Home > Keywords > Politics > Movement

Movement

  • My Response to George as he Speaks From his Vacation Away From his Vacation
    24 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    6 comments

    by Cindy Sheehan
    "President Bush charged Tuesday that anti-war protesters like Cindy Sheehan who want troops brought home immediately do not represent the views of most U.S. military families and are ’advocating a policy that would weaken the United States.’"
    Bringing our troops home from the quagmire that he has gotten us into will be weakening the United States? George: even if you pretend you didn’t know that Saddam did not have weapons of mass destruction and Iraq was not threat to (…)

  • LONDON - PEACE NOT WAR SOLIDARITY EVENT - 3RD BIRTHDAY - 11th SEPTEMBER 2005
    24 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    4 comments

    Don’t miss Peace Not War’s 3rd Birthday Party on Sunday September 11 (5-12pm) at Cargo Club in Shoreditch.
    In the current atmosphere of fear, division and Islamaphobia, Peace Not War aims to unite via the dancefloor. UK hiphop is a cross-cultural force that represents the oppressed and calls for peace, justice and solidarity. With acts as diverse as Asian Dub Foundation Soundsystem, The Extremists, Mecca2Medina and DJ Rubbish, the night will celebrate the coming-of-age of this (…)

  • MoveOn.org Should Listen to Their Members and Oppose the War
    24 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    1 comment

    Tuesday, August 23, 2005
    Contacts:
    Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, mclarty@greens.org
    Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805, starlene@greens.org
    While its members protest the Iraq occupation along with Cindy Sheehan, MoveOn.org itself favors continued occupation, say Greens.
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — Green Party leaders are challenging MoveOn.org to support an immediate pullout of troops from Iraq.
    "MoveOn has done an admirable job of rallying people (…)

  • Baez Is Back! Folk Singer Icon Joan Baez Takes Camp Casey II By Storm
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    2 comments

    by Gene Ellis
    CRAWFORD - Shortly after Joan Baez arrived Sunday afternoon at Camp Casey II, she gave a press conference with the Gold Star Families, all of whom have lost loved ones in the war. She talked with them, and she cried with them.
    Ms. Baez returned to the trailer to prepare for her performance, speaking only in whispers when it was necessary to speak at all, saving her voice.
    She gave a moving performance, peppered with energy, emotion, humor, and humanity. She even showed (…)

  • COINTEL operative discourages going to Crawford-admits Peace House paid off mortgage with Donations
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cindy has asked that as many as possible join her in Crawford, and as the momentum and numbers are growing COINTELPRO operatives swarm the internet trying to discourage people from going. Just like the organizers at the protest, they are actively trying to lesson the numbers. What is interesting is that the operative supports giving even more money to the Crawford Peace House. Althought the Crawford Peace House has denied paying off their mortgage with donations meant for Cindy...it is (…)

  • The Listening Tent and the Raw Talk Revival: Camp Casey, Phase Two
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    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 would come to your house and (…)

  • Camp Casey to focus on Exposing Bush Lies
    22 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
    2 comments

    by Ben Frank
    Cindy Sheehan wrote: "Memo to Drudge, et al: It’s Not About Me, It’s About the War"
    and "Our true mission is to bring attention to the occupation of Iraq and bringing our troops home."
    So, it’s time for the crew in Crawford to get on message.
    Every Voice in Camp Casey needs to FOCUS- this is not about Cindy - it’s about the war. They’ve made it about Cindy so they can tear her down. So we need to take the message back. This stand in Texas is about exposing the lies and (…)

  • Folk legend Baez joins protesters near Bush ranch
    22 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Tabassum Zakaria
    CRAWFORD, Texas - Folk singer Joan Baez joined anti-war protesters near U.S. President George W. Bush’s ranch on Sunday to meet with military families who want troops pulled out of Iraq.
    "You know in the first march I went on against the war in Vietnam there were 10 of us," Baez said as she met with a group of women whose sons died in Iraq or were being deployed there.
    "This is huge," she said.
    Hundreds of anti-war supporters sat on fold-out chairs under a huge (…)

  • ‘And Let it Begin with Me’: New Voices Rising at Camp Casey Two
    22 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    « 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 that (…)

  • Mother tips the balance against Bush
    22 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cindy Sheehan’s vigil outside the President’s ranch has galvanised the anti-war movement - and provoked a vicious political slanging match. Paul Harris reports
    Candles were lit all across America last week in one of the largest single anti-war protests in recent US history. At more than 1,600 vigils tens of thousands of protesters gathered in solidarity with the woman who has been the catalyst for the rebirth of the anti-war movement: Cindy Sheehan.
    Her remarkable one-woman stand outside (…)