Code Pink

{{Infobox organization

| name = Code Pink: Women for Peace

| image = Code Pink July 4.jpg

| alt = Code Pink activists demonstrate in front of the White House on July 4, 2006.

| caption = Code Pink activists demonstrate in front of the White House on July 4, 2006.

| formation = {{start date and age|2002|11|17}}

| tax_id = 26-2823386{{Cite web |date=January 5, 2020 |title=2020 Form 990 Filing |url=https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/262823386_202003_990_2021040617900481.pdf |access-date=August 17, 2023 |website=Internal Revenue Service |archive-date=August 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230818020747/https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/262823386_202003_990_2021040617900481.pdf |url-status=live }}

| purpose = Anti-war, social justice

| key_people = Jodie Evans, Medea Benjamin

| affiliations = *Progressive International{{cite web|title=Members|url=https://progressive.international/members|website=Progressive International|access-date=17 April 2021}}

International Peoples' Assemblyhttps://ipa-aip.org/who-we-are/

| website = {{Official URL}}

}}

Code Pink: Women for Peace (often stylized as CODEPINK) is a left-wing, anti-war organization registered in the United States as a 501(c)(3) organization. It focuses on issues such as drone strikes, the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Palestinian statehood, the Iran nuclear deal, human rights in Saudi Arabia, and peace on the Korean Peninsula. The organization has regional offices in Los Angeles, California, and Washington, D.C., and several chapters in the U.S. and abroad.[http://www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?list=type&type=3 Code Pink "About Us" page] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080212061706/http://www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?list=type&type=3 |date=February 12, 2008 }}. Retrieved October 4, 2011.{{cite web|url=http://www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?list%3Dtype%26type%3D3 |title=CODEPINK : About Us |access-date=2008-02-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080212061706/http://www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?list=type&type=3 |archive-date=2008-02-12 }}. Retrieved 21 December 2012.

With members wearing the group's signature pink color,{{citation |title = Protesting for Peace With a Vivid Hue and Cry: Code Pink's Tactics: Often Theatrical, Always Colorful |url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/09/AR2007060901488.html |first = Libby |last = Copeland |newspaper = The Washington Post |date = June 10, 2007 |page = D01 |access-date = September 20, 2017 |archive-date = June 15, 2020 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200615080016/https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/09/AR2007060901488.html |url-status = live }} Code Pink has conducted marches, protests, and other activist action in order to promote its goals. The organization describes itself as female-initiated,{{cite news|last=Harris|first=Paul|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/07/code-pink-john-brennan-senate-hearing|title=Code Pink activists shown the red card at John Brennan Senate hearing|work=The Guardian|date=February 7, 2013|access-date=December 3, 2020}} but it encourages men to participate in its activities.{{citation|url=http://www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?list=type&type=3 |title=Just the Beginning |publisher=CP |access-date=2008-02-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080212061706/http://www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?list=type&type=3 |archive-date=2008-02-12 }}

The organization's political positions, especially those regarding China and Venezuela, and funding have created controversy and drawn congressional scrutiny.{{Cite news |last=Bandurski |first=David |date=August 16, 2023 |title=Code Pink, Code Red |work=China Media Project |url=https://chinamediaproject.org/2023/08/16/code-pink-code-red/ |access-date=August 17, 2023 |archive-date=August 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230816112211/https://chinamediaproject.org/2023/08/16/code-pink-code-red/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |last=Dvorak |first=Petula |date=16 May 2019 |title=Code Pink used the Venezuelan Embassy as an anti-Trump prop. Now the show is over. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/code-pink-used-the-venezuelan-embassy-as-an-anti-trump-prop-now-the-show-is-over/2019/05/16/9afe470c-77dd-11e9-b3f5-5673edf2d127_story.html |access-date=23 May 2023 |newspaper=Washington Post |archive-date=October 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231004230125/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/code-pink-used-the-venezuelan-embassy-as-an-anti-trump-prop-now-the-show-is-over/2019/05/16/9afe470c-77dd-11e9-b3f5-5673edf2d127_story.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=2019-05-11 |title=Code Pink: el feminismo americano que apoya al chavismo |url=https://www.elpitazo.net/internacional/code-pink-el-feminismo-americano-que-apoya-al-chavismo/ |access-date=2023-05-23 |website=El Pitazo |language=es |archive-date=May 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230523181754/https://elpitazo.net/internacional/code-pink-el-feminismo-americano-que-apoya-al-chavismo/ |url-status=live }}

History

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Code Pink was founded on November 17, 2002, by a group of American anti-war activists, including Jodie Evans and Medea Benjamin, in the lead-up to the 2003 US invasion of Iraq (which the organization opposed).{{Cite news | author=The Christian Science Monitor | title='Code Pink' rethinks its call for Afghanistan pullout | website=The Christian Science Monitor | date=2009-10-06 | url=https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2009/1006/p06s10-wosc.html | access-date=2022-01-28 | archive-date=January 28, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128123605/https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2009/1006/p06s10-wosc.html | url-status=live }}{{cite web | title=Code Pink, anti-Israel group, listed for upcoming Women's March | website=The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com | date=2020-01-12 | url=https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/anti-israel-group-code-pink-listed-for-upcoming-womens-march-613890 | access-date=2022-01-28 | archive-date=January 28, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128123606/https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/anti-israel-group-code-pink-listed-for-upcoming-womens-march-613890 | url-status=live }} The group's name is a play on the United States Department of Homeland Security's color-coded alert system in which, for example, Code Orange and Code Red signify the highest levels of danger.{{citation|url=http://www.codepink4peace.org/section.php?id=207 |title=CODEPINK Frequently Asked Questions |access-date=2008-02-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080212013748/http://www.codepink4peace.org/section.php?id=207 |archive-date=2008-02-12 }} Code Pink's founding statement calls for{{Rp|page=93}}

