Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the CODEPINK Women for Peace and Global Exchange, will take part in a Mother's Day tea as well as present a lecture about women's activism at 3 p.m. on Sunday, May 8 at Sonoma State University in the Commons.
Benjamin will be also available after the tea to sign the newly-released CODEPINK book, "Stop the Next War Now," an anthology of noted women activists including Arundhati Roy, Helen Caldicott, Barbara Lee, Alice Walker, Naomi Klein, Phyllis Bennis, Barbara Ehrenreich, Amy Goodman, and many more.
The original 1870 proclamation of Mother's Day by Julia Ward Howe will be honored as well. Howe's proclamation was originally a protest to the carnage of war by women who lost their sons to the Civil War.
Please call for reservations, as reserved seating is required. Reservations are $20. If paying by credit card, contact Project Censored for will-call reservations at (707) 664-2500. This event is sponsored by Project Censored and Students for Media Democracy.
Note to news media: For interviews with Medea Benjamin, phone (415) 235-6517.
