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| Protest on the Road
by Joe Garofoli , San Francisco Chronicle
August 31st, 2005
Anti-war demonstrators leaving Bush's Texas ranch to take their message to the people |
| The 'Good News' from Baghdad
by David Michael Green, Common Dreams
August 30th, 2005
Mr. Bush, of course, is famously unable nowadays to articulate just what honorable cause our soldiers have been killing and dying for, despite the hundreds at Camp Casey demanding of him precisely that. |
| Mother's Day in Crawford
by Medea Benjamin and Gayle Brandeis, Common Dreams
August 26th, 2005
When Cindy Sheehan marched into Crawford, Texas to ask President Bush why her son died in Iraq, it was Mother's Day. |
| Coming Back to Crawford
by Cindy Sheehan, Huffington Post
August 24th, 2005
I'm coming back to Crawford for my son. As long as the president, who sent him to die in a senseless war, is in Crawford, that is where I belong. |
| A Turning Point
by Phoebe Connelly, In These Times
August 23rd, 2005
Organizers say that September's massive gathering in D.C. will crystallize antiwar sentiment. |
| The Occupation is Not Over
by Laila El-Haddad, AlterNet
August 23rd, 2005
I do not want my son growing up in another phase of this occupation; I do not want him to have to describe how his life and his childhood was hijacked by an occupier he could not see. |
| Truth in Recruiting
by Bob Herbert, New York Times
August 22nd, 2005
Should people who are being recruited into the armed forces be told the truth about the risks they are likely to face if they agree to sign up and put on a uniform? |
| I Was Just a Spark That Lit This Fire
by Juan Gonzalez and Amy Goodman, Democracy Now
August 19th, 2005
Cindy Sheehan had to leave Crawford temporarily after her mother suffered a stroke. She spoke with Democracy Now! in the airport on her way to Los Angeles. She said that also she left her vigil without meeting with President Bush, she said, "This Camp Casey movement is bigger than me. It's growing, it's bigger than any of us." |
| I Need to Know Why
by Dante Zappala and Celeste Zappala, TomPaine.com
August 17th, 2005
We are in Crawford, Texas. We are sunk down into the soil of our country, digging in for a few days near the president's ranch. Our friend Cindy Sheehan has been entrenched here for a week, demanding a meeting with the president. |
| Mother's Iraq-war Protest near Bush Ranch Picks Up Steam
by Michael Fletcher, Orlando Sentinel
August 15th, 2005
Several hundred war protesters converged on Crawford during the weekend, and many of them had similar stories. They think [Cindy] Sheehan, a 48-year-old mother from Vacaville, Calif., whose son was killed in Iraq last year, has ignited a struggling peace movement with her quiet, but defiant protest. |
| Bush Ducks Mother of Dead Soldier
by Alan Freeman, Toronto Globe and Mail
August 12th, 2005
President using helicopter to enter, leave Texas ranch to avoid confrontation |
| Occupied Zones
by Howard Zinn, ZNet
August 11th, 2005
It has quickly become clear that Iraq is not a liberated country, but an occupied country. |
| Rage Against the Killing of the Light
by Norman Solomon, AlterNet
August 10th, 2005
Mid-August 2005 may be remembered as a moment in U.S. history when the president could no longer get away with the media trick of solemnly patting death on its head. |
| A Mother's Texas Vigil
by Lakshmi Chaudhry, AlterNet
August 10th, 2005
Cindy Sheehan is a woman standing vigil in the eye of a gathering storm. This grieving mother -- who lost her son in the war on Iraq -- has been waiting outside President Bush's Crawford, Texas ranch to meet face-to-face with the commander-in-chief. |
| Sheehan Draws Tears of Support
by Greg Moses, Common Dreams
August 10th, 2005
When Robert DeLozier saw the story of Cindy Sheehan on television Sunday, he told his spouse right away: 'I'm going up there. We have to drop everything and go.' At the Sam's Club of all places, says Robert, he nearly broke down crying while he was shopping Monday morning thinking about what Sheehan was doing in memory of her son Casey, who was killed in Iraq last April. |
| Every Mother's Son
by William Rivers Pitt, TruthOut.org
August 9th, 2005
George W. Bush hauled stakes for Texas and a vacation a few days ago. Cindy Sheehan followed. She got off a bus Saturday afternoon and started walking to the Crawford ranch. She wanted some answers and was going to get them. |
| Of the Many Deaths in Iraq, One Mother's Loss Becomes a Problem for the President
by Richard Stevenson, New York Times
August 8th, 2005
President Bush draws antiwar protesters just about wherever he goes, but few generate the kind of attention that Cindy Sheehan has since she drove down the winding road toward his ranch here this weekend and sought to tell him face to face that he must pull all Americans troops out of Iraq now. |
| Big Star Spangled Lies for War
by Norman Solomon, Common Dreams
August 8th, 2005
A lot of people want to believe that the current war on Iraq is some kind of aberration -- a radical departure from the previous baseline of U.S. foreign policy. That's a comforting illusion. |
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