Posted on 05/06/2005 3:48:47 PM PDT by tgslTakoma
Translation from Code Pinko-speak to English...
Code Pink will be sending their Femmes in Fuschia to demonstrate in front of US Armed Forces Recruitment Centers across the country.
Here's the list of actions planned, as of Friday, May 6th 6:30pm...
Arizona
Tucson
Take action independently: Go to your favorite brunch restaurant on Mother's Day morning and bring materials about keeping our sons and daughters out of the military. Download flyers about military myths and more from the CODEPINK website. (More on this event coming soon!)
California
East Los Angeles
Join Palisadians for Peace and CODEPINK in a Protest at a major Army Recruitment Center in East Los Angeles on May 7th, beginning at 11:00 A.M.
Plan on arriving at 10:30 A. M. with signs like "Recruit for College not for War" ("Reclute para la Universidad, no la Guerra") "Military Recruiters Lie" ("Los Reclutadores Militares dicen Mentiras"), "You’re Just Another Sale," "Recruiters, Get out of East L.A. !" Counter-Recruitment brochures will be provided for distribution.
Menlo Park
The Peninsula Raging Grannies will be singing their bilingual counter recruiting compositions (click here to read them online and print them for your action!) in Spanish and English at:
Menlo Park Farmer's Market
University Ave near Menlo Ave.
Menlo Park CA
Date: Sunday May 8 (Mother's Day)
Time: 11:00 am
Other notes about this action:
1. We will have a costumed re-enactor of Julia Ward Howe reciting the Mother's Day Proclamation.
2. Our Spanish speaking Grannies wanted me to sure and have you call it a bilingual action, as we will both sing and interview in Spanish.
San Luis Obispo
Join with CodePink and the San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace on Mother's Day!
Event: MOTHER'S DAY PEACE VIGIL
Date: Sunday, May 8, 2005
Time: 5 p.m. to 5:45 p.m.
Place: Mission Plaza, San Luis Obispo
San Francisco
RECRUIT FOR PEACE WALK AND RALLY
Join CODEPINK: Women for Peace and other groups and individuals on a lively and up-beat walk through San Francisco's media block, ending with a counter-recruitment rally at the U.S. Military Recruiting Office, 670 Davis Street, San Francisco.
Start: 1:00 p.m. at CBS-5, at 855 Battery at Broadway Finish: U.S. Military Recruiting Office, 670 Davis Street
Speakers include: Aimee Alison/Conscientious Objector & Anti-War Activist, Medea Benjamin/Global Exchange & CODEPINK, Eduardo Cohen/Veterans for Peace, Elizabeth Creely/Playwright, Cristina Gutierrez/Companeros del Barrio Children's Center, Member of the Haiti Action Committee, Vicki Leidner/Community Activist, Mark Sanchez/San Francisco Board of Education, Bonnie Weinstein/Bay Area United Against War, Blessing by Members of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and more.
Co-Sponsors include: Bay Area United Against War, Socialist Action, Youth Socialist Action, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and many more.
Nevada
Reno
Rally at the Army Recruitment Center
Saturday, May 7, from 1-2pm
Peaceful rally outside of the Reno branch of the Army Recruitment Center at 394 E. Moana
Bring signs music and friends
Sponsored by Reno Anti-War Coalition
AND, Sunday, May 8
Arise, all women who have hearts!
Brick Park, Reno NV just east of Java Jungle on 1st street
2pm-4pm
A gathering of Indigenous Singers, Scholars, Activists, Thespians, Artists, Cultural Workers, Clergy, Friends, Family, Allies..... Open Forum
New York
New York City
CODE PINK NEW YORK MOTHER'S DAY FOR PEACE
Join Code Pink New York on Saturday, May 7th from noon to 1:30 p.m. for a Mother's Day peace protest outside the Armed Forces Recruiting Center on 125th Street in Manhattan.
WE SAY, STOP THE KILLING NOW!
Saturday, May 7th
12-1:30 p.m.
Armed Forces Recruiting Center
76 W. 125th St.
south side of street, just east of Lenox Ave./Malcolm X Blvd
Michigan
Hillsdale
8:30 p.m., May 8: candlelight vigil in front of the court house, across from the military recruiting center.
Ohio
Dayton
A Mother's Day for Peace
Recalling Julia Ward Howe's Vision for Mother's Day
Mother's Day, Sunday, May 8
2:00 to 3:30 pm
Cooper Park (behind the Main Library)
and the Library Auditorium
215 E. Third Street, Dayton
Oregon
Ashland
Sunday, May 8
3:00 p.m.
Unitarian Fellowship
Sponsoring Organization:
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Suggested donation $10.00
No one turned away for lack of funds
All proceeds go to Peace House
Newport
We will be having a vigil in front of the Army Recruiting Station on Hwy. 101. Between 12:00 & 1:00 P.M., we will stand, dressed in black with signs, in honor of ALL the lives lost in this immoral and illegal war.
And beyond Mother's Day...
Upcoming Counter-Recruitment events:
California
Mountain View
Protest Wal-Mart's use of Military Recruiting Videos
Saturday, May 28th, 11am
Mountain View, CA Wal-Mart
Peninsula Raging Grannies, invite members ofVets for Peace and other counter recruiting groups to protest the regular showing of military recruiting videos at on Memorial Day weekend. We are also encouraging people in other parts of California and the rest of the country to form their own demonstrations.