{{Blockquote|text=Women around the world to rise up and oppose the war in Iraq. We call on mothers, grandmothers, sisters, and daughters, on workers, students, teachers, healers, artists, writers, singers, poets and every ordinary outraged woman willing to be outrageous for peace. Women have been the guardians of life – not because we are better or purer or more innately nurturing than men, but because the men have busied themselves making war.}}

In February 2003, shortly before the invasion of Iraq, Code Pink organized its first trip to the country; it subsequently led five delegations there. These delegations included parents of American soldiers killed in combat in Iraq, as well as parents of active soldiers. Additionally, they brought six Iraqi women on a tour of the United States, and published a report about how the U.S. occupation affected the status of Iraqi women.{{citation |date = 20 March 2006 |title = The Normalcy of Fear |first1 = Rachel |last1 = Corbett |first2 = Anja |last2 =Tranovich |work = The Nation |url = http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060403/tranovichcorbett}}

On its website, Code Pink lists allegations of U.S. war crimes, and states that thousands of civilians were killed in Fallujah in 2004 due to the actions of the U.S. military.[http://www.codepinkalert.org/article.php?list=type&type=22 Families For Peace Delegation] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060704234352/http://www.codepinkalert.org/article.php?list=type&type=22 |date=July 4, 2006 }}, Code Pink Website. Retrieved 3 July 2006. Along with other groups, they gave over $600,000-worth of humanitarian aid to refugees of Fallujah in 2004.[http://www.democracynow.org/2004/12/28/u_s_delegation_goes_to_middle U.S. delegation goes to Middle East] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080814110013/http://www.democracynow.org/2004/12/28/u_s_delegation_goes_to_middle |date=August 14, 2008 }}, Democracy Now! Retrieved 2 July 2008.

In 2014, Code Pink was awarded the US Peace Prize by the US Peace Memorial Foundation "in recognition of inspirational anti-war leadership and creative grassroots activism".{{cite web |title=CODEPINK Awarded 2014 US Peace Prize |url=https://www.uspeaceprize.org/ |access-date=30 January 2020 |archive-date=March 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200302142629/https://www.uspeaceprize.org/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |last1=Bermudez |first1=Adam |title=2014 US Peace Memorial Peace Prize Awarded to CODE PINK |date=9 August 2014 |url=https://thebronxchronicle.com/2014/08/09/2014-us-peace-memorial-peace-prize-awarded-to-code-pink/ |publisher=The Bronx Chronicle |access-date=30 January 2020 |archive-date=January 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200130155926/https://thebronxchronicle.com/2014/08/09/2014-us-peace-memorial-peace-prize-awarded-to-code-pink/ |url-status=usurped }}

Political positions and activism

= United States =

The group opposed the United States invasion of Iraq.{{Rp|page=93}}

In early 2003, members of Code Pink protested what they called the "naked aggression" of U.S. President George W. Bush by spelling out the word "PEACE" using their naked bodies at demonstrations in California and New York.{{Cite journal |last=Kutz-Flamenbaum |first=Rachel V. |date=2007 |title=Code Pink, Raging Grannies, and the Missile Dick Chicks: Feminist Performance Activism in the Contemporary Anti-War Movement |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4317232 |journal=NWSA Journal |publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=89–105 |doi=10.2979/NWS.2007.19.1.89 |doi-broken-date=November 1, 2024 |jstor=4317232 |issn=1040-0656 |access-date=May 21, 2023 |archive-date=May 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230521004512/https://www.jstor.org/stable/4317232 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}{{Rp|page=89}}

Code Pink participated in vigils at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., to shed light on the plight of injured soldiers.{{cite press release|title=Statement on Vigil Outside of Walter Reed Hospital |publisher=Code Pink |date=2005-08-26 |url=http://www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?id=476 |access-date=2008-01-31 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080114145909/http://www.codepink4peace.org//article.php?id=476 |archive-date=2008-01-14 }} Code Pink said that the purpose of the vigils was to highlight the lack of care for veterans and that the vigils have helped achieve improvements in that care.{{cite news |title=Activists See Deception in Night Arrivals |publisher=Stars and Stripes |date=2005-03-31 |url=http://www.stripes.com/news/activists-see-deception-in-night-arrivals-at-walter-reed-1.31157 |access-date=22 April 2016 |archive-date=June 24, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624092603/http://www.stripes.com/news/activists-see-deception-in-night-arrivals-at-walter-reed-1.31157 |url-status=live }}

