Dear Granma Kerry,

The action you are planning is beautiful. We would love to partner with you on our campaigns in some way, because they are so related. Indeed, the same! I would love to put your events in the "what's new" section of the website; there are also some Greenpeace activists who are going to do a more CODEPINK-ish styled event on March 8 that I could connect you with, so you have one big event. Could you then also put a link to our petition on your site, or mention us in the emails you send around? We are all working to end women's suffering everywhere...

This week, CODEPINK received deeply touching letters from two women in Argentina, Raquel Soprano de Witis and Miriam Mabel Medina. Both are mothers whose sons were killed in police violence over the past years. Miriam, whose son Sebastian Bordon was killed in October of 1997, founded the Casita Sebastian in his honor; the Casita (³little house²) is a kindergarten for underprivileged children. Miriam has also organized a group called Madres de la Lucha (mothers of the struggle), an organization of women that have lost their sons to institutional violence and fights so that no more young person dies at the hands of the police. Also a member of Madres de la Lucha, Raquel lost her son Mariano Witis when he was just 23, on September 21, 2000, also in police violence. After that day, she and her family have worked to end violence and create justice so that her history is not repeated, so that the most vulnerable sectors of society no longer bear the brunt of violence at the hands of warfare and the police. Both women emphasize that they endorse this call because they believe that peace is possible, that they are both fighting to ensure that no more mothers grieve for their sons. The messages of these two women are peppered with words of hope and great love, of solidarity and understanding‹a belief that violence of all institutional origins, whether in warfare or at the hands of the police, causes pain to women‹and so we should be the ones to fight back. We couldn¹t agree more.

Thanks again for your commitment to justice and making a better world for your grandchildren. We are with you 100%. Do let me know what we can do to support you and work with you.

In peace,
Meredith Dearborn
Campaign Coordinator: Women Say No To War
  CODEPINK: Women for Peace  

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