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  • GOP hounds start barking in unison
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    You can tell in five minutes of channel surfing how Cindy Sheehan frightens the pro-war crowd. One bereaved mom from Vacaville, California, camped outside Bush’s home in Crawford, reproaching the vacationing president for sending her son to a pointless death in Iraq has got the hellhounds of the Right barking in venomous unison.
    Sheehan is castigated in the press, by mainstream liberals as well as mad-dog rightists, for not leaving any wriggle-room on this central point. She says, "Bring (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan returns to war protest, plans bus tour
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CRAWFORD, Texas - Cindy Sheehan plans on taking her anti-war vigil on the road.
    Once President Bush leaves his Texas ranch late this month, Sheehan says she’ll begin a bus tour from her camp nearby. She says it’ll last more than three weeks, wrapping up September 24th in Washington — followed by a 24-hour vigil.
    Sheehan’s son died in Iraq. She began camping out near the ranch earlier this month, vowing to stay until Bush met with her. She recently left for a few days to tend to her ill (…)

  • The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford (Day 18)
    26 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Cindy Sheehan, Crawford, Texas
    I got up really early today to head back to Camp Casey. On the way, I had some amazing conversations with people. In one of those conversations, I was talking to Tyler who was sitting next to me on one of the planes. We were not talking about me and what I have been doing. Randomly, he told me he had just been in Texas about an hour north of Crawford. I said: "Wow that’s where I am going and that’s where I have been all month." He said: "I know I own a (…)

  • VIDEO: Mr. President, Leave My Child Alone!
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cindy Sheehan (mother of a soldier slain in Iraq), Jim Massey (ex-Marine recruiter) and others reveal the true impact of No Child Left Behind’s military recruitment in our high schools. With no end in sight to the increasingly lethal American occupation in Iraq, this is the single-most important film for concerned parents and citizens to see. Watch the 11-minute film and then take action to "opt our kids out" at LeaveMyChildAlone.org.
    Created by Mainstreet Moms and Working Assets
    Watch (…)

  • Labor Day Weekend: The Great American Campout at Camp Casey
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Ben Frank
    Monday 22 August 2005
    Ann Wright announced tonight that Caravans will be leaving Camp Casey in different directions August 31st heading to Washington, stopping all over the country to organize for the March on Washington on September 24th.
    Why?
    Labor Day is a huge travel holiday... why not advertise Crawford, Texas as the site of the Great American Campout this Labor Day Weekend. I don’t know for sure, but in all likelihood our vacationing President will stay thru the (…)

  • The mood in America is shifting against the Iraq war, but it has found inadequate expression in Congress
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Leaderless on the left
    by Gary Younge
    The myth of Rosa Parks is well known. The tired seamstress who boarded a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in December 1955 and refused to give up her seat to a white man has become one of the most enduring legends of the civil rights era. Her subsequent arrest started the bus boycott that launched the civil rights movement. It transformed the apartheid of America’s southern states from a local idiosyncrasy to an international scandal and turned a (…)

  • Free Bullshit Deflectors!
    25 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The downloads for the above design are found below.
    The "Bullshit Protector" flaps are a great way to protect yourself from GOP or punditry bullshit and spin, when spewed by the likes of George W. Bush, Rush Limbaugh, or even your local home-grown GOP wingnuts. It was inspired by Bill Moyer, a 73 year old vet, who was seen wearing "Bullshit Protector" flaps over his ears while Bush addressed the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Donelly Idaho.
    – http://www.canada.com/national/nati...
    Step 1 (…)

  • Cold Qualls Two - First Tears then hate
    24 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Remember, Gary Qualls? The bereaved parent who last week was telling Cindy Sheehan he loved her, and who this week set up a counter-protest site named after his son? [Here’s another photo of Gary Qualls and Cindy Sheehan in a moving embrace.]
    "Over the weekend, as the camp prepared for the arrival of the counter-demonstrators, a huge diesel pickup truck rumbled into camp with its nose menacingly pointed towards the tents. It sat for a while, and everyone waited to see what would happen. (…)

  • Bush says anti-war protests threaten to weaken the United States (been there, done that)
    24 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush says anti-war protests threaten to weaken the United States
    – http://www.canada.com/national/nati...
    Iraq like Vietnam? The speeches sound familiar...
    "To abandon this small and brave nation to its enemies, and to the terror that must follow, would be an unforgivable wrong," Johnson said. "To withdraw from one battlefield means only to prepare for the next." At that moment, only 400 American boys had died in the rice paddies.
    ’To abandon Viet Nam would be wrong’ - Text of (…)

  • Flash Video: Cindy Vs. the Right Wing Psychotics
    24 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Flash Video
    Cindy Vs. the Right Wing Psychotics