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Cindy Sheehan is the mother of Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan, who was KIA in Iraq on 04/04/04. She is a co-founder and President of Gold Star Families for Peace and the author of two books: Not One More Mother's Child and Dear President Bush.
(34 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 13, 2010 Open Memo To: Nancy Pelosi From Cindy Sheehan
Hey Nan,
How's that "liberal agenda" going for you these days?
You have had quite a run as the first female Speaker of the House, haven't you?
(42 comments) SHARE Friday, November 27, 2009 You Get What you Vote For!
the peace movement will definitely have to increase our peace as the war machine increases it's violence!
(76 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 20, 2010 Impeach Obama?
Recently, I received an email from Veterans for Peace (VFP) Chapter 136 in Central Florida asking me for an endorsement of its resolution to impeach Barack Obama.
First of all, I would like to commend the Central Florida chapter for its integrity and vision for peace that this resolution exhibits. In my own experience, it's not even popular to criticize Obama, let alone call for his removal from office. Kudos!
(9 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 25, 2008 Tax Revolt
n the Declaration of Independence, our fore-parents listed the train of abuses that King "George" III (the king of Great Britain at the time) perpetrated on the American colonies. The differences between our "Mad King George," and the one that reigned over these states, 232 years ago are slim.
Before my son, Casey, was killed in Iraq, I was like these Americans. I dutifully obeyed stupid laws and paid my taxes...
(53 comments) SHARE Saturday, October 15, 2016 US Bringing World to the Brink of Nuclear War
The U.S. has long invaded and provoked weaker countries like Afghanistan and Iraq which have little hope of retaliating but nonetheless use what resources they have to fight off U.S. imperialism. However, provoking Russia in places like Syria and Ukraine seems to be the height of arrogance and stupidity on the part of the U.S.
(19 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 14, 2008 CODE-RED: People for Revolution!
Together, over 300,000,000 of us have untapped and almost infinite power for change here in the States. If we could channel this into what Martin Luther King, Jr. called a "Revolution of values," we could overthrow the Robber class without a shot being fired from our side.
(19 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 7, 2008 Peace is not an absence of war: it's an absence of preparing for war or an absence of using violence...
Today is the 67th anniversary of the "day that will live in infamy." Likely, if you were alive 67 years ago, you were a very young person. I know a few people who can still remember when the Japanese attacked a US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, but I remember the stories that my parents told me about that day.
(6 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 3, 2011 I'm not the Deather
All I do know for sure is that this Empire is the Empire of Death--and to call someone who questions the fables, a "Deather" is just blatant demonization and a reactionary response to fortify the fraud.
(11 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 29, 2009 "The killing is right and proper"
cindy sheehan and codepink activists get attacked by right wing war supporter at Travis AFB in Fairfied, Ca
(45 comments) SHARE Monday, February 2, 2009 Un-plug from the ObaMatrix and Tune-in to Reality!
To blindly trust any system is inherently dangerous. It is healthy to step back from the matrix and always level a critical eye and if necessary rise up in rebellion.
(19 comments) SHARE Saturday, April 11, 2015 Hillary H.W. Obama, 2016
I am speaking of the recent news item that Hillary Clinton will announce her candidacy for POTUS (President of the United States) on Sunday, April 12. First of all, no one should be surprised, and secondly, all liberal-progressives should (but most won't) vigorously oppose this person.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, February 13, 2011 Once Upon a Time in the Evil Empire
Emperor Obama, and Emperor Bush before him, were installed in their positions by the same institutions that installed Mubarak and Karzai. The difference is, with our complicit media, many of us still firmly believe in the illusion of political "choice."
(11 comments) SHARE Monday, July 5, 2010 "We Pledge Resistance to the Empire" by Cindy Sheehan
We live in a psychotic empire and the only thing that matters to the leaders and corporations is the bottom-line and the top dollar.
We need you all to help us make humanity the bottom-line.
