Nine of us here today. It's hot in the sun, but the terrible heat of earlier in the week has lifted. We set up a table in the shade of a tree. We're ready to meet people as they come along, up from the subway or across the square during a lunch break. We have … Continue reading THE GRANNY PEACE BRIGADE – CODE PINK PHONATHON JUNE 12
Brooklyn: Say No To Junior ROTC
Oh, how were we challenged Thursday, June 5 in Brooklyn! The park surrounding Brooklyn Borough Hall and the Court Building was saturated with folks attending Brooklyn Day, a pro-Atlantic Yards rally, sponsored by the Forest City Ratner Corporation, a NYC real estate developer with a taste for using eminent domain for their own gain. A … Continue reading Brooklyn: Say No To Junior ROTC
RAGING GRANNIES HEAT UP UNION SQUARE
Want to jump-start your next peace action? Invite your local Raging Grannies and draw a crowd! Here the NYC chapter joins the Granny Peace Brigade and Code Pink for a "STOP THE WAR, IMPEACH BUSH" Phone-A-Thon. If you don't see the video click here. WE ARE A GAGGLE OF GRANNIESWords: Esther Farnsworth & the Vermont … Continue reading RAGING GRANNIES HEAT UP UNION SQUARE
Freedom Ride – Not Just Another Bus Ride
Who is this woman and why was this mug shot taken? Joan spent her first two years of college at the Women's College of the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. It was 1957 and it happened to be the first year that the state of North Carolina integrated its public universities, in response to … Continue reading Freedom Ride – Not Just Another Bus Ride
APRIL 10 PHONATHON NEWS
FROM THE GRANNY PEACE BRIGADE, CODEPINK, AND RAGING GRANNIES Coats are off, the day is warm, people are sailing by in Union Square. Ten of us today, from Granny Peace Brigade, Code Pink, Raging Grannies and their Daughters and a new recruit, Carla from Chelsea United for Peace and Justice. We're all seizing the occasion … Continue reading APRIL 10 PHONATHON NEWS
Maintaining Privacy for High School Students Requires Action
Five stalwart members and friends of the Granny Peace Brigade and CodePink gathered at Washington Irving High School on Thursday April 3, 2009, the evening of Citywide High School Parents' Open School night, to help parents who want to keep their children from being recruited into the military. Pat, Leigh, Joe, Eva-Lee and Edith told … Continue reading Maintaining Privacy for High School Students Requires Action
WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO
It is not an easy business, standing on a street corner with a pink foam crown on your head, waving a cell phone and a passel of leaflets, trying to talk jaded New Yorkers into calling up their members of Congress. Maybe its the time of year, maybe its an Endless War combined with an … Continue reading WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO
TELL YOUR SENATOR TO FILIBUSTER ANY BILL THAT FUNDS THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ
That's what we've been asking people to say at our Phone-A-Thons recently. It's not easy. We stand on a busy sidewalk and ask passersby to call Congress on the spot using our cell phones. (You can find a Phone-A-Thon recipe here.) The amazing thing is that some people actually do stop and make the call. … Continue reading TELL YOUR SENATOR TO FILIBUSTER ANY BILL THAT FUNDS THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ
CALLING ALL GRANNIES!
The sun is out and so are the skateboarders. There is a beat of leisure in the steps of the lunch-bound crowd. Barbara W stops by on her way to round up support and supplies for next Wednesday's KNIT-IN. Edith has her table and Eva-Lee is packing a camera. Caroline, jet-lagged but glowing from her … Continue reading CALLING ALL GRANNIES!
Signing Statements: What Happened To Our Constitution?
Hey, this January Congress passed a law with a section that said there should be no permanent bases in Iraq and the Iraqis should control the oil. Yes, they tucked this lovely section (1222*) into the defense appropriation bill. Maybe our senators and representatives noticed our "No Blood for Oil" signs. So how's this law … Continue reading Signing Statements: What Happened To Our Constitution?
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