A Virtual Mothers Day Event!

Here is the email I just sent out to the Physical World about our Pinkly events happening this weekend. I encluded the above pic of Doon Bury holding the Mother's Day Pledge.

Try to attend if you can, and definitely come get your pic taken no matter what!

Greetings on this eve of Mothers' Day Weekend!

I so wish I could be there with all you wonderful fiercely andpinkly peaceful women in D.C.

I was there in D.C. at the first Mothers Day gathering--and that will remain one of the significant memories of my life along with a few other pink times. :) I wish you all one of the most peacefully empowering weekends of your lives! I will be sending you all the pink energy I can spare this weekend as I know so many others who wish they could join you and who will be with you in spirit will be doing.

CODEPINK SL, the virtual and international "local" chapter of CODEPINK invites all those who are pink at heart and have an account for Second Life to come to the CODEPINK Hut on Commonwealth Island http://slurl.com/secondlife/Commonwealth%20Island/28/206/31 Saturday May 9, 2008 between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. Pacific Standard Time.

Please DO NOT use the SL URL listed on the CP local chapter page of the CP website. It is outdated.

You will be able to:

1. get freebie CODEPINK SL shirts for your avatar, talk about Physical and Virtual Life Pink Actions
2. have have your picture taken holding the Mothers' Day Pledge. We will make a collage of all those who participate.
3. participate in a Mothers' Day Event even if you can't travel to D.C. or don't have other Pinkers in your geographic area.
4. join our virtual chapter to extend our peacemaking efforts and the campaign you are most passionate about to the worldwide reach made possible through virtual worlds and just meet with like-minded women (and a few enlightened men.)

A special request for those of you in D.C.

Please send your digital images of the real life event (upload 'em from a free wi-fi zone or coffeeshop with wi-fi and send them) to anaherzog (at) mac (dot) com, and I will import them into SL and have them showing as a power point presentation by the hut. If you have a URL where you will be piping video, let me know what it is and I will stream it into SL so people from around the world can view it through the Second Life platform. I will try to stream from The Real News Network , and I will try to stream a flicker slide show of images of the event to SL too.

Power to the Peaceful.
Nancy
SL Avatar: Ana Herzog
Skype: secondana
http://codepinksl.blogspot.com/

Meeting & Newsletter In-world

You can get a copy of this Newsletter in world at Womens Center or at the CP hut on Commonwealth. (No apostrophes allowed in SL Island names.)

Basically, we are getting ready for International Women's Day.
Meetings:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Womens%20Center/105/20/29

Thursday, February 12, - 8 p.m.
Friday, February 13 - 3 p.m.
Saturday, February 14, 7 a.m.

IWD Events:
TBA

March 6 through 14

I Miss America!

Summer is effectively over in the real world so SL can start up again for those women who do too much. Like all of us!

Any way... much to do! The DNC starts in a few days and we CPers in SL are trying to get a few things going to support our RL sisters in pink in Denver. Feel free to join us. There will be walk throughs, banner drops, maybe a beauty pageant. Join the group Codepink SL in world to find out more, or IM Ana Herzog.

Ana made an "I Miss America" tiara from one that was floating around in her inventory ( (originally made by Datura Fairchild) by coloring it pink and putting a tag on the front. Isn't it darling?

And you know what? -- you can wear it to Burning Life.

Burning Life is sort of like Burning Man but in SL. This years theme is "American Dream."

Come get a copy of tiara on Women's Center. SLURL follows. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Womens%20Center/148/117/23

CODEPINK SL is an International Chapter.

Check out our official status! Rae, Liaison to Local Groups, from the National Level CODEPINK received a personal tour of Second Life on Monday, June 2nd. She was shocked and awed.... sorry.... couldn't resist and totally got it. She had a link for our SL chapter put up on the local's section of the main CODEPINK site -- we are under International. We will get a page too if we want it, or... should we use this blog as our site? Hmmm. Stuff for us to consider. We need to get info out about DNC and RNC actions too. SO MUCH to do! I will put up a few pics of our SL actions on the local action site.

We are official -- as official as CODEPINK gets anyway ;-) -- WOOT!

Check out our official status! Rae, Liaison to Local Groups, from the National Level CODEPINK received a personal tour of Second Life on Monday, June 2nd. She was shocked and awed.... sorry.... couldn't resist saying this.... and she "totally" got it.

Rae had a link for our SL chapter put up on the local's section of the main CODEPINK site. We will get a page too if we want it, or... should we use this blog as our site? Hmmm. Stuff for us to consider.

We need to get info out about DNC and RNC actions too. SO MUCH to do!

The Virtual World Chapter link on the Local Chapter Page uses the SLURL so you can just click it and open the application SECOND LIFE and your avatar will materialize at the HQ on Commonwealth Island. The International groups page lists all our contact info. and links to this blog too

The great thing about our virtual world chapter is that individuals who want to participate and brainstorm can access other pinkers even if there is no local chapter in their geo-locations at the moment with which to connect. A successful SL business women who happens to be canadian woman has helped us out tremendously. Japanese women have rocked some of our actions. A man in Venus Beach models peaceful feminist behavior for his teen daughter when he dedicates his time to behind the scenes constructions of objects and events. The northwest coast of the U.S. reliably sends women to actions. The Sonoran Desert is almost always represented in SL actions and processes. Austrailia, the U.K., Finnoscandia, Germany... our little group reflects an emergent state for cooperative social peace and justice group action.

Join us!

What's in a Name?

I have made an executive decision... for a while I was going to scrub this blog because of SL's attempt to claim no one can use the phrase Second Life or the dipthong SL without their consent. So in March I decided to start a different blog for us. I posted the following (via capture as a pic) to that blog, but it just didn't feel right. I'm changing our title here, but not the address/URL as that had already been listed on the CODEPINK site before SL began this campaign. CODEPINK sl is no different than CODEPINK pittsburg, or CODEPINK dc. It is simply an identification.

The title of this blog may change, but this is the url we are using for the CODEPINK c chapter in SL.

New Digs for CODEPINK SL

5 years too many!

It may seem like I've been neglecting CPSL, but many things have been happening behind the scenes.

Here I am in front of the new CP HQ on Commonwealth 4. No lag no more. Yes!!!!!! You can get there via this link to an SL url that will connect you to a page where you can activate Second Life if you have an active account. Commonwealth 4 is a new island on a class five server. The old location was just that -- old, slow and clunky.... but the new place absolutely whirs and hums contentedly. Envirolink (the RL entity behind Commonwealth) rocks!




And .... here I am in the temporary offices of CODEPINK on Avalon Isle where the Babel Project is located and with whom CODEPINK SL will be working to bring speakers and movies and more into SL about War, Peace, Iraq and other related topics. We will have a new and more permanent space in an as yet unbuilt non-profit tower on the island that should be appearing within a week or two.

I made this connection via attending discussions on Avalon by EU Parliament member, Paulo Casaca. More on that soon too. Where else but in SL can ordinary folks meet with world leaders who want to hear their questions and concerns?

Oh, yes, and for those SLers who couldn't get to CODEPINK meetings lately although you all made heroic (heroinic?) efforts..... I apologize. We have a zealous member scheduling regular meetings that aren't linked in to this network as well as we might hope and with my hard drive nose dive I couldn't even get on to give folks a heads up.

More soon, I promise!