A Little Fascism Still Goes a Long Way
By : Greg Moses - Monday May 22, 2006 By Greg Moses On the stock-market channel Friday afternoon, just before commercial time, comes news that the Senate of the USA has declared Inglés the “national language†of state. Then comes the commercial, cutting to a Chinese couple standing in a busy airport, somewhat startled by a youngish white man who rushes up to them and says “welcome to America†in Chinese. “I practiced all morning,†says the gleamy-eyed realtor. (...)
read more, comments... Pinter’s Provocation: Self Love in America
By : Greg Moses - Wednesday December 28, 2005 « Just think of me as your new guidance counselor ... Or just think Mr. Jefferson’s Answer to The Friend of Peace (1816) » By Greg Moses In homage to the Nobel Prize for Literature, Harold Pinter’s acceptance speech testifies to gifts of inspiration; hints of realms apart within; callings to craft that expose writers to tempestuous solitudes where lines between truth and unreality are not marked out in advance, where things press against each other in duality, both untrue and (...)
read more, comments... Reversing the Pistons of Empire: One America for Peace
By : Greg Moses - Monday October 31, 2005 By Greg Moses Whip lashed by serial collisions of imperial power, dissident movements in the USA brace for the next shocking thing. We have been hijacked into a crashing invasion of Iraq, slammed around by evasive maneuvers in New Orleans, and now along the borderlands of the Southwest USA, signs warn that a highway of accommodation is about to end, dumping us head-on into deserts of aggression upon Latin American peoples. Into each new crisis, empire roars forward, pumping high octane (...)
read more, comments... A Movement Gathers Power on the Sorrow Plateau
By : Greg Moses - Saturday September 24, 2005 Why We Must Resolve that a Better Faith is Possible by Greg Moses The movement for peace and justice in the USA has been transformed during the past two months. But what is the nature of the change, and how will it help to move us forward? The short answer, I think, is that we have been enriched by sorrow; we gather upon a sorrow plateau. Because of this place we have come to, we have new opportunities to broaden the scope of our power to sustain lasting change for freedom. Sorrow is the (...)
read more, comments... The Listening Tent and the Raw Talk Revival: Camp Casey, Phase Two
By : Greg Moses - Tuesday August 23, 2005 By Greg Moses If by socialism you mean the kind of world that officers’ kids enjoy, then I’m pretty much for it. It’s the kind of world I grew up in. Free health care, pretty good job security, cheap movies (that I could afford to attend every night in a row), swimming pools, bowling alleys, shooting ranges, craft shops, safe streets, and no private property to speak of. The toughest day on base was the day you “cleared quarters”, when a soldier with clipboard (...)
read more, comments... ‘And Let it Begin with Me’: New Voices Rising at Camp Casey Two
By : Greg Moses - Monday August 22, 2005 « A Daytrip Without Cindy: Friday at Camp Casey The Listening Tent and the Raw Talk Revival: Camp Casey, Phase Two » By Greg Moses Two weeks ago in Crawford, Texas there was a lonely Peace House with payments to make and not much money in the bank. Today, there is not only a Peace House with enough money in the bank to pay it off, but there are two (count ‘em two!) Camp Caseys that now reach out and around the vacation home of the President of the USA, supporting a peace movement (...)
read more, comments... A Daytrip Without Cindy: Friday at Camp Casey
By : Greg Moses - Sunday August 21, 2005 By Greg Moses Not having Cindy Sheehan in Crawford Friday turned out okay. Her absence didn’t stop the media from crowding around a noon prayer vigil. And nobody I talked to was planning to cut short their stay on account of her absence. In fact, as usual, folks were sort of falling in love with the land and each other, wondering how many days more could they squeeze in. Take the example of Katie Sterling of Fort Worth and her traveling companion Pam Humphrey of Burleson, Texas. In (...)
read more, comments... Cindy, the Peace Train, and the Little Ditch that Could
By : Greg Moses - Thursday August 18, 2005 By Greg Moses Two months ago while exhausted from a Summer Soulstice peace festival, and while looking with dismay into a long hot summer of war, Louisiana attorney Buddy Spell, his spouse Annie, and their guest of honor Cindy Sheehan decided they needed to do something, but not something too high energy. So they browsed through the train schedule and designated an Amtrak Crescent as their Peace Train. Come September they’d board the train in New Orleans and put out word to folks (...)
