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ALICE WALKER, AMY GOODMAN, MAXINE HONG KINGSTON,OTHER NOTABLE

WOMEN ARRESTED PROTESTING AGAINST THE WAR WITH IRAQ

Washington, DC—Twenty three women, including nationally

recognized award-winning authors Alice Walker and Maxine Hong

Kingston, Pacifica Radio's Amy Goodman were arrested in front of the White House on International Women’s Day, protesting against the Bush Administration’s proposed war on Iraq. They had marched from Malcolm X Park in Washington, DC, leading more than 5,000 peace activists associated with Code Pink, Women for Peace, to the White House. As thousands of anti-war activists peacefully encircled the White House holding hands, Walker, Kingston and 21 other women registered their opposition to war by singing on the sidewalk in front of the White House, which the police had blockaded. The police arrested them at 5 PM.

“The White House refuses to listen to the people of the world who are trying to stop this immoral and unnecessary war from happening, and won’t even let peaceful protesters get near them to express our dissent. I’m not surprised that these women spontaneously decided to make a stand for peace--women know how devastating a war will be

for Iraqi women and children and how much it will endanger our

families here at home,” said Jodie Evans, a co-founder of CodePink,

the women’s anti-war group that organized the International Women’s

Day Peace event.

The women arrested were from all over the United States and included

Pacifica Radio's host of Deamocracy Now! Amy Goodman, Publisher Nina Utne, Authors

Terry Tempest Williams and Susan Griffin, CodePink Co-founder

Medea Benjamin, Reverend Patricia Ackerman, and Musician Rachel

Bagby, among others.

Earlier in the day, these women and others spoke at the CodePink

International Women’s Day Anti-War rally. It was one of dozens of

women’s anti-war events that were scheduled for March 8, International

Women’s Day, in cities from Pheonix, Arizona to Laramie, Wyoming to

Nashville, Tennessee.

Women have played a key role in the burgeoning U.S. anti-war

movement, and recent polls on Iraq reveal a gender divide in support

for a war. A February 2003 New York Times/CBS poll revealed that 12

percent more women than men support a diplomatic solution with Iraq.

A recent Zogby International poll showed that while 45 percent of men

said they would strongly support a war against Iraq, only 21 percent of

women did.

Fuck 'em. They were told to move. They didn't. They got arrested. Exactly as they obviously wanted. Big deal.

Not only are these two momo's ignorant in general as bush ass-kissers

and in their misunderstanding of peaceful civil disobedience (as practiced

by MLK), but they shown themselves to be some misogynistic assholes, too.

Send them to jail so they can join other incarcerated women haters and learn

the true meaning of male bonding.

Very very few people actually want to be arrested.

They're just prepared to risk it for things they think

are important.

Fresca just does not get what this site or the people who interact with it are about. I suggest you go watch fox news. I think you will feel more at home.

I am proud of these courageous women for standing up for their moral conviction. They stand for all humanity, including men and children. Those who are worthy of being human, know that War can never lead to enduring peace; peace is the way to peace, love is the way to love.

I am proud of these courageous women for standing up for their moral conviction. They stand for all humanity, including men and children. Those who are worthy of being human, know that War can never lead to enduring peace; peace is the way to peace, love is the way to love.

U say very few people want to be arrested or if your career is going down the drain and you need some attention and get more fan support this would be a pretty good way.

"-Amy Goodman is the flip side of Rush Limbaugh multiplied by 1,000.-"

For once the monkeyboy is correct.

Amy at least knows what she is talking about where as Rush

is without a clue and serves to be an add agency for the

Republican party.

Like...

When a monkey in the zoo thinks the bars are to keep the

visitors out of the cage.

i like Amy Goodman. her show is very interesting, sometimes a little too mushy liberal for my tastes but i like it.. i try to listen often.

i listen to Limbaugh often also. remember a couple months ago when he said the anti-war movement was collapsing? his show is certainly entertaining but it tends to shy away from the more controversial stuff. i don't like that kind of timidity.

Sean Hannity, on the other hand, seems more like a true USA asshole. i listen to his show too. i can practically hear his knit brow through the radio. his show is a bit more daring than Limbaugh's (he doesn't seem to mind looking dumber than his enemies) but, as you correctly point out, neither of them has any taste for a real challenging fight.

just wait and see.. these FOX news types are enraging millions upon millions.

in any case -- Amy's show, Democracy Now, is one of the best places to check out for people who want to learn about the rapidly growing global movements against U.S. corporate / military power. isn't that true?

