CODEPINK: Women For Peace

Canada Bars Entry to US Peacemakers:

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Look Who's Signed our Petition!

Willie Nelson, singer/songwriterAnn Nelson, environmentalist
Alice Walker, author
Noam Chomsky, author
Howard Zinn, author
Maude Barlow, Council on Canadians
Dr. E. Faye Williams, National Congress of Black Women
Cindy Sheehan, peace mom, Gold Star Families for Peace
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Prize
Laureate, Ireland, 1976
Michael Ratner, Center for Constitutional Rights
Lori Wallach, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
John Stauber, Center for Media and Democracy
Tim Carpenter, Progressive Democrats of America
Norman Solomon, Institute for Public Accuracy
Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic and Policy Research
Eli Pariser, MoveOn.org
Paul Rice, TransFair
Father Louis Vitale, Franciscan priest, Pace y Bene
Wade Rathke, ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now)
Kathy Kelly, Voices for Creative Non-Violence
Janet Eaton, Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
Adele Welty, September 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
Kirsten Moller, Global Exchange
Ben Cohen, Ben and Jerrys Ice Cream
Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive
Jodie Evans, CODEPINK: Women for Peace
Eva Paterson, Equal Justice SocietyDebra Sweet, The World Can't Wait

Janet Eaton, Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
Terry Tempest Williams, author
Susan Share, Women's Action for New Directions (WAND)
Nina Simons, Bioneers
Rabbi Michael Lerner, Network of Spiritual Progressives
Billy Wimsatt, League of Young Voters
Jeff Adachi, Public Defender of San Francisco
Reverend Lennox Yearwood, HipHop Caucus
John Cavanagh, Institute for Policy Studies
Kavita Ramdas, Global Fund for Women
Rob Ritchie, Fair Vote
Bill Goodfellow, Center for International Policy
Jeff Cohen, author/media critic
Ruth Benn, National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
Leslie Cagan, United for Peace and Justice
Tony Clarke, Polaris Institute
Robert Naiman, Just Foreign Policy
Jef Keighley, World Peace Forum Society & Peace Without Borders
Prof. Walden Bello, International Development Studies, St. Mary's University, Halifax
Margo Okazawa-Rey, 1000 Women for Peace
Ben Mansky, Liberty Tree
Ellen Woodsworth, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), Canada
Marta Drury, Heart and Hand Fund
Elizabeth Martinez, Institute for MultiRacial Justice
Cora Weiss, Hague Appeal for Peace
Felicia Gustin, Speak Out-the Institute for Democratic Education and Culture

Sign Our Petition Below to Pressure the Canadian Government to Stop Blacklisting Peacemakers!

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On October 4, 2007 CODEPINK: Women for Peace cofounder Medea Benjamin and Retired Colonel/diplomat Ann Wright were denied entry to Canada because they have engaged in acts of non-violent civil disobedience against the war in Iraq. The Canadian border officials said the women's names appeared on an FBI criminal database and that anyone convicted of a criminal offense, including a minor misdemeanor for peace and social justice, was "inadmissible." 
 
We call on the FBI to stop including minor non-violent offenses on a database meant for serious crimes. We call on the Canadian government to reverse its policy and extend a warm welcome to U.S. peacemakers and other social activists who use the time-honored tradition of engaging in civil disobedience as a way to change unjust policies.

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0-25 of 16199 signatures

Number	Date	Name	Location	Your Comments
16199	November 21, 2009	Zackoree Harrison	Durango, CO, US
16198	November 21, 2009	Inez Harris	Yankton, SD, US
16197	November 21, 2009	Renee Weinberg	Sioux City, IA, US
16196	November 21, 2009	Renee Weinberg	Sioux City, IA, US	Martin Luther King would be appauled at Canada's actions against women for peace and justice. Civil disobedience is our right in this country. Isn't it in Canada?
16195	November 18, 2009	Carol Simon	St. Louis, MO, US
16194	November 17, 2009	Kathleen Gladden	Portland Mills, PA, US	We peacemakers so appreciated your haven during the Vietnam war, why blacklist us now?
16193	November 16, 2009	Dennis Shuman	Gainesville, FL, United States
16192	November 16, 2009		, ,	stop domestic spying and get real intel- and then have capable people who'll use it properly-not allow the travesties that have happened in the past to continue solely to advance CORPORATALISM around the globe with the price to be paid in human suffering
16191	November 16, 2009	zissa Ramani	Las Vegas, NV, US	Some Advocate are true and loyal to the cause of suffering to GAZA. Michael Ratner on Gaza: American Jewish 'Silence is Betrayal ... Why does Michael Ratner block advocates truths? Jan 23, 2009 ... Zissa Ramani Rahmani says: July 26, 2009 at 11:00 PM ... Zissa Ramani Rahmani says: August 18, 2009 at 9:44 PM ... www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun.../michael-ratner-on-gaza/ - Cached - Similar Arab-American Activism \| Archbishop Hilarion Capucci Speaks at ... Zissa Ramani-Rahmani, \|72.193.103.xxx \|2009-09-09 11:38:02. Archbishop Capucci is a warrior for truth and human rights of those in Palestine suffering. ... www.washington-report.org/component/content/article/3085.html - Cached ADC-Zissa Ramani-Rahmani
16190	November 15, 2009	Ethel Silverberg	Albany, NY, USA	How odd that governments that claim to stand for peace condone war but retaliate against peacemakers.
16189	November 14, 2009	Anthony Joseph Geha Yuja	Florence, IT	Shame on the Canadian Government for its police state actions against Justice/Peace activists!
16188	November 14, 2009	Friend Chandiwala	Hoover, AL, United States
16187	November 13, 2009	Friend Mallory	Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403, AZ, US	Obama has disappointed me by his bias towards israel and against the palestinians.
16186	November 13, 2009	Julie Pollack	Redmond, WA, USA
16185	November 12, 2009	Friend barabash	brooklyn, NY, United States
16184	November 12, 2009	Anonymous	Sanders, AZ, US
16183	November 12, 2009	Grace Benz	Memphis, TN, United States
16182	November 11, 2009	zissa Ramani	Las Vegas, NV, US
16181	November 11, 2009	dAVID bENCK	Madison, WI, US	END RACIST AND END US TAXPAYER MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL!
16180	November 11, 2009	Margaret J. Lilienthal	East Dennis, MA, US
16179	November 11, 2009	Cedar Dvorin	Alexandria, VA, US	Good to know Canada & the US would consider Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela and all other workers for peace and justice, terrorists, along with Medea & Ann. Ya'll are in good company. It is our governments I worry about. Congress's rejection of the Goldstone Report is outrageous.
16178	November 11, 2009	Anonymous	Toronto, ON, CA
16177	November 11, 2009	Virginia Auster	Norwalk, CT, United States
16176	November 11, 2009	Ken Jones	Greenbrae, CA, US	It is so unlike Canada to do this. I can only imagine that it is because Canada no longer feels it can take an independent stand from America. Too bad. I thought Canada was a real country.
16175	November 10, 2009	Celina Wager	Houston, TX, US

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