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  • Confronting Bush in Crawford: Cindy Sheehan’s challenge
    18 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    CINDY BERINGER and ERIC RUDER report from Cindy Sheehan’s antiwar vigil outside George W. Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas.
    WHEN CINDY Sheehan boarded the Veterans for Peace Impeachment Tour bus August 6 and headed for Crawford, Texas, she had no idea that the vigil she had begun planning a few days before would turn her into a national symbol of the growing discontent with the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
    Today, her face is on the front pages of newspapers across the country and the world. (…)

  • The grieving mother who took on George Bush
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cindy Sheehan’s soldier son Casey was killed near Baghdad. Now her one-woman protest at the gates of the US president’s Texas ranch has become a metaphor for a nation’s increasing unease about involvement in an unwinnable conflict.
    By Rupert Cornwell
    Something strange is taking place deep in the heart of Texas, where the President of the United States is holed up at his Prairie Chapel ranch, a few miles from the town of Crawford. There, in the space of a few days, a middle-aged (…)

  • Why is George Bush Afraid to Face Cindy Sheehan?
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    It is clear from the amount of time passed by that George Bush is afraid to face the mother of one of the young men he ordered into battle to die.
    If his case on Iraq is so air tight, why is he unable to explain it in clear and simple terms to the mother of one of his dead soldiers? He’s on vacation, so he certainly must have the time.
    Cindy Sheehan sacrificed her son for goals that appear to have shifted like the sand Casey died on. First it was WMD, then it was Saddam’s purported links (…)

  • EXTRA, Extra, write a letter to the editor supporting Cindy Sheehan
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    THE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR CINDY ACTION PAGE IS READY
    Many have asked us to create a submission resource you could use for your local newspapers, in the same way that our regular action pages send personal messages to your own members of Congress. Well now you can! To support the growing "Listen to Cindy" movement, from the link below you can automatically submit your letter to the editor to the nearest daily newspaper based on your address anywhere in the country.
    All you have to do (…)

  • The Emperor is Naked! The Empire is a Lie!
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Cindy Sheehan has been able to demonstrate just how naked the Emperor is, and thus demonstrate the lie of Empire.
    No one else could, because everyone else was afraid. Howard Dean said "we broke it, we own it." John Kerry supported it and couldn’t back away from it.
    This is how Democrats felt forced to respond, because they’d been stuck into a political wilderness for a generation by Vietnam. They were afraid to equate Iraq with Vietnam, fearing that political wilderness, and its chains, (…)

  • Mona in the Field of Crosses (at Camp Casey)
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Greg Moses
    “Every voice that comes behind Cindy Sheehan sparks a new voice, and someone else stands up. Someone else is not afraid anymore.” Mona is speaking from the back seat of a Camp Casey shuttle as the Texas prairie speeds past. Today Mona is not afraid what the President will think. But she is worried to death about her son, who is headed for Iraq next month. Mona’s anti-war movement is on a tight schedule indeed. Even the national protests scheduled for Sept. 24-26 in D.C. may (…)

  • Mother’s Iraq-war Protest near Bush Ranch Picks Up Steam
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Hundreds Converge on Peace House, Riling at least One of the President’s Neighbors.
    by Michael Fletcher CRAWFORD, Texas — Barbara Cummings was home in San Diego last Monday, listening to an Air America radio broadcast, when she heard the tale of a woman who was going to join Cindy Sheehan in her growing protest against the war in Iraq.
    The woman on the radio had a son who had signed on for a second tour of duty in the Army after losing his job. In two weeks, he is scheduled to ship out (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan and Camp Casey offered 180 Acres
    16 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Tuesday’s update from the Lone Star Iconoclast includes this huge piece of news- 180 acres have been offered to Cindy Sheehan and the fine folks at Camp Casey.
    http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=7656
    This will provide plenty of space for everyone that wants to come. No more worries about parking on the road and camping in a ditch- this huge field could make the difference.
    Greenday is in Dallas the 20th- wouldn’t it be cool if someone bought 1853 tickets and left that big (…)

  • Crosses vandalized at antiwar mom’s Texas camp site
    16 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CRAWFORD, Texas, Aug 16 (Reuters) - A pickup truck ran over wooden crosses erected at anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan’s campsite on Monday night, in the latest sign of tension over the peace vigil outside vacationing President George W. Bush’s Texas ranch.
    Larry Northern, 46, of nearby Waco, Texas, was arrested and charged with criminal mischief in connection with the incident, Crawford Police Chief Donnie Tidmore said.
    Sheehan has pitched a tent on Prairie Chapel Road, which leads to (…)

  • Cindy Sheehan: Rosa Parks or Jane Fonda?
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Robert Freeman Is Cindy Sheehan the Rosa Parks or the Jane Fonda of the War in Iraq? Is she the lonely sentinel, standing righteously against injustice? Or a self-centered publicity seeker, endangering American soldiers in the War?
    The question is something of a political Rorschach test, telling us more about ourselves and our appraisal of America’s wars than about Sheehan. But asking it and understanding the issues behind the question might help us find a solution to the illegitimate (…)