Great Mitch quote

“I won't tell you everything is great in Iraq; it is not. But we want to keep a steady flow of funds so that we don't disrupt the military,” said McConnell. “Unfortunately, most of our friends on the other isle are having a hard time admitting things are getting better; some days I almost think the critics of this war don't want us to win. Nobody is happy about losing lives but remember these are not draftees, these are full-time professional soldiers.

Slide show of Medea!!! Be inspired!

http://www.nbc11.com/slideshow/news/14781881/detail.htmlhttp://www.nbc11.com/slideshow/news/14781881/detail.html

Film Series

We are doing a 4 week film series at Ray's Monkey House, 1578 Bardstown Rd. Please come and enjoy these free, thought provoking films!!!Free Admission - 7:30 pm showings


Thurs 12/13 Bastards of the Party : Origins of the crips and death of the Black Power Movment
Thurs 12/20 The Weather Underground: The rise and fall of The Weather Underground movement and their quest to overthrow the US govt.
Thurs 12/27 Go Further: Woody Harrelson's documentary about his eco-journey in a hemp-fueled bus, environment, going vegan, and more!


Also, at Ray's, we are selling the amazing documentary, Meeting Resistance. A proceed of the sales goes to Code Pink!

Michael Franti comes to Louisville

Code Pink Louisville was there to table at the Spearhead concert at the Brown Theatre. ( thanks Pam and Theresa!!) Michael Franti brought his message of peace and activism to Louisville ,and he said he was excited to see Code Pink !! By a stroke of luck, Jody and Nimbus were able to go backstage and meet with Michael!

This video says it all!

http://www.cnn. com/video/ #/video/politics /2007/10/ 25/moos.code. pink.cnn

UPCOMING ACTIONS!!!!!!!!

Date: August 30
Event: Panel Discussion: Women in Conflict Zones
Time: 7:30 PM
Where: Bellarmine University, Frazier Auditorium
Description: A panel to explore issues faced by women in conflict zones. In conjunction with the play, Necessary Targets in Lexington, KY

CODEPINK Book Club. We are also joining the CODEPINK book club. Our book is My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes: Uncensored Iranian Voices edited by Lila Azam Zanganeh as our first book club pick. We hope you'll join us in reading this groundbreaking anthology. The book will be available at Charmicheal's on Bardstown rd at the end of next week. Say you are part of the CODEPINK book club and recieve 20% off!! Time and place for discussion TBA

DC CODEPINK Mobilization - September 14th-22th:Don't forget about marching Code Pink in DC on Sep 15th and the following week! Go to www.codepinkalert.org for more info

Fax A Thon

We had our Bardstown Rd, Farmer's Market Phone A Thon on Sat. Pam and I set up in front of the market with our ironing board and information. We got people's attention by asking them if they would like to help impeach Dick Cheney. That would bring them over to the table, and then we explained HR 333 and begin to dial for them to leave a message for Rep Yarmuth. Well, this seemed to really intimidate them....They seemed to be afraid to leave a message and had obviously never called before. To say the least, I was surprised. Sooo, we decided to push the faxes, and people seemed much more comfortable with that. We got a lot of faxes and hopefully Rep Yarmuth will get the message to sign onto HR333! For more info go to www.kucinich.us Also, for more information on a Phone A Thon ( we will do it again) go to www.codepinkalert.org

Code Pink Dessert Party at Tyler Park

We had a great time at the Code Pink Dessert Party last week at Tyler Park. There were some familar faces and a lot of new ones. Everyone was passionate about doing actions and focusing on impeachment. We plan on doing several Phone A Thons with the focus on our local Congressman and Senators.

Thank you to all the Pinks that came out and for the yummy desserts!!!

Hi everyone, Here are a few pictures from last week's get-together at Tyler Park. I felt like it was a good time just hanging out and meeting each other. Thanks to everyone for coming. I'm glad we have some upcoming actions to look forward to. Oh, one thing I forgot to mention while talking about freeway blogging is that Scarlet has a website and blog. You can go to www.freewayblogger.com for lots of info and neat stuff like this "how to" video: Peace and Social Justice, -Nimbus

Cindy Sheehan on Hardball

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NT_faGwBr1Q

Franti and DC and March on Pentagon

A few more pictures at http://s67.photobucket.com/albums/h309/nimbusbeer/DC%20march%2007%20and%20Franti/ ...

