Western Massachusetts Code Pink

A Women-Initiated Grassroots Peace and Justice Movement

377 S. Shirkshire Road
Conway, MA 01341

Phone: 413-625-9242
www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?list=type&type=155

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CODEPINK is a women initiated grassroots peace and justice movement that seeks positive social change through proactive, creative protest and non-violent direct action.

We are a new local CODEPINK group that started shortly after the CODEPINK March to the White House on International Women's Day, March 8, 2006. On that day, a delegation of Iraqi women, along with at least 500 women and men, marched to the Iraqi Embassy and the White House to deliver the Women Say No To War Petition signed by over 2 million people throughout the world. Upon returning from this March, we resolved to start a local group in our area.

We are looking for members who want to join us in local, national, and international peace activities. If you would like to join the Western Massachusetts CODEPINK group, please send an e-mail to Priscilla Lynch at priscillalynch@earthlink.net and we will add you to our contact list. Please indicate if you have any particular interests or skills. Below are some of the activities we have completed, are working on or are goals for the future. We're sure you have some good ideas too. Please be in touch!

We are also working on local activities, including banners for highway overpasses, participating in "Bird Dog Hilary" activities when Senator Hillary Clinton is in an area nearby, and organizing meetings for Western Mass CODEPINKers.

Mission Statement:
CODEPINK is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the war in Iraq, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into healthcare, education and other life-affirming activities. We reject the Bush administration's fear-based politics that justify violence, and instead calls for policies based on compassion, kindness and a commitment to international law.  With an emphasis on joy and humor, CODEPINK women and men seek to activate, amplify and inspire a community of peacemakers through creative campaigns and a commitment to non-violence.  About Us

Our Call to You:

"We call on women around the world to rise up and oppose the war in Iraq. We call on mothers, grandmothers, sisters and daughters, on workers, students, teachers, healers, artists, writers, singers, poets, and every ordinary outraged woman willing to be outrageous for peace.  Women have been the guardians of life-not because we are better or purer or more innately nurturing than men, but because the men have busied themselves making war. Because of our responsibility to the next generation, because of our own love for our families and communities and this country that we are a part of, we understand the love of a mother in Iraq for her children, and the driving desire of that child for life."—Starhawk 

We need you to tell other women about CODEPINK!                                           
Call To Action

Campaign Action Center

Western Mass CODEPINK Contacts

Priscilla Lynch, Western Mass Local Group Coordinator
priscillalynch@earthlink.net

Tish Engerman, New England Regional Coordinator
tish0904@verizon.net

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