(71 comments) SHARE Thursday, October 25, 2007 Pete, Nancy, George and WWIII
Ms. Pelosi joined hands with Republicans to condemn Rep. Stark. For the Republicans to say that Congressman Stark's comment demeaned "the troops" is so patently ridiculous, it is stunningly pathetic. Our troops and their much higher paid cousins, the mercenary killers, are killing innocent Iraqis. IT IS A WAR! What do these morally bankrupt Chickenhawks think occurs in war?
SHARE Monday, August 16, 2010 My Interviews With Ethan McCord and Jud Newborn
With the resistance to the wars for empire being so low, I thought I would bring on two models of resistance to talk about it. We'll be speaking with Ethan McCord and Jud Newborn.
(7 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 12, 2011 Police State Much?
The Constitutional Lawyer turned POTUS is committing atrocities against peace, justice and human rights at a pace that Bush and Cheney only dreamed possible. If Obama can't have one of us arrested or executed on his orders, then he will gladly diagnose our principled questioning as a mental disorder.
(8 comments) SHARE Monday, January 27, 2020 Open Letter to Neo-liberal Election Tyrants
Stein got a little over 1% of the vote nationally in 2016 and if the Democrats couldn't nominate someone that could overcome that small percentage and beat the ridiculous game show host that entered the race on a lark, no wonder they and you pathetic sycophants are searching everywhere for an answer that doesn't point a laser focus right back on them.
(12 comments) SHARE Wednesday, June 23, 2010 Officially FUBAR!
All of this posturing and speechifying is nothing but a distraction from the fact that our economy is FUBAR, the Gulf of Mexico is FUBAR, the wars are FUBAR and Wikileaks is set to come out soon with another video of a bombing incident that killed over 100 civilians in Afghanistan and was covered up. When Obama appointed McChrystal to this job, he knew that he had already covered up the murder of Spc. Pat Tillman.
(18 comments) SHARE Saturday, May 15, 2010 Two Americas
The America that I belong to also buys into the Myth that we don't deserve to have healthy food, education, health care, a warm and non-leaking roof over our heads, without living as debt slaves, because we don't belong in the privileged "elite" class.
(4 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 26, 2010 Did He Really Say That?
I can name a few institutions that have been made "stronger" since 9/11: The Police State and all its apparatus; the Military Industrial Complex and its tentacles: the Pentagon, the State Department, war profiteers, corporate media; Wall Street; the surviving banks; and especially the government. The rich are literally getting richer, and the poor are growing poorer.
(8 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 6, 2009 If McCain Were President
what would the "movement" look like if John McCain won?
(18 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 28, 2008 The Party's Over?
The title for this piece was a very unfortunate statement that Nancy Pelosi made after she handed the banksters on Wall Street 700 billion dollars of our money. This was a whopper of a crime that bailed out fabulously wealthy people who took risks that made them rich on the way up and now again on their ways down. I don't know about you all, but I could have a heckuva party with 700 billion dollars!
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 30, 2009 President Obama: Give Peace a Meeting!
Peace Contingent demands meeting with Prez Obama on the eve of his deciding the fates of millions of people.
(18 comments) SHARE Friday, July 9, 2010 Requiem for the Antiwar Movement
Last week, the Democratically controlled House of Representatives voted to give Barack Obama 33 billion more dollars to prosecute two idiotic and ill-advised wars. Of course they did--it wasn't the first time since 2007 that a Democratic Congress voted to fund wars, and it won't be the last--do you all know why? BECAUSE THE DEMOCRATS DON'T WANT PEACE--THEY ARE JUST ONE-HALF OF THE "WAR PARTY."
(31 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 27, 2010 Where have all the peaceniks gone
Today, my friend, Rob Kall of OpEd News wrote a scathing article about the financial aid "reform" bill after he spent significant time researching it. ...
. We lost a lot of time giving Obama a "chance," and thousands have lost their lives and their ways of life.
..., you can't be intellectually honest with yourself, or your own heart and support the Democratic Party.
