Ariel Gold, CODEPINK · [email protected]

January 29, 2020 at 4:44 PM

Peace plan? More like a peace sham

CODEPINK - Communications Tell Congress to immediately condemn Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu's shameful “peace plan,” which only paves the way for more apartheid and land theft. Overseas supporters can sign our letter here. Dear John, The release of President …

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  Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK · [email protected]

January 15, 2020 at 6:11 PM

The House said No Iran war! Will the Senate?

CODEPINK - Communications Last week, Congress took bold action: the House passed a War Powers Resolution to halt Trump from taking further U.S. military action. This week, it’s the Senate’s turn. They will vote on their war powers resolution soon—and we need a strong vet…

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  Ariel Gold, CODEPINK · [email protected]

January 13, 2020 at 6:55 PM

Today: Tell Jeopardy! the correct answer is PALESTINE!

CODEPINK - Communications Do you know where the Church of the Nativity is located? Well, Alex Trebek of Jeopardy! doesn’t. Contestant Katie Needle answered the clue, “Built in the 300s A.D., the Church of the Nativity” with, “What is Palestine?” But host Alex Trebek resp…

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  Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK · [email protected]

January 12, 2020 at 5:29 PM

To the people of Iran...

CODEPINK - Communications Add your name to our open letter to the people of Iran and share it widely! We will publish it in Iran and stream it all over social media on January 25, the International No War WIth Iran Day of Action. Dear John, We join the world in mour…

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  CODEPINK · [email protected]

January 8, 2020 at 5:48 PM

Is Iran the only adult in the room?

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, Last night bombs were falling and it seemed like another major Middle East war was breaking out. But Iran intentionally didn’t cause any casualties with its missile attack on the Ain al-Assad and Erbil U.S. military bases Iraq. Iran warned …

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  Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK · [email protected]

January 8, 2020 at 1:21 AM

War with Iran has started

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, The bombs are falling. The war has started. Join us tomorrow, January 8, from 3PM on in front of the White House to protest this Trump provoked war with Iran. Towards peace,Medea, and the entire CODEPINK team: Ann, Ariel, Asia, Carley, Caty…

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  Medea Benjamin and Leila Zand, CODEPINK · [email protected]

January 7, 2020 at 4:01 PM

URGENT! Congress to Vote on Iran

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, This is the first time since the 2002 lead up to the Iraq war that things have been this terrifying and dangerous—maybe even worse given that President Trump is a sociopath with the emotional maturity of a toddler. Since assassinating Gene…

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  Jodie Evans, CODEPINK · [email protected]

January 3, 2020 at 11:01 PM

Reeling with heartbreak and fear

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, Like the rest of the world, we at CODEPINK are reeling with heartbreak and fear about Trump’s escalation of the conflict with Iran. But we are not taking this sitting down. We are mobilizing and in less than 48 hours, we now have a great c…

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  Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK · [email protected]

January 2, 2020 at 8:12 PM

4,000 more troops to the Middle East?

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, CODEPINK formed in 2003 in opposition to the Iraq war and has been working ever since to stop the Middle East wars. So we were horrified watching Trump’s latest strikes in Iraq and his decision to deploy more troops as we enter a new year.…

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  Jodie and Medea, CODEPINK · [email protected]

December 29, 2019 at 5:39 PM

In case you missed this!

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, We’re just days away from the new year and our work is about to get even more intense. As we move into this century's third decade, we must continue to drive home the message that endless conflict can only be won through peaceful means, in…

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  Medea, CODEPINK · [email protected]

December 28, 2019 at 4:01 PM

Hindsight is 2020

CODEPINK - Communications Hi John, As we close out 2019 and look ahead to 2020, we wanted to take some time to reflect on all that the CODEPINK community in Washington D.C. has accomplished this past year.  All we can say is: WOW what a year it has been!  From standing firm a…

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  Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK · [email protected]

December 23, 2019 at 4:59 PM

With my love from Cuba

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, I am now with a 50-person CODEPINK delegation in Cuba, a tiny country with 10 million people that has been valiantly fighting the Goliath of U.S. imperial domination — including a brutal economic embargo — for 60 years. CODEPINK, a tiny or…

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  Jodie Evans, CODEPINK · [email protected]

December 17, 2019 at 5:02 PM

All I want for 2020 is...

