Code Pink 4 Peace Call for Action and Meeting this week

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>>>>CODE PINK CALL FOR ACTION!

Wednesday, 3/26, Noon: Protest CNN’s War Coverage

Protest CNN’s War Coverage
Wednesday, 3/26, Noon
50 California Street, San Francisco
*Bring signs with pictures of Iraqi and American victims of war or dress as
a victim of war (in bloody clothing and bandages)

This weekend the United States dropped more than 1500 bombs and missiles on
Baghdad, a city the size of Los Angeles. In Basra, a city of one million, the U.S. military actions left the population without water and electricity.
The reality of war is not antiseptic—it is bloody and has devastating consequences on human beings and the environment.

But what are the images that we’re seeing on CNN? We are seeing a video war with commentary from former military generals or from journalists "imbedded"
with the US military. We are seeing the version of war that the U.S. government would like the public to believe—not the reality on the ground in Iraq.

How many houses were destroyed this weekend? How many Americans and Iraqis have been killed? What was it like for children who heard bombs exploding
around them all day long? What is happening in Basra, where the population no longer has access to water or electricity? Who are the people that are filling the hospitals?

TAKE ACTION

Join Media Alliance, Global Exchange, and CodePink for a rally and picket at CNN to demand that this worldwide news network provide Americans with the
images of war that people in other parts of the world are already seeing.

War is not pretty, but journalism is about reporting the truth, whether it’s pretty or not.

In Peace,

Kirsten Michel for Code Pink
http://www.kirstenmichel.com
Coming soon! http://www.codepinkbayarea.org



You've heard of Code Orange and Code Red, but have you heard of Code Pink???

What: Bay Area meeting of Code Pink
When: Thursday, March 27 at 7pm
Where: City Blend Café, 3087 16th Street (16th at Valencia), San Francisco

Come to a Bay Area meeting of the new, dynamic, creative anti-war group Code Pink. Led by women and open to all supportive men, Code Pink is the group that
held a vigil in front of the White House every day from November 17-March 8; organized a fantastic women's peace rally in Washington DC on International Women's Day, March 8 took a 15-person delegation to Iraq in February to meet with Iraqi women
now has dozens of Code Pink "clusters" around the country, from Boise, Idaho to Shreveport, Louisiana, and new ones springing up overseas
Organizes feisty actions for peace in Congress, at the United Nations, and at the home of war-mongerers such as as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

(See our website at http://www.codepinkalert.org)

So come help build the Bay Area Code Pink!!!
Bring your friends.
In peace,
Medea Benjamin and Kirsten Michel
for Code Pink