Code Pink online discussion, June 7

[paineinthearse]

Received by email.

On Tuesday June 7, Moving Ideas and CODEPINK - http://www.codepink4peace.org/index.php invite you to participate in an online discussion with contributors to the new CODEPINK book, Stop the Next War Now: Effective Responses to Violence and Terrorism. http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=18086183&url_num=5&url=http://www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?id=325

Talk with smart, creative women peace activists about how we can humanize each other and act as responsible global citizens. Share your ideas for creating a more just world. http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=18086183&url_num=6&url=http://www.movingideas.org/chat/CodePink/CodePink.php

I hope you'll join us for what will surely be a powerful conversation.

Sincerely,

Diana Onken, Strategy Director
Moving Ideas Network

Online Discussion Details

Stop the Next War Now: Transitioning from a Culture of Violence to a Culture of Peace
Tuesday, June 7: all day (beginning at 10 AM EST)

You can ask your questions in advance today http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=18086183&url_num=7&url=http://www.movingideas.org/chat/CodePink/CodePink.php or ask a question on the day of the chat. http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=18086183&url_num=9&url=http://www.movingideas.org/chat/CodePink/CodePink.php

About the book: Stop the Next War Now shares expert insight on the issues and powers-that-be that can lead us to war. It aims to educate and reflect on the effectiveness of peace movement activities and offers hope, through shared ideas, action steps, and practical checklists to transition from a culture of violence to a culture of peace.

Featured Panelists:

Medea Benjamin is the founding director of Global Exchange and co-founded CODEPINK with Jodie Evans. She also helped bring together the groups forming United for Peace and Justice. In 2000, she was the Green Party candidate for the U.S. Senate from California.


Frida Berrigan is a senior research associate with the World Policy Institute's Arms Trade Resource Center. The eldest daughter of peace activists Liz McAlister and Phillip Berrigan, she was raised in a Catholic peacemaking community.


Andrea Buffa is the director of communications at Global Exchange. She was previously the executive director of Media Alliance and the peace campaign coordinator at Global Exchange.


Alli Chagi-Starr is a Bay Area cultural organizer, inspirational speaker, workshop leader, and writer on the power of arts activism. She is a founder of Art and Revolution, Cultural Links, Art in Action Youth Leadership Program, Dancers without Borders and the annual Radical Performance Fest.

Marti Hiken is the co-chair of the Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild.

Pramila Jayapal is the founder of Hate-Free Zone Washington to build solidarity at the local level & has been at the forefront of community organizing against racism.

Adrienne Maree Brown is a writer and singer living in Brooklyn, NY. She is co-editor of How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office. During the day she is the program director of the League of Young Voters, a national nonprofit voter organizer training organization.

Eisha Mason is the executive director of the Center for the Advancement of Nonviolence. She has worked with teens for more than twenty years and coauthored the 64 Ways to Practice Nonviolence curriculum and resource guide.

see related post - http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3743356


Police detain a demonstrator who disrupted a speech Friday by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at the San Francisco Commonwealth Club. Shortly after Rice started speaking, at least two protesters wearing black robes and black hoods stood up -- an apparent reference to U.S. abuse of detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. The crowd applauded as the protesters were taken away. Associated Press photo by Paul Sakuma


Protestors who interrupted a speech by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice are led out of Davies Symphony Hall on Friday, May 27, 2005. Chronicle photo by John Storey

[paineinthearse]

1. No Medena fans?

How sad.

[proud patriot]

2. It's Medea

and I love her .

Thanks for the heads up

[cascadiance]

3. I voted for her over Feinstein in 2000 and now proudly so!

[paineinthearse]

6. Remembering names is not my strength.

But I was close!

[Pryderi]

4. Bookmarked, *bumped* and voted on.

[Just Me]

5. KICK FOR THE BRAVEST WOMEN IN AMERICA!!!

Medea has engaged in REAL LIFE ACTIVISM that make ALL OF US look like chickenshits *LOL*!!!

Medea and CODE PINK have "earned" our support!!!!

Everyone should be in AWE of these incredibly active and brave ladies. EVERYONE!!!!

[Don1]

7. Medea! Medea! Medea! n/t