CodePink KICKS ASS!!! - updated

we were AWESOME today!!! unfuckingbelieveable!!! major media coverage to boot! no time for lots of details but briefly - we began the morning(mourning) w/a women's rally and funeral procession - we rocked! about 2000 wimmin and our supporters gathered in the frigid morning to hear many fabulous wimmin speak & perform: NOW's kim dandy, raging grannies, ladies of liberty - and many, many, many more. i didn't hear many of the speeches or performances as i was busy talking w/the press, handing out info about our 'got freedom?' action tonite, and doing other basic organizing things!
we secured several tickets to the inaugural ceremony. i did not participate - these brave wimmin have to enter the arena at 8:00a.m. & sit among rabid republicans extolling the bush agenda & boasting of their huge profits - all that WITHOUT murmuring a word let alone creaming someone! 8 wimmin got into the inaugural ceremony (more details later), disrupted the whole farcical procedings and 4 were in the process of being arrested as bush was proclaiming how we have given people around the world the 'right to dissent' - he was REALLY saying that as codepink dissenters were being man-handled, hand-cuffed and dragged out of the buidling.
in the meantime, other codepink women were entering a tall building on pennsylvania avenue with the huge awesome codepink banner that this time read: "bring the troops home NOW" getting ready to drop the banner just before bush passed!!!
we also lined the parade route, entering into the stands at many more places than just the anti-war zone created at 4th & pennsylvania, mingling with very rich, very white, very republican, very furred (as in minks, bear, fox, and who knows what other creatures' skins drapped these women and several men as well), turning our backs on bush, shouting war criminal, shame, and other inspiring, heart-felt messages not just for bush but for those folks who support him.
this evening we were at their "freedom ball" holding our own "got freedom?" ball. there were 9 balls happening tonite (and maybe last nite where we were also at a ball) - unfuckinbelieveable - the number of dripping disgustingly rich, white, affluent beautiful special deserving folks - not - that traipsed by was totally, well, no words or too many words for them - later.
tomorrow a.m. 9:00 at the jail on indiana & 1st - jail support. 2 codepinkers will go before a judge. be there if you can! peace, justice, & love, sam