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Embedded in Pink

Code Pink has become a lightning rod for contemporary activism - from both the right and left.

By Anne Elizabeth Moore

It’s July in Austin, Texas. I’m wearing an electric pink cape screeching to a milling audience of several hundred who await the appearance of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). It’s uncomfortable for many reasons, but I’m a reporter embedded in the antiwar movement. This is my job. A team of seven rose-hued women surrounds me, all of us yelling in unison.… return to article

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