Communist US nonprofit CodePink is radicalizing a new generation of activists, spending millions of dollars to teach anti-American rhetoric both in country and abroad.
The group sent controversial Democratic rep. Ilhan Omar’s daughter, Isra Hirsi, 23, on a highly criticized mission to Cuba, and bankrolled an “emergency” progressive conference in Bogota, Colombia, featuring ex-New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio.
The group is run by Jodie Evans, 71, a radical Hollywood filmmaker and wife of millionaire Maoist Neville Singham. Together, they control a $100-million web of nonprofits which spread Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda in the US, according to reports.
Campaigns their groups are behind in the US include “China Is Not Our Enemy,” “Hands off Iran” and protests in favor of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro after he was removed from the country by US forces in January.
Speaking after her Cuba trip, Hirsi said the experience of living through numerous blackouts on the socialist island “truly changed me.”
“As Americans, bringing aid to Cuba is the least we could do, as the US has long bullied Cuba with its sanctions, and now this oil blockade is killing people,” added the Barnard graduate on Instagram.
President Donald Trump imposed an oil blockade on Cuba earlier this year after the capture of Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores.
CodePink, which describes itself as a feminist grassroots organization, chartered a plane and boats to Havana to deliver 6,300 pounds of medicine and aid, according to their website.
Cuban exiles and online critics quickly dismissed the trip calling those on it “champagne socialists” and “comunista de caviar” online.
CodePink and other Singham-backed groups sponsored an “emergency” two-day Nuestra America summit in Bogota, called shortly after Maduro’s capture.
The summit, which was organized by a coalition of radical groups including Progressive International, featured former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio as well as his girlfriend, South Tucson Mayor Roxanna Valenzuela, along with dozens of other union leaders, diplomats and Latin American legislators.
DeBlasio told The Post reps of over 20 countries turned up to “show support for the Colombian people’s right to self determination in light of Trump’s threats of military action.”
He added it represents the “continued growth of a coalition of international leaders supporting self-determination for Latin America in response to the ‘Donroe Doctrine’,” referring to Trump’s policy in the Americas.
The group signed what they called the San Carlos declaration, which is a “collective pledge to coordinated action against coercion in the Americas.”
Meanwhile, CodePink organizes numerous workshops to train young women activists, including an Anti-Imperialist Campaign Series that connects “the genocide in Gaza” to “fighting on multiple fronts to dismantle the war machine” in the US. The training sessions involve a two-week “deep dive” of webinars, radio shows and other educational resources, according to their website.
In 2024, CodePink ran the “Gaza Summer School,” a summer-long online education series “that will empower you to become a powerful advocate for Palestine.” The course featured “skills training to arm you with the tools to drive change in your community.”
“CodePink tries to influence our policies and brainwash our kids,” said US Senator Tom Cotton (R. Ark.), who has long demanded an investigation into the group.
Last year, Capitol police removed a CodePink anti-Israel activist from a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which Cotton chairs.
“There is no place for this type of radical, terrorist supporting organization in America,” he added.
CodePink supporters include radical activist Calla Walsh, 21, a former co-chair of the related nonprofit, National Network on Cuba (NNC).
When she was 18 years old, Walsh, now living in Lebanon, was one of three activists arrested when they occupied the office of now-imprisoned Cuban-American former US Senator Robert Menendez, to protest his support of the US economic blockade of the nation in 2023.
“Bob Menendez cannot claim to support the Cuban people while he upholds this genocidal blockade and thwarts even efforts from within his own party to normalize US-Cuba relations,” Walsh said during the demonstration, according to the CodePink website.
Walsh was also a featured speaker at a CodePink-sponsored “US-Cuba Normalization Conference” at Fordham University in 2023, speaking about “youth and Cuba solidarity.”
CodePink and related groups have also recently participated in anti-Trump No Kings protests in Los Angeles and Chicago and swarmed a Trader Joe’s supermarket in California, demanding that the chain stop selling Israeli products.
A spokeswoman for CodePink did not return The Post’s request for comment.
The group is also associated with Global Girl Media, a nonprofit founded by Evans and other women film producers to “empower” and train girls as young as 15 in filmmaking to tell their own stories.
The nonprofit provides scholarships and training and has offices in Los Angeles, Greece, South Africa, Kosovo and the United Kingdom, among other places. Last year, the group trained 60 teenage girls in digital media skills and videography, according to public tax documents.
Participants have made short films about global warming, activism in South Africa and voting.
In addition to Global Girl Media, Evans also runs Environmentalism Through Inspiration and Non Violent Action (ETINA) which donates tens of thousands to other nonprofits to “encourage world peace, help underprivileged people (especially women and children) promote environmental preservation,” according to its IRS filings.
One of their proteges is Isabella Guinigundo, 23, an environmental activist with the Youth Climate Finance Alliance. She participated in a CodePink panel on the Struggle against Fossil Fuel Imperialism last week.
Wearing a kefiyah shawl she spoke about “the nations who have contributed the least to fossil pollution are now on the frontlines,” at the event.
Guinigundo, who did not return a request for comment Tuesday, was previously among a group of teens and young adults in Cincinnati who organized a demonstration in front of former US Senator Rob Portman’s office against gun policies.
The protest was in response to a shooting in Dayton that killed nine and another mass shooting in El Paso that left 22 dead in 2019.
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