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
Buyer of u. S. Weapons. Country that is invading other countries and actually killing lots of innocent people. It is saudi arabia. Look at yemen, the thousands of minute people killed. Crushed the uprising in bahrain where i have been teargassed and saudis crushing this beautiful nonviolent peoples uprisings, and where were most of the hijackers from on 9 11 . So i could go on and on. I should go on and on. I should say, what. The internal rerepresentation door re repression in saudi arainarch around allowed to drive, cant vote, lefthand ray loued to go out without a guardian, and we have didnt been doing we take on individual cases, peter, like am necessary city does, of work amnesty does, like working with particular critical prisoners inch saudi arabia we have been work only the case of the blogger, because of his blogging about things that he was considering might be good to change in the saudi government, he was sentenced to ten years in jail and a thousand lashes. So, i was very
Host Medea Benjamin, one of the books youre reading this peter schrag dares clinton cash. Why . I am reading that book because i have been looking at saudi arabia. And why is it that there is all this talk about iran and the bad regime, but if you want to look at a really bad regime, look at saudi arabia. A country that has been responsible for spreading extremist ideologies all over the world, the country that is the largest buyer of u. S. Weapons, the country invading other countries and killing lots of innocent people in saudi arabia. Look again and, thousands of innocent People Killed now crush the uprising in bahrain where i have been tear gassed inside is crashing the beautiful nonviolent peoples uprising. And almost the hijackers on 9 11. I could go on and on. I should say what about the internal repression of women in saudi arabia. They are not even allowed to drive, cant vote in national elections, arent allowed to go out without a guardian. I forgot to say weve been doing a l