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73 Photos from the Sept. 15th Antiwar Rally Continue reading
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Fred Mason + Tina Richards + Gloria La Riva + Peta Lindsay; Sept 15 Rally in Wash, DC (videos)
Fred Mason: Working People Want This War to End!
On Saturday, September 15, 2007, the ANSWER Coalition, a progressive antiwar group, sponsored a Mass March and Die-In in Washington, D.C. Its purpose was to raise the consciousness of enough people in this country to stop the illegal and immoral Iraq War and to prevent the Bush-Cheney Gang from launching a war against Iran. The rally took place in Lafayette Park, just north of the White House, where a number of prominent speakers were heard.
One of the speakers was Fred Mason. He is the President of the Maryland and District of Columbia, AFL-CIO. He said: “Working people want this war to end.” He added that Congress should “cut off the funding and bring the troops home.” For additional details, and updates, on the Sept. 15th rally, and for the exact number of arrests, please see: http://www.ANSWERCoalition.org.
Tina Richards: “All Power to the People!
One of the speakers was Tina Richard, CEO of Grassroots America. A Marine Mom, she read a very moving poem to the crowd from her son, Cloy, an Iraq War Veteran. It was entitled, “A Word is Worth a Thousand Pictures.” When she finished the poem, Ms. Richards demanded: “All power to the people!”
Gloria La Riva: George W. Bush Is a Terrorist!
One of the speakers was Gloria La Riva. She is with the “National Committee to Free the Cuban Five.” Ms. La Riva said: “George W. Bush is a terrorist for his [Iraq] war…He is also a terrorist for the U.S. government policy which he has intensified against the country of Cuba.”
Peta Lindsay: “This War Is a War Against Women!
One of the speakers Peta Lindsay. She is with the ANSWER oganization and goes to school at Howard U. in the D.C. Ms. Lindsay said: “This War [in Iraq] is a war against women…George Bush is the world’s biggest criminal.”
see:
Can’t do DC on 9/15? Telephone Protest for September 2007 + Write to YOUR Elected Officials!
Dueling Demonstrations Washington Post h/t: Antiwar.com
Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin: Bring the Troops Home! + Brian Becker: The People Will Mobilize! + Kevin Zeese: Bush Is the Boldest Deceiver! (videos)
Cindy Sheehan: We Have Had Enough! + War Protesters vs. Capitol Police + Rev. Lennox Yearwood: War Is Obsolete! (videos)
On Saturday, September 15, 2007, the ANSWER Coalition, a progressive antiwar group, sponsored a Mass March and Die-In in Washington, D.C. Its purpose was to raise the consciousness of enough people in this country to stop the illegal and immoral Iraq War and to prevent the Bush-Cheney Gang from launching a war against Iran. The rally took place in Lafayette Park, just north of the White House, where a number of prominent speakers were heard. One of the speakers was Cindy Sheehan, co founder of Gold Star Mothers for Peace. She said: “We have had enough.” She added that it is time for Congress to “impeach” George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. For additional details, and updates, on the Sept. 15th rally, and for the exact number of arrests, please see: http://www.ANSWERCoalition.org.
War Protesters vs. Capitol Police
Anti-war protesters face the Capitol Police on the back patio area of the US Capitol on September 15, 2007.
The protesters that jumped the barricades got arrested.
http://www.JamesKotecki.com
Rev. Lennox Yearwood: War Is Obsolete!
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President of HipHop Causus talks about being assaulted in DC (video)
Davis Fleetwood at the War Protest Sept 15 + Civil Disobedience Brings Arrests at U.S. Capitol (videos)
I caught up with YouTube’s own Davis Fleetwood at the big September 15th war protest.
