Code Pink is getting results where Team BushCo cannot. This announcement came in an email to Code Pink supporters:
We have exciting news to share with you today! After being rebuffed in our numerous attempts to meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, including setting up "Camp Al-Maliki" across from the Iraqi Embassy and publishing an open letter to him in one of the largest Iraqi newspapers, we received an amazing invitation: Five members of the raqi Parliament who are working on a Reconciliation Plan to end the violence in their country contacted us. Moved by the commitment of the long-term fasters and dismayed by their prime minister’s refusal to meet with us, these parliamentarians asked us to join them in Amman, Jordan next week to discuss their Reconciliation Plan, on condition that we break our long-term fast with them!
We are thrilled. It will be such a breakthrough for the US peace movement to be working directly with Iraqi peacemakers, and what better way to break our fast than with members of the Iraqi government seeking an end to the violence. So next week, we’ll be on our way to Jordan. In addition to a group of long-term fasters, we are inviting Congresspeople, academics, and notable journalists to join us.
They're right. This offer is huge. Good for Code Pink. Please don't listen to anyone who tells you that the peace movement is getting nothing accomplished. You just can't find out about these victories in the corporate media.
As for "notable journalists," they should invite Elisabeth Bumiller to take time off of writing her biography of Condoleezza Rice (working title: Hero!) to make the trip. She loves writing about powerful wimmenfolk.
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