Medea Benjamin, an American peace activist and co-founder of 'CODEPINK' showing a copy of the full-page advertisement placed at the New York Times, May 16, 2023, by US foreign policy experts that calls for diplomacy to stop the war in Ukraine and for America to be a "force for peace in the world." Medea said she plans to distribute the copy of the petition to US lawmakers. Her other Twitter posts later stated that one CODEPINK member was arrested inside the US Congress for displaying a placard calling for more dollars for the poor in America and not war while US defense secretary Lloyd Austin was talking against China (from Medea's Twitter post).