CODEPINK ACTION ALERT

activists join us at 7:30 wear black, women cover heads with scarfs.

CODEPINK: Women for Peace

Great Visuals! Photo Opportunity! Great Visuals!

For Immediate Release: March 18, 2003

Contacts: Jodie Evans: (310) 621-5635 (cell) or (310) 827-3046

Patricia Foulkrod (310) 980-7798 (cell)



CodePink and Peace Activists to Stage Simultaneous Actions

in Los Angeles and Washington, DC

WHAT: Dramatic Funeral Procession by ‘CodePink: Women for Peace to the LA

National Cemetery, which is the resting place of US veterans of past

military actions. Dressed in black, juxtaposed by pink—the color for

peace—activists will march solemnly with children’s coffins and body bags,

while praying for peace and the lives of the women and children in Iraq.

WHEN: 8:00AM TOMORROW, Wednesday, March 19, 2003

WHERE: Media Staging Area: 11100 Constitution Avenue at Sepulveda Blvd.

across from the entrance to the LA National Cemetery (Wilshire Blvd Exit

off the 405 Fwy)

WHO: Members of CodePink, Los Angeles area anti-war activists.

WHY: In the final 24 hours of the ultimatum issued by the Bush

Administration, CodePink has joined dozens of peace organizations

nationwide to vividly express the consequence of war that are not being

discussed in the public debate.



“Bush may be successfully convincing Americans that this can be a military

victory for the US, but it will be a moral defeat,” said Jodie Evans,

co-founder of CodePink: Women for Peace. “Women know the consequences of

war, and we take this action to demonstrate beforehand the grief we will

all have to bear if our nation proceeds as is being threatened.”