In the summer of 2009, Code Pink began their "Ground the Drones" campaign.{{citation |last=Blanchard |first=Eric |title=Feminism and International Relations: Conversations about the past, present, and future |pages=146–163 |year=2011 |editor1-last=Tickner |editor1-first=J. Ann |contribution=The technoscience question in feminist International Relations: Unmanning the U.S. war on terror |publisher=London |editor2-last=Sjoberg |editor2-first=Laura |editor1-link=J. Ann Tickner |editor2-link=Laura Sjoberg}} This campaign was a response to the Obama administration's continued and increased use of drones in the war on terror, specifically in regions surrounding Pakistan and Afghanistan. Code Pink said that many of the drone strikes intended to target terrorist leaders and strongholds often miss their targets, causing the unnecessary deaths of innocent civilians.{{cite web |title=Take Action! |url=http://www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?id=5974 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110033421/http://codepink4peace.org//article.php?id=5974 |archive-date=10 November 2013 |access-date=21 November 2013}}

"Ground the Drones" was fashioned as a form of non-violent, civil disobedience, similar to protests earlier that spring, by groups such as Voices for Creative Non Violence. Code Pink targeted Creech Air Force Base in Indian Springs, Nevada, claiming it was the "epicenter" for controlling drone activity. The goal of the protest was "halting unmanned aircraft strikes controlled via satellite links from Creech and other bases". The group continued protesting at Creech AFB through November and December 2009. Code Pink returned to Creech AFB in October 2011, along with other protest groups, to mark the 10th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan. Protesters dubbed it the "largest anti-war demonstration ever at Creech Air Force Base.{{cite web |date=7 October 2011 |title=CODEPINK Joins Largest Ever Anti-Drone and Anti-Nuclear Actions Sunday at NNSS and Creech AFB |url=http://codepinkalert.org/article.php?id=5979&printsafe=1#sthash.qe6zn80v.dpuf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111013213129/http://www.codepinkalert.org/article.php?id=5979&printsafe=1 |archive-date=13 October 2011 |access-date=21 November 2013}}

Code Pink members attended a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing in 2015 and called for Henry Kissinger's arrest for war crimes. John McCain, who was chairing the hearing, called for the Sergeant at Arms and the Capital Hill Police to escort Code Pink out of the building and called after them "Get out of here you lowlife scum!"{{Citation |title="Get out of here you low life scum." (C-SPAN)|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP9In2fNs84 |access-date=2020-02-06 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/yP9In2fNs84 |url-status=live |language=en |archive-date=2021-12-21}}{{cbignore}}{{Cite news |title=Protesters heckle Kissinger, denounce him for 'war crimes' |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/protesters-heckle-kissinger-denounce-him-for-war-crimes/ |website=www.timesofisrael.com |access-date=26 May 2023 |date=30 January 2015 |archive-date=December 22, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222080350/http://www.timesofisrael.com/protesters-heckle-kissinger-denounce-him-for-war-crimes/ |url-status=live }}

Code Pink member Desiree Fairooz was arrested for laughing after a description of Senator Jeff Sessions by Alabama U.S. Senator Richard Shelby of the nominee, that his history "treating all Americans equally under the law is clear and well-documented", during the January 2017 confirmation hearing as United States Attorney General. After she had been convicted at trial, that verdict was reversed by the chief District Court Judge Robert Morin. The judge said Fairooz should not have been tried for laughing, only for speaking out as she was being removed, and called a mistrial. Instead of dismissing the case, Morin set her retrial for September.[http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/judge-throws-out-conviction-for-code-pink-activist-arrested-after-laughing-during-jeff-sessions-confirmation/article/2628748 Judge throws out conviction for Code Pink activist arrested after laughing during Jeff Sessions' confirmation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228172015/http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/judge-throws-out-conviction-for-code-pink-activist-arrested-after-laughing-during-jeff-sessions-confirmation/article/2628748 |date=December 28, 2017 }}, Washington Examiner, Josh Siegel, July 14, 2017. Retrieved August 17, 2017. Fairooz faced up to a year in prison and $2,000 in fines for disruptive and disorderly conduct and obstructing and impeding passage on US Capitol grounds.{{cite web |last1=Inklebarger |first1=Timothy |title="Laughing Librarian" Gets the Last Laugh |url=https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/justice-department-drops-case-laughing-librarian/ |access-date=18 November 2017 |website=American Librarian |archive-date=November 18, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171118072232/https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/justice-department-drops-case-laughing-librarian/ |url-status=live }} On November 6, 2017, District of Columbia U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu filed a notice of nolle prosequi in the case against Desiree Fairooz.{{Cite news |last1=ROSENBLATT |first1=KALHAN |title=Charges Dropped Against Woman Who Laughed During Jeff Sessions Hearing by KALHAN ROSENBLATT SHARE Share Tweet Email Print |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/charges-dropped-against-woman-who-laughed-during-jeff-sessions-hearing-n818436 |access-date=18 November 2017 |work=NBC News |archive-date=November 13, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171113110425/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/charges-dropped-against-woman-who-laughed-during-jeff-sessions-hearing-n818436 |url-status=live }} Upon the decision, Code Pink released a statement calling the three trials a waste of time and tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars, adding, "These sentences are designed to discourage dissent and prevent activists from engaging in the daily protests that are taking place during a tumultuous time."{{cite web |last1=Benjamin |first1=Medea |title=CODEPINK Activist Arrested for Laughing at Jeff Sessions' Hearing Will Face Yet Another Trial |url=http://www.codepink.org/codepink_activist_arrested_for_laughing_at_jeff_sessions_hearing_will_face_yet_another_trial |access-date=18 November 2017 |website=CODEPINK |archive-date=December 1, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201080945/http://www.codepink.org/codepink_activist_arrested_for_laughing_at_jeff_sessions_hearing_will_face_yet_another_trial |url-status=live }}

