March 8th is International Women’s Day. Please join us in calling for peace and justice throughout the world.

This is a CODEPINK event. Participants are asked to wear or carry pink and be committed to nonviolent, respectful actions for peace. Military families longing for peace are welcome to join us. We will cheer homeward bound traffic in the hopes that all Americans will soon be homeward bound from war.

CODEPINK emerged out of a resolute desire by a group of American women to stop the Bush administration from invading Iraq. The name CODEPINK plays on the color-coded homeland security alerts – yellow, orange, red – that signal terrorist threats. While Bush’s color-coded threats are based on fear and are used to justify violence, the CODEPINK alert is based on compassion and is a feisty call for people to “wage peace.