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BENJAMINS FOR BENJAMIN WEEKEND: How CodePINK's Founder Profits From The Anti-War March
Green Festival Announcement ^ | Doctor Raoul

Posted on 09/16/2005 11:01:32 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul

The throngs of "anti-war" marchers heading to DC to attend the September 24th rally don't know that they are being used.

CodePINK and United For Peace and Justice are both prodigy of Global Exchage, the 501(3)c non-profit formed by Global's Medea Benjamin.

It's the "Benjamins For Benjamin Weekend"!.



Using the attraction of a Hate America event to lure attendees, Code Pink's Medea Benjamin's cash cow, Global Exchange, has scheduled one of it's "Green Festivals" for the same weekend and is running it in competition with the anti-war events scheduled for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

How convenient?

How many people will wind up at the Green Festival instead of in the streets? How much profit will Medea Benjamin make?

Global Exchange made over $7 million in 2003, why a run the Green Festival in competition with the anti-war march on the 24th?

Friday night is a "fund raiser" for the Green Festival, price $50.

Saturday and Sunday, you can attend the Green Festival at the Convention Center, provided of course you had Medea and her husband, Kevin Danaher, the $15 for a ticket.

On the schedule as a speaker are Medea herself and "Authors and activist from the new CODEPINK book, Stop the Next War Now". How nice. How profitable.

WHY IS AIR AMERICA BROADCASTING FROM MEDEA'S MONEY MAKER INSTEAD OF THE ANTI WAR RALLY?

Why are Amy Goodman, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Greg Palast, Lester Brown, Daniel Ellsberg, Alisa Gravitz, John deGraaf, Lois Gibbs, Rev. Graylan Hagler, Dr. Alan Greene. Priya Haji, Van Jones, Gifford Pinchot III, Nora Pouillon, Barbara Krumsiek, Nora Poullion, Brock Evans, Ariel Gore, Michael Toms, Zoe Weil and other visionary leaders speaking at the Green Festival and not the rally? Because it's the "Benjamins for Benjamin Weekend"!



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Below is the text of their announcement:

Washington DC Green Festival - September 24-25

It's time to make plans to attend our Washington DC Green Festival, the world's largest Sustainability Expo! Come and celebrate what is working in our communities – and enjoy the festivities and our marketplace! Over 300 Green Businesses exhibiting and 125 Speakers!
There's something for everyone at the Green Festival!

Washington DC Sept. 24-25 at the Convention Center
(on the Metro line, downtown DC)

www.greenfestivals.org {http://www.greenfestivals.org}

Speakers include: Amy Goodman - Congressman Dennis Kucinich - Greg Palast - Lester Brown - Daniel Ellsberg -- Youth Speaks - Medea Benjamin - Kevin Danaher - Alisa Gravitz - John deGraaf - Lois Gibbs - CodePink - Rev. Graylan Hagler - Dr. Alan Greene - Priya Haji - Van Jones esq. - Gifford Pinchot III - Nora Pouillon - Barbara Krumsiek - Nora Poullion - Brock Evans - Ariel Gore - Michael Toms - Zoe Weil and 100 other visionary leaders....

Special Attractions include:

A marketplace of 300 green businesses - come and do all your holiday shopping Marc Maron and Laura Flanders of Air America Radio broadcasting live Premiere showing of Farmer John's new award-winning documentary -The Real Dirt on Farmer John Reverend Altagracia Pèrez on the Wal-Mart victory in Inglewood plus
a sneak preview of the new film Wal-Mart: The High Cost of a Low
Price

Authors and activist from the new CODEPINK book, Stop the Next War Now

Wanda Urbanska from the PBS series Simple Living: Living Better on Less 13 live performances from local artists

Walk-through the Discovery Creek Children's Rolling Rainforest - a mobile tropical rainforest exhibit

Fair Trade Pavilion with hourly coffee and chocolate tastings and art auction

Hands-on workshops include: Green Careers - Community and Social
Investing - Greening your Home & Office - Parenting - Responsible
Travel - Green Technology - Green Funerals - Home Brewing - Green
Building - Building Sustainable Businesses - Arts and Activism -
Peace and Justice Mobilization

And don't miss out on the Organic Beer Garden - Peace Dove Parade - SRI Pavilion - Environmental and Social Justice Film Festival - Organic Vegetarian Food Court - Yoga/Movement Room - Bookstore - Live Music Stage - Community Action Area

All at a nearly zero waste event!

