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Crawford Peace House takes donations meant for Cindy Sheehan and protesters and pays off mortgage

by Open-Publishing - Sunday 28 August 2005
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Does anyone else think this is a little selfish? How can they feel good about taking the donations and paying off their mortgage even before the protest is over? It sort of seems like the mentality of a repubican, to always think of themselves first.

They could have instead used the protest money to rent more camping and parking space to enable the protest to grow. Instead they were sending folks away.

http://198.65.14.85/News/2005/31-40...
"According to Ann Wright, camp coordinator, they are thrilled with the number of people wanting to come, but there just isn’t all that much room. "We couldn’t have accommodated any of this if we hadn’t been loaned this additional land for Camp Casey II. This has been a godsend."

“The area at Camp Casey II has no camping space left. There is limited space at site I. Those newcomers wishing to camp may have to camp in town or somewhere else.”

and with 150,000 in donations...."Due to the crush of people expected, <b<water supplies may run short if more donations do not come in. So BYO."

but they paid off the mortgage....

"I’ve been walking around with my mouth open and in a daze for the past two or three days," said Kay Lucas, Peace House director. "It’s a blessing, a miracle. It’s like the parable of the loaves and the fishes."

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/artic...

A month ago, founders of the Crawford Peace House were unable to pay their phone bill and were in serious negotiations with a national nonprofit organization to take over the small wood-frame house.

Then came Cindy Sheehan, the California mother of a fallen soldier, Casey, 24, with a seemingly simple request - to meet with President Bush.

Now, the Peace House not only has its phone service back, but wireless Internet service to boot.

Sheehan well-wishers are drawn to the house, which has served as the hospitality center for anti-administration activists visiting here since 2003, and have provided enough donations to pay off its $54,000 mortgage, said one of its founders, Hadi Jawad.

"We have been waiting for somebody like Cindy Sheehan to show up for the past 2 1/2 years," the Dallas activist said Monday.

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/me...

More than $150,000 in donations have poured into the Crawford Peace House since Sheehan arrived Aug. 6 and started a makeshift campsite along the road leading to Bush’s ranch, vowing to stay until he talks to her. Because the rural campsite is small, most of the hundreds of visitors spend much of their time a few miles away at the Peace House, which has become Sheehan’s headquarters.

Not only is the phone back on, but the $54,000 mortgage is about to be paid.

"This has gone absolutely way beyond our imagination or expectations ever," said Hadi Jawad, one of the co-founders.
http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedconte...

Meanwhile on the Bill Maher show last friday, Cindy stated that her bank account was overdrawn. What is wrong with this picture? Wasn’t that money meant more for Cindy Sheehan than the mortgage of the Crawford Peace House??

Forum posts

  • Hey Wanda Justice, is your name kind of like Willie Makeit, or Seymour Butts, Pat MaCans, or Long John Dong?

    Anyway, about your criticism of the Peace House Mortgage being paid off by donations. Did it ever occur to you that people giving money to the Peach House might have wanted the Peace House to have it to pay off their mortgage? Why would anyone give the Peace House a donation they really wanted Cindy Sheehan to have if she is standing right there? Could it have been that they also gave one to Cindy? You assume something, then you decide to pass yourself off like you have all the facts.

    The Peace House has never tried to hide the fact they got donations to pay off the mortgage, they proclaimed it loudly to the world because they were so happy for the help and the giving that came from people’s hearts. The cause of Peace is certainly more admirable than the support of killing other humans for the oil under their feet.

    Also, this is the second time you have posted this article, which makes us think you are trying any desperate venue to discredit the Peace movement, or any other loving and kind gesture of people who want to further the idea of world peace.

    • I’m one of those people who donated money to be used for Cindy’s protest efforts. I gave through PayPal, under the assumption that it would be used solely for her benefit.

      Had I known that Peace House was looking for ways to pay off the mortgage, the phone bill, and get internet access, I might have reconsidered donating. It wasn’t a whole lot, but I am retired and on a fixed income so it matters to me.

      I fully support Cindy Sheehan and her efforts, but before I donate another dime I’ll want to know that she, and no one else, will benefit from the money I send.