See: Davis’ website: No Cure For That
Civil Disobedience Brings Arrests at U.S. Capitol
On Saturday, September 15, 2007, the ANSWER Coalition, a progressive antiwar group, sponsored a Mass March and Die-In in Washington, D.C. Its purpose was to raise the consciousness of enough people in this country to stop the illegal and immoral Iraq War and to prevent the Bush-Cheney Gang from launching a war against Iran. The rally took place in Lafayette Park, just north of the White House, where a number of prominent speakers were heard. It was followed by a march by the demonstrators to the U.S. Capitol, where a symbolic “Die-In” took place. The later affair was led by members of the Iraq Veterans Against the War. An estimated 1,000 of the protesters took part in the “Die-In” part of the event. Some of the demonstrators were also arrested by Capitol Hill police for failing to obey a police order, or for crossing a police line, and/or for possibly various other charges, too. One of the protesters arrested was Brian Becker, National Coordinator for the ANSWER Coalition. For additional details, and updates, on the Sept. 15th rally, and for the exact number of arrests, please see: http://www.ANSWERCoalition.org
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MSM coverage:
War protesters, supporters converge in D.C.
More Than 150 Arrested at Iraq Protest
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Can’t do DC on 9/15? Telephone Protest for September 2007 + Write to YOUR Elected Officials!
Announcing a Planetary Visualization for World Peace Tuesday, September 11, 2007 – 8:45 a.m. EST
If one person can create their future with their thoughts, imagine what a large group of people can do together… Imagine if a million or more people around the world visualized World Peace at the same time! Imagine what the positive collective consciousness of a million or more people can do!
~ Announcing a Planetary Visualization for World Peace ~
~ Tuesday, September 11, 2007 – 8:45 a.m. EST ~
~ Be a part of change! Be a part of history! Add us to your friends to be counted! ~
h/t:
~PLANETARY VISUALIZATION FOR WORLD PEACE~9/11/07~
See:
What the Bleep Do We Know? + Quantum Pt 1 (videos)
“Fire the Grid” on July 17 at 11:11 AM GMT (Pray for the Planet) (updated: video)
Bush Supresses “Impeach Bush” Press conference (Sept 15)
Global Research, September 7, 2007
Impeach Bush
Bush’s police suppress Sept. 15 press conference
While the momentum for the Sept. 15 Peace/Impeachment demonstration grows, the Bush Administration is going to extraordinary lengths to suppress the mobilizing for this mass demonstration.
Less than 18 hours ago, National Park Service Police turned a September 15 Press Conference, held in front of the White House, into a chaotic scene. On the pretext that there was no permit for a three foot long folding table that the media placed their microphones on, the police intervened in the middle of the press conference to announce that it was an unpermitted activity. Three people were arrested and are still being held in jail. They include Adam Kokesh, an Iraq war veteran; Tina Richards of Grassroots America; and Ian Thompson an ANSWER Coalition organizer.
The Parks Police even rode a horse directly into the crowd of reporters and shocked onlookers. The National Parks Police is an agency in the Interior Department whose Secretary is a member of George W. Bush’s cabinet. In recent weeks September 15 organizers have been fined more than $30,000 for putting up posters promoting the September 15 March on Washington.
We encourage ImpeachBush.org members to circulate this email and the important story from the AFP wire story that documents this outrageous assault against Free Speech rights by the Bush Administration. At the end of this email we are also enclosing a link to a video on YouTube that shows some part of the suppression of the September 15 press conference yesterday.
Bush and company want to prevent people from coming out for a mass action led by Iraq war veterans and their families that will expose his war propaganda as a lie. The Administration wants to suppress the growing movement for impeachment. This is a showdown of great magnitude.
Please make every effort to come to Washington DC on September 15. We will not be intimidated. Join the tens of thousands who are coming to Washington, DC on September 15. Buses, car caravans and vans are coming from more than 100 cities.
If you cannot personally come you can help by making a generous donation. The buses, literature, posters, stage, sound and other expenses are immense. Many have already contributed. Please do your part and make a contribution today by clicking this link.
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Police break up anti-war meeting in Washington
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Mounted police charged in to break up an outdoor press conference and demonstration against the Iraq war in Washington on Thursday, arresting three people, organizers and an AFP reporter said.
“The police suppressed the press conference. In the middle of the speeches, they grabbed the podium” erected in a park in front of the White House for the small gathering, Brian Becker, national organizer of the ANSWER anti-war coalition, told AFP.
“Then, mounted police charged the media present to disperse them,” Becker said.