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Code Pink campaigned in favor of the United States suspending its imposition of sanctions in order to alleviate the pandemic's impact on the populations of sanctioned countries.{{Cite book |title=Sanctions as War: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy |date=2022 |publisher=Brill Publishers |isbn=978-90-04-50119-5 |editor-last=Davis |editor-first=Stuart |series=Studies in critical social sciences |location=Leiden Boston |pages=11 |author-link=Immanuel Ness |editor-last2=Ness |editor-first2=Immanuel}}

On World Press Freedom Day 2023, members of Code Pink interrupted a talk between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Washington Post columnist David Ignatius to call for the release of Julian Assange.{{cite web |date=4 May 2023 |title=Protesters disrupt Blinken's live talk by calling for Assange's release |url=http://www.uniindia.com/~/protesters-disrupt-blinken-s-live-talk-by-calling-for-assange-s-release/World/news/2965146.html |access-date=4 May 2023 |website=United News of India |archive-date=October 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231019205355/http://www.uniindia.com/~/protesters-disrupt-blinken-s-live-talk-by-calling-for-assange-s-release/World/news/2965146.html |url-status=live }}

=Venezuela=

During the 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis, the U.S. broke relations with the Nicolás Maduro administration and recognized Juan Guaidó as the acting president of Venezuela. On 10 April 2019, after the Maduro administration retired its diplomats from the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, US activists from Code Pink received keycards from the diplomats, moved into the building, and secured all entrances with chains and locks as Carlos Vecchio, Guaidó's ambassador appointed to the US, tried to gain access to the building. The US government considered the embassy as property of Guaidó's interim government. Clashes in May 2019 between US activists and pro-Guaidó Venezuelan demonstrators resulted in arrests on both sides.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/were-not-going-to-leave-three-arrested-activists-face-dwindling-supplies-on-day-3-of-venezuelan-embassy-protests-in-dc/2019/05/02/a0dc0728-6d0a-11e9-a66d-a82d3f3d96d5_story.html|title=We're not going to leave': Three arrested, activists face dwindling supplies on Day 3 of Venezuelan Embassy protests in D.C.|newspaper=The Washington Post|author=Marissa J. Lang|access-date=7 May 2019|date=2 May 2019|archive-date=June 14, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190614032827/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/were-not-going-to-leave-three-arrested-activists-face-dwindling-supplies-on-day-3-of-venezuelan-embassy-protests-in-dc/2019/05/02/a0dc0728-6d0a-11e9-a66d-a82d3f3d96d5_story.html|url-status=live}} US authorities issued an eviction notice on the group on May 14.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/activists-at-venezuela-embassy-served-with-eviction-notice/2019/05/13/b2b61aec-75ed-11e9-a7bf-c8a43b84ee31_story.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514070742/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/activists-at-venezuela-embassy-served-with-eviction-notice/2019/05/13/b2b61aec-75ed-11e9-a7bf-c8a43b84ee31_story.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 May 2019|title=Activists at Venezuela Embassy served with eviction notice|date=14 May 2019|access-date=14 May 2019|newspaper=The Washington Post}} The last four activists were removed from the embassy by agents from the US State Department's Diplomatic Security Service and the US Secret Service on May 16.{{cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/protesters-arrested-venezuela-embassy-washington|title=Federal agents arrest four protesters occupying Venezuelan Embassy in Maduro-Guaido standoff|author=Barnini Chakraborty|work=Fox News|date=16 May 2019|access-date=16 May 2019|archive-date=May 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190516211728/https://www.foxnews.com/politics/protesters-arrested-venezuela-embassy-washington|url-status=live}}{{better source needed|Fox News not reliable for US politics|date=October 2023}}

At the end of July 2019, some members of Code Pink that occupied the embassy visited Venezuela during the Foro de São Paulo. Maduro posed for pictures with the group and rewarded them with gifts, including a book on Simón Bolívar and a replica of Bolivar's sword.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2019/08/01/activists-who-occupied-venezuelas-embassy-washington-honored-ceremony-caracas/?noredirect=on|title=Activists who occupied Venezuela's embassy in Washington honored at ceremony in Caracas|last=Lang|first=Marissa J|date=1 August 2019|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=1 August 2019|archive-date=August 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200824015416/https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2019/08/01/activists-who-occupied-venezuelas-embassy-washington-honored-ceremony-caracas/?noredirect=on|url-status=live}}

