November 3, 2008 at 20:05:37

Cindy Sheehan Knows Her Power

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Under Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), public approval of Congress sank in July to 9%, an all time low.

Despite a corporate media blackout of Cindy's candidacy in San Francisco, she qualified August 8 for the November ballot, one of only a half dozen candidates to gain ballot access as an Independent in California.

Around the same time, Pelosi, the first female Speaker of the House, appeared on ABC's The View promoting her book, ironically titled Know Your Power {italics}.

Outside a Pelosi San Francisco book event on a chilly August evening, activists distributed mustard-colored flyers itemizing 35 articles of impeachment for G.W. Bush introduced by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) in June. The first 16 articles are allegations against Bush relating to the Iraq war: for secret propaganda; deception about 9/11; weapons of mass destruction, and illegal misspending in an unauthorized and undeclared war.

Article 9, Endangering Troops, pays homage to Casey, the seven U.S. soldiers who died with him in Sadr City, and the hundreds of other U.S. men and women Bush sent into battle without protective gear. It alleges Bush "knowingly endangered U.S. troops by failing to provide available body and vehicle armor."

During her personal peace pilgrimage, Cindy recalled another dream, a poignant message from her son:

The dream showed me a flip phone and all kinds of brilliant lights emitted from it.

Before he died, Casey called his mother several times a day. Cindy believes her son was telling her in this dream: We can still communicate, but in another way.

Tragedy evokes different reactions -- sometimes denial, repression, anger. Dreams, especially nightmares, prompt different responses-- often dismissal of their message, disregard of their guidance.

But Cindy, compelled by her son's death and buttressed with nocturnal messages of prophecy, truth-telling, and healing, turned Black Sunday, April 4, 2004, into a peace pilgrimage. She transformed personal tragedy into combat against the War Machine and its manifestations -- perpetual strife, decimation of the Constitution, ruin of the economy, and dissolution of the democratic process. Her tools -- political activism and personal power -- belong to the arsenal of a courageous citizen illuminating how to take back her country.

Copyright c 2008 Joyce Lynn

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Joyce Lynn is a journalist, including eight years as a political reporter in Washington, D.C. She writes about the intersection of intuition, information, and imagination at Plum Dreams Journal, http://www.plumdreams.com.

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