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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 (…)

  • Tomgram: Cindy Sheehan’s War
    15 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 (…)

  • 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
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    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 (…)

  • Schroeder plays the Iran card
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Ray Furlong
    German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has told an election campaign rally that the military option for resolving the dispute over Iran’s nuclear programme should be "taken off the table".
    "We’re all concerned about the developments in Iran," he said.
    "We don’t want nuclear weapons to proliferate further."
    But Mr Schroeder said diplomacy was the answer.
    "I’ve read that military options are also on the table," he said.
    "My answer to that is: ’Dear friends in Europe and (…)

  • THE OPEN PORTAL OF BUSH’S MIND...
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On Saturday (Aug 13), writer Peter Fredson posted an intriguing piece on this site, wherein he admits he shares the same problem with George Bush that most thinking people have — there is no doubt that Bush is a shallow, unlearned, idiotic bully; yet he maintains an eerie control over the entire government.
    Fredson writes:
    ’We must give them credit for manufacturing pretexts to take an entire nation to war, to fool an entire Congress, and most of the media, although the public seems (…)

  • 42,000 troops deployed in six `rings’ to carry out pullout
    14 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Amos Harel
    At midnight on Sunday, the Kissufim crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip will be closed to all Israeli civilian traffic, and on August 15, early Monday morning, a year and a half after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced his plan, the disengagement will begin.
    About 42,000 soldiers and police officers, divided into at least five divisional command centers, will be deployed. The total number of people involved in the operation could reach 53,000 if additional units (…)