In October 2022 Code Pink collected signatures for a petition asking the US Department of Justice to drop the charges against Colombian businessman Alex Saab. Saab was extradited to the U.S. from Cape Verde in 2020, charged by the U.S. Justice Department with money laundering and pushing over $350 million through U.S. accounts. Code Pink described Saab as a political prisoner, who worked as a diplomat as part of Venezuela's Gran Misión Vivienda and CLAP food box distribution network.{{Cite web |date=2023-05-04 |title=Code Pink: la organización estadounidense que respalda al Gobierno de Maduro |trans-title=Code Pink: the U.S. organization backing Maduro's government |url=https://elpitazo.net/internacional/code-pink-la-organizacion-estadounidense-que-respalda-al-gobierno-de-maduro/ |access-date=2023-05-21 |website=El Pitazo |language=es |archive-date=May 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230521183801/https://elpitazo.net/internacional/code-pink-la-organizacion-estadounidense-que-respalda-al-gobierno-de-maduro/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |last1=Dawkins |first1=David |title=Moneyman For Venezuela—Accused Of Looting Billions—Nears Extradition To The U.S. |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddawkins/2021/10/01/money-man-for-venezuelaaccused-of-looting-billionsnears-extradition-to-the-us/?sh=75bfdd7f6a5f |website=Forbes |access-date=22 May 2023 |language=en |date=1 October 2021 |archive-date=May 22, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230522121555/https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddawkins/2021/10/01/money-man-for-venezuelaaccused-of-looting-billionsnears-extradition-to-the-us/?sh=75bfdd7f6a5f |url-status=live }}

The organization has been criticized for its support of the Venezuelan government.

=Israel and Palestine=

Code Pink has organized more than seven delegations to Gaza, some of them at the invitation of the United Nations.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}

Code Pink was criticized by Joshua Block, president and CEO of the Israel Project, for arranging a peace delegation to Iran in January 2019.[https://m.jpost.com/Opinion/Code-Pinks-trip-to-Iran-is-a-Peace-Delegation-in-name-only-578012 Code Pinks trip to Iran is a peace delegation in name only] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190121055605/https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Code-Pinks-trip-to-Iran-is-a-Peace-Delegation-in-name-only-578012 |date=January 21, 2019 }}, The Jerusalem Post

Prior to the Gaza Freedom March, Code Pink endorsed the "Cairo Declaration to End Israeli Apartheid", which calls for comprehensive boycott of Israel.{{Cite web|url=https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/01/01/18633996.php|title=Gaza Freedom Marchers issue the "Cairo Declaration" to end Israeli Apartheid|website=Indybay|access-date=November 19, 2021|archive-date=November 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211119230518/https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/01/01/18633996.php|url-status=live}}{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (WP:NOTRS).|date=October 2023}} During the march, Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin coordinated the organization's stay with Hamas. Members resided in the Commodore, a Hamas-owned hotel in Gaza City. Hamas security officials accompanied activists as they visited Palestinian homes and Gaza-based NGOs.{{Cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.com/1.5083051|title=Pro-Gaza Activists Under Siege – Imposed by Egypt and Hamas|newspaper=Haaretz|access-date=November 17, 2021|archive-date=November 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211117225735/https://www.haaretz.com/1.5083051|url-status=live}} Prior to the march, Benjamin said the Hamas government had "pledged to ensure our safety".{{cite news |url=http://archives.thereminder.com/localnews/GreaterSpringfield/massachusettswomen/ |title=We Are Hometown News – Massachusetts women march for freedom in the Middle East |publisher=The Reminder |date=2008-12-27 |access-date=2010-10-24 |archive-date=May 23, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180523214223/http://archives.thereminder.com/localnews/GreaterSpringfield/massachusettswomen/ |url-status=live }} However, Code Pink leaders claimed Hamas had hijacked the initiative from the onset after imposing prohibitions on the organization's movements around Gaza. Amira Hass referred to the event as "an opportunity for Hamas cabinet ministers to get decent media coverage in the company of Western demonstrators".

Code Pink helped to organize an International Women's Day Delegation to Gaza in March 2014. Upon arrival at the Cairo airport on March 3, 2014, Benjamin was detained and assaulted by Egyptian authorities. She was deported to Turkey after the authorities had dislocated her shoulder.{{Cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/05/world/middleeast/medea-benjamin-cairo-airport.html|title = U.S. Activist Says Egyptian Police Assaulted Her|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 4 March 2014|last1 = Kirkpatrick|first1 = David D.|access-date = February 26, 2017|archive-date = December 1, 2017|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171201045323/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/05/world/middleeast/medea-benjamin-cairo-airport.html|url-status = live}} Other members of the international delegation, including American, French, Belgian, and British citizens, who arrived the next day were also deported. Some members made it into Cairo, although no one from the delegation made it to Gaza.{{citation needed|date=December 2023}}

Code Pink opposed Israel's operation in Gaza following the Hamas attacks of October 7. It repeatedly disrupted Secretary of State Antony Blinken's October 31, 2023 testimony to a Senate hearing on Israel aid from the United States, with protesters calling for a ceasefire during the hearing. Several peace activists were arrested, including David Barrows and retired colonel and diplomat, Ann Wright.Kerry Breen [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/protesters-disrupt-senate-aid-hearing-secretary-of-state-antony-blinken-speaks/ "Protesters calling for cease-fire in Gaza disrupt Senate hearing over Israel aid as Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231101214752/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/protesters-disrupt-senate-aid-hearing-secretary-of-state-antony-blinken-speaks/ |date=November 1, 2023 }} October 31, 2023. Accessed November 1, 2023.