(14 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 30, 2012 War Control
After the recent tragedy in Sandy Hook, Ct, the predictable blather became the recycled "debate" about "gun control." However, I think the discussion needs to be around "War Control." Besides saving millions of lives, while the Pentagon just received over 600 billion of your tax dollars and needs to be shoved over the Fiscal Cliff, pushing War Control could also save OUR Social Safety Nets...
(26 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 19, 2009 For Cripes' Sake, Make Him Already!
President Obama has told his followers if they want him to do anything then they have to "Make him."
How is that working out so far?
(15 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 6, 2008 Our economic system is Capitalize the profits, but Socialize the costs
When progressives talk about federal job programs, medicare for all, free higher education... or any other social programs to help people the centrists and rightists scream: "SOCIALISM." But when a capitalist company (usually banks or mortgage banks go under, we the tax-payers bail them out.
(7 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 5, 2008 The Casey Sheehan Doctrine
After the initial shock of having a cherished part of me violently torn away, the story that the Army told us about Casey's death did not ring true.
(31 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 14, 2008 "Good riddance, you dog"
Today, I received, by email, the video of the Iraqi journalist throwing his shoes at George Bush at a press conference in Baghdad about 20 times. My friends/colleagues were gleeful at the humiliation suffered by our Liar in Chief.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, January 17, 2011 Pebble People
"Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system." Dorothy Day
(8 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 18, 2009 The President Exhibits Crazy Speech Patterns
As I listened to clips of Obama's speech to the VFW on Aug. 17th, 2009, I was wondering if his speechwriters were on vacation and they just recycled an old Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rice speech.
While the so-called left is focused on the health care debacle and is allowing the so-called right to define the debate when it should be: Medicare for all, and all for Medicare; Obama and his neocon foreign policy team are preparing...
(29 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 6, 2008 This is Horseshit
If people can't see how this nation is teetering on the precipice of financial ruin and dragging the rest of this planet down with us as we destroy our ecology, too...and if people don't realize how desperate our situation is, then I must say, that's horseshit!
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 17, 2011 USA MATRIOT ACT
Sick to the death of the devious, mislabeled instrument of mass repression and tyranny, the "Patriot" Act, short for Eternal Patriarchy Act? Then why not explore the antithesis of this canard, what Cindy Sheehan calls the Matriot Act.
(63 comments) SHARE Monday, May 28, 2007 "Good Riddance Attention Whore"
I have endured a lot of smear and hatred since Casey was killed and especially since I became the so-called "Face" of the American anti-war movement. Especially since I renounced any tie I have remaining with the Democratic Party, I have been further trashed on such "liberal blogs"...
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, February 18, 2011 The USA MATRIOT Act
Here we live in a country where the government has no legitimate right to rule over us! If the Congress can abrogate the Bill of Rights and its enumerated power (Article I, Sect 8, Clause 11) to declare war, then it has abrogated itself!
(13 comments) SHARE Monday, December 22, 2008 Mamas Don't Let your Babies grow up to be Soldiers!
As of today (July 13, 2006) , the War Department lists 2544 as the number of murdered troops in Iraq. Dozens of innocent Iraqis are being killed due to this war crime every day. More than 80 Iraqis were killed in Baghdad alone on July 9th: dozens of people just in one city on one day who would be alive if not for BushCo.
(12 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 1, 2010 Metrics
Queen Nancy... You looked me right in the face in September of 2005 and with crocodile mist in your eyes (do you use Vicks Vaporub for your fake, tears like Glen Beck?) you told me that if the antiwar movement helped Democrats get elected, you would help us end the wars. You are nothing but a cold-hearted liar...
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 26, 2009 Senator Kennedy
I was invited to visit with the Senator in September of 2005 right after my first foray into presidential vacation adventures. I walked into an office on Capitol Hill that was a mini American History Museum.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, April 25, 2008 Nancy Pelosi's Day Job
Nancy Pelosi, in an unprecedented moment, was asked in an interview by Larry King about the candidacy of Cindy Sheehan. Pelosi's reply? "I don't even think about it much. You know, I have a day job." Sheehan, in this article, takes a look at how that day job is going.
