Put the Marines Under Abreast!

Friday the 13th, 10:00am (gather at 9:00am): Mammary action with Breasts Not Bombs and CodePINK!

We are going to abreast the marine recruiters on Friday the 13th, 10:00am at the MRS because these marines, like congress, are NOT paying attention to the simple things we are saying:

• END WAR NOW!
• STOP RECRUITING OUR YOUTH!
• STOP turning valuable human life into casualties or cannon fodder!
• STOP OCCUPYING the SOVEREIGN NATION OF IRAQ !
• STOP funding war NOW!

They will pay attention on Friday the 13th at 64 Shattuck Square, and in Congress, and all over the nation. Women mean END WAR NOW! NO MORE 40,000 troops to Iraq; NO MORE $166 Billion in war funding. Women can't bare it anymore!

What is more deeply INDECENT than providing the funds and human fodder for genocide, war and occupation?

Bring signs listing everything you feel is truly indecent: WAR is indecent; FUNDING WAR is indecent; RAPE is indecent; TORTURE is indecent; ATTACKING OUR CONSTITUION is indecent.

Breasts are NOT indecent. Breasts are the givers and sustainers of life. We must bring marines back to our bosoms and remind them "all they have been taught of charity, mercy, and patience"; and we must not allow them to "injure other women's sons" – or daughters.

Sign up today! Go to http://volunteerforchange.org/e/1224?refcode=o23

For more inspiration, go to http://www.themarsh.org/breast.html and http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7068875.stm

Solstice Celebration and Critical Mass

Saturday, June 21st, Dawn 5:00am: Come celebrate the CHANGE! Summer brings joy, hope, abundance, and huge changes! Bring lots of flowers, pink ribbons, chalk. Drums, song and dance too. Prepare the streets in front of the MRS for the onslaught of marine motorcycle club bikers! Let us leave our mark of peace and hope. Download this quarter page flyer (MS Word), front & back, for Solstice info

11:00am Critical Mass Bicycling for Peace: Gather at the corner of MLK Way and Center in MLK Park. Bring pink paper, streamers, signs to decorate bikes and helmets. Ride around Shattuck Square making the silent statement: Bicycles are what we value in Berkeley, not pro-war bikers. Download this flyer (MS Word), bring a stapler and attach to bikes you see parked at BART, on the street, etc.

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.