All this for just $15.00!

Read more at www.greenfestivals.org {http://www.greenfestivals.org/}

Green Festival Benefit Party

And reserve your spot at our special Green Festival Benefit Party -- Friday evening, September 23, 7:00 p.m.

Hear our special guest speaker - enjoy organic food, beer & wine -- green door prizes/auction --free tickets to the Green Festival
included!
Help support Green Festival
$50 Please go to www.greenfestivals.org to reserve tickets or call us at 800-58-GREEN or 202-872-5307.

The Green Festivals are two-day parties with a serious purpose: to accelerate the emergence of a new economic paradigm that is
life-affirming and life-restoring. Together we are cultivating a
culture of sustainability and social equity that honors our
interdependence with all life. In our fourth year, Green Festival
continues to unite green businesses, social and environmental groups, visionary thinkers and thousands of community members in a lively exchange of ideas, commerce and movement building fun.

The Green Festivals are a joint program of Global Exchange and Co-op America.

>>To volunteer go here
{http://greenfestivals.org/green_vol_update.php}

>>To exhibit go here
{http://greenfestivals.org/article.php?list=type&type=4}
or call 877-727-2179

If your plans include traveling - our hotel rooms will sell out --so make sure you make your reservations early!

>> To reserve hotel rooms go here
{http://greenfestivals.org/article.php?id=142}

We look forward to seeing you at the Festivals!

Kevin Danaher, Global Exchange, Co-Founder
Alisa Gravitz, Co-op America Executive Director
www.greenfestivals.org {http://www.greenfestivals.org/}



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1 posted on 09/16/2005 11:01:32 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul
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To: Doctor Raoul

Nothing like a commie making a few bucks. Two faced pinko sicko's !!!


2 posted on 09/16/2005 11:11:54 PM PDT by Deetes (God Bless the Troops and their Families)
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To: Doctor Raoul
300 exhibitors. At $1,000 (a common trade show rate) per 10' by 10' booth space (most exhibitors takee more than one), Global Exchange is raking it in bigtime. DO the math, unless Gloabl Exchange is selling WAY below market, that's a half million on exhinitor space alone. That will keep Medea in pink t-shirts for a while.

HOW MUCH YOU WANT TO BET SHE'S STAYING IN A FOUR STAR HOTEL?

Back when she went to "Inspect" Edgewood Aresenal, their "Home Away From Home" was the Hotel Pennsylvania next to the Willard. Both hotels are way out of the reach of the New Orleans flood victims.

CodePINK, The Halliburton of Protest, The Communist WalMart, The Biggest Business of the Hate America Left

3 posted on 09/16/2005 11:12:24 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul
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To: Doctor Raoul

Make that Hotel Washington. Check her expense account for the receipt.


4 posted on 09/16/2005 11:14:00 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul
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To: Doctor Raoul

Greedy Limosine Commies make me sick.


5 posted on 09/16/2005 11:14:52 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (We Gave Peace A Chance. It Didn't Work Out. Search keyword: 09-11-01.)
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To: Doctor Raoul

www.greenfestivals.org {http://www.greenfestivals.org}


Susan "Susie" Benjamin aka Medea's husband is Executive Producer of Green Festivals. He is also a co-founder of Global Exchange.


He is now working on creating a permanent Green Festival--www.greenmart.us--a downtown building in San Francisco that will be the wholesale/retail green everything store.



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Medea's husband

* Kevin Danaher, Veteran Human Rights Activist and co-founder of Global Exchange, will discuss long term responses to terrorism and grassroots ways to respond to global economic forces.

Described by The New York Times as the "Paul Revere of globalization's woes,"

Kevin is an executive producer of the Green Festivals, two-day events bringing together hundred of green economy companies, social justice and environmental organizations, speakers, live music, organic food and drink, and tens of thousands of attendees hungry for a transition to the green economy. He is now working on creating a permanent Green Festival--www.greenmart.us--a downtown building in San Francisco that will be the wholesale/retail green everything store.

Justice, Not War: "A momentous decision confronts us as a nation: Do we define the violence of Sept. 11 as an act of war or as a crime against humanity?," Danaher asks his audiences. "If we define it as war, it couches the issues in nationalist sentiment and separates us from the people of other nations. If we define it as a crime against humanity, it holds the potential for uniting humankind against the scourge of terrorism." Mr. Danaher will discuss how the US must, among other things, work for the establishment of an international criminal court and dedicate itself to ending global poverty if we are to succeed in abolishing international terrorism.

