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Mar 18 24 tweets 16 min read
TODAY IS THE DAY! Hundreds of organizations are coming together for #PeaceInUkraine and against endless US wars!

If you’re in DC come join the CODEPINK contingent! Just look for our team by the big pink wheelbarrows. Watch this space for live updates throughout the day…
Runners, walkers and drivers agreed with us this morning.

If you do, join us in the streets TODAY to call for an end to all wars, $$$ for people & planet, #PeaceInUkraine #ChinaIsNotOurEnemy #Iraq20YearsOn, & more!
SPEECHES HAVE BEGUN
"No more war machine! No more imperialist wars! And certainly no to the proxy-war going on in Europe!" @EugenePuryear
#PeaceInUkraine #FundPeopleNOTWar Image
"The war machine is impoverishing and endangering all of us!" @DrJillStein Image
Such an important message! #FreeAssageNOW! Jail the war criminals! Image
"I wanna know why my government is sabotaging peace talks!" Our @medeabenjamin giving a vital message for #PeaceInUkraine Image
"Governments do not willfully publish their crimes. We need fearless publishers, fearless whistleblowers." Julian Assange's brother @GabrielShipton speaking on solidarity with his brother and press freedom! #FreeAssangeNOW Image
@codepinklatam team is hyped for the Latin American & Caribbean contingent! 2023 is the year we say #RipMonroeDoctrine!

End the U.S. blockade of Cuba!

Lift all sanctions on Venezuela, Nicaragua, Haiti, and everywhere!

No UN/US/NATO intervention in Haiti! Image
CODEPINK contingent is here to say #PeaceInUkraine #ChinaIsNotOurEnemy #FundPeopleNotWar Image
#WarIsNotGreen! We're proud to march with activists & frontline Indigenous communities against the war machine that fuels the climate crisis✊️ Image
Real journalists oppose war not promote it! We told @washingtonpost that #ChinaIsNotOurEnemy Image
The march is over but we're keeping the anti-war work going with music, more speeches, and a teach-in at New York Avenue Presbyterian Church!
AIN'T NO POWER LIKE THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE CUZ THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE DON'T STOP! #FundPeopleNotWar Image
Yolian Egbu of @AAPRP talking about the Eritrean struggle for sovereignty and against killer sanctions! #SanctionsKill #ShutDownAFRICOM Image
"We are the vanguard of a new anti-war, anti-imperialist movement!" Joe Lombardo of @UNAC1 Image
US OUT OF GUAM! CHamoru artist and activist Naek Flores speaking about the powerful Indigenous-led resistance to US military occupation of Guam. Follow @PrutehiLitekyan to keep up with this important struggle! #WarIsNotGreen Image
@AnnWright46 of CODEPINK & @VFPNational leading us in a chant NO MORE WAR!!! Image
#ShutDownRedHill! @karaokecomputer of @oahuWP taking the US Navy to task for POISONING the Oahu community, Indigenous Hawaiians, and even their own troops! #WarIsNotGreen Image
Some of the original CODEPINKERS, our co-founders @medeabenjamin & @MsJodieEvans Image
"The military has absolutely everything to do with the climate crisis!" Our #WarIsNotGreen campaigner Teddy Ogborn laying out the intersection of the war machine and war on the planet! Image
"I would encourage you all to remember Africa in your work." @HermelaTV of @African_PF closing out the speeches by calling out mainstream media's constant warmongering! Image
That's a wrap for today but the anti-war movement is just getting started! Image

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