The charge caused a peaceful crowd of some 20 journalists and four or five protestors to scatter in terror, an AFP correspondent at the event in Lafayette Square said. No one appeared to have been hurt.
Three people — Tina Richards, the mother of a marine who did two tours of duty in Iraq; Adam Kokesh, a leader of the Iraq Veterans Against the War group; and lawyer Ian Thompson, who is an organizer for ANSWER in Los Angeles — were arrested, Becker said.
The ANSWER coalition is trying to rally support for an anti-war demonstration in Washington that is due to take place on September 15.
Last month, the movement was threatened with a fine of at least 10,000 dollars unless it removed posters in the city announcing the September 15 march.
Washington city authorities have said the posters had to come down because they were stuck on with adhesive that did not meet city regulations.
“At our demonstration today we were showing the media that the paste we use conforms to the rules,” Becker said. “One of our activists was making a speech when the police barged in and grabbed the podium. At that point, Tina Richards started to put up a poster, so they arrested her and two others.”
“This strategy of suppression has not worked. We expect many tens of thousands of people” in Washington for the September 15 anti-war demonstration, he said.
The march has been timed to coincide with the release of a report by the US military commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, and will be part of a week of protests led by veterans of the Iraq war.
A petition calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush, allegedly carrying one million signatures and endorsed by former US attorney general Ramsey Clark, will also be submitted to officials during the week’s activities, ANSWER has told AFP.
see:
Can’t do DC on 9/15? Telephone Protest for September 2007 + Write to YOUR Elected Officials!
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Can’t do DC on 9/15? Telephone Protest for September 2007 + Write to YOUR Elected Officials!
by xxdr_zombiexx
The Smirking Chimp
Sep 4 2007
I have dropped a couple comments recently about setting up a telephone protest to coincide with the the massive 9/15 Iraq Moratorium Protest. These have received a few positive comments in return.
I think it would be a popular idea if communicated to enough people fast enough. Thus, my next step is to post the formal suggestion. Are YOU interested in protesting the Bush Administration but cannot get to the 9/15/07 Protest in DC?
Most people cannot go to this. Lots of people can and thats as it should be but America is huge and transportation and days off from work are scarce for a lot of people. Most people that really want to go likely cannot.
There is a way to join in in solidarity and it’s pretty easy.
One problem with protesting in a physical location is it is usually a day or a weekend and then it disperses.
IF the Old Media Cartel wasn’t so focused on minimizing protests these would likely be sufficient, but the OMC does a serious job of underreporting the numbers and limiting photographic evidence of a protests’ size. They actively work against the people they are supposed to inform.
The Telephone Protest
I say one very viable solution is a “telephone protest”. We all agree to call certain political offices from one date and time to another. That’s all.
I like it because it’s simple. And cheap.
For example, I have more rollover minutes than I know what to do with. I can lay siege to some government phones for many hours at no actual cost. Lots of Americans can, I think, join in this.
I am posting this at Daily Kos, Smirking Chimp and Chimpster Nation, Diatribune. Others – please feel free to post this other places you think are going to be responsive. E-mail me and I’ll give you the article’s html so you can just paste it into the submission box of your preferred site.
The Million Phone March
I have sent an e-mail to The Million Phone March an organization I remembered and searched for today. I have asked them what they think. If this will get off the ground I will post their feedback, if any.
Dates: 9/10/07 – 9/28/07
1: The Phone Protest of 9/2007 should start on the 10th and last through the rest of the month. The protest should be ongoing when the People arrive in DC for the protest on the 15th. This phase, if it is sufficiently robust, should be an excellent preface to the massive turnout on the weekend of the 15th.
2: Monday through Friday, 8:30 am to 12:00 Noon and 1:00pm to 5:00 pm for the phone siege. E-mails and faxes – no limitations, no mercy. Flood ’em.
3: The Phone Protest should continue until the 28th. From the 10th to the 28th is likely long enough to really have gotten attention and, if sustained this long could have a very significant impact.
Phones, Faxes and E-mails.