Check website for published dates of the video showing at 2,600 Wal-Marts, so if folks want to organize a demo on other dates they can choose from those.
The recruiting videos run once an hour (at our Wal-Mart at 30 mins after the hour) so you may have to stand around awhile to see one. The easiest place to stand and watch will be the TV sales dept., although there are TV monitors with the spots throughout the store.
Hold a vigil and read the names of the troops who have lost their lives in the war in Iraq.
Hold a die in.
Form a mother's resistance line in front of the doorway or building
Sometimes when you call a recruiting center to ask what their weekend hours are, they will try to set up an appointment with you individually without disclosing their regular hours-remember, recruiters are highly-adept salespeople. To ensure that the recruiting center is staffed during your event, you may even want to book an appointment to meet with a recruiter during that time. You could actually use this appointment time to ask a recruiter pressing questions about becoming an enlistee, or having your son/daughter enlist.
Some Code Pink Banner and visual ideas:
"Mothers don't let your children grow up to be killers"
Tape Yellow Ribbons to the windows of the recruiting center with names of deceased soldiers.
(They don't see the contradiction with these two ideas? First call them killers, and then cry crocodile tears in "mourning" over the deaths of those they just called killers?)
Wear numbers: Send for your number today to represent one of the over 100,000 victims of the war on Iraq.
Spoof on the adventure sports aspect of military recruiting: "Training, Education, Adventure?" Death? "If you want adventure sports, go rock climbing. If you want to die, join the military?"
Life-sized coffin with idea that potential recruits can "try out" their future/post-service home?
Vigil with medical apparatuses and wheel chairs, with the idea that these devices come with the uniform; talk about # of wounded soldiers returning from the war.
"All coffins (or flights to Iraq) 50% off." "Special Package Deal! Join the military and get a free body bag!"
Chalk: Bring sidewalk chalk to draw outlines of fallen soldiers at the entry way of the Center, or draw footprints with arrows and a message saying, "This way to death/war/lies/deception"
Some areas across the US where Code Pink can be counterprotested.
Unless the victim will be an unborn child.
Wow...Menlo Park and SF, Calif. How hard is it to demonstrate in bastions of left-wing lunacy?
It's just plain sad. These poor pathetic people have nothing in their lives other than perpetual rage.
HILLSDALE?!!!
Happy Mother's Day, Mom!
LOL that might be worth watching.
These are the same bozos who used to attend the Million Mom Marches on Mother's Day.
She wrote "Battle Hymn of the Republic." Now that is one powerful, PRO-WAR statement. Oh, and it's Christian too.
Tucson is full of Moms of soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq. And they're not wusses...
Code-Pinkies who dare to question the woman-hood of some of these Military Moms are liable to discover things they wish they hadn't...
Code Pink should change their name to Code Brown.
"Code Pink should change their name to Code Brown."
Might be some brown shorts after their arrival in Hillsdale. You won't find a more conservative town in America.
And almost no press coverage.
"HILLSDALE?!!!"
Yeah, Dan, my thoughts exactly.
Hillsdale is obviously best known to this crowd as the home of Hillsdale College. This is the place where the Board of Trustees is a who's-who's of the conservative crowd, where Clarance Thomas is the commencement speaker (the next year was Maggie Thatcher as I recall), where Rush is considered a moderate.
Even stranger still, ever non-college-employee male drives a huge pickup truck, which is equipped with a massive gun rack that holds .50 cal deer rifles. If San Francisco is knows for the "metrosexual" male then Hillsdale is known for the "cammo redneck" male.
I'm almost willing to dump my Mother's Day plans (sorry, mom...) and go see that one!
My mother would pour a pitcher of ice water over their heads and tell them to go home and thank God they weren't born "Mohammadens", and it wouldn't surprise me if my Granny would tell them, "Come one step nearer and my grandson will shoot you!"
It depends. Hillsdale College is very conservative, but the surrounding town is so low economic class that there are its fair share of Kerry signs still present. Even at the college there is the establishment of the new College Democrats. Still- I don't think Code Pink knows what it is getting itself into coming here.
(and this year's speaker at commencement is Ken Starr. just fyi =) )
I looked at a several hundred pictures of 3/19-20/05 anti-war demonstrations while putting the Caption-A-Rama together...and I didn't see a single photo of a recruitment center that was open for business being protested. Maybe they're afraid to be there when the recruiters are, because most recruiter can kick the butt off most people, and handling a hippy is no big deal for any able-bodied person. Heck, my recruiter was 5'4" and came out of counter-intelligence. She could probably have tied me in a knot.
It's amazing to me that these people really believe they're going to stop anyone from joining the military, much less that they'll put the brakes on the War on Terror as a whole.
Code Pinko forces are inbound to your sector to conduct operations aimed at disrupting the War on Terror! Intercept data is contained in this threads for the following locations:
Tucson, AZ
Menlo Park, CA
East Los Angeles, CA
San Luis Obispo, CA
San Francisco, CA
Mountain View, CA (Memorial Day protest)
Hillsdale, MI
Reno, NV
New York City
Dayton, OH
Ashland, OR
Newport, OR
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