Free Lunch Tomorrow at the Station! Plus, Training Camp and 5th Anniversary Schedule

Join CODEPINK for a Free Appreciation Lunch outside the Marines Recruiting Station
tomorrow, plus sign up this week for the San Francisco Bay Area Women's Activist
Training Camp March 8-9!

Exciting actions are brewing in the SF Bay Area: We're resisting the war with
creative new tactics and trainings. Join us!

TOMORROW, Tuesday, February 26: Appreciation Banquet for the Berkeley City Council!
Free lunch, Free Gratitude, Free Protest!

CODEPINK is hosting an "Appreciation Banquet" in honor of Berkeley Peace-Loving
Community! Tuesday, February 26th, noon-4p.m. at the MRS (Marine Recruiting
Station), We'll recognize the Peace-Loving People of Berkeley ? especially Berkeley
High youth ? who so courageously and determinedly came out last Tuesday to stand
for peace and in support of our Council and against the pro-war forces. The
Appreciation Banquet will celebrate our stands, honor ourselves and each other, and
re-commit to ENDING WAR NOW! And SHUTTING DOWN the Marine Recruiting Station (MRS)!

FREE LUNCH! Food catered by People's Caf?, music, dancing, Hadley Louden and
Drummers for Peace, pink badges of courage, surprise guests, success stories from
the front lines! An exciting How Berkeley Can U Be afternoon in front of the MRS!

RSVP 510-524-2776 or email info [at] bayareacodepink.org


Women's Activist Training Camp: Special Sign Up Rate This Week Only!
International Women's Day, Saturday, March 8- Sunday, March 9
Join activists from all over Northern California for an exciting, empowering weekend
of learning, singing, talking, a pink slumber party and campfire, and a march across
the Golden Gate Bridge! To celebrate International Women's Day and prepare for
powerful actions on the 5th anniversary of the war, we're planning an overnight
Activist Training Camp in at the beautiful YMCA Point Bonita, in the Marin Headlands
just across the bay from San Francisco.

Workshops will include: War tax resistance, Counter-recruitment (the berkeley model,
in the schools, and GI resistance), Creative direct action, Activist writing skills,
Impeachment, Cultural competency training, Art making, DIY t-shirt recreation, and
more!
Our powerful workshop presenters will include:
Alice Green from War Tax Resistance will share her personal story as a longtime,
peace-focussed tax resister, and present about the reality and potential of ceasing
to pay taxes for war and militarism.
Mesha Monze-Irizzary from the Idriss Stelley Foundation will present a cultural
competency training.
Betsy Rose, well-known singer/songwriter, will lead us in song and discussion, and
debut a song she has written specifically for Activist Training Camp.
Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Global Exchange and CODEPINK, will share her words of
encourgement and seeing the "big picture."
And many more outstanding women!

COST: The cost is $80 per activist, includes overnight lodging, 3 meals, and
outstanding activist trainings
SPECIAL this week only: Daytime rate of $20 per activist (was $40!), includes one
meal and trainings
NOTE: Bay Area CODEPINK has created a generous scholarship fund for people in need
of financial assistance. To ask about financial assistance, email
codepinkjanet [at] gmail.com

HOW: Click here to sign up to join us! Simply fill out the online form and submit
payment to reserve your spot today. You can also sign up by sending an email to
locals [at] codepinkalert.org and bringing payment with you on March 8.

Bring your talents, passion for peace, a sleeping bag, and your creative ideas and
join us in the SF Bay Area!


Five Years Too Many!: Actions to mark the 5th anniversary of the occupation of Iraq

2,628,000 minutes of war too many. Had enough violence, lies and repression yet?
You've taken a minute to sign a petition, taken five to call Congress, an hour for a
vigil, an evening to hear a speaker. It's time to take a day, several days, or even
a week out of your life and come to the San Francisco Bay Area for this critical
time of action aimed at the heartless center of corporate oil government. Renew
your own energy, hope, and commitment. Act now, or forever pine for peace.

Sign up and join the CODEPINK presence at the following events and actions:
http://www.volunteerforchange.org/event/details/1188

*Monday March 10-Friday March 14: Create a real "Green Zone" in Berkeley: Join
CODEPINK as we Green over the Berkeley Recruiting Station
24-hour week long camp to promote safe, healthy and strong, environmentally well
communities, as well as the "pink agenda" for peace. It will be a fun way to bridge
the peace community and the growing environmental movement to stop the war in Iraq
and end our addiction to oil.
Sign up today: http://www.volunteerforchange.org/event/details/1189
Bring sleeping bags, tents, potted plants, flowers, seeds, and warm clothes.
If you're interested in speaking about the green movement or would like to host a
workshop email peace [at] globalexchange.org
64 Shattuck Square (Shattuck Ave just south of University where Shattuck runs
one-way north), Berkeley, California

*Friday March 14th A Storm of Roses: Women Against War with Holly Near, Emma's
Revolution, Krissy Keefer & others! CODEPINK honored at this event. 7:30pm Herbst
Theatre 401 Van Ness Avenue at McAllister Street, San Francisco $20-$50
http://www.dancemission.com

*Saturday March 15 Surge for Peace March & Rally 11am Gather at the Walnut Creek
BART http://www.surgeforpeace.us

*Saturday March 15th Stop the War Now Chevron Refinery Rally 11am W. Cutting & S.
Garrad Blvds, Richmond http://www.actagainstwar.net

*Saturday March 15th Stop the War Now Action Chevron Refinery 1pm, 841 Chevron Way,
Richmond http://www.actagainstwar.net

*Saturday March 15th Big Peace March in San Rafael: an inspiring, festive community
rally and march for peace, 1-4 pm, meet at San Rafael Plaza (next to Bank of
America) http://www.gonextgeneration.org/bigmarch.html

*Sunday March 16th CODEPINK Brunch - location TBA 11am

*Sunday March 16th Cindy Sheehan Event and Candlelight Procession 5-7pm First
Unitarian Universalist Church 1187 Franklin Street, San Francisco

*Wednesday March 19th Stop the War Now Non Violent Direct Action 7:30am Market &
Sansome Sts. downtown San Francisco http://www.actagainstwar.net

*Wednesday March 19th March & Rally, SF Civic Center 5:00pm http://www.answersf.org


We hope you can join us on March 8, International Women's Day, and for the 5th
anniversary actions!

Power to the Peaceful!

Janet, Medea, Nancy, Rae, and Zanne
Bay Area CODEPINK