CODEPINK: All Hands on Deck to Say NO KXL!

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Join an emergency vigil near you to say NO to the Keystone Pipeline!   February 3, 2014 Dear Debra V., It’s down to the wire now. The State Department has just released its final assessment of the Keystone XL pipeline, and President Obama is expected to make a decision within the next three months. Will you join us to take a stand in the streets against the latest war on the environment? CODEPINK has joined 350.org, CREDO, Sierra Club, Rainforest Action Network and many other groups to host emergency protest vigils across the country tonight to urge the President to reject the Keystone XL. Our entire CODEPINK staff has signed onto the Pledge of Resistance, and hope you will join us in the streets tonight at a location near you. President Obama has the facts he needs to reject the pipeline. Expected to carry 800,000 barrels per day and spew three times more climate pollution than conventional oil, this would be a disaster for the climate, and the lives of Indigenous communities, farmers and homes along the pipeline’s route. It’s no secret that if we spent less money on the bloated Pentagon budget we could afford green energy technology. Green energy would create sustainable jobs, take our troops out of harm’s way, and protect the environment. Join us tonight and over the next three months to call on President Obama to reject the Keystone XL Pipeline NOW! Toward a greener future, Alli, Cayman, Janet, Jodie, Kate, Katie, Lisa, Medea, Nancy K, Nancy M, Sara, Sergei, and Tighe

CODEPINK: Did you hear what Scarlett Johansson did?

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February 1, 2014 Dear Debra V., Help us raise a Twitter Storm during the Super Bowl! Share it on Twitter! Graphics by Stephanie Westbrook It’s official: Movie star Scarlett Johansson has quit her esteemed position as an Oxfam Goodwill Ambassador to work for occupation profiteer SodaStream! While we’re dismayed that Scarlett chose profit over human rights, we’re thrilled by the speedy and effective mobilization of activists like you that forced this story into the media spotlight! Activists took to Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and the streets, calling on ScarJo to drop SodaStream –– or Oxfam to drop ScarJo –– for representing a product that is made in an illegal Israeli settlement in the West Bank. For more information on SodaStream’s violations of international law you can read the report from our partners at Who Profits. The story was a media sensation and a major victory for the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement. If you’re not already a part of our BDS Action Team, now is the perfect time to sign up. This weekend, Johannson will be featured in a SodaStream ad during the Superbowl, and we’ve teamed up with our partners at the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation to generate a twitter storm during the game. We’ll raise awareness about SodaStream’s occupation profiteering and educate the Twitterverse about the brutal Israeli occupation of Palestine! Here are some sample tweets you can use during the Superbowl! This Super Bowl, help illegal Israeli settlements fizzle out. Boycott #SodaStream! codepink.org/sodastream #BDS Whether you're cheering for the #Seahawks or #Broncos, help human rights win by boycotting #SodaStream! codepink.org/sodastream Don't let SodaStream's #SB48 ad fool you: Occupation is not Green! codepink.org/sodastream #BDS If you want to make some of your own tweets, help us twitter jam the Super Bowl convo by using hashtags #sorrycokeandpepsi, #SB48, #SuperBowl, #Seahawks, #Broncos, and #SodaStream! Thanks for helping to take the profit out of occupation, Alli, Cayman, Janet, Jodie, Kate, Katie, Lisa, Medea, Nancy K, Nancy M, Sara, Sergei, and Tighe

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WILPF | Women Lead to Peace Summit in Geneva (Tuesday, 21st January 2014) - 10 am CET (EST + 6)

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Women Lead to Peace Summit in Geneva

On January 20, 2014 posted by WILPF International

As in all conflicts, the perspectives and contributions of women are essential to any effort to end the violence and promote a sustainable resolution and democratic and just peace for the country.
Historically every peace negotiation that has excluded women has failed.
For this reason, WILPF, together with Nobel Women’s Initiative, Kvinna till Kvinna, MADRE, CODEPINK and co-sponsored by PGGC Graduate Institute will host a summit tomorrow, the 21^st of January, where Syrian women and other women from countries that have been affected by war, including Western Sahara, the Balkans, Sri Lanka, Guatemala and Northern Ireland will share their experiences on how to create a sustainable peace.
Nobel Laureates Shirin Ebadi and Mairead Maguire, as well as Cynthia Enloe, a well-respected academic on issues of gender and militarism, will also attend.
Together, the collective fabric of these women’s stories will demonstrate that peace negotiations must include women’s civil society organizations in peace talks, and that specifically, the UN must include women in the Geneva II peace talks. Women’s full participation as peacemakers is essential to building a lasting peace in Syria.

The need of Syrian women’s voice at upcoming peace talks

There is no doubt that the absence of women at Geneva II could jeopardize the future peace of Syria. The Syrian women’s civil society organizations have repeatedly called on the international community to include Syrian women in the peace talks. Yet, at just two days before the talks are scheduled to commence, we still don’t know if they will proceed – and if they do, whether the women will be included.
Again, we at WILPF have to highlight that the Syrian, women- led civil society organisations need to be at the table. Why? Because the Syrian women know the realities of the conflict and they understand the community dynamics within both a local and international context.
Moreover, since the Syrian civil society must implement any decisions arrived at in the Geneva II peace talks, the presence of women will better inform and broker a viable, peaceful result or a “deep peace” in Syria.

“What can the women bring to the table?”

This question pops up again and again. Our response? The Syrian women are already contributing to the peace building process and are active in building ceasefire arrangements, organising humanitarian work, and providing education and health care.
These women have taken on the responsibilities of relief and recovery, community peace-making and reconciliation, and have documented and provided support to victims of violence.
Their knowledge of the local situation and the current conditions in Syria is absolutely vital to understanding how any agreement can be made to work.

Participate in the summit from your couch

The summit starts tomorrow at 10 am CET (check out this time zone converter). The programme, which is split into three parts, will be streamed live. To follow the summit from your computer, just click on this link which will bring you to CODEPINK’s website:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/codepink-for-peace
The footage will be recorded and archived at the site after the summit.
Programme:
10:00 to 11:15 From War to a Treaty and Holding on to Peace
11:30 to 12:45 The Realities of War: Experiences of Conflict and Its Gendered Assumptions.
13:30 to 15:00 The Participation of Women in Peace Talks and Beyond: Modalities of How to Break a Confrontational Narrative.

Read more on our campaign website, Women Lead to Peace
Read and share the document: Ensuring the Effective Participation of Women and Women’s Rights in the Syrian Peace and Mediation process: A Five-Step Approach.
Download and use our Facebook Cover Photo
Sign the Petition to include women at Geneva II peace talks.

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