Dear John,
You are invited to join our Tuesday CODEPINK CONGRESS Calling Party to mobilize for peace legislation! This calling party will focus on the current situation on the ground in Afghanistan & what we can do to help, including unfreezing the $7 billion of Afghan money in U.S. banks
Chat with peacemakers and experts tomorrow, on April 26th at 5 pm PT/8 pm ET:
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This event has been moved to a week earlier to accommodate speakers' schedules! Please join us TOMORROW, 4/26 for this important event.
During this Capitol Calling Party, members of the first civil society women’s delegation to Afghanistan since the fall of Kabul on August 15th will report back on their experiences. Our special guests will discuss the current situation on the ground & what we can do to help the Afghan people, including women and girls. We will talk about – and take action to – unfreeze the $7 billion of Afghan money in U.S. banks and increase U.S. humanitarian aid.
Featuring
Medea Benjaminis the cofounder of the foreign policy advocacy group Global Exchange and the women-led peace group CODEPINK. She is a cofounder of the advocacy organization Unfreeze Afghanistan. She has been active around Afghanistan for 20 years, including seeking compensation for Afghan war victims, raising funds for girls schools and advocating for an end to the U.S. military intervention.
Kelly Campbellis a co-founder of September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows and traveled to Afghanistan in January, 2002 with other 9/11 family members to call attention to Afghan civilian casualties. She is co-chair of the group’s Afghanistan committee which is currently focused on ensuring that all the Afghan Central Bank funds are returned to the Afghan people where they belong and not held for the purpose of settling lawsuits by 9/11 family members.
Sunita Viswanathis a cofounder and former board member of the 21 year old women’s organization Women for Afghan Women. She is a progressive Hindu faith leader. She is an advisory member of the advocacy organization Unfreeze Afghanistan.
Ruth Messingeris the former President and inaugural Global Ambassador of American Jewish World Service. Ruth was formerly part of the State Department’s Religion and Foreign Policy Working Group. Ruth is currently a member of the World Bank’s Moral Imperative Working Group on Extreme Poverty, doing international human rights work for AIDS Free World, serving as the inaugural Social Justice Fellow at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and is the Social Justice Activist-in-Residence at the JCC of Manhattan.
Daisy Khanis a Muslim campaigner, reformer, and executive director of the Women's Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality, a women-led organization committed to peacebuilding, equality, and justice for Muslims around the world.
Take Action!
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Tell Vice President Kamala Harris, President Biden, and Secretary Blinken to condemn Israel’s current escalations in East Jerusalem and across the West Bank. Urge them to make U.S. military assistance to Israel contingent upon immediate concrete steps towards peace and justice.
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Google Group & Local Leaders
Join our CODEPINK Congress Google Group, a space for sharing events and actions. Request to be added here <[link removed]>!
Become a CODEPINK Congress liaison in your district to mobilize support for demilitarization and progressive foreign policy! Sign up here <[link removed]> as a volunteer organizer.
Finally, if you missed our last meeting, you can view it here <[link removed]> on YouTube. View the entire CODEPINK Congress archives here <[link removed]>.
Onward toward peace and justice,
Medea, Marcy, Hanieh, Shea, and the entire CODEPINK team
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