I am figuring that at first we target
- Harry Reid
Phone: 202-224-3542
Fax: 202-224-7327
NO conventional e-mail. Use his contact page - John Conyers
Phone: (202) 225-5126
Fax: (202) 225-0072
e-mail: john.conyers@mail.house.gov - Nancy Pelosi
Phone: (202) 225-4965
Fax: (202) 225-8259
e-mail: AmericanVoices@mail.house.gov - On this page the Million Phone March has the following numbers listed as 24 hour numbers. Doubtlessly a good place to start.888-818-6641 or 888-355-3588
- Congress.org: Find more contact info here.
Message in a nutshell
Flood the e-mail and faxes with these 3 basic messages:
* IMPEACH !!
* US out of Iraq !!
* No Attack on Iran !!
Note: Be polite and brief. I will be on good behavior. If I can do it, most others can.
Diversity and Tolerance
So often when a protest happens, one finds all sorts of “causes” coming out of the woodwork. This is fine for a variety of reasons but we cannot be distracted by the diversity. If you want to use the duration of the protest to focus on your pet issues (mine’s cannabis relegalization) go for it. I am not going to be focused on anything but the 3 messages above.
Of course your message is OK too; I merely suggest these as a away to consolidate the message. 3 simple ones are best for addressing government agencies. (I was told this by a Fulton County commissioner when I was in her office protesting the elimination of mental health services here about 5 years ago. She said: Keep it simple and no more than 3 points.)
Dare to have fun!
Oh… almost forgot. We are currently “Officially in Historic Times”.
The Bush 43 Administration is the most corrupt in American history, without peer. It has obscured the massive criminality of the Reagan Administration and makes Richard Nixon seem like a disgruntled little boy selling lemonade on a corner.
This is the context for your participation in making a phone protest work as intended. If it works even moderately, it will be a success and it will be part of history. That’s a pretty good deal for a few cell minutes.
And I so totally encourage you to think that this could be a LOT of FUN. IF we can all get a 2 and a half week Phone Siege flooding targeted offices with work-disrupting levels of calls it will be fun to be part of it and to do it.
Assessing the Surge
It doesn’t have to be more than noticeable for this to be effective. It doesn’t have to obliterate their communication ability, though that would be good.
If it just complicates their communication tasks a few times a day it will be noticeable.
Here are 2 goals to listen for in your efforts:
* exasperation in the answerer’s voice.
* Busy signals for long periods of time. That will indicate this is going desirably.
Here is the 3rd goal that I don’t expect to be met:
* Congress people or their aides posting reactions on Daily Kos or other sites asking for the phone action to stop. That would be perfect.
I am posting this now and will post follow-ups as the 10 and the 15th approach. I would certainly love for others to post their own works on this issue.
Once it starts – if it actually takes off – we can post some “liveblogging” or open threads to discuss particular incidents (busy signals, exasperated office staffers, bright ideas, new phone numbers).
Thank you for reading and I hope you will choose to do some phone calling sometime this month.
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Write to YOUR Elected Officials!
Ed. Note: here’s where you can find YOUR elected officials info. From a blog I made a long time ago: Write to YOUR Elected Officials!
On this website, you put in your zip code and up comes your Senators’ and Congressperson’s name and email address and it also covers your statewide senator and representative. I like that it shows how YOUR elected officials voted on various bills.
http://www.congress.org/congressorg/home/
Go there often and keep on writing these guys/gals.
cheers,
Lo
Iraq Vet Calls on You to Take A STAND on Aug. 28th (video) + Attn: COMO Town Hall Mtg Aug. 29
Iraq war veteran, John Bruhns, calls on you to join hundreds of thousands of Americans on Aug. 28th for National Take A Stand Day. Make your representatives Stand Up in September to end the war in Iraq.
Sign up for a Take A Stand Town Hall in your community at www.iraqcampaign.org
h/t: Jacob
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Locally:
Bring your concerns, ideas, and questions about the WAR IN IRAQ to the Ninth Congressional District Town Hall Meeting.
August 29, 2007
7 PM
Commission Chambers
Boone County Government Center
Courthouse Square
Columbia, MO
Please encourage Representative Hulshof to attend by calling his office at 573-449-5111.
