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  Ariel and Medea, CODEPINK · [email protected]
July 30, 2020 at 2:13 PM

Loujain Turns 31 tonight — Join the #FreeLoujain party 🎂🎈🗣️

CODEPINK - Communications Tonight is Loujain al-Hathloul’s birthday – and we plan on celebrating! Help us flood social media with celebrations of Loujain’s life and work and demands for her freedom. Tweet and post #FreeLoujain on her birthday!   ACT NOW …
  Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK · [email protected]
July 30, 2020 at 2:01 PM

Tonight 5pm at the Saudi Embassy — #FreeLoujain

CODEPINK - Communications What: Drive-By the Saudi Embassy for Loujain al-Hathloul’s 31st Birthday #FreeLoujain When: Thursday, 5:00 - 7:00 PM ET Where: 601 New Hampshire Ave NW, Washington, DC Join the #FreeLoujain BDay social media Day of action  Dear John Tonight is Louja…
  Angela, CODEPINK · [email protected]
July 28, 2020 at 7:34 PM

Thank you, and here's even more!

CODEPINK - Communications Dearest Peacemaker, Thank you for adding your name to the letter for Biden calling for a No First Use policy. Together we can stop the next Cold War and raise up that China is Not Our Enemy.  We will continue to create tools to help us all ta…
  Leonardo Flores and Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK · [email protected]
July 27, 2020 at 1:38 PM

⚠️️URGENT time-sensitive opportunity to help alleviate Trump's cruel Cuba policy

CODEPINK - Communications This is exciting and we must act fast: We have a rare chance to hold — and win — two historic votes in Congress to roll back parts of U.S. sanctions on Cuba on food, medicines, and remittances. There will be a vote tomorrow, Tuesday to determine…
  Jodie Evans, CODEPINK · [email protected]
July 23, 2020 at 1:10 PM

How 😨 Scary is this?

CODEPINK - Communications Join us in asking Presidential Candidate Joe Biden to commit to the No First Use of Nuclear Weapons Policy. ACT NOW Dear John, The same methods that were used to drive us to war in Iraq are right now being used to driv…
  Leonardo, CODEPINK · [email protected]
July 22, 2020 at 8:42 PM

POSTPONED: DC Protest Against the Police State

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, Due to the flash flood warnings and thunderstorm, today's protest at the Customs and Border Protection headquarters in Washington, D.C. has been postponed until Saturday at 1 p.m. and relocated to the White House. What: March Against Tr…
  Leonardo, CODEPINK · [email protected]
July 21, 2020 at 7:30 PM

Two protests in DC this week: Bolivia & the Police State!

CODEPINK - Communications   It’s been 8 months since the coup and massacres in Bolivia, let’s join local Bolivians today to demand new elections! And then on Wednesday, let’s fight the growing militarization of police here at home with a rally at the US CBP building! …
  Ariel and Carley, CODEPINK · [email protected]
July 20, 2020 at 11:27 AM

😱 Sen. Schumer said WHAT?

CODEPINK - Communications Did you hear? Senator Schumer has announced his support for legislation to cut the Pentagon budget by 10% 💥👊🏼👊🏽👊🏾👊🏿💥Contact your senators and representative and tell them to support these and other progressive amendments to the National Defense …
  Izzy Goldstein and Eli Green, CODEPINK · [email protected]
July 18, 2020 at 3:05 PM

A request from Jewish teens

CODEPINK - Communications Palestinian youth activist Janna Jihad The Jewish-American community tried to hide the occupation from us, but thanks to the principled work of CODEPINK and other Palestinian rights organizations, the tide is turning and people now recognize tha…
  Ariel and Medea, CODEPINK · [email protected]
July 15, 2020 at 1:05 PM

Yemen has a 20% COVID-19 death rate. Can you help?

CODEPINK - Communications Yemen has suffered five years of a bloody civil war. Now, the coronavirus pandemic threatens to overwhelm the country’s struggling healthcare system and claim even more innocent lives. The US has been careless toward the suffering of the Yemeni …
  Michelle Ellner, CODEPINK · [email protected]
July 10, 2020 at 9:12 PM

Guess who’s blocking COVID-19 aid?

CODEPINK - Communications What if we told you there are billions of dollars in COVID-19 relief funds available for countries in need and Congress is the only thing standing in the way of getting relief funds to people in need? Tell your senators and representatives to en…
  Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK · [email protected]
July 7, 2020 at 3:55 PM

Israel just bombed Iran. How can we stop a war?