= Syria =

In 2013 about ten activists of Code Pink demonstrated in U.S. Congress against military attacks in retaliation for the Syrian government's use of chemical weapons against its own people.{{cite news |last=Ferraro |first=Thomas |title=Red-stained hands wave in protest at U.S. hearing on Syria |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-crisis-redhands-idUSBRE98319L20130904 |newspaper=Reuters |date=4 September 2013 |access-date=4 September 2013 |archive-date=May 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210517175538/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-syria-crisis-redhands-idUSBRE98319L20130904 |url-status=live }}{{cite news|url=http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/one-winner-in-the-syria-debate-code-pink-20130910|title=One Winner in the Syria Debate: Code Pink|work=National Journal|date=2013-09-10|access-date=September 21, 2013|archive-date=September 26, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130926174257/http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/one-winner-in-the-syria-debate-code-pink-20130910|url-status=live}}

A year later, Code Pink activists demonstrated in Capitol Hill against the American intervention in Syria and Iraq to stop ISIS.{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/17/john-kerry-code-pink_n_5838120.html|title=John Kerry Takes On Code Pink At ISIS Hearing|work=The Huffington Post|date=2014-09-17|access-date=November 11, 2014|archive-date=November 11, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141111092806/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/17/john-kerry-code-pink_n_5838120.html|url-status=live}}

=Iran=

In March 2019, while visiting Iran, Code Pink representatives voiced support at a press conference held by Fars News for Iran's right to use missile defense systems, and met with Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.{{cite news |last=Frantzman |first=Seth J. |date=March 5, 2019 |title=Iranian Media: Code Pink Defends Iran's Right to Missiles, Slams Israel |url=https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Iran-News/Iranian-media-Code-Pink-defends-Irans-right-to-missiles-slams-Israel-582529 |newspaper=The Jerusalem Post |access-date=March 25, 2019 |archive-date=March 25, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325041617/https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Iran-News/Iranian-media-Code-Pink-defends-Irans-right-to-missiles-slams-Israel-582529 |url-status=live }}

=Iraq=

Following the January 2020 assassination of Qasem Soleimani, leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force, and of Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, leader of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces by a US drone attack at Baghdad airport,{{Cite news|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/02/middleeast/baghdad-airport-rockets/index.html|title=US drone strike ordered by Trump kills top Iranian commander in Baghdad|last=Cohen|first=Zachary|date=3 January 2020|work=CNN|access-date=3 January 2020|archive-date=January 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103031258/https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/02/middleeast/baghdad-airport-rockets/index.html|url-status=live}} Code Pink together with a number of other civil society groups called for a "national day of action" in 30 large US cities to request the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq.{{Cite web|url=https://www.codepink.org/01042020|title=Sat Jan 4: National Day of Action U.S. Troops Out of Iraq!|publisher=Code Pink|date=3 January 2020|access-date=3 January 2020|archive-date=January 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103194727/https://www.codepink.org/01042020|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/trump-order-assassinate-iran-qassem-soleimani-legal-200103212119366.html|title=Was Trump's order to assassinate Iran's Qassem Soleimani legal?|last=Roberts|first=William|date=3 January 2020|work=Al Jazeera|access-date=4 January 2020|archive-date=January 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103224925/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/01/trump-order-assassinate-iran-qassem-soleimani-legal-200103212119366.html|url-status=live}} Thousands marched in over 80 cities across the country to protest against a possible war against Iran.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/04/us/iran-anti-war-protests.html|title=Antiwar Protesters Across U.S. Condemn Killing of Suleimani|last=Padilla|first=Mariel|date=4 January 2020|work=The New York Times|access-date=4 January 2020|archive-date=May 16, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230516211533/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/04/us/iran-anti-war-protests.html|url-status=live}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/04/thousands-take-streets-more-70-cities-across-us-protest-trumps-reckless-acts-war|title=Thousands Take to Streets in More Than 70 Cities Across US to Protest Trump's "Reckless Acts of War" Against Iran|last=Johnson|first=Jake|date=4 January 2020|work=Common Dreams|access-date=4 January 2020|archive-date=January 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200105071342/https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/01/04/thousands-take-streets-more-70-cities-across-us-protest-trumps-reckless-acts-war|url-status=live}}

