14 November Edinburgh, Scotland: Saturday  No to NATO Demonstration Bring the troops home from Afghanistan, Scrap Trident nuclear missiles Assemble 10.30am East Market Street more info Called by Stop the War Scotland, supported by STW UK, CND, SCND, Scottish Afghan Society & SACC

October, USA: Nation-wide tour of RAWA member Zoya in October 2009, exactly 8 years after the start of the US war. Zoya will share the message of RAWA in New York, Washington DC, Boston, Iowa, Los Angeles, Berkeley, and San Francisco. 

October 3-10, Keep Space for Peace Week: International Week of Protest to Stop the Militarization of Space. No Missile Defense, No Use of Space for Drone Wars, Stop Endless War, Convert the Military Industrial Complex, Fund Human Needs. 

October 9-15, New York City: The World Premiere of the award-winning documentary feature, THE HERETICS, written and directed by Joan Braderman and produced by Crescent Diamond. Opens Friday, October 9th, 2009 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. THE HERETICS uncovers the inside story of the Second Wave of the Women’s Movement for the first time in a feature film. Joan Braderman, director and narrator, follows her dream of becoming a filmmaker to New York City in 1971. By lucky chance, she joins a feminist art collective at the epicenter of the 1970’s art world in lower Manhattan. In this first person account, THE HERETICS charts the history of a feminist collective from the inside out.
Watch the 10 minute trailer for The HERETICS
For more information, to see the trailer and view the digital archive of all 27 issues of HERESIES, visit THE HERETICS’ website: http://www.heresiesfilmproject.org

CODEPINK will be participating in a series of rolling delegations approaching Gaza via Egypt and Israel- see more here.

This War is Not Green Action
Wednesday, May 27th 2009  5 PM
Toronto, ON
Our First Event on Earth Day was a Great Success! Everyday is Earth Day! Come out and join CODEPINK as we educate and rally on the link between War and the Environment. This will also be sponsored by the Canadian Peace Alliance.
Location:
Dominos Square at Spadina, Bloor Intersection, SE Corner
Toronto, ON
torontocodepink(at)yahoo.ca

NEGROPONTE & PETRAEUS IN NYC, Thursday, 28 May, 5 p.m. Grand Central Station
John Negroponte, Bush intelligence czar, will present the George F. Kennan Award for Distinguished Public Service to General David H. Petraeus, Commander, U.S. Central Command and architect of the Iraq surge at a Gala Dinner of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy. 

5:00pm: People will gather at Grand Central Station
6:00pm: Leave Grand Central and proceed to the Union League Club 6:15pm: The demonstration outside begins
Message: "Torture is a War Crime: Prosecute." 
Please bring your own posters and banners if you wish.

KARL ROVE SPEAKING AT RADIO CITY HALL, Tuesday, 26 May 6:30 picketing (1260 6th Avenue at 50th St.)
Charlie Rose will be interviewing Karl Rove and James Carville on "Strategies, Alliances and Policy" as part of Radio City's speaker series. We will meet outside at 6:30 to picket the appearance of Rove with banners stating "NYC: War Criminal Free Zone" and "Torture is a War Crime: Prosecute." Please bring your own if you wish.

Washington, DC, Saturday, May 9th 2009 

Mother's Day 24-Hour Vigil at the White House
May 9th & 10th, 1pm - 1pm
Lafayette Park, in front of the White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC
for more information and to sign up to join CODEPINK in DC this Mother's Day! http://www.codepinkalert.org/mothersday

This Mother's Day, CODEPINK will hold their 2nd 24-hour vigil in front of the White House, "where we will honor all mothers and women who live where war is happening, where women are paying the price with their bodies, loved ones, homes, future. We want to recognize the price they pay and honor their courage and power, and stand with them in solidarity to not only tell their important stories but to model what women-centered community looks and acts like. We want to encourage other organizations and community groups around the country and the world to bring their stories and their sisters to DC to celebrate Julia Ward Howe's original call for Mother's Day.

We will call for our troops to come home from Afghanistan and Iraq so that no more mothers will suffer the unbearable grief of losing a child to these wars. And with your help, we'll also send a message of sorrow, friendship and peace directly to the women suffering in occupation and their families."
For more on Julia Ward Howe and her Mother's Day Call

1700 meet in Berlin, April 24-26, 2009
Game Over – New Start 
McPlanet.com is a German bi-annual conference with many international guests covering themes of Globalisation and Environment. Our German association WLOE e.V. was formed after a workshop we presented at the first McPlanet conference in 2003, so we were happy to be back for this one.  Around 1700 participants attended 100 workshops, forums and plenaries. On the agenda, the Berlin premiere of "Women from Planet Diversity". The film documents the May 2008 Planet Diversity demonstration, festival and conference. Discussion followed the film with one of its 'stars' -- Farida Akhter (UBINIG, Bangladesh), along with Anna Gyorgy and Beate Dienemann from WLOE e.V.