(17 comments) SHARE Saturday, June 20, 2009 The War Party and its Faux-gressive Minions by Cindy Sheehan
For years now, I have been writing about the duplicity of the Democrats and the shocking similarity between the two parties when it comes to the use of state-sanctioned terrorism against innocent populations.
(18 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 25, 2008 "Dream Team" for the Banksters and Imperialists!
I had CNN on yesterday listening to the financial show they have on every morning here in the PST. I don't know which of the "brilliant" analysts that was speaking, but she said two things that made me pick up my ears: Firstly, she said that Obama's economic team is a financial "Dream Team;" then she said: "I wonder if the Constitution can be amended so Obama can be sworn in earlier than January 20th?!"
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 20, 2010 Operation New Dawn
It doesn't matter what the US decides to call its "Operations." Part of us will reject the propaganda, and part of us will embrace it, wanting very desperately to believe that our country is not a rogue state and/or that Obama is not as bad, or worse, than Bush.
(11 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 24, 2009 Day of the Dead
My son was killed in Iraq and not one person anywhere in this world is one iota more free because he is dead.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, September 11, 2009 9-11 and Oil
Honor those killed on 9-11 by bringing our troops home and creating sustainable forms of energy and taking care of our people.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, June 17, 2012 Inscrutable Icons of Liberaldom
If we want to have any success as movements and people, we need to realize that there are forces loyal to the Democratic Party that glom on to people and movements to steer what could be actually affective towards electoral politics, usually in favor of the Democrats on the Liberal side of the political spectrum.
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 25, 2015 Casey vs. Kyle
This is something that I don't want to revisit--I never want to relive the worst experience of my life. However, with the 11th anniversary of my son's death in Iraq on 04/04/04 approaching and the new "blockbuster" infecting movie screens around the world, I really must get this off of my chest.
(8 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 5, 2010 Dissent in the age of Obama
Recently, the FBI raided the homes of at least eight anti-war/social justice activists here in the US. These raids have terrifying implications for dissent here in the US. The longer we Americans remain silent in the face of these injustices, the more they will continue to occur and escalate.
(9 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 23, 2009 Murder by Joystick
the immorality of drone bombing
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 28, 2009 War is Unsuitable for Children: Another YouTube outrage
The US Military has held up to 6000 juveniles in its torture prisons in the Middle East and there has been rape and torture reported to individuals as young as 10 years old! How can any human being torture another human being, much less a child? These stories remind me of the most horrendous slasher movies, but they are not the pretend product of twisted fantasy, but are factual and mind-blowingly real.
(7 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 1, 2009 Keep the Change!
The “restive anti-war movement” will not do anything it thinks will compromise Democratic chances in the 2010 midterms.
I have 2 questions to ask of the “restive anti-war movement.”
1) How did the people of Iraq/Afghanistan lose value as human beings when the Democrats took over power in 2007?
2) How did the people of Pakistan lose their value as humans when Obama became president at the beginning of the year?
(23 comments) SHARE Tuesday, January 1, 2008 The White Rose and the Rose Parade
My first encounter with the White Rose Society (a small group of Munich University Students who were executed for their opposition to Hitler and the Third Reich) came on my way from Dallas to Crawford, Tx on August 6th, 2005.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, January 11, 2021 The Mythocracy of Democracy
I believe that the march on the Capitol last week by Trump supporters was another real event used to whip up partisan hysteria, only to allow Joe Biden who has often bragged about being the author of the USA PATRIOT ACT to force even more fascism and police state oppression on us all.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 27, 2007 Pro-Democracy means Anti-Fascism
Seeing the images of the monks and others being beaten (in Myanmar) reminds me of the Democratic Convention in 1968 where Chicago police beat the living daylights out of demonstrators who were there to try and force the party to come closer to the budding anti-war movement.
Only vote for candidates that promise the following things"-for president, or any other federal elective offices:
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 10, 2009 The More Things Change...