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, As we gear up for 2020, we invite you to journey with us through the campaigns and successes we celebrated in 2019, and sustain our plans for the coming year. On Friday, November 8, CODEPINK and over 200 of our allies marched with Jane Fo…

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  Jodie Evans, CODEPINK · [email protected]

December 11, 2019 at 5:31 PM

We Wasted $1 Trillion

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, This week we read in the Washington Post that during the U.S. War in Afghanistan, 1 trillion of your tax dollars were knowingly wasted along with the destruction of Afghanistan and countless lives. This revelation reminds me of the Pentago…

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  Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK · [email protected]

December 10, 2019 at 3:37 PM

What just happened?

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, The Democrats in Congress just passed up the chance to end U.S. involvement in the brutal Saudi-led war on Yemen and instead agreed to a no-strings-attached $750 billion giveaway to the Pentagon. This is outrageous. The floor vote will be …

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  Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK · [email protected]

December 6, 2019 at 3:29 PM

Do you have 5 minutes for Yemen? It’s urgent!

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, House Armed Services Chair Adam Smith has publicly committed to making sure that his own amendment, the Smith-Khanna-Schiff-Jayapal amendment to end the war in Yemen, makes it into the final version of the National Defense Authorization Ac…

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  Raegan CODEPINK, DC · [email protected]

December 5, 2019 at 2:00 PM

They're doing business with Saudi?

CODEPINK - Communications Hi John, Last week, CODEPINK DC's very own Paki Wieland was a featured speaker at the Divestment Forum co-hosted by World Beyond War and Beyond the Bomb at Busboys and Poets. They discussed the steps needed to cut ties with the war economy and #Dives…

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  Ariel Gold, CODEPINK · [email protected]

December 4, 2019 at 6:54 PM

What’s happening in Iran?

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, From November 17–24, due to an almost complete Internet blackout by the Iranian government, I was unable to communicate with any of the new friends I made during my time on the October 2019 CODEPINK peace delegation to Iran. As Iran shut d…

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  Medea & Leonardo, CODEPINK · [email protected]

December 2, 2019 at 7:08 PM

We love you!

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, Tomorrow is #GivingTuesday, and this is likely one of many emails you’ll receive asking for your financial support. CODEPINK depends on your financial support, but we also need more. We want to inspire, engage, teach, learn, be engaged and…

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  Jodie Evans, CODEPINK · [email protected]

November 29, 2019 at 5:07 PM

There are better ways to spend today

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, Yesterday, we were expected to forget (we didn’t) Thanksgiving’s horrific history of white settler-colonialism, land theft, and genocide.  Today, we are expected to mindlessly purchase ourselves into a capitalist coma.  “Black” Friday does…

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  Jodie, Medea, & Ariel, CODEPINK · [email protected]

November 27, 2019 at 6:48 PM

If it’s good for AOC ...

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, Remember when representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez took hold of our feminism, not militarism banner and drove home our message that you can’t honor and protect women and the planet while waging wars and regime-change operations around t…

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  Carley and the CODEPINK Divest team · [email protected]

November 24, 2019 at 4:01 PM

Divest from War Coalition November Digest

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, Welcome to the Divest Digest for November, thanks for all the ways you have been engaged locally! Following are some highlights of what you peacemakers have been up to around the country. First, some important news: Maya Rommwatt, who was …

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  CODEPINK, DC · [email protected]

November 20, 2019 at 8:35 PM

Join CODEPINK, World BEYOND War, and Beyond the Bomb for a Forum on Divestment!

CODEPINK - Communications Hi John, What: Divest Arlington from the War Machine ForumWhen: Saturday, November 23 at 5pm-7pmWhere: Busboys & Poets, 4251 S. Campbell Ave. Arlington, VA 22206  RSVP Here! Join CODEPINK, World BEYOND War, and Beyond the Bomb for a divestment…

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  Enas al Saffadi & Ariel Gold, CODEPINK · [email protected]

November 20, 2019 at 7:01 PM

Isreali Settlements are ILLEGAL, full stop.

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, This is outrageous! On Monday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reversed over 40 years of  U.S. legal opinion by declaring that Israeli settlements built on occupied Palestinian land are not “inconsistent with international law.” Though it’s…

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  Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK · [email protected]

November 19, 2019 at 4:51 PM

I’m in Bolivia. Why isn’t the U.N?

