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Medea's Message - Archives
Medea's Message - October 2006 Four Years of CodePINK Rabble-Rousing for Peace For the history books, mark down June 2005 as the moment the US movement against the occupation of Iraq got its second wind. In June, the US public became solidly anti-war, Bush's approval rating took a nosedive, and a significant number of Congresspeople started to call for an exit strategy. This marks a seismic shift from just one month ago, when Congress overwhelmingly passed another $82 billion for war-with only 44 members of the House and not one Senator dissenting. Medea's Message - November 2005 Two Months Later, Katrina Survivors are Losing the Battle to Return Home Two months after Katrina, the residents of New Orleans most traumatized by the hurricane and its aftermath are now traumatized in their battle to return home. And many of the city's poor, black "Katrina survivors" are losing this second battle. Medea's Message - June 2005 Phase II of the Anti-War Movement For the history books, mark down June 2005 as the moment the US movement against the occupation of Iraq got its second wind. In June, the US public became solidly anti-war, Bush's approval rating took a nosedive, and a significant number of Congresspeople started to call for an exit strategy. This marks a seismic shift from just one month ago, when Congress overwhelmingly passed another $82 billion for war-with only 44 members of the House and not one Senator dissenting. Medea's Message - April 3, 2005 The Salinas 24-Hour Emergency Read-In, Chicken Soup for the Soul It was during the wee hours of the night, about 5 am, that I looked around and tears came to my eyes. We were now on the fifteenth hour of the 24-Hour Emergency Read-In that CodePink helped organize to help save the Salinas libraries from closing their doors for lack of funds. We had experienced a powerful day full of great speakers: Dolores Huerta talking about literacy as a liberating force for farmworkers; actor Hector Elizondo reading from the Bill of Rights; Mike Farrell of MASH fame remembering Salinas homeboy John Steinbeck; elementary school children reciting their own poems; Dr. Loco from the Rockin' Jalapeno Band singing about struggles for justice; Fernando Suarez, father of a fallen soldier, crying out about Salinas spending over $80 billion on the war in Iraq while closing the libraries for lack of $3 million. It was a beautiful example of our diverse human family coming together to show that we cherish our libraries and demand that elected officials "find" the money to keep them open-just like the government always "finds" money to go to war and build more prisons. Medea's Message While the US administration and mainstream media declare the war a success, we mourn the lives of thousands of Iraqis, including many women and children who lie dead or missing. Countless Iraqis suffer from a lack of clean water, medical care, electricity and a growing restlessness about their country's future. We mourn, too, for US troops who needlessly lost their lives, for our country's decline to the status of a terrorist nation, and for our government's policies of pre-emptive strike and of right by military might. Here are some links that we hope will inspire you.
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