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  • Of the Evil Empire: Imperialist Devastation of People and the Evils Done in our Names
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    original found at www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com
    (MUST READ!!)
    Let us for a few moments put aside our lavish lifestyles of fortuitous endowment and providence that have made us blind to the realities of billions of our fellow humans. Let us ignore our plasma televisions, our DVDs, our two-story cookie cutter homes and gas-guzzling SUVs. Let us promise to not open our overstocked pantries and refrigerators, or to go out and eat at one of many corporate controlled franchise (…)

  • I sit in awe of the events occurring at Camp Casey
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Amy Branham, Gold Star Families for Peace; A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION [Excerpt]
    I went back out to Crawford this week to see for myself how things are going and what it’s like there now. I couldn’t believe my eyes. It was just absolutely amazing.
    I left in the wee hours of the morning Saturday to get there, in a caravan with members of Military Families Speak Out (MFSO) from Houston. I think it was about 10 a.m. by the time we arrived at the Peace House.
    There were so many cars and (…)

  • Neighbor allows war protesters to camp on his land
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ANGELA K. BROWN
    Dozens of war protesters camping along a road near President Bush’s ranch are about to pull up their stakes - but they’re not leaving.
    The group is moving about a mile away to a 1-acre corner lot, owned by an Army veteran who sympathizes with those at the vigil that started Aug. 6 by grieving mother Cindy Sheehan.
    "I just think people should have a right to protest without being harassed," Fred Mattlage told The Associated Press late Tuesday. "And I’m against the (…)

  • Politics of War Could Pivot on Mother’s Vigil
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cindy Sheehan is filling a void for those opposed to Bush’s Iraq policies. But he may benefit too.
    By Ronald Brownstein, Times Staff Writer
    WASHINGTON - The high-profile vigil near President Bush’s Texas ranch by Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed in Iraq last year, could scramble the politics of the war as much for her allies as for the target of her protest.
    An immediate effect may be to increase the pressure on liberal activist groups and Democrats - who have focused (…)

  • The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford (Day 11 - 12)
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford (Day 12); Vigils
    by Cindy Sheehan, Crawford, TX
    Our candlelight vigil at Camp Casey was beautiful tonight. There were hundreds of people here and we are hearing that hundreds of people were involved in vigils around the country. We at Camp Casey are so amazed and gratified that there were almost 1700 vigils around the country.
    CNN followed me around for the morning to do a ’Day in the Life’ of Cindy Sheehan. I kept asking them if they were falling (…)

  • Cindy, the Peace Train, and the Little Ditch that Could
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    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 along the (…)

  • Help Support Cindy Sheehan, whose son was kill
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Salutations,
    Please forward widely
    Cindy Sheehan’s son, Casey was killed in the Iraq War. She is turning her tragic loss into a relentless anti-war campaign that has brought her to Crawford, Texas to occupy a space outside G.W. Bush’s ranch until he agrees to speak with her. As I write this, supporters in Crawford have been harassed by the police, gone on huner strike and are in need of your support. Rumsfeld and Rice are expected to arrive at Crawford tomorrow to meet with G.W. Bush so (…)

  • In Defense of Cindy Sheehan
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Drink-soaked Trotskyite popinjay slimes antiwar Mom
    by Justin Raimondo
    All the usual suspects are lining up to slime Cindy Sheehan: Mr. Smarm, AKA James Taranto; the pretentious twits over at Powerline blog; and of course Matt Drudge, who ought to make his role as a sounding board for the Republican National Committee official. Yet none of these worthies were really up to the task. Drudge took Sheehan’s statement after her first meeting with Bush out of context and was contradicted by (…)

  • The Mother of all Battles
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cindy Sheehan has almost single-handedly launched an American antiwar movement. And in the process, she’s exposed a president’s feet of clay.
    by Joan Walsh The smearing may continue, but it’s already too late: Cindy Sheehan has launched an American antiwar movement. Maybe, as Matt Drudge blared over the weekend, she’s said controversial things about Israel. Maybe the IRS will chase her for tax evasion, since she’s reportedly announced that she won’t pay taxes for 2004, the year her son (…)

  • The Evolution of Revolution, Part II: Where Flags Do Not Rise
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Found this great essay at Manuel Valenzuela’s new blog which contains every damn essay he’s ever written. This guy is prolific, and very, very good. Pay the blog a visit, click through the archives, read a couple of articles. Good for the soul.
    www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com
    The Evolution of Revolution, Part II: Where Flags Do Not Rise
    by Manuel Valenzuela
    Imagine
    Imagine there’s no heaven, It’s easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky, Imagine all the people, (…)