read more, comments... Mona in the Field of Crosses (at Camp Casey)
By : Greg Moses - Wednesday August 17, 2005 By Greg Moses “Every voice that comes behind Cindy Sheehan sparks a new voice, and someone else stands up. Someone else is not afraid anymore.” Mona is speaking from the back seat of a Camp Casey shuttle as the Texas prairie speeds past. Today Mona is not afraid what the President will think. But she is worried to death about her son, who is headed for Iraq next month. Mona’s anti-war movement is on a tight schedule indeed. Even the national protests scheduled for Sept. (...)
read more, comments... Pilgrims of Protest on a Hot Texas Day
By : Greg Moses - Monday August 15, 2005 By Greg Moses CAMP CASEY, TX (Part Three) Penny strides into the front lawn of the Crawford Peace House talking about that time up in Racine five weeks before the alleged re-election when she stood along the street with firemen and everybody, and flipped the President the bird. “Thank you,” is what Penny recalls the President saying to her. “God, what a weak man!” Like Cindy Sheehan, Penny is motivated by the death of her son, but Penny’s son was not killed (...)
read more, comments... Tomorrow’s History Today: Camp Casey TX Up Close
By : Greg Moses - Monday August 15, 2005 By Greg Moses CAMP CASEY, TX (Part Two) With a dozen or more activists still unbedding themselves from the floors of the Crawford Peace House, and with the push-pot of coffee in the kitchen already pumping dry, I think about that tall cup that Cindy Sheehan was holding this morning and decide to follow her lead to Crawford’s Coffee Station across the tracks. Trains this morning have headed due north along this Burlington Northern Santa Fe line. Either they tow flatcars (...)
read more, comments... A Crawford Peace House Morning
By : Greg Moses - Saturday August 13, 2005 By Greg Moses CAMP CASEY, TX (Part One) Thursday is only a few minutes young, but Cindy Sheehan is already running late. Rumors are percolating that police will swoop into Camp Casey at midnight to arrest everyone, and she dare not be late for a date like that. So she says, “I really have to go now,” and takes her leave from the soft light and murmur of the Crawford Peace House lawn. Before she goes however she does have time to say that her fever is getting a little better. (...)
read more, comments... How Building a Saudi City Made a Lefty Out of Dick Underhill, VFP
By : Greg Moses - Wednesday August 10, 2005 by Greg Moses Back in the 60s you could say two things about Navy and Air Force veteran Dick Underhill: he liked to do the work that nobody else wanted to do, and he was a Goldwater Republican. Today as Underhill shuttles in and out of Crawford, Texas, running supplies and tending to lists of things to do in support of Cindy Sheehan, you could still say he likes to do the work that nobody else wants to do, but you couldn’t call him a Goldwater Republican anymore. “You have (...)
read more, comments... Sheehan Draws Tears of Support
By : Greg Moses - Tuesday August 9, 2005 By Greg Moses When Robert DeLozier saw the story of Cindy Sheehan on television Sunday, he told his spouse right away: “I’m going up there. We have to drop everything and go.” At the Sam’s Club of all places, says Robert, he nearly broke down crying while he was shopping Monday morning thinking about what Sheehan was doing in memory of her son Casey, who was killed in Iraq last April. “She’s a strong woman,” says Robert via cell phone as he drives (...)
read more, comments... Bush Teaches Intelligent Design in Prison
By : Greg Moses - Monday August 8, 2005 By GREG MOSES Actually that wasn’t the headline. According to Yahoo News, the USA President thinks intelligent design should be taught in schools. That was the headline. And I have no problem with that. In a perfect world, it would be taught in schools And for just the reasons that Bush gives to the AP: "I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought," Bush said. "You’re asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, (...)
read more, comments... A Day in the Bar Ditch of Democracy USA
By : Greg Moses - Sunday August 7, 2005 By Greg Moses “I’m back here where I met you, in the tent!” says 53-year-old Vietnam Veteran Michael Young, speaking by cell phone Saturday evening, with lots of commotion in the background to back him up. Yes, he went to Crawford like he said, and here’s what he reports: “Well, I got up around 7:30. Was already running a little late, because I didn’t get home until midnight. I put on a pot of coffee and then got in such a hurry that I forgot it. (...)
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