CodePink launches China tour as grand jury investigation into Singham network funding continues
- CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin leads a 12-day, $3,000-$4,000 'revolutionary history' package through Chinese Red Memorials—because nothing says grassroots activism like a guided bus tour of Maotai Village.
- The trip is funded—indirectly, allegedly—by Neville Roy Singham, a Marxist tech mogul who’s pumped $278 million into left-wing nonprofits since 2017, while the DOJ eyes his money trail for fraud and money laundering.
- Attendees will 'marvel' at socialist infrastructure and left-behind umbrellas, presumably while avoiding any mention of Uyghur detention camps or the Great Firewall—safety first, comrades.
- Co-founder Jodie Evans makes the trip personal: her husband, Singham, is a CCP sympathizer under federal investigation—so this tour doubles as a conjugal visit with a side of geopolitical tourism.
- No charges filed yet, but CodePink’s PR strategy appears to be: 'When in doubt, lead a group of Americans to gawk at revolutionary memorabilia and hope the subpoenas get lost in customs.'
Brief Summary
CodePink has launched a 12-day 'revolutionary history' tour of China, shepherded by co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, taking paying guests from Shanghai to Maotai Village to marvel at Red Memorials, socialist infrastructure, and the miracle of unattended bicycles. The $3,000-$4,000 price tag buys a front-row seat to state-approved nostalgia, with the promotional copy promising a peek at 'modern socialist development'—as opposed to the pesky Washington version of China, which includes pesky things like surveillance, censorship, and forced labor in Xinjiang.
Why This Matters
This isn't just a pricey group vacation—it’s a political Rorschach test for anyone with a passport, a conscience, and a suspicion that their tourist dollars are funding a PR campaign for an authoritarian state. The timing is impeccably rotten: Benjamin’s video posts land while the Justice Department’s grand jury is reportedly digging into the offshore financial web of Neville Roy Singham, the Chinese Communist Party sympathizer who’s bankrolled CodePink to the tune of millions. Your risk isn’t just sunburn; it’s that your 'educational' trip might be logged in a federal exhibit list.