* 1952 – Medea Benjamin, American activist, co-founded Code Pink

Among those represented were Ralph Nader's Public Citizen organization ( Medea Benjamin and Linda Chavez-Thompson ), the Brazilian NGO Ibase ( Cândido Grzybowski and Moema Miranda ), the Brazilian association of entrepreneurs for citizenship CIVES ( Oded Grajew, founder of the WSF ), the Brazilian Commission on Justice and Peace ( Francisco Whitaker ), ATTAC ( Christophe Aguiton ), CRID France ( Gustave Massiah ), Focus on the Global South Thailand ( Nicola Bullard ), and the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World ( Gustavo Marín ).

Medea Benjamin ( born Susan Benjamin on September 10, 1952 ) is an American political activist, best known for co-founding Code Pink and, along with her husband, activist and author Kevin Danaher, fair trade advocacy group Global Exchange.

Medea Benjamin speaks at a rally during the 2007 State of the Union Address in Washington, D. C.

The next morning, Cyrus and his family count the money, Buck keeps the mask used by Benjamin Rush to scare Buck's big sister Medea Zorba, and they decide to stay.

" Appearing at the first PDA meeting in Roxbury, Massachusetts were leaders, activists, and politicians including Dean and Kucinich, U. S. Representatives John Conyers, Jesse Jackson, Jr. and Barbara Lee, Jesse Jackson, James Zogby, Tom Hayden, Medea Benjamin, John Lauritsen, and Current PDA Executive Director Tim Carpenter.

* Medea Benjamin

* Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink and Global Exchange.

Code Pink was founded on November 17, 2002 by Jodie Evans, Medea Benjamin and other activists.

Co-founder Medea Benjamin writes in the Huffington Post that the United States never had any " justification for invading Iraq ", that there is no " justification for continuing the war in Afghanistan ", and that in Pakistan, the US " drone attacks are only fueling the violence and creating more Osama Bin Ladens.

In 1988, Medea Benjamin, Kevin Danaher, Kirsten Moller, and Kathie Klarreich founded Global Exchange.

Those objecting to the Code Duello included such luminaries as Benjamin Franklin and Queen Victoria in whose day and realm the duel was already nearly extinct.

In a display of solidarity, United Artist heads Arthur B. Krim and Robert S. Benjamin amended their contract and deleted the clause requiring Preminger to deliver a film that would be granted a Production Code seal of approval.

* May 23 – 24, 2011: Code Pink members disrupted Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu's speaking engagements, both at a policy convention and at the United States Congress.

The stage hosted many bands including Hawkwind, Gong, Doctor and the Medics, Flux of Pink Indians, Buster Blood Vessel, Omega Tribe, Crass, Selector, Dexys Midnight Runners, Thompson Twins, Bronz, The Raincoats, Brent Black Music Co-op, Amazulu, Wishbone Ash, Man, Benjamin Zephaniah, Inner City Unit, Here and Now, Cardiacs, The Enid, Roy Harper, Jimmy Page, Ted Chippington, Zorch and Ozric Tentacles all played for free.

Pink News is a UK-based online newspaper marketed to the LGBT community and founded by Benjamin Cohen in 2005.

* Pink News regularly reports on the progress of the Out4Marriage campaign, which was started in May 2012 and launched by Mike Buonaiuto and Pink News founder, Benjamin Cohen.

For example, from literature: Shirley Ann Grau, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, and Andrew Breitbart, conservative journalist ; from business: David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo !, and Neil Bush, economist and brother of President George W. Bush ; from entertainment: Lauren Hutton, film actor and supermodel, and Paul Michael Glaser, TV actor of " Starsky and Hutch "; from music: conductor and composer Odaline de la Martinez, who was the first woman to conduct at a BBC Proms concert in London ; from government: Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House who famously coordinated the first Congressional Republican majority in 40 years, and Luther Terry, former U. S. Surgeon General who issued the first official health hazard warning for tobacco ; from medicine: Michael DeBakey, inventor of the roller pump, and Dr. Regina Benjamin, President Obama's Surgeon General ; from science A. Baldwin Wood, inventor of the wood screw pump and Lisa P. Jackson, United States Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) Administrator under President Obama ; from sports: Bobby Brown, former New York Yankees third baseman and former president of the American League.

Entrepreneur and business executive alumni include Safra Catz ( President of Oracle Corporation ), David L. Cohen ( executive Vice-President of Comcast and former Chief of Staff to Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell, Scott Mead, former partner and managing director of Goldman Sachs, Peter Detkin ( co-founder of Intellectual Ventures, and former Vice-President and assistant general counsel at Intel ), Paul Haaga ( Vice Chairman of Capital Research and Management Company, a constituent company of the Capital Group Companies ), Sam Hamadeh ( founder of Vault. com ), Edward Benjamin Shils ( professor and founder of the first research center for entrepreneurial studies in the world ( at Wharton )), Gigi Sohn ( founder of Public Knowledge ), and Henry Silverman ( CEO of Cendant Corporation ).