=Russian invasion of Ukraine=

In 2022, at protests in Oakland and San Francisco, Code Pink criticized the United States for sending arms to Ukraine after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.{{Cite news |title=Anti-war protesters in Oakland call for U.S. to stop arming Ukraine |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/antiwar-protesters-oakland-rally-halt-arms-shipments-ukraine/ |access-date=2022-09-10 |website=CBS News |language=en-US |quote=The protesters said sending in more weapons would only add fuel to the fire. |archive-date=September 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220910132218/https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/antiwar-protesters-oakland-rally-halt-arms-shipments-ukraine/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite news |author= |date=March 6, 2022 |title=Ukraine Supporters Rally in San Francisco But Disagree About NATO's Role |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/ukraine-supporters-rally-san-francisco-disagree-about-nato/ |access-date=February 23, 2023 |website=CBS News |publisher= |quote=Members of the anti-war group Code Pink rallied in front of the Ferry Building in San Francisco on Sunday calling for a cease-fire in Ukraine and criticizing the approach of the U.S. and other western nations. "NATO, it's threatening peace," said Cynthia Papermaster, a Bay Area coordinator for Code Pink: Women for Peace. |archive-date=February 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230223031109/https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/ukraine-supporters-rally-san-francisco-disagree-about-nato/ |url-status=live }} In February 2023, Code Pink activists confronted United States President Joe Biden in a Washington, D.C. restaurant, "call[ing] for Biden to seek peace and an end to the war rather than escalation before being asked to leave by the establishment's staff".{{Cite news |last=Silverstein |first=Joe |date=2023-02-20 |title=Anti-war protesters crash Biden's dinner out in Washington, DC: 'I hate to bother you but people are dying' |url=https://www.foxnews.com/media/anti-war-protesters-crash-bidens-dinner-washington-dc-hate-bother-you-people-dying |access-date=2023-05-20 |website=Fox News |language=en-US |archive-date=February 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230223030029/https://www.foxnews.com/media/anti-war-protesters-crash-bidens-dinner-washington-dc-hate-bother-you-people-dying |url-status=live }} During the Washington, D.C. protest, Code Pink also called for Cuba to be removed from the United States state sponsors of terrorism list.

Writing in The Nation, Ukrainian Solidarity Network Co-founder Bill Fletcher Jr. describes Code Pink's position as "ambivalent" stating that the organization has criticized the Russian invasion but not supported Ukrainian resistance.{{Cite news |last=Jr |first=Bill Fletcher |date=2023-01-20 |title=Nothing Is Worse Than Silence in the Face of Aggression |language=en-US |work=The Nation |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/world/ukraine-solidarity-network/ |access-date=2023-05-20 |issn=0027-8378 |archive-date=May 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230520193412/https://www.thenation.com/article/world/ukraine-solidarity-network/ |url-status=live }} In October 2023, Steven Strauss, of the Freedom Socialist Party, alleged that he and another supporter were removed from a Washington, D.C. event hosted by Code Pink after the pair handed out flyers supporting Ukraine's right to defend itself.{{Cite web |last=Strauss |first=Steven |date=2023-10-06 |title=Code Pink suppresses discussion over peace in Ukraine |url=https://socialism.com/code-pink-suppresses-discussion-over-peace-in-ukraine/ |access-date=2025-05-15 |website=Freedom Socialist Party |language=en-US}}

On October 4, 2023, 11 protestors from Code Pink occupied the Dirksen Senate Office Building office of Senator Bernie Sanders.{{Cite news |last=Silverman |first=Ellie |date=October 4, 2023 |title=11 Arrested in Protest at Sen. Bernie Sanders's Office over War in Ukraine |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/10/04/bernie-sanders-code-pink-ukraine-aid-protest-arrest/ |access-date=October 5, 2023 |archive-date=October 4, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231004221436/https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/10/04/bernie-sanders-code-pink-ukraine-aid-protest-arrest/ |url-status=live }} The protestors called for Ukrainian, Russian, and U.S. leadership to negotiate an end to the war. Code Pink's press release quoted a protestor's statement, "Yes, Bernie should condemn the Russian invasion, but he should also be calling for a negotiated end to this brutal war". Capitol police arrested the 11 protestors based on a provision of the District of Columbia Code that prohibits crowding, obstructing or incommoding. Republican U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene praised the protestors, writing, "We don't agree on most things, but we do agree Congress should STOP fueling the war in Ukraine!"{{Cite web |last=Carbonaro |first=Giulia |date=2023-10-05 |title=Marjorie Taylor Greene posing with left-wing group sparks backlash |url=https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-left-wing-group-photo-backlash-1832296 |access-date=2025-05-15 |website=Newsweek |language=en}}

= China =

Jodie Evans was once critical of China's authoritarian government, making statements like: "We demand China stop brutal repression of their women's human rights defenders".{{r | NYT_2023-08-05 }} In 2017, Evans married Neville Roy Singham. Since 2017, 25% of Code Pink's funding has come from groups connected to Singham. In August 2023, The New York Times wrote that Evans is now a strong supporter of China and regards it as a defender of the oppressed and a model for economic growth without slavery or war.{{r | NYT_2023-08-05 | p=1 | q=Until a few years ago, she readily criticized China's authoritarian government. "We demand China stop brutal repression of their women's human rights defenders," she wrote on Twitter in 2015. She later posted on Instagram a photo with the Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei. ... Since 2017, about a quarter of Code Pink’s donations — more than $1.4 million — have come from two groups linked to Mr. Singham, nonprofit records show. ... Ms. Evans now stridently supports China. }}

