These are the earliest items I have on the original Code Pinkers. I don't know how old they were at the time:
1973 : (LA, CA : MAX PALEVSKY {See WIFE JODIE EVANS [See CODE PINK]} APPOINTS GRAY DAVIS {FUTURE GOV. OF CALIFORNIA & FRIEND OF JODIE EVANS [See CODE PINK\See SAND BRIM\]} TO HIS FIRST POLITICAL JOB AS FUNDRAISER FOR TOM BRADLEY MAYORAL CAMPAIGN -- See JERRY BROWN [See CA ENERGY CRISIS] ) ...far leftist, [Code Pink's Jodie] Evans has found a comfortable political home in the Democratic Party.... she was a key fundraiser for her longtime friend and political ally, former California governor Gray Davis. Evans’ ex-husband, Westside financier Max Palevsky, ... appointed Davis to his first political job as the fundraiser for Tom Bradley’s 1973 Los Angeles mayoral campaign. Shortly thereafter, Evans and Davis worked closely together during the latter’s stint as chief of staff to then-governor Jerry Brown. ------ "Jodie Evans: Activist in Pink," By John Perazzo, Frontpagemagazine.com, December 8, 2003
1980s EARLY : (MEDEA BENJAMIN {LATER OF GLOBAL EXCHANGE & CODE PINK [See JODIE EVANS, SAND BRIM] } TRAVELS TO CUBA-- See ) The mindset of [Medea] Benjamin and her friends can best be summed up by her description in the San Francisco Chronicle of how she felt on her first pilgrimage to Cuba in the early 1980s. Compared to life in the United States, the communist social equality of Cuba "made it seem like I died and went to heaven," Benjamin enthused. ------ ?"Jodie Evans: Activist in Pink," By John Perazzo, Frontpagemagazine.com, December 8, 2003 ?
1980s early to mid : (NICARAGUAN COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT ATTRACTIVE TO MEDEA BENJAMIN & LESLIE CAGAN-—SEE CODE PINK, GLOBAL EXCHANGE ) The ties that continue to bind [MEDEA] Benjamin, [LESLIE] Cagan and the others behind Code Pink and today’s anti-war movement were formed in the early-to-mid 1980s when the still young Marxist-American activists found the cause that first unified them: a communist government in Nicaragua. Using the same sort of incestuous, sprawling coalitions they created to oppose the war in Iraq and the invasion of Afghanistan after Sept. 11, they helped aid the Marxist Sandinista regime in its struggle against the American-backed Contras for control of the Nicaraguan government.
Benjamin worked as a project coordinator for Institute for Food and Development Policy (IFDP), which was widely credited with aiding the Marxist Sandinista regime while Cagan, coordinator of the National Mobilization for Justice and Peace in Central America, led marches against US aid to the contras at home that at times attracted upwards of 75,000 people.-———Code Pinko
Front Page Magazine ^ | March 26, 2003 | Jean Pearce
I appreciate the information. It still baffles me how people can take such a dim view of the U.S., and give folks like Fidel or Ahmadenejad the respect our nation is due.
You don’t just wonder if they were dropped on their heads as children. It makes you wonder how many times...