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Dear CODEPINKer,
What
an amazing week! We marched, we lobbied, we danced, we used street
theater and celebrity muscle and the biggest, most powerful Walk
in Their Shoes display ever to make Congress wake up and
pay attention to our demand to stop funding war. A few of us got
arrested in the process. And we got plenty of coverage--CODEPINK
was all
over the news, our creative actions casting a vibrant
pink glow over Washington.
You
can view some gorgeous, inspiring pictures of the march, as well
as our pinkslipping of the Senate Hart
building, our Ask
Hillary to Be a Woman for Peace action, and many other
moments of fun and fierce activism here.
Thank
you to everyone who filled the streets with pink,
who filled the air with chants of outrage and hope, who forced our
lawmakers to listen to our plea. We couldn't have done it without
all of your help, all of your voices and hands and hearts.
 We
lost one of our favorite voices this week: Molly
Ivins, the courageous, powerful, straight-shooting political
humorist, died January 31st. Molly joined us for our first activist
retreat last summer and delighted us all with her wit and wisdom;
she writes about her CODEPINK experience
here.
In
her very final column last month, "Stand
Up Against the Surge", Molly urged her readers to
"raise hell" against Bush-or
Shrub as she liked to call him-and his misbegotten war.
Let's
keep raising hell in Molly's name. She
would love our new Occupation
Project: On February 5, 2007,
we will begin an 8-week campaign to "occupy" the offices
of Representatives and Senators who refuse to pledge to vote against
additional war funding. Organize to occupy your Congressperson's
office over the coming month and connect with other activists in
your area by visiting our new Occupation
Project webpage. Click
here to sign up to join the Occupation Project--there's
many ways that you can help push our new Congress to do the right
thing.
Our
lawmakers need to know we're expecting them to get us out of this
tragic mess. What better way than to show them how it feels to be
occupied!
Let's
keep our pink power going strong and keep Molly's fire alive!
With
gratitude and renewed energy to bring our troops home,
Dana, Farida, Gael, Gayle, Jodie, Liz, Medea,
Nancy, Patricia, Rae, Samantha, and Sonia
P.S.
You can read some beautiful tributes to Molly here: 1
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