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Jodie Evans

A Women’s Media Center board member, Jodie Evans is a mother and cofounder of CODEPINK: Women for Peace, a grassroots peace and social justice movement boasting an international membership of 150,000. Using creative non-violent means to keep peacemaking front and center in the public eye, CODEPINK’s ultimate goal is to redirect resources away from war and into healthcare, education, environmental preservation, and other life-affirming activities

Recent Posts by Jodie Evans

Afghanistan: Will Obama Listen to the Women?

October 8, 2009 – 3:38 pm

By Jodie Evans
Eight years ago on October 7, the United States sent troops into Afghanistan. Having just returned from there, the author, co-founder with Medea Benjamin of CODEPINK, brings an open letter to President Obama from prominent Afghan women and their supporters from Pakistan, India and the United States—asking that he send no more troops [...]

In the Name of Mothers Around the World

May 7, 2009 – 9:31 am

By Jodie Evans
The author, co-founder of the grass-roots peace and justice movement CODEPINK and board member of the Women’s Media Center, calls on us to honor Mother’s Day as it was originally intended—by the abolitionist, feminist and pacifist Julia Ward Howe.
Women know that war is SO over. We know it in our hearts, in our guts, [...]

New York Feminists For Peace and Barack Obama

February 4, 2008 – 11:30 am

In the coming elections, it is important to remember that war and peace are as much womens issues, as are health, the environment, and the achievement of educational and occupational equality. Because we believe that all of these concerns are not only fundamental but closely intertwined, this Tuesday we will be casting our vote for [...]