, plus bring us together at symbols of the government that is conducting an illegal war based on lies, without the consent of the governed!

For further info, contact: info@bayareacodepink.org; check the calendar; or call 510-524-2776

SOS: Looking for only TWO more good women! and our allies!

In July, we launched an SOS campaign to Save our Site on Solano Ave. Our wonderful CodePINK office on Solano Ave is 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 donations to help support our office. So now our office if being brought to you by the following CodePINK members:

	Gerald Baron		Brad Barros		Lisa Denenmark		Anne Marie & Neil Doherty
	Celeste Durham		May Elawar		Joanna Folino		John Glynn
	Corrine Goldstick		Brenda Hillman		Jean Hyams		Cynthia Johnson
	Sam Joi		Alan Kilgore		Jacob Lalezari		Sherry Larsen-Beville
	Jacquelyn Marie		Jane Maxwell		Mahtab Nikoo		Meave O'Connor
	Deborah Rogin		Candice Scott		Corrine Thornton		Christie Walker
	Janet Weil		David Wooten

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 TWO more pledgees! If you are willing & able to by one of those final two, please fill out the pledge card & return TODAY - we only have this month to find our last few donors! 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; and embarks on peace & occupation watch missions to Iraq and Afghanistan.

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 Anti-Hummer and Anti-War Toy Campaigns. We hold activist training camps, table 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 Eastbay CodePINK (and It's Her Business), 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 every Wednesday evening, the Wednesday Women Peace Vigils, from 5:15 to 6:15pm Vigil locations may change from week to week so call first! In Oakland, we vigil in front of the military recruiting stations at 21st & Broadway, a block from the 19th St BART station downtown Oakland. In San Francisco, the vigil is at Market & Ellis, under the large clock but check the bulletin or call first also.

Sign up for the discussion 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.

"No Buying while Soldiers are Dying"
Action Continues throughout the Holiday Season

Every Saturday from now until the big "c", we will have our "No Buying" presence at various malls, shopping centers, department stores - everywhere people are flocking to ‘business as usual' in our bay area.

We will be there with banners, posters, 2-sided flyers Download: FRONT BACK pdf or FRONT BACK MS doc - turning folks away, asking them to support our soldiers, their families, and all Iraqis who are sacrificing and suffering, by choosing to not buy gifts and goodies this holiday season - or any day until our soldiers are returned home and war is ended.

We will be there with the Walk In Their Shoes (WITS) Download: pdf - MSdoc display and the Real Faces of War(pdf - MSdoc. We want these actions to be replicated and built upon for the next 30 days of holiday protests. Our overall theme is "Troops Home by the Holidays".

We need your support! Are you willing to endorse this action? Click here for more info

We ask endorsers to 1) spread the word about this action; and 2) take responsibility for at least one two-hour shift on Saturdays or any day of your choice. Contributions to help defray costs of this action would be appreciated but not a condition of endorsing.

Please email mzsam@bayareacodepink.org or call 510-524-2776 to endorse and/or to sign-up for a shift.

Together we WILL end war.
In Pink Peace,
No Buying Team

Glad Voter Pink Tea Party Dec 17th 4:00p.m.

In December of 2004, we furiously held a "Mad Voter Pink Tea Party". This year we are so thrilled to be able to hold a joyous "Glad Voter Pink Tea Party"!

You are invited to join us for this Tea Party so we can rejoice in recognition of the hard work that culminated in our recent victories in our Congress. We will present Pink Badges of Courage again for the many of us that continue stepping up to the plate to make this happen.

We will share great food and incredible entertainment, witness a CodePINK slideshow of our recent and previous actions, and come together to strategize how we will insure this Mandate for Peace we have pronounced in our country gets fulfilled as soon as possible.

Please email info@bayareacodepink.org or call 510-524-2776 to be part of this herstoric event!

1. Making phone calls to Assembly Members (more information) at both their district & capitol offices; and making phone calls to City Council Members (more information).
2. Make an appointment (more information) with undecided Assembly Members in their district offices for a Hot Pink Team of constituents to come and speak with them about AJR36. If you are available & willing to join a Hot Pink Team to go lobby an Assembly Member in their district, please email Sam at mzsam@bayareacodepink.org or call 510-524-2776
3. Participate in lobbying (more information) Assembly Members during the first 2 weeks in January. If you are willing to go to Sacramento to lobby an Assembly Member, please email Medea at medea@globalexchange.org or call 510-524-2776
4. Attend the Rules Committee Hearing - we need 15-25 folks present at this hearing. If you are willing to go to Sacramento to attend this meeting, please email Brenda at sparky12@mindspring.com or call 510-524-2776
5. Be a witness in the Legislature for this historic vote - we'll need to pack the lofts with as many supporters as possible. If you are willing to be ‘on call' and ready to attend this vote, please get on the "notify" list at info@bayareacodepink.org
6. January 16th - in honor of MLK's birthday & his anti-war work in Sacramento, we will join the celebration MLK365 from 8:30-3:00, and at 3:00 we will march to the capitol to hold a press conference & action highlighting the National Guard Campaign. If you can help w/this action, please email Jackie at jackie@mindspring.com or call 510-547-1518
7. January 17th - Call in PINK & join us in Sacramento to lobby either Assembly Members (if AJR36 is not yet adopted) or Arnie (if AJR36 has made it's way to his desk). If you are willing to help lobby - either assembly folks or Arnie - please email Medea at medea@globalexchange.org or call 510-524-2776
8. Last two weeks in January - we'll need to continue lobbying Assembly Members if AJR36 is not yet voted on; or we'll need to lobby Arnie round-the-clock to get him to sign on to the resolution

If you can commit to any of these, PLEASE email info@bayareacodepink.org or call 510-524-2776.

Emergency Response Action Alert: NOON Monday, 3/30: Obama's "Plan" against Afghanistan

Emergency Response to Obama's "Plan" against Afghanistan
Noon, Monday, March 30th
Federal Reserve Building, 101 Market St., SF (between Spear & Main, Embarcadero BART)

We MUST plan for a HUGE response to Obama's 'Plan'. We will gather at the Federal Reserve noon Monday March 30th to say NO NO NO to military violence, YES YES YES to Humanitarian Aide!

Bring signs:
  NO escalation against Afghanistan! Republicans=Iraq, Democrats=Afghanistan??? NO NO NO
  Send Humanitarian AIDE, NOT Troops
  DISARM, DISARM: TROOPS HOME NOW!
or just BE THERE!

Voting Obama into office is not enough – we MUST be out in the streets to tell him NO, we will NOT tolerate another war. For the first time in 8 years we have a much better chance to have our voices heard.

PLEASE get ready to ACT, plan to spend your lunch – and longer if possible – working hard to prevent escalation of war. We must realize the right war mongers are not sitting back, waiting to see.

• Flyer and Talking points Download here
• What Can I Do Download here
• Original Alert Download here

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