So many of you have met CODE PINK through Camp Casey. I thought you’d like to see what they did in 2003. The entire Picasso image and “Peace Now” is created by human beings. My friend Other Lisa, who knows many of the Code Pink founders, dug up this photo for me, and writes the following:

It was February 15, 2003, on the beach at Santa Monica. There were demonstrations all around the world aimed at stopping the war before it started. I think this was the last time I felt the least bit of optimism that we might be able to head the thing off; the good energy was palpable. We marched from Venice Beach to Santa Monica, where there was a stage and a rally attended by several thousand people. It was a beautiful, warm day…


By the way, Lisa — whose blog is The Paper Tiger — helped edit a book, Twilight of Empire : Responses to Occupation, by Code Pink founder Jodie Evans that includes essays by Joseph Wilson, Christian Parenti, Amy Goodman, Medea Benjamin and more, and poetry by Viggo Mortenson (who visited Camp Casey on Wednesday). Amazon link. Lisa says that the photographs in the book are absolutely stunning.


Other Lisa just sent me this link: Jodie Evans: On Camp Casey…, published today.

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