Call Pro-Vote at 573-256-7701 for more information.
Labor donated
h/t: Scott
Reps. Paul & Kucinich Campaign in NH (C-SPAN tonight 08.26.07 6:30pm ET)
Note: I’ll look for the videos of this program later tonight. Hopefully it will be uploaded by someone onto YouTube. ~ Lo
ON ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE
Reps. Paul & Kucinich Campaign in NH
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Sept. 15: Act Now to Stop the War! (video)
Stop the War – Start a Revolution (Aug. 25)
https://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/
More info: http://www.kportprotest.org/
Please join Cindy Sheehan, INDIGO GIRLS, Melida and Carlos Arredondo, George Paz Martin, war resister Augustin Aguayo, retired Colonel Ann Wright, Ashley Smith, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, Eugene Puryear, Bruce Gagnon, Charlie Clements, Doug Rawlings, and others, along with Iraq Veterans at a rally and march to the Bush Family Compound.
This will be a convergence of anti-war, environmental, labor and social justice activists along with concerned citizens. To break the cycle of endless war we need to draw attention to America’s need for systemic change. Let us start a “revolution of values.”
h/t: Malcolm
Journey to Awareness – Crossing the Line (video clip link; SOA)
Warning
This video contains images depicting the reality and horror of war and should only be viewed by a mature audience.
A group of Richmond High School students produced the documentary “Journey for Justice – Crossing the Line” about the School of the Americas and their trip to the November Vigil to close it down.
Watch the Trailer: http://www.soaw.org/article.php?id=1372
The School of the Americas (SOA), renamed to “Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation,” is a U.S. military training school for Latin American soldiers that has left a trail of blood and suffering throughout Latin America.
The SOA has trained over 64,000 Latin American soldiers in courses such as counterinsurgency, psychological warfare, military intelligence and interrogation tactics. Graduates of the school have been consistently linked to human rights violations and to the suppression of popular movements in the Americas.
Among those targeted by SOA graduates are educators, union organizers, religious workers, student leaders, and others who work for the rights of the poor. The SOA is the Pentagon’s way of controlling the armies of Latin America with the goal of controlling the people and their resources. The SOA provides the military muscle to keep the racist system of domination and exploitation in place – benefiting a few at the expense of many. Hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans have been tortured, raped, assassinated, “disappeared”, massacred, and forced into refuge by those trained at the School of Assassins.
School of the Americas Watch
What is the SOA
http://www.soaw.org/type.php?type=8
Vigil and Nonviolent Direct Action to Close the School of the Americas (SOA/ WHINSEC) – November 16-18, 2007
http://www.soaw.org/article.php?id=1295
h/t: Hugo Chavez
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Congressman Dennis Kucinich To Receive More Than 100,000 Petitions From Supporters Seeking Impeachment of Dick Cheney by David Swanson
After Downing St
Thursday, August 2, 2007
HC-8 in the U.S. Capitol
10 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Congressman Kucinich will receive petitions from people throughout the country who support impeaching Vice President Dick Cheney.
Kucinich introduced H. Res. 333, which proposes articles of impeachment against the Vice President on April 24, 2007.
Petition signatures in support of impeaching Vice President Cheney have been collected at http://www.impeachcheney.org by a coalition that includes Brave New Films, A28, AfterDowningStreet, Backbone Campaign, True Majority, Iraq Veterans Against the War, BuzzFlash, Democracy Rising, Democrats.com, Grass Roots America, Hip Hop Caucus, ImpeachBush.tv, Impeach for Peace, Impeach Space, The Nation, National Lawyers Guild, OpEdNews, The People’s Email Network, Progressive Democrats of America, Code Pink, United for Peace and Justice, Velvet Revolution, World Can’t Wait. The coalition will present Congressman Kucinich with 113,000 signatures, plus additional petition signatures from some individual groups.
