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Code Pink: Women for Peace (often stylized as CODEPINK) is a left-wing, anti-war organization registered in the United States as a 501(c)(3) organization. It focuses on issues such as drone strikes , the Guantanamo Bay detention camp , Palestinian statehood , the Iran nuclear deal , human rights in Saudi Arabia , and peace on the Korean Peninsula .
A suicide bombing took place at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 26 August 2021, at 17:50 local time (13:20 UTC), [11] during the evacuation from Afghanistan. [1][6][12][13] At least 182 people were killed, including 169 Afghan civilians and 13 members of the United States military, [3][14][4] the first American ...
2. Medea Benjamin (born Susan Benjamin on September 10, 1952) is an American political activist who, along with Jodie Evans and others, co-founded Code Pink. [1] She also co-founded, along with her husband Kevin Danaher, the fair trade advocacy group Global Exchange. Benjamin was the Green Party nominee in the 2000 United States Senate election ...
Battle of Qala-i-Jangi. 25 November 2001. 1 December 2001. Qala-i-Jangi District. Battle: It began with the uprising of Taliban prisoners held at Qala-i-Jangi fortress and escalated into one of the bloodiest engagements of the war in Afghanistan. Battle of Takur Ghar. 4 March 2002. 5 March 2002. The peak of Takur Ghar.
Code Pink demonstrators in front of Berkeley City Hall on February 12, 2008. The Berkeley Marine Corps Recruiting Center protests began in September 2007 when a small group of protesters from Code Pink began periodically protesting in front of a United States Marine Corps Officer Selection Office located in Downtown Berkeley, California at 64 Shattuck Avenue by standing in front of the office ...
Fall of Kabul; Part of the 2021 Taliban offensive of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) and the war on terror: Clockwise from top left: Afghans fleeing Kabul Airport aboard a US Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, US Marines assisting at an evacuation checkpoint at Hamid Karzai International Airport, coalition soldiers assist a child during the evacuation, armed Taliban fighters in Kabul, Taliban ...
Task Force Pineapple was founded on 15 August 2021 by Scott Mann, a retired Green Beret, [3] to rescue an Afghan commando he had served with. [4] The commando was receiving death threats from the Taliban for having served alongside SEAL Team Six for a dozen years. [5] After rescuing the commando and his family of six, the group began planning ...
Cindy Sheehan. Sheehan gives the peace sign in front of the White House in 2006. Cindy Lee Sheehan (née Miller; born July 10, 1957) is an American anti-war activist, [1][2] whose son, U.S. Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, was killed by enemy action during the Iraq War.