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| − | '''Code Pink''' is an anti-War movement founded shortly after the [[9/11 attack]] by Jodie Evans, Medea Benjamin, Diane Wilson.Code Pink works closely with [[United For Peace and Justice]], whose leader Leslie Cagan is a longtime devotee of [[Fidel Castro]] and the [[Socialist Party USA]]. | + | '''Code Pink''' is an anti-War movement founded shortly after the [[9/11 attack]] by Jodie Evans, Medea Benjamin, and Diane Wilson. Code Pink works closely with [[United For Peace and Justice]], whose leader Leslie Cagan is a longtime devotee of [[Fidel Castro]] and the [[Socialist Party USA]]. |
Jodie Evans is a [[leftist]] activist and [[Democratic Party]] fundraiser who sits on the Board of Directors of the [[Rain Forest Action Network]] (RAN). Another RAN co-founder, Michael Roselle founded the [[Earth Liberation Front]], which the [[FBI]] ranks as one of the foremost domestic [[terrorism]] threats in the United States. Evans was a key fundraiser for California governor Gray Davis. | Jodie Evans is a [[leftist]] activist and [[Democratic Party]] fundraiser who sits on the Board of Directors of the [[Rain Forest Action Network]] (RAN). Another RAN co-founder, Michael Roselle founded the [[Earth Liberation Front]], which the [[FBI]] ranks as one of the foremost domestic [[terrorism]] threats in the United States. Evans was a key fundraiser for California governor Gray Davis. | ||
Revision as of 20:21, April 27, 2007
Code Pink is an anti-War movement founded shortly after the 9/11 attack by Jodie Evans, Medea Benjamin, and Diane Wilson. Code Pink works closely with United For Peace and Justice, whose leader Leslie Cagan is a longtime devotee of Fidel Castro and the Socialist Party USA.
Jodie Evans is a leftist activist and Democratic Party fundraiser who sits on the Board of Directors of the Rain Forest Action Network (RAN). Another RAN co-founder, Michael Roselle founded the Earth Liberation Front, which the FBI ranks as one of the foremost domestic terrorism threats in the United States. Evans was a key fundraiser for California governor Gray Davis.
In 1988 Medea Benjamin founded Global Exchange which has strong ties to the Communist Workers World Party. Benjamin is a pro-Castro activist who lived in Cuba and was a principal organizer of the 1999 Seattle riots in which some 50,000 protesters tried to shut down the World Trade Organization (WTO) meetings. Benjamin was a signatory in 2003 to Not in Our Name (NION) along with liberal activists and icons Bernardine Dohrn, Jim McDermott, Ramsey Clark, Noam Chomsky, and Cynthia McKinney. NOIN was started in 2002 by C. Clark Kissinger, a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), a Maoist group calling for the overthrow of the U.S. government and its replacement with a Communist dictatorship.
Diane Wilson is and a radical Wiccan activist.
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