Melissa Garriga
@melissagarriga.bsky.social
Media Relations Manager at CODEPINK.
We got wars to end and a world to win. Mom of 2; comrade to many. Media inquiries: melissa@codepink.org
We got wars to end and a world to win. Mom of 2; comrade to many. Media inquiries: melissa@codepink.org
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While the US pours trillions into war, communities on the Gulf Coast — and across the country — are left without the resources, infrastructure, or support to survive the next storm.
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Katrina 20 Years On: Defense Spending and the Defenseless
As the US underfunded natural disaster preparation ahead of Katrina, it poured money to into the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
inkstickmedia.com
August 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
While the US pours trillions into war, communities on the Gulf Coast — and across the country — are left without the resources, infrastructure, or support to survive the next storm.
inkstickmedia.com/katrina-20-y...
inkstickmedia.com/katrina-20-y...
Grateful to folks at @inkstickmedia.com
for allowing me to reflect on surviving Katrina and how 20 years later, we have learned nothing and are still left defenseless.
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for allowing me to reflect on surviving Katrina and how 20 years later, we have learned nothing and are still left defenseless.
inkstickmedia.com/katrina-20-y...
Katrina 20 Years On: Defense Spending and the Defenseless
As the US underfunded natural disaster preparation ahead of Katrina, it poured money to into the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
inkstickmedia.com
August 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Grateful to folks at @inkstickmedia.com
for allowing me to reflect on surviving Katrina and how 20 years later, we have learned nothing and are still left defenseless.
inkstickmedia.com/katrina-20-y...
for allowing me to reflect on surviving Katrina and how 20 years later, we have learned nothing and are still left defenseless.
inkstickmedia.com/katrina-20-y...
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there is simply no possible case for continued support for Israel and there has not been for quite some time
a genocidal regime behaving with utter impunity, unconstrained by even the pretense of international law
a genocidal regime behaving with utter impunity, unconstrained by even the pretense of international law
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
there is simply no possible case for continued support for Israel and there has not been for quite some time
a genocidal regime behaving with utter impunity, unconstrained by even the pretense of international law
a genocidal regime behaving with utter impunity, unconstrained by even the pretense of international law
No other place on earth could this happen w/out complete uproar from journalists across the globe. Yet here, crickets. MSM’s silence is complicity
My job involves working w/ journalists; many of those have been / Al Jazeera. All my love to the Al Jazeera family. What a tragic & heartbreaking loss 💔
My job involves working w/ journalists; many of those have been / Al Jazeera. All my love to the Al Jazeera family. What a tragic & heartbreaking loss 💔
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
August 10, 2025 at 11:46 PM
No other place on earth could this happen w/out complete uproar from journalists across the globe. Yet here, crickets. MSM’s silence is complicity
My job involves working w/ journalists; many of those have been / Al Jazeera. All my love to the Al Jazeera family. What a tragic & heartbreaking loss 💔
My job involves working w/ journalists; many of those have been / Al Jazeera. All my love to the Al Jazeera family. What a tragic & heartbreaking loss 💔
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This. The EO—though it doesn't carry the force of the law—calls for even more efforts to criminalize and institutionalize unhoused people, folks with unmet mental health needs, drug users and those deemed to be "vagrants." It aims to render people as disposable, and control, lock up + disappear them
This is all lies, and I don’t know what else I can add: Human beings are being dehumanized as “disorder” to be managed, punished, or disappeared.
Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose and
www.whitehouse.gov
July 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
This. The EO—though it doesn't carry the force of the law—calls for even more efforts to criminalize and institutionalize unhoused people, folks with unmet mental health needs, drug users and those deemed to be "vagrants." It aims to render people as disposable, and control, lock up + disappear them
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Trump is further militarizing foreign policy. That’s what boosting the DoD budget and slashing State does. Intellectuals sprinkled across the political spectrum have lapped up the yokel credence that he is “anti-interventionist” but Trump is another (draft-dodging) militarist
NEW: 1300 people were fired from the State Department today.
This image, sent to PBS News, shows a message taped to a mirror today inside the department’s offices.
This image, sent to PBS News, shows a message taped to a mirror today inside the department’s offices.
July 12, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Trump is further militarizing foreign policy. That’s what boosting the DoD budget and slashing State does. Intellectuals sprinkled across the political spectrum have lapped up the yokel credence that he is “anti-interventionist” but Trump is another (draft-dodging) militarist
Not a cell phone in sight, just people living in the moment!
June 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Not a cell phone in sight, just people living in the moment!
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April 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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April 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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35 lives lost in a single night. Families burned alive in tents meant to shelter them.
Gaza is not just a warzone, it’s a graveyard of promises broken and aid denied
My family is among those still trapped, with no food, and no escape.
I’m not asking for luxury - just a chance to keep them alive. 🙏
Gaza is not just a warzone, it’s a graveyard of promises broken and aid denied
My family is among those still trapped, with no food, and no escape.
I’m not asking for luxury - just a chance to keep them alive. 🙏
Donate to Urgent Plea: 11 Lives, Help My Family Escape Gaza’s Horror, organized by Sanaa Abdalrahim
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April 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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We're at the Hands Off rally in Washington D.C. with a sculpture of the Palestinian children who have been murdered by Israel.
The Hands Off rally might not have mentioned Palestine - but we're making sure everyone attending see the genocide their tax dollars are funding.
The Hands Off rally might not have mentioned Palestine - but we're making sure everyone attending see the genocide their tax dollars are funding.
April 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
We're at the Hands Off rally in Washington D.C. with a sculpture of the Palestinian children who have been murdered by Israel.