I think many of us know the origins of Mother's Day were for Peace and a universal declaration that we mothers won't send our children to die in wars or to kill the children of other mothers.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 23, 2011 Justice For Casey Sheehan And Hundreds Of Thousands Of Others
Did Obama just forget about the heavily fortified 104-acre US Embassy in Baghdad that employs 3,000, or the enormous US consulates in Basra and Erbil, that will eventually employ about another 3,000 people -- or the thousands of paid mercenaries that will remain after the end of this year?
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 20, 2010 Let the Sunshine
My reflections on the musical, Hair
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, April 11, 2016 Who, What, When, Where, and Why War Crime Report
Who: The US War Machine: the diabolical Bush Regime at the controls
What: Imperial war for profit based on manufactured evidence and nationalist propaganda.
When: (This incarnation) March 2003 to present.
Where: Iraq
Why: Because the US War Machine needs perpetual war for perpetual profit and to subjugate the people of the world and suck the life out of those in the US.
(25 comments) SHARE Friday, September 28, 2007 Hillary the She-Bush by Cindy Sheehan
Dear Friends,
With the deplorable performance of Hillary at the debate, the other evening, I decided to post an article that appeared in The Progressive Magazine earlier this year.
Cindy
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 6, 2007 Cindy Sheehan: Vermont, Land of Hope
Dozens of towns in Vermont will be voting on impeachment resolutions in their town meetings this Tuesday, March 6 as a people's antidote for the political temerity of Congress. If Congress won't do their constitutional duty, then we the people will.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, November 10, 2008 Warfare Reform
The real War OF Terror has been waged from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue for the last seven years and the movement that poured its energy and resources into electing Obama must radicalize to force him to undertake an aggressive program of Warfare Reform.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 16, 2010 AGAINST ALL WAR, EVEN WHEN THERE'S A DEMOCRAT IN OFFICE!
Sometimes, I get discouraged with the constant struggle where it seems we make little progress, but then I remember everyone who has resisted in the past and all they have sacrificed for me. I vow to do the same.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, November 26, 2007 Uh, Oh Canada!
Recently the Canadian Supreme Court refused to hear appeals on the denial of refugee status for two US military Iraq war resisters that were among the firs to flee to Canada: Jeremy Hinzman and Brandon Hughey
(8 comments) SHARE Sunday, November 16, 2008 Troops home...Eventually?!
I have little hope that Emperor-Elect Obama will voluntarily give up any imperial power or reduce the size of the US Empire as he has already promised to increase US presence in Afghanistan and Super-Duper-Size our military to levels never seen before and can only be used for spreading corporate-imperialism. I am not going to drink the blue flavored Kool-Aid any more. Troops home NOW!
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, June 23, 2009 Passing Propaganda
When I see the riots on the streets of Tehran (in the mainstream "news" why is it said that those people are "bravely standing up for their rights", but when people "bravely stand up for their rights" in Oakland, they're called "thugs") I am reminded of the staged media event of the pulling down of Saddam's statue early on in the sanitized and mass-marketed invasion of Iraq.
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, October 18, 2015 Why I Want to Shut Down Rikers
In combination with #RiseUpOctober against police murder and brutality, a call has been issued for non-violent civil disobedience to shut down Rikers Island. Why am I participating?
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, January 14, 2008 The "I" Word
Once, when my children were young, one of them rushed into me and said: "Mama, so-and-so, said the "K' word." I could never figure out what the "k" word was, because neither of the children would say that very naughty word.
f all one did was listen or watch the corporate media, one would think that "Impeachment" was a naughty word.
Today was the day we delivered 11,000 petitions and letters to Nancy Pelosi.
