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  • Witnessing History
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Scott Galindez
    I spent three weeks in Crawford, Texas. The heat was unbearable; bugs were everywhere, including fire ants crawling into my keyboard. But I wouldn’t have traded Camp Casey for any other story that I have ever covered.
    I remember the frigid cold of January in Washington DC, when millions around the world said no to the war in Iraq. We covered the Democratic and Republican conventions, I went to Iowa and New Hampshire to cover the primaries. These were all stories that I (…)

  • BREAKING: Cindy Sheehan arrested in Manhattan
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    . by Five of Diamonds Mon Sep 19th, 2005 at 12:42:39 PDT I witnessed this with my own eyes. Here is my account.
    Cindy Sheehan was arrested moments ago in Union Square, Manhattan for allegedly speaking in the square without the proper permit.
    A small group of police began to congregate around 2:00 on the south east corner of Union Square. Cindy and her peace entourage were slightly late to the event, contending with public transportation.
    Upon her arrival, applause and cheers filled (…)

  • Police forcibly break up Cindy Sheehan rally
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Pete Dolack
    The New York City Police Department forcibly broke up this afternoon’s rally for Cindy Sheehan, moving in as Cindy was speaking at about 3 p.m. in Union Square.
    Keywords: Government, War & Peace, Local, Activism, The New York City Police Department forcibly broke up this afternoon’s rally for Cindy Sheehan, moving in as Cindy was speaking at about 3 p.m. in Union Square. The rally had been underway for about an hour, and was about to conclude as Cindy spoke following (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan vs. Mayor Bloomberg
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by ask
    I am seething with anger. So much that I am still trembling and having trouble formulating a basic sentence.
    Just back from Camp Casey, New York which is at Union Square. Took an extended lunch break, as I had seen that Cindy Sheehan would make a speech there this afternoon at 2pm. A nice little crowd, Cindy was delayed - but there were plenty of people with issues on their minds in the mean time.
    Then comes Cindy and within two minutes the police interrupts. They had been (…)

  • NYPD Unplugs Cindy Sheehan
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    City’s Finest pulls move even Bush wouldn’t have tried
    by Sarah Ferguson
    Cindy Sheehan may be the Rosa Parks of the anti-war movement. But that didn’t stop members of the New York Police Department from marching into the crowd of about 150 people gathered in Union Square Monday to hear her speak and yanking away the microphone.
    The NYPD pulled the plug just as Sheehan was calling on the audience not to lose heart in the fight to end the war in Iraq.
    "We get up every morning, and (…)

  • Mother Who Lost Son in Iraq Continues Fight Against War
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By MARC SANTORA
    Cindy Sheehan, the mother of an American soldier killed in Iraq, last night brought her campaign to end the war to New York, where she accused Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of not doing enough to challenge the Bush administration’s Iraq policies.
    Speaking in front of more than 500 supporters in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Ms. Sheehan, speaking of Senator Clinton, said, "She knows that the war is a lie but she is waiting for the right time to say it."
    Then, as the crowd (…)

  • Police Fortify Numbers for War Protests. Demonstration Will Be the First Since the District Passed Arrest Law
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Del Quentin Wilber
    D.C. police have canceled days off and are planning to deploy several hundred officers during an antiwar demonstration next weekend that will include a march near the White House, but officials said they expect no trouble.
    Saturday’s rally, part of a weekend of protests and counter-protests, will be the first demonstration allowed to surround the White House in more than a decade. It is the first major rally to occur since a D.C. law that requires police to give (…)

  • From ’Old Man of the Mountain" Bush Lies
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    From ’Old Man of the Mountain’, Bush Lies. Update ’Bush Lies’ Tour Sept. 18, 2005
    While painting New Hampshire’s ’Old Man of the Mountain’, the rock outcropping that is featured on the NH quarter, I was struck by the profile that remained, after the Old Man fell. The tragic tumble was about May Day of 2003. I was not physically touched by the new profile but metaphysically inspired. Like the painting I did on Sept. 11 in NYC ( see liberty rings on 9-11, Bellaciao), the ’Old Man’ (…)

  • Galloway’s frankness invigorates, shocks Americans
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By John Nichols
    Americans who are familiar only with the almost always empty words - and often empty heads - of this country’s political leaders can be a little shocked by George Galloway’s pronouncements.
    The British parliamentarian, who came of age in the brawling political landscape of his native Scotland, where a quick wit and a savage debating style are prerequisites for electoral success, does not mince words in the manner that most American pols do.
    Consider Galloway’s statement (…)

  • A Bright Spot in Bush World
    17 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Amid the Miserable Failures on the Same Planet
    by Cindy Sheehan
    It has been one month and one week since I sat in a ditch in Crawford, Tx. I can hardly believe it when I think of it myself. So much has happened in that time, and really, so little.
    I got to Camp Casey III in Covington, La today, after getting up at 3am to head for the airport. Now it is 3am the next day and we are driving in a car to try and find a hotel to sleep anywhere around Jackson, Miss. I was prepared to be (…)