A Bit of ‘I Told You So’ Outside World Bank Talks (Media Whore Benjamin grins!)

WASHINGTON — They told everyone this was going to happen, no one listened, and now see?

As column after column of black Lincoln Town Cars disgorged international finance officials onto the sidewalk in front of World Bank headquarters on Friday, a raggedy group of about 20 free-market protesters gathered across the street to express their sadness — and in some cases, glee — over the global economic catastrophe that some said had proved them right.

For many of the protesters, there is a dreamlike quality to these days. They were in Seattle in 1999, the Woodstock of the antiglobalization movement, when they helped stop the World Trade Organization from starting a new round of trade talks.

They were in Genoa, Italy, at a G-8 meeting in 2001, when they said they were treated like criminals (Italian police even shot one protester) all because, they said, they tried to warn of the perils of unfettered capitalism. They scaled the Plaza Hotel in New York to hang banners decrying corporate greed and marched giant puppets down 17th Street in Washington to warn against globalization.

Code Pink involvement:

Outside, the group of protesters included Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Global Exchange, sporting paraphernalia from the antiwar group Code Pink that routinely gets her tossed out of Senate and House hearings on Capitol Hill. “It’s certainly a sad thing to see the ripple effect of this unchecked capitalism on ordinary people.”
Ms. Benjamin couldn’t leave it there, though, and soon broke into a huge grin. “But on the other hand, to see the fat cats on Wall Street scrambling and losing their yachts! We’ve been saying this would happen.”

The end of the article:

It wasn’t all doom and gloom in Washington. though. Further on up the road, the ubiquitous line of black Lincoln Town Cars was queuing up in front of Kinkead’s, one of the city’s most expensive restaurants. In groups of three and four, dark-suited bankers ran up the restaurant’s steps, for oysters and Sancerre. Outside, the Town Car armada idled.

That must have ticked off the code pinkers and the other greenies!

More codepink:

Karl Rove's back

Protesters greet his return

By Wes Woods II, Staff Writer

Article Launched: 10/10/2008 10:23:05 PM PDT

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Protest signs, black-and-white striped jail attire and masks with likenesses of former White House adviser Karl Rove greeted traffic Friday.
Eleven demonstrators stood with such gear outside of the Etiwanda Gardens fundraiser for the San Bernardino County Republican Party with Rove as a special guest.
"If we have more than two, I'm always happy," said Redlands resident Corla Coles, a member of Code Pink: Women for Peace, which opposes U.S. occupation in Iraq.

More than 2, she's happy...

PiX

A patchwork of Bay Area parties & personalities

Friday, October 10, 2008

Code Pink's Rae Abileah

This might be her too...:

More...By M. Benjamin herself:

Should Henry 'The Fox' Paulson Guard the Henhouse?
by Medea Benjamin On Tuesday, October 7, a group of CODEPINK pranksters pranced in front of the New York Stock Exchange. One, wearing an oversized papier maché head of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, grabbed at the purses of the "chickens." "Give me your money; give me your money," he cried. "You might need a new house, but my buddies and I need new yachts." Passersby, reading the sign "Henry ‘The Fox' Paulson' in the People's Henhouse," heartily agreed.
[The rest of her article looks like this: blah blah blah]

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