Investors included Dave McClure of 500 Startups, last. fm founder Felix Miller, Delicious founder Joshua Schachter, Brian Nelson ( CEO at Japan-based ValueCommerce ), Pageflakes co-founder Christoph Janz, Benjamin Joffe ( CEO at China-based Plus Eight Star ), and a number of Japanese angels.

Benjamin " Ben " Weider, ( February 1, 1923 – October 17, 2008 ) was the co-founder of the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness ( IFBB ) along with brother Joe Weider.

Benjamin Trott, born, is a co-founder ( with wife Mena Trott ) of Six Apart, creator of Movable Type and TypePad.

Other notable members include: World famous scientist, George Washington Carver, the first black Rhodes Scholar Alain LeRoy Locke, co-founder of the Black Panther Party, Huey P. Newton, organizer of the Million Man March, Benjamin Chavis Muhammad, civil rights activists, Hosea Williams, Rev.

* Benjamin Wilson ( biblical scholar ) ( 1817 – 1900 ), writer of the Emphatic Diaglott and co-founder of the Church of God of the Abrahamic Faith

In 2006, he had a prominent role in the remake of The Pink Panther and its sequel, playing Gilbert Ponton, the partner of Inspector Clouseau opposite Steve Martin, and also portrayed Captain Bezu Fache in the Ron Howard film The Da Vinci Code.

Along with anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan, Sarandon took part in a 2006 Mother's Day protest, which was sponsored by Code Pink ; she has expressed interest in portraying Sheehan in a film.

* Code Pink

Participating in an anti-war protest in Washington, D. C. coordinated by women-initiated organization Code Pink, Kingston refused to leave the street after being instructed to do so by local police forces.

Crime and The Nuns were first, followed by Chrome, The Mutants, The Units, VKTMS, The Contractions, Angst, The Sleepers, Pop-O-Pies, Sick Pleasure ( aka Code of Honor ), Crucifix, Negative Trend, The Avengers ( band ), SSI, Flipper and Pink Section.

Sponsoring organizations included NARAL Pro-Choice America, Choice USA, the Feminist Majority Foundation, Planned Parenthood, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ), the National Organization for Women, the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, Code Pink, and Black Women's Health Imperative.

She is a co-founder of the left-wing feminist anti-war group Code Pink: Women for Peace, which advocated an end to the Iraq War, the prevention of future wars, and social justice.

The organization's board of directors includes André Carothers, Anna Hawken McKay, Anna Lappé of the Small Planet Institute, James Gollin, a founding member of the Social Venture Network and Jodie Evans, a founder of Code Pink Women for Peace.

On March 10 and 11, 2008, a group of college students, from the organization Our Spring Break, supported by Code Pink and Iraq Veterans Against the War, as well as several other organizations, issued symbolic stop-loss " orders " to every member of both the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate in protest of both the practice of stop-lossing, and of the Iraq War.

It employed tactics now known as culture jamming and guerilla communication that have been widely popularized by Billionaires for Bush, Greene Dragon, Code Pink, and other organizations.

* Code Pink in some hospitals can mean a missing baby, and the initiation of an all staff response.

* Code Pink

Additional protests have been held, conducted by a number of organizations including Code Pink.

The royalty from this book will be distributed among the following non-profit peace organizations, and I invite readers to donate to any and all of these and other organizations as long as they promote peace, justice and progress: • Amnesty International • Code Pink: Women for Peace • Common Dreams • Democracy in Action • Democracy Now • If Americans Knew • Jewish Voice for Peace • Kucinich. us • Muslims for Peace, Justice and Progress • Unitarian Universalist Association • United for Peace and Justice

Joining with organizations including Veterans for Peace, United for Peace and Justice, Code Pink, Military Families Speak Out, the Crawford Peace House and others, GSFP is actively protesting US military action in Iraq.

Code Pink: Women for Peace is an anti-war group that is mainly composed of women.

Code Pink describes itself as " a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into healthcare, education, green jobs and other life-affirming activities.

With members wearing the group's signature pink color, Code Pink has conducted marches, protests, and high-visibility publicity stunts in order to promote its goals.

Although women initiated and lead the group, Code Pink allows men to participate in its activities.

In February 2003, just weeks before the invasion of Iraq, Code Pink organized its first trip to that nation, and subsequently led five delegations there.