CODEPINK - Communications Last Thursday, Israel exploded a massive bomb at the Iranian Natanz nuclear site. It doesn’t get more dangerous than this and we have to act fast to prevent Israel from starting and dragging the U.S. into war. Join us tomorrow, Wednesday, July 8…
  Ariel and Medea, CODEPINK · [email protected]
July 3, 2020 at 6:56 PM

💥BREAKING 💥Historic Congressional vote conditioning U.S. funds to Israel

CODEPINK - Communications We did it! We got Congress to introduce legislation conditioning U.S. military support to Israel so that it does not go to fund or support illegal Israeli annexation of the West Bank. It is expected to be voted on in the Senate as early as this m…
  Jodie Evans, CODEPINK · [email protected]
July 2, 2020 at 5:41 PM

😞 We’re not celebrating

CODEPINK - Communications This Saturday is “Independence Day” but as long as the U.S. remains armed to the teeth, engaged in endless wars, and with racist militarized police forces on its streets, we are anything but liberated. So, this weekend rather than celebrating, w…
  CODEPINK DC · [email protected]
July 1, 2020 at 8:49 PM

CODEPINK DC: ❌ Defund the Police, Refund the People ☮️

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, The 4th of July has been a celebration of freedom and liberty in the United States which is why we choose to protest instead. According to Fannie Lou Hamer, there is no freedom to be celebrated because “No one is free until we are all fre…
  Ariel Gold, CODEPINK · [email protected]
July 1, 2020 at 7:38 PM

It’s AOC vs. AIPAC — which side are you on?

CODEPINK - Communications This is it: AOC, Sanders, Jayapal, Tlaib, Pressley, and eight other members of Congress have sent a letter — endorsed by CODEPINK — calling to cut U.S. military funding to Israel if the state moves forward with formal annexation/apartheid. Send a…
  Nancy Mancias, CODEPINK · [email protected]
June 30, 2020 at 1:01 PM

🛑 Tasers

CODEPINK - Communications Tell Blackrock: stop investing in Tasers that police have used to kill thousands of Americans! Email Blackrock CEO Dear John, BlackRock loves to make a killing on killing: Over a thousand Americans have been killed by Tasers — 3…
  Ariel Gold, CODEPINK · [email protected]
June 26, 2020 at 2:38 PM

What will annexation mean?

CODEPINK - Communications In only five days the Israeli government will begin de jour annexation of large parts of the West Bank. Leveraging U.S. military aid isn’t novel. We did it to Israel in 1956, 1975, 1977, 1982, and even in 1991 under George Bush. Since we can’t ex…
  Leonardo · [email protected]
June 24, 2020 at 7:11 PM

Venezuela sues the UK over its gold!

CODEPINK - Communications Venezuela is suing the Bank of England over $1.2 million in gold that was frozen in January 2019. New evidence reveals that this was a political decision - contradicting the Bank’s own policy! Tell the Bank of England to release Venezuela’s gold…
  Ariel Gold, CODEPINK · [email protected]
June 23, 2020 at 5:54 PM

Biden said what???

CODEPINK - Communications BREAKING: We have gathered over 100 organizations, representing millions of Americans, to pen the following letter to the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. We’re urging him to adopt a just and principled policy in support of …
  Medea Benjamin · [email protected]
June 17, 2020 at 7:24 PM

Sanctions for receiving aid from Cuban doctors?

CODEPINK - Communications Trump ally Senator Rick Scott is calling for sanctioning countries that request aid from Cuba’s medical missions, including the teams fighting COVID-19 around the world! For Trump & friends, spreading lies is more important than saving lives…
  Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK · [email protected]
June 15, 2020 at 7:33 PM

👮 💰 Want to defund the police? Do this too!

CODEPINK - Communications Congresswomen Barbara Lee, Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez, and Jayapal listened to YOU and made history by introducing a bill to cut the Pentagon budget by $350 billion. Now, will you help them make history and ask your representative to support Barba…
  Medea and Ariel, CODEPINK · [email protected]
June 11, 2020 at 1:02 PM

Is Saudi Arabia going to free Loujain?

CODEPINK - Communications In solidarity with Loujain al-Hathloul and all Saudi women, this week, we are asking Irene Natividad, president of the GlobeWomen Research and Education Institute and a Women 20 (W20) delegate to the 2020 G20 summit being hosted by Saudi Arabia,…
  Carley and Medea, CODEPINK · [email protected]
June 9, 2020 at 4:53 PM

Yes, Senator Cotton, that’s right

CODEPINK - Communications Did you see what far-right Senator Tom Cotton tweeted over the weekend? “What is next—disband the military?,” he wrote, incredulous about the momentum to defund the police. We say, hell yeah! Check out the Poor People’s Campaign Moral Budget, wh…
  Ariel Gold, CODEPINK · [email protected]
June 6, 2020 at 7:30 PM

Israeli weapons in Minneapolis?