I have wondered at how people can actually believe that they have the right to take someone else's life. It is such a foreign concept to me and the only way I can explain it is to go back to my childhood and examine my conditioning as far as how I viewed other people. I grew up in a small village on the Yukon River in Alaska. There I grew up with the realization that I am responsible for caring for other people. I can't understand how other people don't realize the same thing, and it awes me as to the fact that I have to explain myself to such length before people will even begin to TRY to accept the fact that I have an oposing opinion to death. Okay, sorry to write so much. If someone was cold, we warmed them, if someone was hungry, we fed them, if someone needed a place to sleep, we housed them, if someone was unruly, we dealt with them without hurting them. How can life be any other way? This is my reality, it can be yours, too.

in an ocean of madness.

It's called being human, Rebecca, don't feel strange because

the radio, newspapers and televison are driven by sickness and greed.

much appreciated, lancer. I am working with a bio for a brilliant woman, Margaret Wheatley, which states that she has been "a dedicated global citizen since her youth." I once wrote that "the person next to me is no more valuable than a person somewhere in Bejing." This "citizenship" thing with passports, etc. is something that was fabricated. We are all citizens of the world, those lines that "divide" us only exist on paper. To be truly "patriotic" we would not harm eachother at all. Check out Wheatley's writings at www.margaretwheatley.com.

I agree that these wimmin are truly amazing and boundlessly inspiring, however we cannot depend on them to save us. It is time we not only look to these wimmin but also to ourselves to make a change. If each of us was out there in the streets getting arrested for what we believe in.. this government would not last long.Our complacency, OUR inaction is consent.

Sean Hannity is an A+++ top drawer news commentator.

Amy Goodman is an F---- bottom of the barrel propoganda dispenser.

Her program, Appeasement Now, sucks.

By comic relief.

Pink was never my color,but after marching in dc on march 8,I like it! I come back to wisconsin knowing it to be the power color of peace.Never have sore feet and exhaustion felt so good.

i'm glad that there was a march on washington though i don't care for pink, either.

let us not forget that the women arrested could afford to be arrested. if they were women on welfare, or low income women, then the story would be different.

What were they arrested for? Is standing outside of the white house and singing illegal? What a backwards country the USA is becoming. Your government should get with the program and not be so passe.

Oppression is sooo 1990s (1980s, 1970s...) and that is sooo lame.

Anyways kudos to all the 5000 women standing up for peace and also to the famous women and all 23 that got arrested. Solidarity from Vancouver.

As a male, I just want to show my respect for woman activists. I get much inspiration and strength to carry on together in the struggle for social justice. The world will be a better place as we are all team players in this goal.

Bush comes, steals the 2000 US-elections and now wishes to wage humanitarian war on Iraq with up to 500.000 fatalities, as much as 1.5 million new refugees, many others wounded and crippled for the rest of their lives. This is more than grotesk. Sadly enough old colonial empires are the the fiercest members of the 'Coalition of the willing'. Or... 'Coalition of the Ignorants'. Welcome to World War 3 as of this week. Iraq is not Kosovo!

Keep protesting ladies!!!!!

Help the US to protect itself from itself

I find many people do not know the history of non-violence. Women activists for women's suffrage (the right to vote) protested outside the White House and were frequently arrested for their protests. I'm not sure how long this went on, but several years I believe, before women were FINALLY granted the right to VOTE. Their calm and dignified non-violence so inspired Thoreau, that he wrote his famous essay on Civil Disobedience. The central idea of this essay is that when the laws are unjust , the just belong in jail. Thoreau's Civil Disobedience was read by Ghandi when he was fighting for equality in South Africa. From this, he evolved his ideas of non-violent resistence. Ghandi's writings and actions in turn inspired Martin Luther King, Jr. IT ALL STARTED WITH THE WOMEN OUTSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE! Let's keep it going sisters and brothers of wisdom!

Just wanted to respond to the last comment. Actually Civil Disobediance was written in 1849 and women didn't gain the right to vote until 1920. So it wasn't just a few years of non-violent actions. I know that many of the suffragetes did civil disobedience in the 1870s. (Susan B. Anthony was arrested for trying to vote in 1872) It is possible that women were doing actions in front of the white house in the 1840s, though I think they are not as well known as the actions they were doing in the 1910s.

