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[The Bobster]

These women are marvelous. Um, no, it's not a porn site ... yeah, I know you were hoping for that.

Protesting for Peace With a Vivid Hue and Cry

Benjamin, 55, who worked for the United Nations in the 1970s and later founded with her husband a human rights group called Global Exchange, says the idea for Code Pink was conceived around a picnic table at a retreat for female activists after Sept. 11, 2001. The name emerged as a mocking response to Homeland Security Department's color-coded terrorism warning levels: Code Orange, Code Red, etc.

They thought a playful approach toward activism might succeed where an angry approach would not. "Crazy male testosterone" was already poisoning the planet, Benjamin says; fun and outrageousness might save it.

Outrageousness comes easily to Benjamin, a frenetic mother of two, who changed her name from Susan to Medea in college, figuring the Greek figure probably got a bum rap for being a strong woman. She recalls that at the retreat, the discussion about creating Code Pink ended with her suggesting -- in the "spirit of joy and exorcism" -- that the women do nude cartwheels.

And they did.

Okay, forget that last sentence, again, I swear it's not porn ... read the whole link. It's good stuff.

(To paraphrase Emma Goldman, "If I can't get naked and do cartwheeels, I don't want to be part of your revolution."



End this thing. End it now.