Code Pink (or CODEPINK) is a left-wing advocacy group founded in 2002 by Jodie Evans and Medea Benjamin. It was created to oppose the 2003 Iraq War but also focuses on “social justice” by using “feminist principals [sic].”⁷

CODEPINK signed a petition supporting the Green New Deal and has opposed the use of zero carbon nuclear energy. ²⁹

In January of 2026, Code Pink partnered with the ANSWER Coalition in organizing and or endorsing protests against United States intervention in Venezuela. ³¹

On January 10, 2026, a coalition of nonprofits and advocacy groups organized a protest in Washington D.C to demonstrate against Maduro’s and Flores’ capture. According to flyers distributed for the event, demands made by the coalition included freeing “President Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores,” “Pass the War Powers Act,” “Impeach Trump For War Crimes,” “No War For Oil,” and “End All Sanctions Against Venezuela.” ³⁷

In January 2022, reports emerged that Code Pink appeared to be connected to a major financial backer of pro-China activism. Starting around 2017, a large number of left-wing advocacy groups have received a total of nearly $65 million through grantmaking entities connected to Sri Lankan tech executive and Chinese Communist Party supporter Neville Roy Singham. That year, he sold his consulting firm Thoughtworks, and reports indicate that Singham received hundreds of millions of dollars in the deal. The new funding to pro-China causes started shortly thereafter. Singham also developed a relationship with Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans around this time, and they indicated that they were married in 2019. ⁴⁹

Benjamin was one of the organizers of the 1999 anti-capitalist World Trade Organization protests in Seattle. The protests turned violent when activists burned cars and smashed windows in a bid to shut down a conference of the World Trade Organization. Benjamin called the riots a “battle cry” after the activists caused millions of dollars in property damage.⁵⁵ Alam previously spent more than a decade with the organization, and was its manager and art designer before being promoted. ⁵⁶

Ariel Gold

Ariel Gold is a previous co-director of Code Pink. She was one of the organization’s most prominent pro-Palestine activists, and served as a voice for Code Pink within the anti-Israel BDS movement. She organized several so-called “peace delegations” to both Israel and Iran, one of its leading enemies, before eventually being deported by the Israeli government in 2018. In addition, Gold once disrupted an event featuring celebrity investor Ashton Kutcher and the property rental firm Airbnb, taking to the stage with a sign demanding that the company cease operating in disputed Palestinian territories with Israeli settlers residing in them. She similarly disrupted the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and staged demonstrations against former attorney general Jeff Sessions. ⁵⁸

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