CODEPINK MEMPHIS: Valentine's Day - Honk for Peace!

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Valentine's Day - Honk for Peace!

Wow! Nearly twenty people attended our Valentine's Day action, even though it was a cold gloomy day with wind chill in the teens. We brightened up the scenery with our hot pink outfits as we deployed our peace banners on a pedestrian bridge over Sam Cooper Boulevard during rush hour. A majority of passing drivers cheered our message with enthusiastic honks and smiles, including many air horns from 18-wheelers and even a few siren whoops from ambulances and police cars!

Our event was covered by the Commercial Appeal and FOX-13 News. You can watch the news video here.

1 comment:

karafree said...: I've been in Memphis for 4 years now and seldomly run into People who have chosen Peace first. I am excited to see that Codepink has a following in Memphis, Maybe the tide has turned! I am excited to meet People who want to make a peaceful difference...can't wait to meet you!

Kara; March 6, 2007 at 5:24 PM

UPCOMING EVENTS

PEACE RIBBON PROJECT at the NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM - May 26, 2007 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

CodePink's Peace Ribbon panels will be in Memphis, TN at the National Civil Rights Museum, weather permiting, on Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. CodePink Memphis will be adding to the project with panels honoring the Iraq War Dead from the Memphis area, as well as a panel honoring all of the Tennessee dead through April of 2007. Join us at this moving exhibition.

We will follow the next day, with a Peace Picnic on Sunday, May 27th in Overton Park, hopefully near the Veterans War Memorial, where we will again, exhibit the Peace Ribbon Project.

NATIONAL IMPEACHMENT DAY-April 28th

Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., corner of Poplar and Highland (park area), Memphis, TN

Join us, Veterans for Peace, and Midsouth Peace and Justice, for a rally as we join other peace groups all over the country in showing other Memphians our desire to be governed by someone that is "for the people", not for the corporations and military industrial complex. There will be leafleting, that lists the Bush administration's wrongdoings, as well as signs for impeachment. Put on the PINK!

BOOKS NOT BOMBS PROTEST-Rep. Marsha Blackburn

April 10, 2007, Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. Collierville Town Hall, 500 Poplar View Pkwy., Collierville, TN

(Town Hall Meeting Protest) Rep. Blackburn will be pushing for the No Child Left Behind act to be renewed. CodePink Memphis will be there to let her know we want better funded education, not more war. There will be anti-NCLB act leafleting at the door before the meeting.

HONK FOR PEACE Freeway Bannering 4:30 to 5:30pm Wednesday, April 4, 2007 Email us for details.

MAKE HIP HOP NOT WAR (Event cancelled, hoping for a reschedule, stay tuned!) Wednesday, April 4, 2007 The Hip Hop Caucus will be at the University of Memphis, and CODEPINK Memphis is sponsoring this event. Email us for details.

CODEPINK HOUSE PARTY 4:00pm, Saturday, April 14, 2007 This is an informal get-together in the U of M area for anyone who is interested in CODEPINK activities. We'll have cake and drinks. You are welcome to bring an appetizer to share, or just show up. We would love to meet you! Email us for details.