[Note: This is the latest segment in an ongoing series about Code Pink and its co-founder Jodie Evans. Click here to read earlier articles.]
The meeting with the Taliban was kept secret by Evans and her group Code Pink in reports she and the group posted from Kabul and in interviews with the media and bloggers about the trip. Fonda, a close friend of Evans, let the secret meeting slip in an account of her dinner with Evans at a fundraiser for the Armand Hammer Museum in Los Angeles:
Last Saturday, My dear friends Jodie Evans and Max Palevsky,
invited Richard and me to join them at their table at a fundraiser at
the Armand Hammer Museum in Westwood. It was a good evening for lots of
reasons. I had never been to the museum and definitely want to go back.
Clearly it is a courageous place, very cutting edge. Then, too, I saw
lots of friends I hadn’t seen in a long time and I sat next to Jodie
who told me a little about her recent trip to Afghanistan with an
American delegation that included a retired colonel, and member the
State Department (Army Reserves Col. (Ret.) and ex-diplomat Ann Wright).
While there, she met with people ranging from the brother of President
Karzai, Afghan members of Parliament, activists, to warlords and members of the Taliban
(emphasis added.) Jodie is co-founder of the peace organization, Code
Pink, and always willing to go to any lengths to try and find out
what’s really going on. Bottom line: everyone she met with wants the
U.S. Military out of their country. They feel our presence there has
brought more violence rather than security. Please read a short article
she wrote about the trip which is on the Women’s Media Center website.
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