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  • Pittsburgh Police Arrest Five Anti-War Protesters, Two Injured, in March
    22 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Joe Mandak
    PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania - Police charged four people protesting the war in Iraq, two of whom suffered minor injuries from the police response, when 60 people disrupted traffic by marching the wrong way down a busy one-way street toward an Army recruiting station.
    The Pittsburgh Organizing Group planned the Saturday morning demonstration. A spokesman for that group, David Meieran, accused police of responding with "inappropriate and excessive force."
    Meieran claimed some (…)

  • Utah Station Refuses to Air Anti-War Ad
    22 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah television station is refusing to air an anti-war ad featuring Cindy Sheehan, whose son’s death in Iraq prompted a vigil outside President Bush’s Texas ranch.
    The ad began airing on other area stations Saturday, two days before Bush was scheduled to speak in Salt Lake City to the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
    However, a national sales representative for KTVX, a local ABC affiliate, rejected the ad in an e-mail to media buyers, writing that (…)

  • The Swift Boating of Cindy Sheehan
    22 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By FRANK RICH
    CINDY SHEEHAN couldn’t have picked a more apt date to begin the vigil that ambushed a president: Aug. 6 was the fourth anniversary of that fateful 2001 Crawford vacation day when George W. Bush responded to an intelligence briefing titled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States" by going fishing. On this Aug. 6 the president was no less determined to shrug off bad news. Though 14 marine reservists had been killed days earlier by a roadside bomb in Haditha, (…)

  • Dear Cindy Sheehan: The Camp Casey organizers are fascists
    22 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Camp Casey is not a democratically run site out of sheer necessity. There has to be some control on the overall message coming out of Crawford." Socialists arrested for selling Howard Zinn Books, but they let PETA set up a tent, and the media loves it.
    Camp Casey is being squashed by a flood of "fake left" leaders. If we want to save America, we need to analyze every statement and action by every "progressive" leader. Note to Cindy: many of your ’friends’ may be working for the wrong (…)

  • Habitual lies to promote a war against the guiltless are pretty telling...
    21 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    I still say that this statement is ludicrous and just plain nuts.
    I am of the belief we go after those who not only attack us as a nation, but also personally. I am not of the belief of excusing horrific behavior and actions by terrorists or mere criminals in this country.
    If you are guilty of a terrorist attack or any crime is that you do the time and are prepared for the consequences of your actions.
    * I am however against going after the wrong people and blaming (…)

  • A Daytrip Without Cindy: Friday at Camp Casey
    21 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    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 the (…)

  • Hypocrites and Liars
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hypocrites and Liars By Cindy Sheehan t r u t h o u t | Letter
    Saturday 20 August 2005
    The media are wrong. The people who have come out to Camp Casey to help coordinate the press and events with me are not putting words in my mouth, they are taking words out of my mouth. I have been known for sometime as a person who speaks the truth and speaks it strongly. I have always called a liar a liar and a hypocrite a hypocrite. Now I am urged to use softer language to appeal to (…)

  • Sheehan’s vigil touches, angers war moms
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    State women who have lost sons, daughters differ on her protest
    By SCOTT WILLIAMS
    swilliams@journalsentinel.com
    All of them have lived through the same horror as Cindy Sheehan, a grieving military mom whose anti-war protest at the president’s doorstep has captured the national spotlight.
    But Wisconsin mothers who have lost children in the Iraq war do not necessarily feel a kindred spirit with Sheehan - or agree with her tactics.
    Most identify with the protester on at least one (…)

  • Canadian activists support Cindy Sheehan
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Solidarity vigils planned for this weekend
    The Toronto Coalition to Stop the War and the War Resisters Support Campaign will hold a jointly-sponsored vigil this Saturday in solidarity with Cindy Sheehan and American military families who continue to protest the war in Iraq. Although Cindy herself has temporarily suspended her protest due to a family illness, anti-war activists across the United States and Canada - including military families in Crawford, Texas - will go ahead with vigils (…)

  • Makeshift Memorial Run Down By Pickup Truck Driver
    20 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Larry Northern, 59, of McLennan County, was charged Tuesday with Criminal Mischief Over $1,500 and under $20,000 after a pickup truck tore through a row of white crosses erected by anti-war protesters gathered near the President’s ranch in Crawford.
    Bail was set at $3,000. Northern later posted bond and was released.
    The crosses bear the names of U.S. military personnel who have died in the war in Iraq.
    Witnesses said the driver swerved the truck in and out of the makeshift memorial (…)