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Contact: Melissa Garriga: melissa@codepink.org

Protests Disrupt Condoleezza Rice in San Francisco--Video Footage Available

SAN FRANCISCO

As Condoleezza Rice was speaking at the Commonwealth Club
event at the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco, five CODEPINK women --
Rae Abileah, Cynthia Papermaster, Susan Harman, Leslie Angeline and
Janine Bonaparte -- disrupted her one hour talk. The women had red
painted hands, dangled handcuffs and unfurled pink banners which read,
"Condi is a war criminal."

During
the event Rice was asked if she would write another book, she replied
that she would like to write a book about the Bush years, Saddam
Hussein, Iraq and the intelligence. Rae Abileah, CODEPINK organizer
voiced, "The intelligence was wrong, there were no weapons of mass
destruction. You lied to the country and lead us into an illegal war.
Thousands of soldiers and innocent Iraqis died."

The
five CODEPINK women were escorted out of the event, detained and
released by hotel security and the San Francisco Police Department.

Click here for image: https://yfrog.com/2sqr9j Video footage available here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uPP-Wuttz0

The
women's peace group have made headlines with their ongoing
accountability protests. See more coverage from the Rove/CODEPINK book
tour here https://www.codepink.org/article.php?id=4941

CODEPINK is a women-led grassroots organization working to end U.S. wars and militarism, support peace and human rights initiatives, and redirect our tax dollars into healthcare, education, green jobs and other life-affirming programs.

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