Real World Travel - CODEPINK Style!

CODEPINK Women for Peace

October 21, 2005

Dear CODEPINK Supporter,

Tired of sitting at your computer reading depressing news? Ready for some activism
that gets you out into the real world and revives your spirit? So are we!

In the coming months, CODEPINK will join other peace-lovers in some amazing actions
here at home and overseas. We’ll help close the School of the Americas, join
military families in Round Two of the historic camp-out at Crawford, Texas, break
the ban on travel to Cuba, and visit Venezuela for the World Social Forum.

So it’s a perfect time to stop reading the bad news and start making some good news.

- Help rebuild New Orleans, anytime
(http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/codepink/signUp.jsp?key=756 )
New Orleans is in need of support now as much as ever! Medea Benjamin has spent the
last few days in and around New Orleans working with Common Ground Collective and
other groups setting up clinics and cleaning up some of the poorest and hardest hit
neighborhoods in the city (click here to read Medea’s blogs,
http://www.codepinkalert.org/article.php?id=547). One very generous New Orleans
resident (living elsewhere for now) has given us her house to fill with people who
can come and help restore and revive New Orleans. Come down and spend as much time
as you can with us and the people of Louisiana in their time of great need. And if
you’re available Thanksgiving week, Common Ground Collective is organizing caravans
to come for the week. Click here
(http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/codepink/signUp.jsp?key=756) to sign up
to go to New Orleans or to help others get there.

- November 18-20, 2005, Ft. Benning, Georgia, Close the School of the Americas
(http://www.codepinkalert.org/article.php?id=544)
Join CODEPINK and thousands of peaceful, faith-based people from all over the
country to call for the closing of a military training school whose graduates from
Latin America have used their skills to wage war against those working for social
justice such as educators, union organizers, religious workers and student leaders.
We guarantee a profound, transformative experience.


- November in Crawford, Texas, Spend Thanksgiving with Cindy Sheehan outside George
Bush’s Ranch (http://www.codepinkalert.org/article.php?id=545)
For those who made it to Crawford during the historic 26-day vigil in August, it was
an experience of a lifetime. Now you’ll have another chance to join Cindy Sheehan
and other military families and veterans as they once again camp on the doorstep of
George Bush’s ranch, demanding that he bring our troops home from Iraq.


- December 27-January 3, Cuba, Spend New Years in Havana and assert your right to
travel (http://www.codepinkalert.org/article.php?id=531)
Join a group of fun-loving and freedom-loving Americans to break George Bush’s ban
on travel to Cuba. Join co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, together with
Academy Award winning producer Paul Haggis, as we visit with farmers at their
co-ops, doctors at their family clinics, dancers at the National Folklore Group, and
young people at the ballpark. Don’t miss this historic chance to dance salsa, drink
mojitos, and visit beautiful beaches -- all while defending our constitutional right
to travel! For more information and an application please email
dana [at] codepinkalert.org or visit the Friendship Delegation page at the CODEPINK
website.

- January 23 - February 4, Venezuela, World Social Forum
(http://www.codepinkalert.org/article.php?id=542)
A Global Exchange Reality Tour to Venezuela, co-sponsored by CODEPINK! At the World
Social Forum, five years of uniting the world's peoples' movements, indigenous
communities, women's movements, human rights organizations, environmentalists,
intellectuals, students, activists, and citizens of the North and South have led to
the beginning of true alternative economic structures which prove that Another World
is not only possible, it is happening. This group will examine the realities of
women, Afro-Venezuelans, indigenous communities, and how new political terrain is
being created within Venezuela.

Remember, as you travel, help spread the word about CODEPINK's message of peace by
wearing PINK, click here to get your pink gear! (http://codepinkalert.org/catalog/)

We look forward to seeing you -- in person!
Dana, Emily, Farida, Gael, Jodie, Medea, Rae & Tiffany


P.S. With almost 2000 soldiers dead, we must be ready with our actions and
candlelight vigils to show the country our true patriotism. Please email your action
and vigil ideas to Tiffany at tiffany [at] codepinkalert.org.