Pink House Closing
The idiots at Code Pink that love boycotting and protesting our wounded warriors at Walter Reed, interrupt official Congressional business, and generally do stupid things are being forced to shut down their “Pink House” in DC. The leaders of the commie, insurgent funding Code Pink organization sent out the following email to their followers:
Dear CODEPINKers,
We are writing to share with you, who have applied to stay at the Pink House over the past several years, the news that the Pink House will be closing at the end of February. The CODEPINK House has been a home to PINKs from all corners of the world, and a hub for brainstorming, networking, prop-making and song-writing. After late night strategy meetings, we have woken up early to head off to Congress to attend a hearing, sit-in at an office, hang a banner in the atrium, sing anti-war songs in the cafeteria or crash press conferences. The costs of maintaining the house and paying the rent have become an overwhelming burden for CODEPINK and we must now move on from the house into the next course of action.
Please take a moment to read about the Pink House and share your own story on our blog here:
http://codepink4peace.org/blog/2010/02/packing-up-the-pink-house/
We’d like to say thank you, from the bottom of our pink hearts, to each and every one of you who contributed to the magic that was the Pink House. Thanks to those who donated, processed applications, greeted new arrivals in DC, stormed the Hill, and reached out to their networks to grow the CODEPINK family. The house was a bright idea, initiated by Xan Joi and other San Francisco activists, that would have failed had it not been for a surge of people who answered the call and supported the vision of ending war, creating peace, and restoring democracy.
CODEPINK in DC will of course continue to be active in the hearings in Congress and will continue to call for and help coordinate national actions in DC, only now we’ll be reaching out to our neighbors to house those of us visiting from out-of-town and coordinating shared stays at hotels. There are many reasons to come to DC in March, including a national training and lobby day for justice in Palestine around International Women’s Day (March 7-8), the ANSWER mass march on the 7th anniversary of the Iraq occupation (March 20), the AIPAC convention protests (March 21-23), and the Peace of the Action coalition activities (mid-March). We hope to see you in the beltway soon! If you’re coming to DC, you can check out our housing board (http://www.codepinkalert.org/housing.php) to find DC activists willing to host – Thanks to Lydia for managing Pink House applications and now taking on updating and coordinating this housing board! You can sign up to join CODEPINK in DC in March at http://www.codepinkalert.org/march
See a slideshow of DC CODEPINK actions and Pink House pics here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/codepinkalert/sets/72157613326838530/show/For ole times sake, watch an excellent 5-minute video about the Pink House produced by the Washington Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2007/03/28/VI2007032801891.html
Can we all let out a collective “awwww, shucks”? When I was stationed in the DC area, I frequently went to Walter Reed to counter-protest the troop-hating hags of Code Pink. I’ve also crashed their sadistic meetings that cast our troops as murderers and baby killers. One night, some Code Pinkers even threw eggs at the cars of Freepers who were proudly waving American flags and shouting words of support to troops entering and exiting Walter Reed.
I’m not surprised that the organization is having trouble paying for the house. They’ve gotten more and more moronic in their actions which I’m sure has turned off many potential and former donors. I say good riddance!! It wasn’t that long ago that they were forced to close shop in California too. They have issues when they keep up their offices in liberal California and DC!! But, I’m not complaining.
