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Jodie Evans, co-founder of Code Pink, is a warrior for peace | Podcast Episode 6

By Suzanne Taylor

Seeing what a big world it is out there, I’d understand people being skeptical about my evaluation of Jodie Evans, but that wouldn’t shake my conviction that if she wanted to she could become the president of the U.S. If America knew her, I bet they’d elect her. She would be the one we have been waiting for, who would get us off our primitive commitment to making war.

Peace is her game and she has all categories covered. A political activist, author, and documentary film producer, comfortable from board rooms to war zones, she’s smart, historically astute, well-informed, beautiful, gracious, and kind. Best if all, she doesn’t want power. I met Jodie in the early ‘90s when she was Jerry Brown’s campaign manager and I hosted breakfasts for this maverick politician who early on was preaching environmental awareness and campaign finance reform. Some 40 years later, on leaving his second round as Governor, he appointed Jodie to the California Arts Commission that she helped him found during his first term from her advocacy for art as what ennobles the human being. She’s most publicly known as a founder of CODE Pink, a women-led grassroots organization working to end U.S. wars and militarism that was started in an effort to prevent the US invasion of Iraq.

To know Jodie is to love her. She has a warmth that doesn’t stop. You can see it. She shines. She gives herself to so many causes that it doesn’t seem like one person could do all that. However, when a philanthropy organization we both belong to gave her a 3-year term as its president, she did the kind of job you’d have thought was her only one. She is our mother hen, hatching a new society where we radically reimagine and transform our relationships so they are defined by love, by care and compassion and sacredness, by the qualities that nourish our souls and enrich our humanity.

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  1. eric stoff says

    August 24, 2019 at 12:46 am

    I loved hearing Jodie talk about how small steps, connected to love, can make a difference.

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  2. Bill says

    October 12, 2025 at 11:58 am

    Your husband is evil incarnate so I suspect your being married to him makes you just as culpable. Your profile says you are a dove but for the most part You and Your husband donate millions of dollars to create havoc on the streets of America. I hope out Treasury department and the DOJ freeze y’all’s assets and never allow you to step inside the U. S again.

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    • Suzanne Taylor says

      October 12, 2025 at 3:59 pm

      I don’t know who you are, except someone who doesn’t know who he is. I was going to take this down, it is so malicious, but better to clear up misunderstandings than ignore them, so I’ve left it for you to follow up with what led you to post this comment.

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