CODEPINK - Communications Remember the drones that flew over Minneapolis right after the murder of George Floyd? Were you surprised? Well, you shouldn’t have been as Minnesota holds over $1.2 million in investments in Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems—t…
  CODEPINK DC · [email protected]
June 5, 2020 at 7:03 PM

Keep protests peaceful: defund the DC police!

CODEPINK - Communications The DC Council just postponed its Metropolitan Police Department budget hearing to solicit public input. Support peaceful protesters in DC by pushing for one of the key demands: defund the DC police! Dear John, Peaceful protests are getting …
  Marion Gray-Hopkins, Coalition of Concerned Mothers & CODEPINK · [email protected]
June 2, 2020 at 1:02 PM

My 19-year-old son was killed by police

CODEPINK - Communications My 19-year-old son was shot and killed by two Maryland police officers 20 years ago and nothing has changed. Contact your Senators immediately and tell them to support Shatz’s amendment to end the transfer of weapons of war into the hands of pol…
  leonardo@codepink · [email protected]
May 30, 2020 at 1:18 PM

Stop ICE from spreading COVID-19

CODEPINK - Communications Latin America is becoming the new epicenter of the pandemic and ICE is deporting people with Covid-19! There are bills in Congress to suspend ICE deportations and release detainees. Join the chorus of voices denouncing ICE’s cruelty! Dear J…
  Ariel, Jodie and Medea, CODEPINK · [email protected]
May 29, 2020 at 10:37 PM

For George and ALL Black Lives

CODEPINK - Communications Share your outrage! Dear John, The obscene execution of George Floyd on Monday night by the Minneapolis police has sparked an uprising not only in Minneapolis but around the country.  In addition to joining protests in your area, here are…
  Paki Wieland, CODEPINK · [email protected]
May 29, 2020 at 6:01 PM

I was there

CODEPINK - Communications I was one of the people, back in 1968, who heeded the call from Dr. King to travel to D.C. for the original Poor People’s Campaign National March on Washington. Now, as violence against black and poor communities remains on full display, I am co…
  Cody, CODEPINK · [email protected]
May 24, 2020 at 6:25 PM

Will you join Ilhan Omar?

CODEPINK - Communications Boeing and Lockheed Martin want to sell $2 billion in weapons to the Duterte regime in the Philippines. Will you join Ilhan Omar in calling on Congress to reject a $2 billion weapons sale to the Philippines?   ADD MY NAME Dear Jo…
  CODEPINK DC · [email protected]
May 22, 2020 at 6:56 PM

CODEPINK DC: Join the Peace Caravan!

CODEPINK - Communications Dear John, Join us in DC as we pivot to Peace on Memorial Day! The idea is to stay safe and be visible for PEACE.   From the simple to the sublime: Donate to our work for peace and get a Support the Peacekeeper bumper sticker. Download and print our…
  Medea & Ariel, CODEPINK · [email protected]
May 22, 2020 at 4:34 PM

I haven’t forgotten about Ali al-Nimr. Have you?

CODEPINK - Communications Ali al-Nimr, Jailed Saudi Protester As of tomorrow, Ali al-Nimr—imprisoned since the tender age of 17—will have been in prison for eight years, six of those on death row. He is one of thousands of political prisoners in Saudi Arabia, many of whom…
  Medea & Jodie, CODEPINK · [email protected]
May 21, 2020 at 7:30 PM

Are you joining the caravan for peace this weekend?

CODEPINK - Communications This “Memorial Day” take action so there are no more deaths to memorialize from war. Join us to organize caravans for peace and disarmament—so that we can achieve a global ceasefire and move America’s priorities from warfare to healthcare. …
  ariel@codepink · [email protected]
May 20, 2020 at 1:06 PM

Two wars with one naval interception?

CODEPINK - Communications Iranian trading ships are en route to Venezuela, but the Trump administration threatened to take “measures” against them and has several warships in the Caribbean. If the US Navy intercepts the ships, it would be a blatant act of piracy and coul…
  Ariel Gold, CODEPINK · [email protected]
May 18, 2020 at 8:04 PM

Aparthied soccer teams?

CODEPINK - Communications Netanyahu affirmed yesterday his plan to annex the West Bank, so we have to kick the boycott movement into high gear. Sign the petition and tweet at football/soccer superstar Raheem Sterling asking him not to sign with Puma as long as they suppor…
  Medea, Jodie, and Ariel, CODEPINK · [email protected]
May 12, 2020 at 4:42 PM

Dear Joe Biden

CODEPINK - Communications BREAKING: More than 50 national progressive, anti-war, and faith organizations, representing millions of Americans, have penned the following letter to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, urging him to adopt a principled, peaceful foreign…
  Ariel and Medea, CODEPINK · [email protected]
May 11, 2020 at 9:19 PM