Of course a woman on welfare or whatever is not as likely to go to a demo like that, and these woman could "afford" to get arrested. But I am GLAD they did. I am a woman and an immigrant from Iran, and therefor I don't go to demonstrations like this because I am afraid of something going on my record at INS ...and so therefor I am so happy that women like Maxine Hong Kingston, Alice Walker, and Amy Goodman marched and got arrested (on behalf of women like me who can't march!) I am grateful to people like them who use their well-known status and public stature to get attention to issues that matter.

I notice that those in support of war on this website speak out angrily, in hurt retaliation to peaceful comments made by those who oppose a misguided and unjust military action. Alice Walker and the others were peacefully singing and protesting and standing up for what they believe is right. That they were jailed made a statement, indeed, and I think the fact that peaceful women standing in the face of a violent conflict also makes a statement. Furthermore, I think the angry, profane replies to peaceful and supportive comments on this site makes a big statement, and it's definitely NOT very indicative of an intelligent decision to go to war.

Well, you handle says everything **by Bush Admirer**

Another F_____ American!! Wake up friend and smell the reality!!!

Go Amy and her Team!!!

:-)

What in the world is this previous clown thinking?

  I have been lucky enough to meet Amy Goodman, and see her speak.The passion that radiates from her is immense!  The power of her words and knowledge penetrate. That is why she is so feared by the upper-class ?Rulers.?Just the same as MLK jr., Judi Bari, JFK, Subcomandante Marcos, Malcolm X, etc.  The truth shall set you free my ass!

The previous responder is just another example of Americanized laziness!  Have others think for them, then complain and do nothing.

I was responding to fresca and bush admirer

I was responding to fresca and bush admirer

"She's a pure propogandist -- a disinformation specialist."

Unsubstantiated Allegation

For more on logic at your level, try reading "Logic for Dummies."

That's me. I learned how to do this "debate coach" thing from someone else and now I just can't stop. Forgive my stupidity.

That's me. I just love letting everyone know how much faker/KOBE gets under my skin. Forgive my stupidity. I'm a conservative.

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Oops, I did it again. to learn more about me, go here:

http://www.la.indymedia.org/news/2003/06/67656_comment.php#67752

Oops! I did it again. To learn more about me, go here: (I'm the one who's relegated to pissing into the wind.)

http://www.la.indymedia.org/news/2003/06/67656_comment.php#67752

http://www.kobehq.com

I'm faker/KOBE.

I often go by the name KOBE SBM, sometimes I use "debate coach" which I stole from someone who was using it one day to whip my ever-loving ass with, sometimes I pick a name like "Sir Ian" or some stupid name like that, or many times I choose the name of conservatives that post here and write under their names things that I and I alone find funny.

I am under the delusion that conservatives here view me as a threat. Although it has been stated time and time again by my fellow liberals here that they believe the conservatives are here to intentionally disrupt the conversations, I still believe my caracature is helpful to the cause. It is beyond by capabilities to comprehend that the conservatives might actually want me here and intentionally antagonize me to get me to stay around because they view the things I do here as adding to the disruption. Everything is just too deep for my limited mind. I am a liberal.

Well, let me get back to what it is I do. Given the current political climate, what I'm doing pretty much sums up what those like me are able to do on the political stage seeing that we have nothing to bring to the table worth considering.

I'm KOBE SBM

I often go by the name faker/KOBE, sometimes I use "debate coach" which I stole from someone who was using it one day to whip my ever-loving ass with, sometimes I pick a name like "Ffutal" or some stupid name like that, or many times I choose the name of liberals that post here and write under their names things that I and I alone find funny.

I am under the delusion that liberals here view me as a threat. Although it has been stated time and time again by my fellow conservatives here that they believe the liberals are here to intentionally disrupt the conversations, I still believe my caracature is helpful to the cause. It is beyond by capabilities to comprehend that the liberals might actually want me here and intentionally antagonize me to get me to stay around because they view the things I do here as adding to the disruption. Everything is just too deep for my limited mind. I am a conservative.

Well, let me get back to what it is I do. Given the current political climate, what I'm doing pretty much sums up what those like me are able to do on the political stage seeing that we have nothing to bring to the table worth considering.



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?Everything is just too deep for my limited mind. I am a liberal.?

Just remember!  Don't fire till you see the whites of their eyes!

Now, this idiot "KOBE SBM" thinks he's this imaginary "faker/KOBE." The dude needs a straightjacket.