Fifty Years is Enough: The Case Against the World Bank and the IMF: Exploring the themes of Kevin's book, this talk argues how the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, by controlling hundreds of billions of dollars and setting the policy agenda in developing countries, keep developing economies open to corporate penetration, but promote policies that destroy the environment and undermine the standard of living for the majority.

Corporations are Gonna Get Your Mama: Globalization and the Downsizing of the American Dream: Based on Kevin's book, this talk focuses on the negative effects of globalization in the US, explaining how corporate globalization is exporting US jobs, bankrupting our government, undermining democratic principles, and destroying our environment.

Dr. Danaher has published articles in The Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The International Herald Tribune, The Financial Times of Zimbabwe, Africa News, TransAfrica Forum, Harvard Educational Review, Issue, The Progressive and many other publications. His writing has covered subjects such as "US Agriculture and Its Impact on Third World Farming," "Hidden Costs of the War with Iraq," and "Challenging the Leadership of the World Economy."

Dr. Danaher received his doctorate in sociology from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1982. Before joining Global Exchange he was a senior analyst at Food First/the Institute for Food and Development Policy, an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, and for four years he taught in the School of Government at American University. He currently lives in San Francisco with his wife, Medea Benjamin, and his two daughters, Arlen and Maya.


6 posted on 09/16/2005 11:22:04 PM PDT by kcvl
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Justice, Not War: "A momentous decision confronts us as a nation: Do we define the violence of Sept. 11 as an act of war or as a crime against humanity?," Danaher asks his audiences. "If we define it as war, it couches the issues in nationalist sentiment and separates us from the people of other nations. If we define it as a crime against humanity, it holds the potential for uniting humankind against the scourge of terrorism." Mr. Danaher will discuss how the US must, among other things, work for the establishment of an international criminal court and dedicate itself to ending global poverty if we are to succeed in abolishing international terrorism.

He's as full of crap as Medea is. Neither he nor Medea will speak out against international terrorism. So there is no way they want to abolishing international terrorism. Unless of course you see America as "international terrorism".

7 posted on 09/16/2005 11:25:43 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul
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To: Doctor Raoul
A former economist and nutritionist with the United Nations and World Health Organization, Benjamin is the author/editor of eight books, and lives in San Francisco with her husband Kevin Danaher, who also works at Global Exchange, & is Executive Producer of Green Festivals. and her two daughters Arlen, age 20, and Maya, age 11.
8 posted on 09/16/2005 11:27:28 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: kcvl
She worked for the UN and protested at the White House claiming our "sanctions" were killing Iraqi children all the time it was the UN rip off that was killing Iraqi children.

Medea Benjamin is a baby killer beneath comtempt.

9 posted on 09/16/2005 11:33:59 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul
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To: Doctor Raoul

Call her Susie. She hates that. And ask her about her wealthy developer father.



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Born Susie Benjamin, she changed her first name to match the villain in a classical tragedy by Euripides, a barbarian witch whose murder of her own children was so vile even the stoic Greek chorus considered intervening.


As Green Party candidate for Senator in California in 2000, Medea was well known for disrupting other candidates' events by yelling and screaming at the top of her lungs.


Global Exchange's main activity is propaganda - conducting 'reality tours' to various countries, including Fidel Castro's Cuba and Saddam Hussein's Iraq, that take naVve Americans to meet with 'ordinary people' hand-selected by the dictators.


Medea Benjamin's support for oppression precedes Global Exchange - she got her start in the mid-80s, providing aid to the Communist Sandinista government of Nicaragua as a coordinator for the Institute for Food and Development Policy.


As head of Global Exchange and the women's anti-war group Code Pink, she has stood on stage with all three Communist-dominated anti-war coalitions - the Workers' World Party-controlled International ANSWER, the Revolutionary Communist Party-dominated Not In Our Name coalition, and the creation of former Communist Party U.S.A. activist Leslie Cagan, the Coalition United for Peace and Justice.


Her father, Al, is a well-to-do developer, who says he has "donated hundreds of thousands" of dollars to Global Exchange over its 14-year-history. No strings attached, say both Al and Medea Benjamin. Al has supported Jewish- related charities; Medea supports a Palestinian state.


"I admire Susie because she is always true to her own heart," said Al Benjamin; only her family still calls her "Susie." "Even when I totally don't agree with what she's saying."