-Peace

Visit to Mitch McConnell's Louisville office

Presentation of Peace statement and A Walk in the Shoes at Mitch's office

Mitch, our Republican "leader" of Congress had his office visited by five of us from Code Pink a couple weeks ago. We weren't allowed to bring cameras in, but I did have my cell phone, so here are some 30 second clips I put on youtube.

We met with one of his representatives -a grumpy old white guy who basically jumped into canned talking points and told us we were "out of touch with reality" and had "our heads in the sand" among other insulting comments. He also alluded to September 11th as the reason for us being in Iraq, and the occupation as a reason we're "safe" today. He did let us read a short statement on why we were there, and we also read the names of the soldiers from Kentucky who have been killed in Iraq. We brought a basket of childrens' shoes, each tagged with a name and age, representing dead Iraqi children killed in the invasion and ongoing occupation.

Again, the youtube clips are short and low quality - chronologically, they run A,B,C, then 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 in that order. They give some sense of the atmosphere of the stuffy office.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6DFC312221434B3C

We left telling them blood is on their hands, and them informing us to leave now or they'd call security..heehee.....I don't feel like they get many people with opposing views coming to their office. Perhaps we'll make it a more regular habit, or maybe move it to the Senator's home.

Hopefully, we'll post a more thorough description of this action here shortly....

Peace

Iraq Vets Against the War

Watch this now!!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WvIaDeNIbk

SOME PAST CODE PINK LOUISVILLE ACTIONS

Protesting Bush in Southern Indiana in March, Tabling at the Michael Franti/Spearhead Halloween concert in Indianapolis and getting fans to sign the "Give Peace a Vote" petition, Film screening of The Ground Truth at Shekinah Studio and tabling at Bardstown Aglow in November!

Mother' Day Action

WE HAD A GREAT MOTHER'S DAY ACTION THIS PAST SUNDAY. ABOUT 16 OF US CAME OUT TO PARTICIPATE IN "STANDING WOMEN FOR PEACE". WE WERE STANDING OFF OF BROWNSBORO RD IN THE CONSERVATIVE EAST SIDE, AND WE GOT LOTS OF HONKS AND PEACE SIGNS! IT WAS GREAT TO MEET NEW, LOCAL CODEPINKERS! ALSO, A SHOUT OUT TO THE KIDS FROM LEXINGTON AND ASSUMPTION: POWER TO THE PEACEFUL!!!!

Mother's Day Action in Louisville

Churchill Downs Veto Rally in Louisville

Rally near Churchill downs on may 2 after Bush's War Funding Bill veto. Most of the Peace Activists were opposed to the veto, but my sign expressed the viewpoint that the veto is actually a good one. It vetoes a bad weak bill that continues funding for the war with no true or enforcable deadlines for withdrawal. Although mainstream press and the Democrats portray the bill as a "withdrawal bill," it perpetuates the ongoing occupation of Iraq and was opposed by people of conscience like Dennis Kucinich, Maxine Waters, Barbara Lee and several others who refuse to give in to Bush's folly.
With the proximity to Churchill Downs racetrack and the upcoming Kentucky Derby, the traffic included many folks with suits and fancy clothes, as well as a number of working-class people. Although many people were apathetic to our action, peace signs outnumbered middle fingers ten to one, and we even got a peace sign (discreetly) from a passing police officer.

Freeway Blogging on April 28th, IMPEACH !!

On the railroad overpass passing over I-64....Friday night.

The signs were down the next afternoon. Two of the three were completely gone (bungee cords and all) but one was still there (complete with bungees), so we re-attached it (of course!).

Peace and Impeach...

Code Pink house in DC and Franti/Spearhead show

Code Pink Table at Midwest Peace and Justice Summit in Indianapolis + Cindy Sheehan

Boots representing each of the Indiana soldiers killed in Iraq were displayed across the front of the stage.
Cindy Sheehan, at the end of her speech.
Jody and the Code Pink table at the Peace Summit on Saturday.




Nimbus, asking a question during Cindy Sheehan's talk.

Lori, from Code Pink, and Lobo. I knew Lobo from my last two visits to Camp Casey in Crawford Texas. Lori gave a Code Pink seminar Saturday afternoon. She spends a lot of time working with Code Pink DC. We invited her to come give a talk down in Louisville.

John Yarmuth meeting

Code Pink Louisville members Jody and Nimbus, as well as five other members of thet Louisville peace community met with John Yarmuth at his Louisville office. Notes from the meeting to be posted shortly...

new code pink louisville blog

Yey!! We will be adding posts and pics soon!!!!!!!!!!!!