(12 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 11, 2007 Once Upon a Time
Once upon the same time in the land of California, there was a Ruler in the Caste of the Democrats named Nancy Pelosi. She told Casey's Mom to her face that she was very sorry for Casey dying and that she was doing everything she could to stop other Casey's from meeting the same fate. Years later, Casey's Mom found out that this Pelosi wench knew all along what the evil Ruler George III was up to when he tortured innocents.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 28, 2009 The Day of the Dead
Say we assign, in an arbitrary way for purely illustrative purposes, an average height of five feet for every person killed in Iraq and then line those people up from head to toe. That gruesome line would stretch from Los Angeles to Portland, Oregon... 950 driving miles up Interstate 5. If we count the Iraqis who have been forced to flee, we would have to go back and forth between Los Angeles and Portland another four times.
(7 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 21, 2008 Open-Armed Policy and Cuba
We need an "open-armed policy" with our neighbors in this hemisphere not an "armed and dangerous" persona. America is certainly perceived as a bully all over the world but in the case of Cuba, it could not be more exemplified.
The US talking tough to Cuba is like a lion roaring at a mouse. Reaching across the channel with fair trade and open arms will go farther towards Cuba becoming more free and democratic
(17 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 5, 2007 Call Out The Instigator
I'm not backing off. I tried to remove myself from the political realm of the US, what BushCo is turning into an Evil Empire, but the blatant audacity of George commuting Scooter's sentence (he's not ruling out a full pardon -"and you know he will) has dragged me kicking and screaming back in.
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, November 19, 2007 A Blueprint for Impeachment;:The Constitution Still in Crisis
I was recently given an award by the Cranbrook Peace Institute and the ceremonies were held in Detroit, the hometown of Rep. John Conyers. I was pretty surprised that he agreed to introduce me at the event considering that the last time I saw him I was being hauled out of his office in DC in handcuffs and I have been very outspoken about the Democrats failure to hold BushCo accountable.
SHARE Monday, May 27, 2013 "Just think about it...where would we be? My Memorial Day Reflections
This is my Memorial Day reflection.
Today, finds Tour de Peace, and me, in Greenville, Il...we are on a figurative downhill ride to WashedUp, DeCeit now.
It's been a wonderful experience, so far, and I am including a recap in this newsletter.
I won't ever say, "Happy Memorial Day," because war is nothing to celebrate, ever.
Have a great day, and week.
Love & Peace
Cindy
(6 comments) SHARE Saturday, March 15, 2008 Chickens of our own Making
I sit here behind my computer screen in solidarity with Rev. Wright. Not only do I not denounce him, but I support him in telling the truth.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 3, 2008 All Power to the People
In true populist fashion an election revolution must begin in this country. We must not "waste"- our votes on candidates because of the "lesser of two evils"- illogic. Voting for the LOTE is like saying to oneself: Should I vote for Satan or Beelzebub? Voting for a 3rd party or Independent candidate that reflects your values not only allows you to hold your head high, but sends a message to the corrupt duopoly of Dems and Reps
SHARE Thursday, February 15, 2007 Money Trumps Peace...Sometimes
"Money trumps peace" should be the rallying call of all the Democrats and Republicans who are exploiting our tired and wounded soldiers in the field to justify handing BushCo more money to complete his mission of totally decimating the Middle East for the oil companies, construction contractors, and defense industries.
SHARE Monday, January 21, 2008 The Fierce Urgency of Now
Today as we commemorate the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, we must also acknowledge the violence of his death at the hands of the machine that has only grown more powerful and rapacious over the years. We must also acknowledge the violence of the inconceivable racism here in America that recently raised its demented head in such places as Jena, LA, New Orleans and my own backyard: Bayview-Hunter's Point, SF, CA.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, July 3, 2008 Ask Not What...
The only reason that our military is under such a great burden is because politicians like Barack Obama have voted consistently for billions of wasted dollars to continue BushCo's abominable occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. Instead of increasing the Pentagon's already bloated budget, a true peace candidate would be calling for immediate withdrawal of forces from these countries so our military can begin the healing process
(4 comments) SHARE Friday, January 11, 2008 Stains
Today on the 6th anniversary of the opening of a black stain on the soul of America, Guantanamo Bay prison. I was going to write about the necessity of the base being closed and the prisoners charged, tried, or released, but another stain has been nagging at me today.
