Occupy Corporations: How to Cut Corporate Power
The legal fiction of corporate personhood and the constitutional rights taken by corporations must cease.
The legal fiction of corporate personhood and the constitutional rights taken by corporations must cease.
HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 12.01.2011 | Business
Melanie Butler was watching a news clip about Occupy Wall Street in late September when she noticed that all of the demonstrators talking to the repor...
Jodie Evans | Posted 01.21.2012 | World
As during the Mubarak era, the administration appears to believe that U.S. interests, including Egypt's peace accord with Israel, are more important than the lives of the Egyptian people.
Jodie Evans | Posted 01.21.2012 | Politics
Whether we're marching for Healthcare not Warfare, leading a teach-in on the cost of war, or helping to create safe spaces for women's participation, our fabulous PINK team has been at the heart of this beautiful, burgeoning movement.
Alison Rose Levy | Posted 01.05.2012 | Green
This Sunday, people will have the chance to hold hands surrounding the White House, and to ask President Obama to live up to his campaign promise to "end the tyranny of oil," by saying no to Tar Sands.
Jodie Evans | Posted 11.29.2011 | New York
CODEPINK has been in Wall Street camping out with other activists in Liberty Plaza because we know real change begins with direct action to challenge corporate greed and endless war.
Jodie Evans | Posted 07.27.2011 | Politics
We understand Congress is addicted to the military dollars spent in every Congressional district, but an economy built on death and destruction does not create a thriving community.
Medea Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
If protecting civilians from evil dictators were the goal, there's an easier, safer way than aerial bombardment for the U.S. and its allies to consider: Simply stop arming and propping up evil dictators.
Medea Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
March 19 marks the eighth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. At the onset, Ken Adelman predicted that "liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk." Eight years on, it's time to look back at that "cakewalk."
Medea Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
When we heard that P.J. Crowley had resigned as spokesman for the State Department after criticizing the Pentagon's treatment of suspected whistleblower Army private Bradley Manning, my CODEPINK colleagues and I knew we had to respond.
Medea Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Committing war crimes is more likely to get a solider a medal than a prison term. Manning would be far better off today if he'd killed those men in Baghdad himself.
Medea Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
My travels from Cairo to Madison seem like one seamless web. An Egyptian held a sign in Tahrir Square saying "Egypt Supports Wisconsin Workers -- One World, One Pain." Solidarity is, indeed, a beautiful thing.
Medea Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
I was in the middle of buying some mints from a street vendor on Cairo's Talat Harb Street when the rocks started flying. He gave me one pack of mints, and all hell broke loose. "Run, run," people yelled at me.
Medea Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
My friend had a big gash in his head. "Please, help us tell the world what is happening. Tell them how we were viciously attacked," he said. "Tell them we will die here if we have to, but we will not turn back."
Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch are hosting their bi-annual secret gathering of right-wing billionaires at the Rancho Mirage Resort in Pal...
Medea Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
At my organization we decided to take the alphabet soup of the Obama Administration's major policy decisions, crunch the numbers, and calculate where President Obama is and isn't making the grade.
Medea Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
As we go into what will be a very difficult new year, as long as people keep organizing and mobilizing, there will be victories to celebrate. Here is a list of victories to be thankful for, starting with three inspirational women.
Medea Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
As we struggle to find a more civilized way to treat each other in this world, let us recognize the commonalities in the fight for LGBT rights and the fight to end war.
Medea Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Over 100 peace activists showed up to protest, including New York City artist Laurie Arbiter, who helped organize a March of the Dead and carried a sign asking "Does America Have a Conscience?"
Jodie Evans | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Join us in moving Bush's memoir to the bookstore section it belongs in... Fiction, Fantasy, Crime, you decide!
Mike Elk | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Stewart's rally is not a political event aimed at informing grassroots progressive activists such as union members. It is an "entertainment event," in the tradition of Glenn Beck, aimed at increasing ratings so Comedy Central can make bigger profits.
Jodie Evans | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Last night Tony Blair was in conversation with Katie Couric at the 92nd St Y. What was really frightening to me, beyond the fear of being kicked out or arrested, was to be in an audience eating up his every word.
Medea Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Is Erik Prince, Blackwater's sole owner, now taking his profits, trying to sell his company and running away to the Emirates, a country that has no extradition treaty with the United States?
Linda Milazzo | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
For some, the proposition of going "door to door and person to person to get good people elected," may sound like a very lofty goal. But it's not too lofty for Dolores Huerta.
Jodie Evans | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
We started CODEPINK in an attempt to stop the war in Iraq. We need your help getting out the truth that the war has left Iraq in tatters, drained our resources and must not be repeated for years to come in Afghanistan.
Bill Quigley | Posted 02.07.2012 | Politics