:: Activism : Peace
Pretty Effective in Pink. By Jessica Clark
20 Sep 2004
Submitted by: Alternative Press Center Publisher:
In These Times (9/17/04)
Organizers from Code Pink: Women for Peace were vibrantly visible during counter-convention activities during the Republican National Convention in New York. For three nights during the convention, Code Pink activists smuggled in banners, unveiled protest T-shirts and donned message-bearing pink slips, revealing themselves during high-profile speeches including Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and President Bush. In These Times interviewed Medea Benjamin, one of Code Pink's co-founders and the first of the RNC infiltrators, in a taxi cab during the last night of the convention.
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