While Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech to Congress on Tuesday about democracy (which: chortle), a member of the leftist anti-war group Codepink was arrested after causing a ruckus. Half Moon Bay resident Rae Abileah interrupted the Israeli Prime Minister with a banner that read “Occupying Land Is Indefensible” and shouting, “No more occupation, stop Israel war crimes, equal rights for Palestinians, occupation is indefensible.” Actually, you can barely hear her, as Joe Garofoli points out. You can sort of hear a muffled "Stop Israeli war crimes, but only if you turn the volume up high. See for yourself more ›

This morning outside Dianne Feinstein's office in downtown San Francisco, Codepink activists and war veterans "[urged] their senator to speak out against torture being inflicted daily on Army Pvt. Bradley Manning, who is suspected of leaking Wikileaks documents detailing US war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan." more ›

The Golden Gate Bridge has surprisingly strict guidelines about how groups can conduct a protest along its walkways. According to the Chronicle, as it stands small groups of less than 50 must apply for a permit to hold a protest march across the bridge and the usual tools of the trade: signs on sticks, megaphones, etc are banned from the walkway altogether for fear they may ruin drivers' concentration. You can't even protest after 2 p.m. on a weekend afternoon - do you have any idea how hard it is to get 49 supporters of Code Pink to come out on a Saturday morning? more ›

Code Pink member Toby Blome holds up her hand covered in red paint at a protest at Boalt Law School in Berkeley. Just one in a series of protests demanding the removal of John Yoo, a law professor who helped the Bush administration with the legalities of waterboarding and other types of torture. more ›

They sure are crafty, those CodePink dames. First they manage to get within a few inches of Condoleezza Rice. Now they waltz up to Barack Obama and give him some paper. See, while at last night's Democratic Party fundraiser (which raised $2 million), Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans, according to KTVU, handed Obama a petition "allegedly signed by Afghani women who want an end to the war in their country." After handing Obama the petition, Evans said the President told her "‘You know we are not going to end the problem in Afghanistan any time soon.’" To which she replied, "actually you’re not going to solve the problem, they are.” Added bonus: no fake blood.was involved. more ›

Protest-fetish protest group CodePink -- a social circle whose members wear pink feather boas and zany hats while shouting -- will be in Union Square tonight, protesting President Barack Obama's visit. According to Appeal.BCN. CodePink"will ask the president to commit to an exit strategy from Afghanistan." Also, they will display a banner in Union Square, "while a Code Pink member will try to deliver petitions to the president inside the fundraiser." Outrageous. more ›

In addition to calling Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia a "homophobe," Barney Frank also blasted annoying political group CodePink for trying to get attention for some sort of cause during an AIG hearing. more ›

Code Pink is having yet another Bush/war protest today. This time they're using the shoe -- made popular last week by Iraqi journalist Muntader al-Zaidi, who hurled his footwear at President Bush during a press conference -- as the central theme. The protest, it practically goes without saying, is happening in Berkeley this afternoon. more ›

You read about scary man Rove's appearance at Moscone Center at the annual Mortgage Bankers' Association. You know, where the Gorgeous Ladies of Code Pink tried taking him downtown? Now see Code Pink protester Janine Boneparth steal the show and announce, "Why is there no women up here? We need California women up here ... I need to do a citizen’s arrest for Treason." more ›

Our buddies over at Curbed just received word that things are getting zany at Market and Montgomery, gangland territory for the messenger community. In yet another of moment of annoying and effective-free protest happening around the city today, cyclists and gimmicky Code Pink are currently acting up. Check it: more ›

In case you missed The Daily Show last night-- not that any member of the self-respecting Bay Area intelligentsia would dare to admit missing a second of sparkling political satire -- check out Berkeley and its Marine corps nonsense getting last night care of Jon Stewart's clan. It's chock full of funny. (Except the overt and cruel hippie-hating part, which we find not only a played out but a bit dangerous; there's nothing wrong with being a hippie, people.) Be sure to check it out. more ›

Nancy Pelosi dedicates a campus and opines on the presidential race. more ›

Anti-war fans, pro-war zealots, '60s fetishists, barely-legal Marines, the unshowered, and young college students trying to impress their boyfriends will be out in full force on the other side of the Bay later this evening. Why? Because after receiving loads of national criticism, as well as a few death threats, the Berkeley City Council will decide tonight whether or not to "revoke a letter it approved two weeks ago telling the Marines they are 'unwelcome intruders' and should leave their post." What's more: more ›

Republican (it goes without saying) Assemblyman Guy Houston of San Ramon wants to slice off more than $3 million in state funding from Berkeley for their stance against Marine recruiting. He will introduce legislation to "withhold state transportation money until Berkeley rescinds its 'war on the U.S. Marine Corps.'" more ›