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, For the past week, I have been in Bolivia. I came at the request of local activists who are panicked about the situation in their country, afraid that things are spiraling out of control. They are engaging in peaceful protests to reverse t…

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  Ariel and Enas, CODEPINK · [email protected]

November 14, 2019 at 6:56 PM

Free Khalida: Can you spread the word?

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, As of last night 2:00 AM this morning a ceasefire has been in place in Gaza, but this is tentative and leading up to it was horrific violence that took the lives of 34 Palestinians, including eight children and three women and injuring ove…

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  Ariel Gold, CODEPINK · [email protected]

November 12, 2019 at 7:01 PM

Intentionally denying cancer medications?

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, Last month I traveled to Iran with a group of 11 peace delegates. It was our second peace delegation this year to visit the country and learn how ordinary people are coping with the Trump administration’s harsh economic sanctions.  A few d…

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  Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK · [email protected]

November 11, 2019 at 6:02 PM

This is a Coup

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, Yesterday elected Bolivian President Evo Morales, the only indigenous president ever in Latin America, resigned under duress due to a coup d’état orchestrated by a right-wing opposition and the Organization of American States, and supporte…

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  CODEPINK, DC · [email protected]

November 10, 2019 at 5:02 PM

Protest Monday at the Kennedy Center: don't artwash war crimes

CODEPINK - Communications Hi John, Why is the Kennedy Center helping former President George W. Bush artwash his war crimes by exhibiting his paintings of veterans? Join us Monday, Veterans Day 2019, for a die-in protest to tell the Kennedy Center and the world that there is …

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  Enas Alsaffadi, CODEPINK · [email protected]

November 6, 2019 at 8:20 PM

Investing in a brutal regime?

CODEPINK - Communications Jane Fonda and Jodie Evans arrested during "Fire Drill Friday" actions in D.C. to address climate change, November 1, 2019. Dear John, While CODEPINK has been joining Jane Fonda’s weekly actions for the climate, 11,000 scientists in 153 countries ha…

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  CODEPINK DC · [email protected]

October 31, 2019 at 8:00 PM

Upcoming CODEPINK DC events, Join Jane Fonda and more!

CODEPINK - Communications Hi John, Fire Drill Friday Upcoming Rallies What: Fire Drill Friday Rally When: November 1st and 8th at 11am Where: South East Lawn of the capitol building, near the intersection of 1st St. and Independence Ave SE RSVP Here for November 1! RSVP …

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  Ariel Gold, CODEPINK · [email protected]

October 31, 2019 at 6:04 PM

$91million investment in Israeli apartheid?

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, AXA, the second-largest insurer in the world, invests $91 million in companies which enable (and profit from) Israeli apartheid against Palestinians. This includes weapons manufacturer, Elbit Systems, the top weapons supplier to the Israel…

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  Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK · [email protected]

October 29, 2019 at 6:04 PM

Stop Creating More Baghdadis

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, Over the weekend the news broke that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a US raid in Syria. The US might be good at killing terrorists, but we are even better at creating them. The US invasion of Iraq led to the creati…

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  CODEPINK · [email protected]

October 23, 2019 at 6:28 PM

Boycott PUMA, End Apartheid!

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, Did you know that sportswear manufacturer PUMA is the main sponsor for the Israeli Football Association (IFA)? The IFA maintains football clubs in illegal Jewish-only Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The IFA is in belligerent breach o…

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  Michelle Ellner, CODEPINK · [email protected]

October 17, 2019 at 6:04 PM

Your tax dollars to a phony government?

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, Our taxpayer money is being used to pay the salaries of Venezuelan politicians! USAID (the United States Agency for International Development) announced that it will divert $41.9 million in aid funds allocated to Central America and instea…

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  Jane Fonda, CODEPINK · [email protected]

October 11, 2019 at 1:03 PM

Hi, I’m Jane Fonda and let’s do this!

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, Inspired by the Swedish student, Greta Thunberg, the student strikers and Naomi Klein's new book "On Fire: The Burning Case for the Green New Deal," I have decided to upend my life, leave my comfort zone and move to Washington, D.C. for fo…

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  Medea and Ariel, CODEPINK · [email protected]

October 7, 2019 at 5:44 PM

Will music stop the war in Yemen?

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, Last week we asked you to take action to ask finance companies to pull out of the Saudi investment event, Davos in the Desert. But that isn’t the only upcoming venue to be hosted in the repressive murderous state of Saudi Arabia. This Dece…

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  Medea Benjamin · [email protected]

October 6, 2019 at 3:01 PM

Would you like to join me in Cuba this December?