Strasbourg, France, Kehl (Germany).
Saturday 4th April 2009: No to war - No to NATO On the sixtieth anniversary of the military organisation international peace and justice organizations urge people to come to Strasbourg and Kehl to protest against NATO’s aggressive military and nuclear policies, and assert the vision of a just world free of war.The activities during the anti-NATO protest, April 1-5, will include a demonstration, international conference, direct action and civil disobedience, and an international resistance camp. For more information: no to nato and the website of the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

Women's workshop at the international  conference, April 3, and vigil, by women from: Women in Black, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and Women and Life on Earth e.V. (WLOE). For more information see our English homepage.

Actions on Wall Street in New York City
Friday April 3 and Saturday, April 4
"On April 4, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke out against war at his historic 'Beyond Vietnam' speech at Riverside Church in NYC. A year later to the date, April 4, 1968, Dr. King was assassinated in Memphis where he had traveled to lend support to the struggle of striking sanitation workers.

This year, on April 3 and April 4, we honor the legacy of Dr. King with our urgent call for a new direction by marching on the financial capital of the country: Wall Street. What brings us to Wall St. is clear:

• The human costs of the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan mount every day, and each month upwards of $12 billion are drained from our national treasury. Now is the time to end these wars, now is the time to bring all the troops home! The long term solution to our nation's economic crisis must include major cuts in military spending and putting our money to work in the rebuilding of our communities.

• Instead of pouring our money into bailing out wealthy bankers, we need government investments in spending that creates new jobs, provides health care and quality education for all, ends the foreclosure epidemic, and supports sustainable, clean energy.

Dr. King understood that the struggle for economic and social justice at home is tied to our work for peace abroad. On April 3 and April 4, we are taking the next step on this journey. By bringing people into the streets of the financial center on these two days, we will send a strong, clear message: Now is the time to raise our voices in a unified call for the changes we know must be made, the changes millions of people are demanding!"

The activities on Friday, April 3 are being led by the Bail Out the People Movement and the April 4 activities are being led by United For Peace and Justice. On Friday, April 3, United For Peace and Justice will join Bail Out the People's program on Wall Street. On Saturday, April 4, Bail Out the People Movement will gather on Wall Street and join United For Peace and Justice's March on Wall Street that will end at Battery Park. We encourage you to participate in both days of action, but if that's not possible, we hope you will be out with us on at least one of these days.

New York City:

• Friday, March 6th, CODEPINK sponsors The Nation's panel on Economic Meltdown & Recovery -- FREE! 
  2 West 64th Street. Panel begins at 8:00pm, doors open at 7:15pm. Speakers: Naomi Klein, Joseph Stiglitz, Barbara Ehrenreich, Bill Fletcher, Jr., Christopher Hayes.
  
  
• MARCH 8TH INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY FILM SCREENING,PANEL DISCUSSION AND BENEFIT CONCERT
  Greenberg Lounge, Vanderbilt Hall, NYU Law School
  Screening of Afghan Women: A History of Struggle (documentary)
  12:30p doors open; 1p Film Screening followed by panel discussion with the filmmaker Kathleen Foster, Professor Fawzia Afzal-Khan, and Fahima Vorgetts from Women for Afghan Women. For more information. Please RSVP to codepinknyc(at)gmail.com

Monday, January 5th, Direct Action in Solidarity with Gaza
Market and Montgomery, outside Sen. Diane Feinstein's office
8AM, Rain or Shine
Gaza Action, a coalition of Arab, Muslim, Jewish, and allied anti-occupation groups, is organizing a response to the ground invasion of Gaza. We invite your organization to co-sponsor and to attend the mass mobilization planned for Monday. For more information: araborganizing.org actagainstwar.net

Gaza Action is: Arab Resource and Organizing Center, Al-Awda, Free Palestine Alliance, Arab American Union Members Council, Arab Muslims for Palestine, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, the ANSWER Coalition, Direct Action to Stop the War, Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism, Women in Black, International Action Center

January 3-17: Earth Activist Training taught by Starhawk and Erik Ohlsen Cazadero hills, Northern California, USA
A two week course "that can change your life and help you change the world!
A permaculture design certificate course with a grounding in earth-based
spirituality, and a focus on organizing, activism, and social permaculture
as well as urban and rural land-based systems..."
For more information: www.EarthActivistTraining.org