BUSH STRIKES OUT!! CODEPINK HITS A HOME RUN WITH BASES LOADED!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWkII4pFsVw

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/03/29/sports/20080329_NATIONALS_SLIDESHOW_index.html

http://in.reuters.com/article/asiaCompanyAndMarkets/idINN3041793720080331

Yeah team!! Liz Arizona, Joan, Cher, Eric, Chris, Ann Wilcox, Jes & I arrived hours before the "presidential pitch".

Although only Ann and Chris had tickets, all of us participated in rabble-rousing street theater outside the Metro station entrance to the stadium.

We interacted with probably a couple of thousand baseball fans. Above is a one who came with his very own sign. In addition to the regular folk arrived several famous people AND one infamous: CNN's Wolf Blitzer,

Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher,

Senator Byron Dorgin , former Mayor Anthony Williams, and none other than war criminal Colin Powell!

Liz wore the Bush head in prison garb for the entire three hours before the game and must have had her photo taken a thousand times! Note the Induction into the Hall of Shame certificate in Bush's hands.

Cher and Gael later joined us and wore the Condi head, too.
Joan and I, as Pink Police held BOO BUSH signs and called out to the crowds:

HURRY, HURRY, HURRY!! STEP RIGHT UP FOR YOUR ONCE IN A LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY, A FREE PHOTO WITH THE WAR CRIMINAL OF YOUR CHOICE! MAKE YOUR OPENING DAY GAME EXPERIENCE EXTRA MEMORABLE WITH A PICTURE WITH YOUR NEAREST AND DEAREST WAR CRIMINAL DUBYA BEFORE WE TAKE HIM TO THE

HAGUE!

"He was greeted by plenty of loud jeers, but also determined cheers, as if the fans in both camps were trying to outduel each other." Yahoo Sports

http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ap-bush-baseball&prov=ap&type=lgns

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWkII4pFsVw

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Rdp3bk-igA0

Des

Chain Gang took the show away from the CRIMiNAL

The Nationals hosted the first game of the season

in the new stadium with a gorgeous view of the waterfront!

CODEPINK DC PEACE FORCE was out in ususal street theater mode

to ensure the attendees would make NOISE when the decider

threw the first symbolic pitch!MIssion Accomplished BUSH was greeted with

LOUD BOO like sounds instead of cheers from the crowds! RIGHT ON TEAM

There were many prominent WAR MONGERS & others in attendance Colin Powell,
Wolf Blitzer & family,Congresswoman Tauscher,Senator Byron Dorgan

we made certain to greet each one with a personalized message!

03.30.08 SHAME on BUSH

Join CODEPINK DC & many other activists as we

BOO BUSH at the 1st game of the season
in the new stadium!

BUSH is not welcome here in DC -

Chain Gang looking for Karl Rove @ Gw in DC

Chain Gang was in all out action mode today looking to present a FOX Glamour Award & A supboena to the most effective liar in the Bush Cabinet! Karl Rove still has his framer of fiction function within the power circles in DC!Rove is a well known manufacturer of BS in the halls of Power----------and we the people were ready to SPEAK TRUTH to LIAR himself

Karl try jumping into REALITY

you are an untrustworthy person and need mental HELP

WE the PEOPLE don't believe yur LIES

and you definitely need serious counseling and mental

oversight!

Impeachment for PEACE!

Impeachment is in the Constitution
for a reason! Impeach for PEACE & Security!

The Bush Regime of fear factor tactics
seem to be ramping up the rhetoric to AirStrike Iran! There are many signals indicating this could be coming soon-IMPEACHMENT hearings will put a STOP to this evil empire

Call Conyers 202.225.5126
Conyers wife in Michigan seems more progressive give her a call

Great Action in DC some photos to remember

Someone lead us out of IRAQ NOW......5 years have past without a plan

YO BASTA

BRING the TROOPS HOME SAFELY!

Culver City Resident Travels to DC to Protest Iraq War

Cost of war drives people into the streets with
colorful costumes & message of peace

WASHINGTON D.C. – Culver City peace activist Paulette
Navarro traveled to DC this week for creative protests
on the 5th anniversary of the war in Iraq. As a
social worker at a local hospital in Inglewood,
Paulette has seen funding for health and social
services diminish significantly while over 1.2
trillion dollars have been spent on death and
destruction caused by the war, and 4000 US soldiers
and one million Iraquis have died. Outraged, Navarro
became an organizer with the Culver City Peace and
Justice group and is active with the Los Angeles peace
movement, gathering signatures on impeachment
petitions and educating the public on the war and
decreased social funding, and protesting military
recruitment..

Navarro, wanting to bring her activism to a higher
level, decided to take precious time away from work
and family to participate in the "5 Years Too Many"
demonstrations in Washington, D.C. She joined
protestors from 50 states and abroad who converged in
the nation's capitol to demand an end to the war. About 15
people from local Los Angeles area groups she belongs to helped
Navarro with her trip expenses, feeling that she was
representing them in the Capitol.

"We are seeing that Americans are willing to go the
distance, skip work and even spend precious time away
from their families to deliver the message to the
war-profiteers, the federal agencies that have
destroyed our Constitution and the Congress that we
are tired of their support for this war - we want them
to work for peace!" says Navarro. Navarro feels that she made a difference in
participating in the days of actions in Washington
D.C., and in addition she returns with renewed energy,
invigorated and inspired to continue the work of ending the war
and bringing peace to our country and the world.

On March 18th, Navarro marched with the peace group
CODEPINK in an event called "Restore the Constitution"
to shed a light on the assault on our nation's
Constitution by the Administration. From the National
Archives to the Justice Department and the IRS
Building, a group of 300 protesters, some of them
dressed in colonial attire, carried the Preamble of
the Constitution written on a huge banner.

On March 19, the day the war started, Navarro
joined CODEPINK and the larger peace
coalition - under the umbrella of United for Peace and
Justice - to participate in the March of the Dead,
a procession of people wearing black and
skull-like masks, which prompted people to imagine how
it would be if the dead civilians and military personel were to
return to seek justice in D.C. The same day, in front
of the White House, Navarro witnessed a waterboarding
demonstration, a torture technique used on prisoners. This convinced her that
one cannot stand idly by when torture is being
committed in our name and with our money.

Several groups of demonstrators staged demonstrations
in front of the so called "war profiteers":
corporations that are financially benefiting
from continuing the war. A mock "War Profiteer Award"
was given to the company that profited the most from
the war.

There was more than 640 events throughout the United
States to mark the fifth anniversary of the war.

Navarro quotes the historian Howard Zinn who wrote in
his book "A Power Governments Cannot Suppress," that
every significant social change in this country
happened not by the government but by a large movement
of people demanding change; and that is why she says,
"there is currently an urgency to increase the numbers
of people in the peace movement to build a critical
mass of people to create change."

Phoenix CODEPINK on 5th Anniversary of Iraq Invasion

Phoenix, Arizona: On this 5th Anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq nearly 600 protesters gather at Arizona Senator John McCain's Phoenix Office. The evening ended with the a candlelight vigil and the reading of the over 100 names of Arizona military persons lost in this occupation.

Phoenix, Arizona: On this 5th Anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq nearly 600 protesters gather at Arizona Senator John McCain's Phoenix Office. The evening ended with the a candlelight vigil and the reading of the over 100 names of Arizona military persons lost in this occupation.