CODEPINK - Communications November 20, 2018 Dear John, I want to personally invite you to travel with me to Cuba from December 14-21 (or December 14-18 if you can’t stay that long). We at CODEPINK set these dates to commemorate better times, when President Obama restored diplomatic rela…

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  Maya and the CODEPINK Divest team · [email protected]

October 4, 2019 at 4:00 PM

Divest from War Coalition October Digest

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, Divest from the War Machine coalition, you make us proud! Read on to learn what our friends across the U.S. have been up to. Divesting from the war machine can happen anywhere our public and private dollars are invested in the companies wh…

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  Nancy and Medea, CODEPINK · [email protected]

October 2, 2019 at 4:06 PM

Did Jamal Khashoggi die in vain?

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, Today marks one year since the brutal murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of Saudi Arabia, and the brutal regime is showing no shame as they try to sweep Khashoggi’s memory under the rug. At the end of this mo…

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  CODEPINK, DC · [email protected]

September 30, 2019 at 6:30 PM

Vigil Marking the One Year Anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s Murder

CODEPINK - Communications Hi John, At 1:14pm on October 2, 2018 Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul and was never seen alive again. Join CODEPINK, CAIR, American Muslims for Palestine and Nonviolence International as we mark the first …

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  Leonardo Flores, CODEPINK · [email protected]

September 30, 2019 at 6:00 PM

As the UK freezes gold, Venezuelans die

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, The Trump administration is seeking to pressure European countries to impose sanctions on Venezuela. While it is unclear what impact such sanctions could have – since the U.S. sanctions already target European companies doing business with…

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  Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK · [email protected]

September 24, 2019 at 6:30 PM

Is France going to help Trump attack Iran?

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, Trump is playing with fire in his escalating attacks on Iran—ratcheting up sanctions even further, sending more troops and weapons to the region, condemning Iran’s “blood lust” at the United Nations. We are dangerously close to war with Ir…

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  Medea and Jodie, CODEPINK · [email protected]

September 22, 2019 at 3:04 PM

CODEPINK is Setting Sail for Cuba!

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, Community organizing is tough and sometimes you just need a break. Luckily, this December, CODEPINK is offering you the opportunity to witness the impacts of U.S. foreign policy and visit a Carribean island at the same time!  Get more info…

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  Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK · [email protected]

September 16, 2019 at 6:22 PM

Did MBS just become the US Commander in Chief?

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, This feels like deja vu. Back in the early 1990s, during the first gulf war, our slogan was “No Blood for Oil.” Now Trump says the US is “locked and loaded,” prepared to carry out a military strike on Iran in retaliation for an attack on S…

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  Carley, CODEPINK · [email protected]

September 13, 2019 at 4:09 PM

My future depends on this

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, I’m 26 and I believe addressing climate change is one of the most important challenges of my generation. Did you know that the U.S. Military is the world’s largest consumer of carbon and causes more pollution than 140 countries combined? Y…

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  Ariel and Medea, CODEPINK · [email protected]

September 11, 2019 at 5:59 PM

No Amusement Parks for Starving Yemeni Children

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, Six Flags, a US company that is the world’s largest theme park operator, has unveiled designs to open an amusement park in the Saudi Arabian city of Qiddiya. While the Saudi Six Flags park is scheduled to open in 2023, Saudi Arabia’s thril…

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  Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK · [email protected]

September 10, 2019 at 6:26 PM

Today 5pm at the White House, Celebrate Bolton's Firing!

CODEPINK - Communications What: Celebrate Bolton's Firing & Rally for Diplomacy!When: Tuesday, September 10, 5pm-6pmWhere: White House, Washington DC, 10007 Dear John— Four months ago in May, we cajoled Donald Trump into sending out the email below about firing John Bolto…

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  Ariel and Ursula, CODEPINK · [email protected]

September 4, 2019 at 6:02 PM

Looking for one brave Congress member

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, Every two years, The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) takes groups of newly elected members of Congress on a delegation to Israel to see a one-sided view of the political situation facing Israelis and Palestinians. These ju…

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  Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK · [email protected]

September 3, 2019 at 6:25 PM

Do you have a moment? This is important

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, Four Democrats in Congress are holding an enormous amount of power right now. Senator Jack Reed, Senator Chuck Schumer, Representative Adam Smith, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi will help determine which amendments make it into the final veto-pr…

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