With iraq, the u. S. Had just invaded afghanistan, and we were talking about how horrible it was that the u. S. Was about to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9 11, and we started laughing about the color code alerts. Remember the george w. Bush alerts, yellow, orange, red, and said it was to keep people in a state of fear, and that we needed another color coded alert to say, theres a different way of dealing with this. We go after whoever attacked us, not wholesale invasion of countries, thats when we came up with the idea of codepink. We originally wanted to by code code hot pink but the url was already taken so we payment code pink. Host how do you pick your issues. Guest we started out not wanting to be an ongoing organization. We just wanted to join the masses and mobilize to stop the invasion of iraq. And so we dead that. We got involved. We had tremendous support around the country. Without really trying we found we had hundreds of thousands of people that signed up t
Coming up next from earlier today code pink founder was on the indepth program to discuss her writing and answer viewer questions. Among her books bridging the global gap how to stop the next war now into and at the most recent, drone warfare. Host Medea Benjamin how and when was code pink found it . Guest we were a group of women environmentalists sitting together in a retreat right after 9 11 talking about how he we could deal with the Climate Crisis and during the lunch break we started talking about the 9 11 attack and we were talking about how horrible it was that the u. S. Was about to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9 11 and we started laughing about the colorcoded alerts. Remember that yellow, orange, red and seeing how it was to keep people in the state of fear and that we needed another colorcoded alerts to say theres a different way of dealing with this. We go after whoever attacked us and not a wholesale nation of countries and thats when we came up with the id
So is the clinton camp throwing huma under the bus. Looks like it. Then, Hillary Clinton and her team declare war on the fbi. Look, you cant break both of these protocols and leave it up in the air with a question mark. You owe people the complete information. In fact, its not just strange, its unprecedented and it is deeply troubling. Back off, everybody. Is she the victim . Who caused this . Were going to talk about that. With only eight days left until election day, one of the largest newspapers calling on all democrats and the news media to demand Hillary Clinton step down . Wow. Please, put something on. Your mornings are better with friends. Of course, brian, you always are telling people to put clothes on in the morning because you have the vision of everybody in america standing there naked. Today is halloween. So put on a costume. Not only a vision. I got confirmation. What . Herman cain is only partially dressed right now. Stop. How do you know that . He said to me, i saw him
From the presidency, to the congress, to the federal courts, and the states. President obama said his policies were on the ballot yesterday and the American People said they want to repeal those policies, his legacy, and his agenda. The bush wing of the Republican Party is dead and was buried yesterday by the American People. The old Republican Coalition of republican establishment as a senior partner in the grassroots constitutional conservatives and s a junior partner is dead. Americas new governing coalition with the trump populist in the grassroots constitutional conservatives. Something else that died yesterday was gridlock. Be careful what you ask for, liberals. You wanted an end to good luck gridlock and yesterday the , American People gave us an end to good luck in washington. I said it in my book, takeover the greatest impediment to the governing america is not the democrats but the republican establishment. Last night, that impediment was swept away by new conservative populi
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