The Hands Off rally might not have mentioned Palestine - but we're making sure everyone attending see the genocide their tax dollars are funding.
The Hands Off rally might not have mentioned Palestine - but we're making sure everyone attending see the genocide their tax dollars are funding.
It’s true, Palestine was not included in the hands off demands but that didn’t stop us from bringing the message.
April 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
It’s true, Palestine was not included in the hands off demands but that didn’t stop us from bringing the message.
I deserve a gold medal for the mental gymnastics I do when I eat turkey bacon.
Like who looked at a pig and said I bet a bird would make a great substitute?!
Like who looked at a pig and said I bet a bird would make a great substitute?!
April 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I deserve a gold medal for the mental gymnastics I do when I eat turkey bacon.
Like who looked at a pig and said I bet a bird would make a great substitute?!
Like who looked at a pig and said I bet a bird would make a great substitute?!
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Now which outfit to wear for my video saying "I am not a sex offender"....ah, perfect
April 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Now which outfit to wear for my video saying "I am not a sex offender"....ah, perfect
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While political prisoner and Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil remains in ICE detention in Louisiana, his lawyers are fighting for his freedom in New Jersey. On Friday, March 28 they were in Newark to argue for Khalil’s...
How Immigrant Rights Activists Are Fighting Attacks on the Palestine Movement
While political prisoner and Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil remains in ICE detention in Louisiana, his lawyers are fighting for his freedom in New
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April 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
While political prisoner and Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil remains in ICE detention in Louisiana, his lawyers are fighting for his freedom in New Jersey. On Friday, March 28 they were in Newark to argue for Khalil’s...
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President Donald Trump says taxing imports will strengthen domestic manufacturing. Hours before announcing new tariffs, his administration cut support for centers that help US firms do just that.
Trump and DOGE Defund Program That Boosted American Manufacturing for Decades
President Donald Trump says taxing imports will strengthen domestic manufacturing. Hours before announcing new tariffs, his administration cut support for centers that help US firms do just that.
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April 3, 2025 at 12:04 AM
President Donald Trump says taxing imports will strengthen domestic manufacturing. Hours before announcing new tariffs, his administration cut support for centers that help US firms do just that.
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“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
time.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
Having principles transcends partisanship. The sooner people like the person in this post realize this - the more likely we can build a better world.
This type of person is the perfect mark of Trump administration. They are feeding right into the administration’s need for capitulating
This type of person is the perfect mark of Trump administration. They are feeding right into the administration’s need for capitulating
I refuse to care about Mahmoud Khalil until someone shows me at least one statement or post where he unapologetically supported Biden or Harris.
Show me that he didn't support his own imprisonment and deportation.
Show me that he didn't support his own imprisonment and deportation.
March 22, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Having principles transcends partisanship. The sooner people like the person in this post realize this - the more likely we can build a better world.
This type of person is the perfect mark of Trump administration. They are feeding right into the administration’s need for capitulating
This type of person is the perfect mark of Trump administration. They are feeding right into the administration’s need for capitulating
the wave of emotions I’ve been going through today - the happy tears, sobbing cries, yelling in anger, yelling in frustration, grinning ear to ear…
well, that’s the last time I’ll spend a whole ass day watching *checks note* Temptation Island
well, that’s the last time I’ll spend a whole ass day watching *checks note* Temptation Island
March 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM
the wave of emotions I’ve been going through today - the happy tears, sobbing cries, yelling in anger, yelling in frustration, grinning ear to ear…
well, that’s the last time I’ll spend a whole ass day watching *checks note* Temptation Island
well, that’s the last time I’ll spend a whole ass day watching *checks note* Temptation Island
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The line that Netanyahu re-started the war on Gaza to avoid prison is not wrong but perhaps too literal: Israel, much like the US, relies on war and colonial violence as a means to resolve otherwise unresolvable internal class, economic, ecological and social contradictions
March 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The line that Netanyahu re-started the war on Gaza to avoid prison is not wrong but perhaps too literal: Israel, much like the US, relies on war and colonial violence as a means to resolve otherwise unresolvable internal class, economic, ecological and social contradictions
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As the ceasefire (however nominal it was) ends and the Gaza genocide enters a new phase, I share these words from my friend Lujayn, published in @thenation.com last month. Once again, Lujayn is not safe and is again at risk of being martyred in Gaza www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Everything Is Destroyed in Gaza. But I Still Feel the Pulse of Life.
When I am finally able to return to the ruins of what was my house, I will do so, not to weep, but to make a promise to rebuild it.
www.thenation.com
March 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
As the ceasefire (however nominal it was) ends and the Gaza genocide enters a new phase, I share these words from my friend Lujayn, published in @thenation.com last month. Once again, Lujayn is not safe and is again at risk of being martyred in Gaza www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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Khalil's lawyers allude to Trump calling Chuck Schumer "a proud member of Hamas" and "a Palestinian" to illustrate the unseriousness of the characterization of Khalil as pro-Hamas
March 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Khalil's lawyers allude to Trump calling Chuck Schumer "a proud member of Hamas" and "a Palestinian" to illustrate the unseriousness of the characterization of Khalil as pro-Hamas
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everyone should listen to this in its entirety but journalists should listen to it multiple times. this is how you ask questions. you just keep asking simple, easily answerable stuff and the evasiveness becomes that much more glaring
In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?"
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
(From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)
March 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
everyone should listen to this in its entirety but journalists should listen to it multiple times. this is how you ask questions. you just keep asking simple, easily answerable stuff and the evasiveness becomes that much more glaring