Benjamin went to Cuba with her first husband, who was coach of the national basketball team; Benjamin hates sports.


Cuba's comparative social equality "made it seem like I died and went to heaven." She was working at a Communist-run newspaper in Cuba.


It was on a trip to Washington, D.C., in the mid-1980s that she met her now- husband Kevin Danaher, a tough-talking activist. He asked the then-vegetarian out to dinner -- to a steak restaurant. They've been together ever since.

"While I wanted to save the world one child at a time, Kevin always says, 'Let's get the bastards who are doing it to these kids.' "





Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin's to Chavez

Benjamin: "With the US elections coming up in November, George Bush and John Kerry for that matter could learn a thing or two from Hugo Chavez about winning the hearts and minds of the people."




10 posted on 09/16/2005 11:49:18 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: Doctor Raoul

She's married?! Sure he isn't a beard?
She and the Code Pinkos I met face to face sure looked like a bunch of lesbians.


11 posted on 09/16/2005 11:51:16 PM PDT by Wacka
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To: Doctor Raoul

Will the paying audience be protesting all the Cadillac Escalades that pull up?

</sillyquestionwhatwasIthinking>


12 posted on 09/17/2005 12:00:07 AM PDT by Watery Tart ("First, New Orleans Mayor Ray Naga… Nogg… Nagg… Not gonna work here anymore, anyway!" ~~Bob)
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To: Doctor Raoul
The throngs of "anti-war" marchers heading to DC to attend the September 24th rally don't know that they are being used.

Actually, I don't think they CARE that they're being used. Hating Bush is their primary form of entertainment, their main source of gratification and their religion all rolled up into one. They spend money on anti-war activity as readily as a group of drunk conventioneers would drop money at a Las Vegas topless nightclub. And for roughly the same reason.
13 posted on 09/17/2005 12:05:30 AM PDT by Question Liberal Authority
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To: Doctor Raoul
There are so many front that we to need fight on.
Nevertheless, we HAVE to come out swinging everyday or these bastards will take our country and our freedom.
To this end I ask everyone to please start using the real terms for these people. They are NOT, "peace moms" or "moonbats" or "useful idiots" or any other term that allows us to feel superior and mentally dismiss them.
THEY ARE VICIOUS TRAITORUS QUISLINGS BENT ON OUR DESTRUCTION! They want us dead as much as the scumbags our war fighters are killing everyday and because of the ratmedia here at home they can do more to hurt us.
Goober from Marberry was a "Useful idiot" Michael Moore is a dangerous enemy. Please join me in my effort to change the language. When we became Pro-Life instead of anti abortion we started to win that one. Let's start winning this one by calling a quisling a quisling.
14 posted on 09/17/2005 4:13:22 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (The quisling ratmedia: always eager to remind us of why we hate them.)
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To: Doctor Raoul

bump


15 posted on 09/17/2005 5:22:58 AM PDT by RippleFire ("It's a joke, son!")
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To: Doctor Raoul; Calpernia; Do not dub me shapka broham; CyberAnt; Howlin; MeekOneGOP; NYTexan

ping and bump!


16 posted on 09/17/2005 8:49:53 AM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (SAVE THE BRAINFOREST! Boycott the RED Dead Tree Media & NUKE the DNC Class Action Temper Tantrum!)
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To: bitt; speedy; NYer; Alouette

ping and bump!


17 posted on 09/17/2005 8:50:32 AM PDT by The Spirit Of Allegiance (SAVE THE BRAINFOREST! Boycott the RED Dead Tree Media & NUKE the DNC Class Action Temper Tantrum!)
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To: Question Liberal Authority
They spend money on anti-war activity as readily as a group of drunk conventioneers would drop money at a Las Vegas topless nightclub.

Actually they don't. And that's consistant over the years and across the country, including the recent circus at Camp Cindy in Crawford.

They don't spend money, they freload, they don't stay in a hotel, they "crash" somewhere.

18 posted on 09/17/2005 10:28:33 AM PDT by Doctor Raoul
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To: jmaroneps37

Quisling?

How about we get down to the truth and call them what they really are... Communists!

Quisling is too gracious in my book.


19 posted on 09/17/2005 12:36:50 PM PDT by Humidston (It's Bush's fault)
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To: Doctor Raoul
De-fund the left!!!!!!!!!!!!
20 posted on 09/17/2005 3:47:18 PM PDT by bmwcyle (We broke Pink's Code and found a terrorist message)
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