In 2020, Code Pink started its "China Is Not Our Enemy" campaign.{{Cite news |last1=Reid Ross |first1=Alexander |last2=Dobson |first2=Courtney |date=January 18, 2022 |title=The Big Business of Uyghur Genocide Denial |work=New Lines |publisher=Fairfax University of America |url=https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/the-big-business-of-uyghur-genocide-denial/ |url-status=live |access-date=January 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118234039/https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/the-big-business-of-uyghur-genocide-denial/ |archive-date=January 18, 2022}} In February 2023, two Code Pink protesters attempted to disrupt the inaugural hearing of the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, by holding up a sign stating, "China is not our enemy", and shouting.{{Cite news |last=Gans |first=Jared |date=2023-03-01 |title=Protesters disrupt House China panel's first hearing |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3878446-protesters-disrupt-house-china-panels-first-hearing/ |access-date=2023-05-20 |website=The Hill |language=en-US |archive-date=May 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230520214839/https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3878446-protesters-disrupt-house-china-panels-first-hearing/ |url-status=live }} According to Code Pink's statement on the protest, "Our common enemy is the climate crisis – we need cooperation, not competition, to address climate change and the challenges we face together as humanity." In June 2023, Code Pink activists visited the offices of the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party where, according to an aide of House member Seth Moulton, they denied accusations of forced labor in Xinjiang and suggested Moulton visit Xinjiang.{{Cite news |date=2023-08-05 |title=A Global Web of Chinese Propaganda Leads to a U.S. Tech Mogul |language=en |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/world/europe/neville-roy-singham-china-propaganda.html |url-status=live |url-access=registration |access-date=2023-08-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230805071055/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/world/europe/neville-roy-singham-china-propaganda.html |archive-date=2023-08-05 |quote=In June, Code Pink activists visited staff members on the House Select Committee on China unannounced. In the office of Representative Seth Moulton, Democrat of Massachusetts, activists denied evidence of forced labor in Xinjiang and said the congressman should visit and see how happy people were there, according to an aide.}}

Following the August 2023 New York Times report, US senator Marco Rubio asked the United States Department of Justice to open an investigation into Code Pink and other entities related to Singham for potential violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).{{Cite web |date=August 9, 2023 |title=Rubio Probes Funding for Organizations That Promote CCP Agenda in the U.S. |url=https://www.rubio.senate.gov/rubio-probes-funding-for-organizations-that-promote-ccp-agenda-in-the-u-s/ |access-date=2023-08-19 |language=en-US |archive-date=August 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230819183557/https://www.rubio.senate.gov/rubio-probes-funding-for-organizations-that-promote-ccp-agenda-in-the-u-s/ |url-status=live }} In November 2023, the United States House Committee on Natural Resources announced an investigation into Code Pink.{{Cite web |date=2023-11-16 |title=Committee Cracks Down on CCP Influence by Investigating Far-Left Nonprofit |url=https://naturalresources.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=415189 |access-date=2024-05-05 |website=House Committee on Natural Resources |language=en |archive-date=May 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240505163518/https://naturalresources.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=415189 |url-status=live }}

In a February 2023 Washington Examiner editorial, Michael Rubin criticized Code Pink for denying the Uyghur genocide and thereby "amplify[ing] Chinese government propaganda".{{Cite news |last=Rubin |first=Michael |date=2023-02-04 |title=Code Pink's denial of the Uyghur genocide makes it a hate group |url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/code-pinks-denial-of-the-uyghur-genocide-makes-it-a-hate-group |access-date=2023-03-09 |website=Washington Examiner |archive-date=March 9, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230309110717/https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/fairness-justice/code-pinks-denial-of-the-uyghur-genocide-makes-it-a-hate-group |url-status=live }}

Funding

Since 2017, more than $1.4 million of Code Pink's donations (about 25% of their funding) have come from two groups connected to Neville Roy Singham, the husband of Code Pink's co-founder Jodie Evans.{{Cite news |date=2023-08-05 |title=A Global Web of Chinese Propaganda Leads to a U.S. Tech Mogul |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/world/europe/neville-roy-singham-china-propaganda.html |url-access=registration |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230805071055/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/world/europe/neville-roy-singham-china-propaganda.html |archive-date=2023-08-05 |access-date=2023-08-05 |work=The New York Times |language=en |quote=Since 2017, about a quarter of Code Pink’s donations — more than $1.4 million — have come from two groups linked to Mr. Singham, nonprofit records show. The first was one of the UPS store nonprofits. The second was a charity that Goldman Sachs offers as a conduit for clients’ giving, and that Mr. Singham has used in the past.}}

Analysis

In 2007 academic Rachel V. Kutz-Flamenbaum described Code Pink as a group whose protest actions "imply that women's traditional roles as mothers and caregivers give women the moral authority and moral obligation to fight against violence".{{Rp|page=90}} According to Kutz-Flamenbaum, Code Pink draws attention to the differential impact of war on women, and challenges "gender norms by explicitly and implicitly critiquing the relationship between militarism and patriarchy".{{Rp|page=90}}

Samuel Moyn writes that after the election of Barack Obama as president, the group lost much of its support due to taking a consistent position against foreign wars regardless of the political party of the president.{{cite book |last1=Moyn |first1=Samuel |title=Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War |date=2021 |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |isbn=978-0-374-71992-0 |page=108 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OxgQEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Code+Pink+hemorrhaged+most+of+its+support%22&pg=PT108 |language=en}}