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  • 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 (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • Cheap labor, cheap deal
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Amira Hass
    Omar had a reason to laugh: Good people from Tel Aviv are agitated that the Evacuation Compensation Law passed by the Knesset discriminates against Palestinian and foreign workers, on the one hand, compared to Israeli workers. The good people are the Kav La’Oved organization and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, which gave up on the idea of petitioning the High Court of Justice because it expected the court would not get involved in this piece of legislation.
    Omar (…)

  • March permits in front of the White House secured for Sept. 24
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    March permits obtained formass march on September 24directly in front of the White Houseon Pennsylvania Ave. The A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition has secured a permit from the Metropolitan Police Department for the mass march on September 24 that will take the demonstration directly in front of the White House on Pennsylvania Ave. This is the first time in many years that a march permit has been secured allowing people to exercise their First Amendment right for a mass assembly march and protest on (…)

  • Tomgram: Cindy Sheehan’s War
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cindy, Don, and George. On Being in a Ditch at the Side of the Road
    By Tom Engelhardt
    Retired four-star Army General Barry McCaffrey to Time Magazine: "The Army’s wheels are going to come off in the next 24 months. We are now in a period of considerable strategic peril. It’s because Rumsfeld has dug in his heels and said, I cannot retreat from my position."
    Cindy Sheehan testifying at Rep. John Conyers public hearings on the Downing Street Memo: "My son, Spc Casey Austin Sheehan, was (…)

  • CHARMING KILLERS
    17 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CHARMING KILLERS
    By Peter Fredson
    August 17, 2005
    Last week I watched part of a TV documentary on Serial Killers. One which most aroused my curiosity was Ted Bundy. Ted Bundy, (Theodore Robert Cowell, born November 24, 1946,) also called “The Poster Boy of Serial Killers”
    He was different from stereotypes of murderous maniacs. He was usually well-dressed and very well mannered. He had a ready smile, was handsome, personable, smart, urbane and charming. As a college student he did (…)

  • 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, (…)