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by Ben Frank
Cindy Sheehan wrote: "Memo to Drudge, et al: It’s Not About Me, It’s About the War"
and "Our true mission is to bring attention to the occupation of Iraq and bringing our troops home."
So, it’s time for the crew in Crawford to get on message.
Every Voice in Camp Casey needs to FOCUS- this is not about Cindy - it’s about the war. They’ve made it about Cindy so they can tear her down. So we need to take the message back. This stand in Texas is about exposing the lies and (…)

By Tabassum Zakaria
CRAWFORD, Texas - Folk singer Joan Baez joined anti-war protesters near U.S. President George W. Bush’s ranch on Sunday to meet with military families who want troops pulled out of Iraq.
"You know in the first march I went on against the war in Vietnam there were 10 of us," Baez said as she met with a group of women whose sons died in Iraq or were being deployed there.
"This is huge," she said.
Hundreds of anti-war supporters sat on fold-out chairs under a huge (…)

by Mary MacElveen
In June, US president Bush’s spinmeister and advisor Karl Rove had this to say of liberals concerning September 11: “Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.”
I still say that this statement is ludicrous and just plain nuts.
I am of the belief we go after those who not only attack us as a nation, but also personally. I am not of the belief of excusing horrific behavior and (…)

« A Daytrip Without Cindy: Friday at Camp Casey The Listening Tent and the Raw Talk Revival: Camp Casey, Phase Two »
By Greg Moses
Two weeks ago in Crawford, Texas there was a lonely Peace House with payments to make and not much money in the bank. Today, there is not only a Peace House with enough money in the bank to pay it off, but there are two (count ‘em two!) Camp Caseys that now reach out and around the vacation home of the President of the USA, supporting a peace movement that (…)

Cindy Sheehan’s vigil outside the President’s ranch has galvanised the anti-war movement - and provoked a vicious political slanging match. Paul Harris reports
Candles were lit all across America last week in one of the largest single anti-war protests in recent US history. At more than 1,600 vigils tens of thousands of protesters gathered in solidarity with the woman who has been the catalyst for the rebirth of the anti-war movement: Cindy Sheehan.
Her remarkable one-woman stand outside (…)

by Joe Mandak
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania - Police charged four people protesting the war in Iraq, two of whom suffered minor injuries from the police response, when 60 people disrupted traffic by marching the wrong way down a busy one-way street toward an Army recruiting station.
The Pittsburgh Organizing Group planned the Saturday morning demonstration. A spokesman for that group, David Meieran, accused police of responding with "inappropriate and excessive force."
Meieran claimed some (…)

SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah television station is refusing to air an anti-war ad featuring Cindy Sheehan, whose son’s death in Iraq prompted a vigil outside President Bush’s Texas ranch.
The ad began airing on other area stations Saturday, two days before Bush was scheduled to speak in Salt Lake City to the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
However, a national sales representative for KTVX, a local ABC affiliate, rejected the ad in an e-mail to media buyers, writing that (…)

Hi, the following has been received from the G8 Legal Support group, who provided legal observers and legal info at the recent G8 protests from 2 to 9 July.
If you were detained/arrested, witnessed a detention, or can help in any way, please read on...
G8 & SUPPORTING THOSE ARRESTED
At the recent G8 protests in Scotland there were some 700 people detained by the police. These are different from arrests, as the police in Scotland have the powers to “detain” for a set length of time. (…)

By Chris Marsden and Julie Hyland
New leaks from official sources in Britain have added to the evidence already brought to light, proving that the official story of how Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes was gunned down was a pack of lies. In response, the liberal daily newspaper the Guardian has rushed to the defence of Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair, justifying the use of death squads and excusing a cover-up aimed at concealing how the police murdered an innocent man.
De (…)

Havana, Aug 21 (AIN) More than 50,400 Venezuelans have received eye surgery in Cuban hospitals, announced Presidents Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez during a radio and TV program aired on Sunday from Pinar del Rio, Cuba.
Both heads of state shared views on the Operation Milagro program, which will benefit 100,000 Venezuelans suffering from eye diseases this year alone and has been extended to citizens from other Latin American and Caribbean nations.
Fidel Castro said that following an (…)