The hidden stain of female members of the military being abused by fellow soldiers, Marines, or sailors is one that is regularly ignored or glossed over...
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, May 11, 2008 Mother's Day 2008; Peaceful Idealism v. Political Pragmatism
Some women have lost their only child to the ravenous war machine and they somehow go on. One specific mother has her family intact and can callously sign blank checks to pay for war (that are really nothing but death warrants for other people's children) with only the life and health of her political party in her heart. Another mother can talk about "obliterating" an entire innocent country filled with mothers and children
(8 comments) SHARE Tuesday, November 14, 2006 Cindy Sheehan: Open Letter to Reps Pelosi and Conyers; We the People are Setting the Table Now
We the people are shocked that you two are already stridently saying over and over again that impeachment is "off the table." Since the historic Nov. 7th elections, I have talked to a boat-load of Americans who want impeachment on the table. We activists worked hard to make these elections about national issues, like the illegal and immoral occupation of Iraq, and the culture of corruption...
(5 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 10, 2007 A New Direction to Disaster
A response to Karl Rove's Wall Street Journal Op-ed and the Dem Congress' Iraq policy;
In Karl's diatribe against the failed 110th Congress he makes all kinds of misleading and scurrilous claims about Congress. I NEVER thought I would agree with the Master of Sleaze about anything, but taking no joy in my agreement or conclusions, I do agree that the 110th is pretty pitiful, but for obvious different reasons.
SHARE Sunday, September 3, 2006 Obligations
There are obligations to oaths, obligations to conscience and moral obligations to humanity.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 12, 2006 Hey George
I came across the below exchange that you had with Matt Lauer on the Today Show. I would like to respond to you as an American.
SHARE Friday, November 10, 2006 Cindy Sheehan: Another Open Letter to George
I hope you realize that your demented policies and miserably failed leadership style is responsible for the thumping that your party took this week. Even though I couldn't be a secret first hand witness to your political demise, it was good to be in front of your soon-to-be-vacated premises in DC.
SHARE Monday, July 17, 2006 Me, Hugo and George
"While the world seems to be coming apart at the seams, it is also important for our mainstream, corporate-owned media to get their facts straight and report the news truthfully and with integrity instead of being tools for war and greed... George Bush is an out-of-control criminal who needs to be impeached for his lies, removed from office for his transgressions, and imprisoned for his crimes against humanity."
SHARE Thursday, December 7, 2006 Breakfast with Dennis Kucinich
Dennis gets the fact that Nov. 7th was a peaceful overthrow of war-time politics as usual. He realizes that America did not turn out in flocks to vote for the Democrats, because the Democrats have no clear, and yes, even, very confused platforms and polices, but Americans voted for a new direction in this country, especially a direction that leads us out of Iraq.
SHARE Monday, February 18, 2008 Military Tribunals and You
Madam Justice's fabled scales are heavily weighted to benefit the wealthy or the established ruling class. Ask any person of color or poor citizen here how the American justice system works for them. There is no place for secrecy or suppression of dissent in any free, open or democratic society. In allowing these military tribunals to continue the very cornerstone of human rights is being shattered.
SHARE Thursday, February 28, 2008 Women's Issues
All people who are in the human category deserve the rights to: good paying (union) jobs; a living, not minimum, wage; healthy food; clean water; warm shelter; health insurance; and good and accessible (for all) education. All people have the fundamental human rights to live in environments that are also healthy and free from war and violence or to marry or partner with whomever they choose as consenting adults.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 29, 2007 Come Together, Right Now!
Now after nearly 5 years of the illegal occupation of Iraq and over 5 years of the immoral occupation of Afghanistan, we all know, even those who watch the propaganda news networks and are in denial, that this war is not only gone horribly wrong from day one, but is a sham based on deceit.
SHARE Monday, December 24, 2007 What's on our Holiday Table
As we head into this holy holiday week, we must not be discouraged, but renew and redouble our efforts for peace and justice, not only for the USA, but for the world.