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  • Hope: Day 9 of The Peaceful Occupation of Crawford
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The ninth day ended in the most awesome way. We were out at Camp Casey and it was sprinkling a little bit and it really looked like the rain was going to start pouring down anytime. We looked over into the next cow pasture and there was a full rainbow. If that wasn’t a sign from the universe than I don’t know what is.
    I was being interviewed by Alex Jones and he asked me what I thought the rainbow signified. I told Alex that I was positive that it means we are going to be victorious. (…)

  • Pilgrims of Protest on a Hot Texas Day
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Greg Moses
    CAMP CASEY, TX (Part Three) Penny strides into the front lawn of the Crawford Peace House talking about that time up in Racine five weeks before the alleged re-election when she stood along the street with firemen and everybody, and flipped the President the bird. “Thank you,” is what Penny recalls the President saying to her. “God, what a weak man!”
    Like Cindy Sheehan, Penny is motivated by the death of her son, but Penny’s son was not killed in an overseas war. He lost (…)

  • A shot in the arm for protesters : Mother’s vigil raises hope that anti-war sentiment will fuel a national momentum
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Joe Garofoli
    Crawford, Texas — Asking whether she was "The New Face of Protest?" the liberal political magazine the Nation ran a photo in March of a middle-aged woman holding a picture of her 24-year-old son.
    The answer from anti-war organizations as international media have spread the story of Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey died last year in Iraq, is a resounding Yes. The anti-war movement has eagerly grabbed the coattails of the 48-year-old Vacaville mom tented up in a drainage (…)

  • Iraq War Death Has Part in Ohio Video
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Something’s In the Air But It’s Not on the Airwaves
    Watch the Video: Quicktime
    While working on a political short film about the war in Iraq, cast member Sarah Rolan, playing the part of a widowed war bride, received news that her long-time friend, U.S. Marine reservist Lance Corporal Daniel “Nate” Deyarmin of Tallmadge, Ohio, had been killed during active duty in Iraq on Monday, August 4, 2005, along with 13 other Ohio servicemen. The eight-minute film has since been dedicated to Nate (…)

  • Tomorrow’s History Today: Camp Casey TX Up Close
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Greg Moses
    CAMP CASEY, TX (Part Two) With a dozen or more activists still unbedding themselves from the floors of the Crawford Peace House, and with the push-pot of coffee in the kitchen already pumping dry, I think about that tall cup that Cindy Sheehan was holding this morning and decide to follow her lead to Crawford’s Coffee Station across the tracks.
    Trains this morning have headed due north along this Burlington Northern Santa Fe line. Either they tow flatcars double-stacked (…)

  • Sheehan Strategy
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jerry Fresia
    The strategy employed by Cindy Sheehan to hold President Bush accountable needs to be examined for its effectiveness. I believe her effectiveness is rooted in something that Martin Luther King pointed to as an essential feature of any effective non-violent action and that is the use of "confrontation" to make "the invisible visible."
    Recall, first, the Birmingham campaign of 1963. The campaign itself was dubbed Project Confrontation. "Instead of submitting to (…)

  • Camp Casey Day 8- WOW!!!
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Cindy Sheehan
    It is not often that, I, Cindy Sheehan is at a loss for words. I will try and describe today, though. It was the most incredible, fantastic, fabulous, amazing, powerful, miraculous event I have ever been apart of. I was so humbled and honored at the outpouring of love and support that arrived in Camp Casey today.
    It was a busy morning of interviews and problem solving. I had interviews with some network shows and a photo shoot for the Vanity Fair article. Almost all of (…)

  • A Look Into the Mirror by Manuel Valenzuela
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Through the veneer that is Washington, with its grand monuments to great men, its hallowed halls of history, its monolithic structures of governance, its corridors of power, its seats of wealth and effervescent illumination as the reincarnation of ancient Rome, can we, if we dare look upon the vision emanating from its shallow pools, see the manifestation of what America, and by consequence Americans, has become. To see inside the capital of modern day Democracy, Freedom, Liberty, Manifest (…)

  • Camp Casey Day 7- We Don’t Have to Be Angry Anymore
    13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Cindy Sheehan
    My day started way too early today. After 3 hours of sleep, I was being shaken awake by someone at 6:30am telling me that the Today Show wanted me to be on their show. I had come into town to sleep in a trailer because my tent had been infested with fire ants. I turned the today show down for 7:15am, so we did it at 9:00am.
    We had a very interesting day. We had Bush drive by really, really fast twice. I caught a glimpse of Laura. I was hoping after she saw me that she (…)

  • American Graffiti : Signs of the times
    13 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    President Bush used to enjoy healthy support for his Iraq policy. But now freeway ’bloggers’ are speaking out, writes Rupert Cornwell
    Feel like getting something off your chest against that iniquitous warmonger in the White House? Well, you can write a letter to your newspaper, tune in to liberal talk radio, or click to a reliably leftie website. Alternatively, you can take a drive on the highways of the United States.
    These are the domain of the freeway bloggers, a breed that have (…)