This Friday will mark two years

CODEPINK - Communications While we may be feeling claustrophobic in our living rooms these days, women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul has been holed up in a Saudi prison since May 2018. This Friday marks two years exactly since her arrest. We have a plan to secure…
  Michelle Ellner, CODEPINK · [email protected]
May 10, 2020 at 4:04 PM

My Mothers Day Wish

CODEPINK - Communications The pandemic has clarified what it means to keep my young daughter and our country safe, which is not to build more bombs and warplanes, but to provide universal healthcare and to heal our planet. That’s why, on Mother's Day, I’m asking you to a…
  Michelle Ellner, CODEPINK · [email protected]
May 8, 2020 at 7:20 PM

Was Trump involved in the Venezuela terror plot?

CODEPINK - Communications Trump’s unfolding war on Venezuela escalated this week with the capture of 2 American mercenaries who took part in a failed terror plot. We need to stop this war before it gets worse and the first step is getting Congress to ask hard questions. …
  Nancy Mancias, CODEPINK · [email protected]
May 6, 2020 at 1:00 PM

BlackRock

CODEPINK - Communications Tell BlackRock: Stop Investing in Weapons! Add your name to the call and CODEPINK will pull out all the stops to make sure BlackRock hears our call. Dear John, Dozens of small children were packed into a school bus, coming back from a so…
  Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK · [email protected]
May 5, 2020 at 3:32 PM

Cuban doctors began to arrive, without asking for anything in return

CODEPINK - Communications Selflessness, solidarity and working for the common good characterize what the Nobel Peace Prize should be about. These traits aptly describe Cuba’s Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade, which has saved over 80,000 lives since 2005 and is c…
  Medea and Ariel, CODEPINK · [email protected]
May 4, 2020 at 6:59 PM

Are we winning on the Saudi front?

CODEPINK - Communications Ali al-Nimr, Jailed Saudi Protester Thanks to the hard work of activists like you, John, Saudi Arabia has ended floggings and the sentencing of minors to death. And thanks to our friends at Freedom Forward, we have another victory: the first woma…
  Medea and Jodie, CODEPINK · [email protected]
May 1, 2020 at 2:02 PM

Should your $$ bail out weapons companies?

CODEPINK - Communications Congress is meeting soon to discuss another COVID-19 stimulus package. Weapons manufacturers will have their lobbyists in the Capital requesting ‘billions and billions'.  Join with thousands of other voices on May Day to drown out the corporate …
  Leonardo Flores, CODEPINK · [email protected]
April 30, 2020 at 5:46 PM

A “medieval siege” in 2020?

CODEPINK - Communications According to UN special rapporteur Alfred De Zayas, the sanctions on Venezuela are “comparable with medieval sieges of towns.” That means they are cruel, deadly and completely immoral. Tell Congress to lift the sanctions on Venezuela! Dear …
  Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK · [email protected]
April 29, 2020 at 6:58 PM

Detained by ICE because he is Iranian?

CODEPINK - Communications Arrested by the FBI in 2017 when he traveled legally to the U.S. to visit his daughters, Iranian scientist Dr. Asgari has now contracted COVID-19 in ICE custody. In addition to supporting an emergency lawsuit for him and 16 other medically vulne…
  Sima Shakhsari, CODEPINK · [email protected]
April 27, 2020 at 3:33 PM

Iranians will never forget this

CODEPINK - Communications As an Iranian-American, I worry every day about my family and the people of Iran. Will you help call on Congress to pressure Trump? Already, there is a lot of momentum. Senators Feinstein, Sanders, and Warren, and Reps Ocasio-Cortez, Pressley, O…
  Leonardo Flores, CODEPINK · [email protected]
April 23, 2020 at 1:43 PM

A new Good Neighbor Policy

CODEPINK - Communications Trump is beating the war drums with Venezuela and needlessly crippling Cuba with sanctions — more than ever we need to revive FDR’s Good Neighbor Policy to bring peace and cooperation with Latin America. Click to add your support — this will onl…
  Ariel Gold, CODEPINK · [email protected]
April 22, 2020 at 3:40 PM

He imprisoned a princess?

CODEPINK - Communications It’s been over a year now since Saudi Crown Prince, MbS, threw his cousin, Princess Basmah bint Saud, in prison for advocating for women’s rights and reforms in Saudi Arabia. Somehow, from the depths of the brutal Al-Ha'ir prison, Princess Basma…
  Nancy Mancias, CODEPINK · [email protected]
April 21, 2020 at 1:01 PM

Stop this Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

CODEPINK - Communications BlackRock is taking advantage of world economies suffering from the outcomes of the coronavirus to further consolidate global power. We must tell the Fed Chair Jerome Powell to stop BlackRock from exploiting taxpayer funds to its advantage!  …