Jodie Evans: Activist in Pink
By John Perazzo
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, December 08, 2003
excerpt:
"Evans rose to prominence via her role in Code Pink for Peace, a self-described “grassroots peace and social justice movement” formed just one year ago to organize public protests against America’s impending war in Iraq. Though its leaders benignly present themselves to the public as ordinary, concerned women who would simply rather 'wage peace' than go to war, this group was in fact founded by four experienced activists and hardcore communists – Jodie Evans, Medea Benjamin, Diane Wilson, and a radical Wiccan activist calling herself Starhawk. 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."
http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=BCDA4B32-1A38-4131-926D-66075EA20C23
I should have added that United for Peace and Justice is co-chaired by Judith LeBlanc. LeBlanc is vice chair of Communist Party USA. Leslie Cagan, another longtime communist, is the org’s national coordinator. Cagan not only helped found UFPJ, she also founded the org Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. CCDS is an old offshoot of Communist Party USA. If only the moron right-wing talk show hosts would tell their audiences these kinds of things. I think they’re afraid to.