If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution -- Emma Goldman
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Visit Zahra Hamid Sultan's website/blog to learn how you can help Iraqi refugees "with medical, financial, educational and social needs and to build bridges between the people of United States and Iraq by creating networks and exchanging information through meetings, seminars and exhibitions."
Ongoing Peace Events
1st Tuesday of the month : CODEPINK Portland monthly meeting
Saturday, June 28: CODEPINK Portland Fundraiser and Poetry Reading
Saturday, July 19: Salsa for Peace! Hot Pink Salsa Dance
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Call
to action! We call on women around the world to rise up and oppose the wars the Bush administration seems determined to wage. We call on mothers, grandmothers, sisters and daughters, on workers, students, teachers, healers, artists, writers, singers, poets, and every ordinary outraged woman willing to be outrageous for peace. We call on our brothers to join us and support us. Because of our responsibility to the next generation, because of our own love for our families and communities and this country that we are a part of, we understand the love of a mother in Iraq for her children, and the driving desire of that child for life. |
What's Next?
While the US administration and mainstream media declare the war
a success, we mourn the lives of thousands of Iraqis, including many women
and children who lie dead or missing. Countless Iraqis suffer from a lack
of clean water, medical care, electricity and a growing restlessness about
their country's future. We mourn, too, for US troops who needlessly lost
their lives, for our country's decline to the status of a terrorist nation,
and for our government's policies of pre-emptive strike and of right by
military might.
War drums continue to threaten Syria, Iran and other Middle Eastern countries while here at home, many Americans wonder how they will find and keep a job, pay for necessary medicine, send their children to school, and save for retirement. We must guard our civil liberties from a right wing agenda that does not hold them sacred. Our system of government is tragically broken and in need of change.
The peace movement is at a crossroads. And though the train may have appeared to slow, this isn't the time to jump off. In fact, there has never been a more critical time for your involvement and your voice.
About usCode Pink's mission is serious - carrying the message of peace and justice, and responding to corporate crime and globalization, military engorgement, environmental threats and attacks on civil liberties. Our methods, however, are fresh, creative and fun. Surprise is an important element of our actions, as is the visual impact - it's just hard to ignore that much pink. In keeping with the spirit of Code Pink, our Portland group has adopted Emma Goldman's famous phrase: "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution."
The name Code Pink is both a play on Homeland Security's color alert system and the code used in hospitals to alert staff of a child abduction in progress. Our members find the latter appropriate, since the children of the world are being abducted - symbolically, and often literally - by the global corporate culture and war machine.
Interested in joining us? Contact our listserve. Or come to our regular monthly meeting, every first Tuesday at In Other Words Books, 8 NE Killingsworth, Portland. 6:30 pm. (See calendar.)
Code Pink Portland T-shirts are here! Our T shirts are a tribute to Emma Goldman ("What Would Emma Do?"). Click on the thumbnail photos to see a larger view. T-shirt photos by Geronimo Joe.
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You can purchase your Ts from In Other Words Women's Books and Resources, 8 NE Killingsworth.
Portland's Code Pink does a peace action in a local mall.