For my final project I interviewed a woman from CODEPINK - a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I will tell you more about it tomorrow, however wanted to leave you with this entertaining video of CODEPINK women calling Donald Rumsfeld a "war criminal" to his face.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDmRdfyAUio
What do you think about this video? Do you find it funny, too extreme, inappropriate? Do you think they make differences with protests like these?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
BWAHAHAHAHAHHAH!
ReplyDeletethat was one of the most ridiculous things i've ever seen. i'm gonna go ahead and say that what i think they're doing is not really effective at all... in fact, i think that the protests that Code Pink engages in are counter-productive. they come off as just being really obnoxious and extremely unorganized. it seems like their tactics are more annoying than they are activist. i believe they completely undermine their efforts and activist intentions by stooping to such a low level.
i really doubt these women really make much of a difference with these "protests," and as i said before, i think it's actually counter-productive. they aren't trying to win hearts and minds with their messages--they're just trying to be as loud and boisterous as possible so they can try to bring attention to certain issues. while this might work for some activist groups, Code Pink takes it to an obnoxiously new level that tends to de-legitimize their message. whenever they are reported on in the mainstream news, the issues they are trying to raise awareness about are never the focus the story... the stories are always about "how crazy" Code Pink is.
i think they could really be a much more successful protest group if they took things a little more seriously.