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  • Michael Moore helps provide real relief for the people of New Orleans
    17 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Michael Moore
    Friends,
    Last week I closed my New York production office and sent my staff down to New Orleans to set up our own relief effort. I asked all of you to help me by sending food, materials and cash to the emergency relief center we helped set up on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain with the Veterans for Peace. We did this when the government was doing nothing and the Red Cross was still trying to get it together. Every day, every minute was critical. People were dying, poor (…)

  • America Stripped Bare: Privilege vs. Survival (See Kanye)
    4 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Support the People of New Orleans: Sept. 7 National Day of Emergency Action
    Join a protest on September 7 see below for details of protests in Washington DC, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle - or organize one in your community or on your campus. List your event on the A.N.S.W.E.R. website! www.pephost.org/Sept7localaction
    What is taking place today in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama is a crisis rarely seen in this country. It has provoked an outpouring of concern for the (…)

  • Mothers March on Washington to End War on Iraq: Join Up!
    4 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Peace camp heads to White House
    by RICHARD LUSCOMBE IN MIAMI
    AN ANTI-IRAQ war protester who set up a peace camp outside the Texas ranch of the United States president, George Bush, takes her campaign on the road today as she pursues him back to Washington.
    Cindy Sheehan, whose soldier son, Casey, was killed in an ambush in Sadr City in April 2004, will embark on a bus tour that will end with a 24-hour vigil and anti-war march in the American capital on 24 September.
    It promises to (…)

  • World Zero Eviction Days: from October 3rd 2005
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    For the right to decent, secure housing
    Fifteen percent of the world population is under threat of eviction for a series of reasons: foreign investment in countries with heavy debts, privatizations of the housing sector, deregulation of rented accommodation, ethnic cleansing, wars and occupation, as well as commercial speculation of natural disasters. Although Target 11 of the United Nations Millennium Development Goal 7 aims at improving the living conditions of at least 100 million (…)

  • Sept. 24 White House protest receives widespread media coverage
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Today (Thursday, September 1), representatives of two major anti-war coalitions - A.N.S.W.E.R./September 24 National Coalition and United for Peace and Justice - held a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington DC to announce plans for a joint anti-war rally and march to take place at the White House on September 24.
    Local, national and international media packed the room. Press in attendance included CNN, New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, NBC, Fox, Associated Press, (…)

  • Austin : 2,000 people marched from the state Capitol to City Hall holding anti-war signs
    1 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Vacaville Mom Takes Protest On Road
    After a 26-day vigil that ignited the anti-war movement, Cindy Sheehan took her protest on the road Wednesday, while a handful of veterans pledged to continue camping off the road leading to President Bush’s ranch until the war in Iraq ends.
    Rather than heading home to California, the mother of a 24-year-old soldier who died in Iraq boarded one of three buses heading out on tour to spread her message.
    "This is where I’m going to spend every August (…)

  • Sheehan, war protesters leave camp
    1 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Dozens of war opponents on Wednesday left their makeshift campsite near President Bush’s ranch after a 26-day roadside vigil that drew thousands and ignited the anti-war movement.
    Cindy Sheehan, a fallen soldier’s mother who arrived in Bush’s adopted hometown Aug. 6 and refused to leave until he talked to her, boarded one of several buses heading on a tour to continue spreading her message.
    "This is where I’m going to spend every August from now on," Sheehan said as she smiled and waved (…)

  • The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford (Day 24)
    1 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Cindy Sheehan, Crawford, TX
    Goodbye to Crawford But Not to Camp Casey
    While George golfed yesterday, the worst hurricane ever struck New Orleans; oil went up to over 68.00/barrel; and an American soldier was killed in the charade and cataclysmic occupation of Iraq. The soldier’s family doesn’t even know what’s going to hit them yet. The death is "Pending Notification." I continually ask myself: "How do George Bush and other death-mongers live with themselves?" While George vacations (…)

  • What Eating Cindy Sheehan?
    31 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    Cindy Sheehan has been subjected to an unwarranted backlash by right-wing pundits because of her antiwar protests and some explosive statements she made about President Bush. Perhaps Sheehan, while mourning the death of her son, Casey, a U.S. soldier who died in the Iraq war, lashed out at the president, and decided to take her antiwar message to Crawford, Texas, after doing some fact checking on her emotional state. If so, these are likely some of the circumstances that (…)

  • 2008 Presidential Candidate Offers Letter of Support for Cindy Sheehan
    31 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    CRAWFORD - Cindy Sheehan has received a letter of support from Karl W. B. Schwarz, a former Republican, who earlier this year announced his independent candidacy for President, subject to the 2008 election.
    Schwarz is author of the book "One Way Ticket to Crawford, Texas."
    He wrote to Sheehan: "I have been watching with admiration your brave stand against President Bush and his refusal, and even fear, of speaking with any of the persons who have lost loved ones in Iraq and Afghanistan on (…)