Chapel Hill North Carolina Code Pink Fundraiser After Action Report. "We rained on their parade".

A just got off the phone with a good friend from the Old North State (NC) Chapter of FRee Republic who joined a small group in FReeping a "Peace" Fundraiser organized by the usual characters. As the NC FReepers are driving to their homes, they asked if I could start the thread for them. ------------------ Here is some background information from another thread (link above)

Benjamin speaker for fundraiser [Code Pink's Medea Benjamin] North Carolina, Sept 16 herald-sun.com ^ | Sept. 1, 2005

CARRBORO -- Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, will be the featured speaker at a fundraising event for the NC Peace & Justice Coalition at the ArtsCenter Sept. 16.

The event, titled, "Send the Youth to DC, Not Iraq," begins at 8 p.m. It's designed to raise money to help send 2000 North Carolinians to an anti-war march in Washington.

The performance lineup of musicians, dancers and poets includes MC Pandemonium, Boxcar Bertha and The Fruit of Labor Singing Ensemble

Tickets are $12 for adults, $5 for students, and are on sale mow at www.artscenterlive.org.

OK, so here is what went down. First of all, there were about 75 libs at this thing (including the bands, the dancers, and the organizers.) There is NO WAY that this event could possibly have paid for itself (do the math) let alone raised money. (Could this be a lib money laundering scheme?)

The NC FReepers checked out the event site, looked at art on exhibit, and got a sense of the event. They also left some pink flyers in the flyer rack. The flyers provided some factual information on Code Pink and related organizations, and included a special greeting for Mrs. Benjamin. Then they went outside to a nearby table to wait for the "moonbats" to finish. The bats were serving alchohol and dancing around. There were about a dozen guys - the majority of the attendees were of the female orientation.

After a while the bats discovered the flyers and figured out that the group at the table outside might not actually be fellow libs, so the bats began assigning shifts of moonbats to listen to the FReepers' conversation.

It became clear to the FReepers that the Bats wanted to stage a parade through Franklin St, the main street of Chapel Hill, where the University of NC is located. However, the bats only had white bandanas and one crudely made banner, while the FReepers had a large American Flag and several well made signs.

Now the rally was held in a facility near (below) a "Y" junction in the road. A perpendicular road (Franklin St) crossed the top of the "Y". The FReepers, familiar with the area positioned themselves right at the crotch of the Y, knowing that the bats would have to walk past that point to get to Franklin St, where there was a potential audience for their antics. (The other direction, toward the bottom of the Y was simply quiet residential housing with no possibility of crowds or media (or MEDEA) presence.

The FReepers had a white board with which they attempted communication with the bats. Since the bats appeared to not have a flag, the FReepers using their white board, inquired whether the bats flag had already been burned? The other FReepers held up signs that said simply "Support the Troops..." and "...And Their Mission".

Now the bats quickly figured out that if they tried to march (or dance, or whatever they do) up to Franklin St, that the FReepers would simply walk ahead of them, holding the "Support the Troops" "and Their Mission" signs. The Bats were stuck...

It's just another one of their damn "projects".

In June of 2005, Medea was one of 1,000 women picked to be part of the project "1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005." The project has picked 1,000 exceptional women from around the globe to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize collectively.

http://www.1000peacewomen.org.

Another of the "nominees" is Congresswoman Barbara Lee

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Congresswoman Barbara Lee Among Nominees for Nobel Peace Prize

1000 Nominees from Around the Globe Highlight Women’s Work for Peace

(Washington, DC) – Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-Oakland, CA) was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize today as part of an international effort to recognize the work of women around the world who promote peace.

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Though the local nominees were chosen collectively for the Peace Prize, they are a pretty diverse group, reflecting what organizers conceded was "a broad definition of peace.''

Ellen Barry, for instance, is a prison rights activist and lawyer who speaks out for women in U.S. jails and prisons. Candi Smucker co-founded fair- trade stores to help workers of the world earn a living wage. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Oakland, was the only member of either house of Congress to vote against the post-Sept. 11 resolution giving military force powers to President Bush.

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The idea behind the project, organizers said, was to find 1,000 exemplary women to collectively receive the Nobel Peace Prize, representing the millions of nameless women all over the world who work for justice, education, political rights and security.

The project originated in Switzerland in March 2003, when Ruth-Gaby Vermot-Mangold, a member of the Swiss Parliament and the Council of Europe, visited refugee camps in Bosnia, Chechnya and other war-torn countries.

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The $3.8 million project is funded through foundations, institutes and individuals, mainly in Switzerland.

From across the United States, 114 candidates were proposed, and 40 women made the final cut, including 14 from the Bay Area.

"We tried very hard to get candidates from most regions of the U.S., but none were as active as in the Bay Area -- typical of activism and the kind of women living here," Okazawa-Rey said.

The Bay Area nominees are a multiracial group of philanthropists, artists, grass-roots activists, academics and political figures.

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The project's team is putting together a book about the lives, strategies and visions of all the nominees and a 1,000 postcards exhibition, with photos, short biographies and testimonies.

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14 women

Bay Area nominees on the "1,000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize" list:

Ellen Barry, 51, founder and former director of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, in San Francisco.

Medea Benjamin, 52, of San Francisco, co-founder of Global Exchange, an international human rights organization, and Code Pink, a women's peace group.

Linda Burnham, 57, executive director of the Women of Color Resource Center in Oakland.

Marta Drury, 63, of Half Moon Bay, director of the Heart and Hand Fund, an organization that assists women in the Balkans.

Terry Greenblatt, 52, of Berkeley, founder of Jerusalem Link and former director of Bat Shalom, women's groups working for an end to the Israeli- Palestinian conflict.

Roma Pauline Guy, 63, member of the San Francisco Health Commission and lecturer in San Francisco State University's Department of Health Education.

Aileen Hernandez, 79, of San Francisco, director of California Women's Agenda, representing 500 women's and girls' organizations, and a past president of the National Organization for Women.

Yuri Kochiyama, 84, of Oakland, longtime civil rights activist.

Rep. Barbara Lee, 59, of Oakland, Democratic House member.

Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez, 79, founder of the Institute for Multiracial Justice, in San Francisco.

Anne Firth Murray, 70, consulting professor of Health Research and Policy at Stanford University and founder of the Global Fund for Women, in San Francisco.

Holly Near, 56, of Oakland, singer, producer, actor and activist.

Jane Roberts, 63, of Palo Alto, co-founder with Lois Abraham of 34 Million Friends of UNFPA (the U.N. Fund for Population Activities), founded to support international family planning after the Bush administration blocked $34 million in aid for the UNFPA.

Candi Smucker, 50, of Santa Rosa, co-owner of Baksheesh fair-trade stores in Sonoma and Healdsburg, and former management trainer with Ten Thousand Villages, a job-creation program for artisans in developing countries.

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