Working Assets, the only wireless company fighting to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney, has collected over 50,000 of its members’ signatures to submit to their Congressional representatives calling for his impeachment. True Majority has collected 49,000 signatures. Democrats.com and AfterDowningStreet have collected an additional 28,000 signatures in support of impeaching the Vice President. And Impeach for Peace has brought together thousands of hand-written memorials, in accordance with the rules of the Jefferson Manual, from individuals around the country urging the impeachment of Dick Cheney.
Representatives from several of these organizations will take part in Thursday’s event.
There are currently 16 co-sponsors of H.Res. 333: Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Rep. Robert Brady (D-PA), Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-MO), Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), Rep. Sam Farr (D-CA), Rep. Bob Filner (D-CA), Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA), Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA), Rep. Donald Payne (D-NJ), Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), and Rep. Al Wynn (D-MD).
On a Journey for Humanity By Cindy Sheehan
Summer of Love ‘07
On a Journey for Humanity
By Cindy Sheehan
July 6th, 2007
The other day I came out of my short retirement due to yet another Bush flagrant abuse of power. We decided that we would walk from Atlanta to DC to gather a people’s movement for humanity. The longer BushCo are in office the less chance we have of recovering the heart and soul of our nation, saving our soldiers and the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, and saving the planet from corporate and individual waste and pollution. Impeachment, removal from office, and in a perfect world: incarceration for the criminals against humanity, are urgent and necessary steps that need to be taken today.Since the announcement of the Walk, circumstances have changed. Rev. Lennox Yearwood is not going to have his hearing for Conduct Unbecoming until the end of August, and we were going to begin our walk after his hearing on July 12th in Macon, GA. So consequently, we are going to begin our Journey on July 10th in Crawford, Texas.
Our Journey will take us through places such as Ft. Benning, GA, and New Orleans where Bush Crimes have had such a deeply detrimental affect on people. Torture and the continued criminal lack of help for the people of the Gulf States are two of BushCo’s more heinous crimes.
Our Journey will also take us to House Judiciary committee members’ offices where we will sit-in and demand that they institute Articles of Impeachment against Bush and Cheney immediately. On July 23rd, we will be in Congressman John Conyers’ office to encourage him to take the lead on impeachment. A sit-in in his office is possible and likely.
The US part of our Journey will end in New York City where on July 27th we will stage a demonstration in front of the UN to highlight the refugee crisis in the Middle East caused by the Bush High Crime Cabal. There are millions of people displaced by the atrocity in Iraq and, no matter what former US Ambassador and leading neo-con war criminal, John Bolton says: the US does owe the people of Iraq more than we can ever repay. The very least we owe them, though, is a relatively safe country to live in and basic human rights like: homes, food, clean water and medical care.
On July 29th, we will be re-creating the Summer of Love and hold a “Gather-in of Hearts” in Central Park with leading activists and musical entertainment. Proceeds will go to Iraqi Refugees and for medical supplies for Iraqi hospitals.
When we are finished in NYC, a few of us will be Journeying to Amman, Jordan to help refugees in Jordan and Syria. We will visit the camps to assess the depth of the humanitarian crisis that is causing so many children to unnecessarily and tragically suffer. We have so much in this country. How can we allow our brothers and sisters to go without basics? Who can sleep comfortably at night and enjoy three square meals a day when other people only have moldy bread to eat and are starving? Do you think of the people of Iraq and the refugees literally dying of thirst when you go to turn on your tap for plentiful, clean water? Our animals here in the US are treated better than many humans on our planet. As MLK, Jr said in his speech at the Riverside Church on April 04, 1967: “My government is the biggest purveyor of violence.” Our government has killed enough people to populate many small states in the US and has forced millions more to flee their places of birth. Our governments will never change, but our hearts can and we can do much to alleviate suffering and change the world.
Since I announced the Journey for Humanity, I have received a lot of support and encouragement, and many “I’ll be with you in spirits.” We appreciate your moral support, but we need your bodies and your dollars if you can’t participate. Our world is in an environmental, political and humanitarian state of emergency at this point and participation in a People’s Movement for Change, Justice and Humanity is becoming mandatory by our membership in the Human Race.
Our route and flyer for the “Gather-in of Hearts” is posted at Camp Casey Peace Institute. Donations can also be made there. Visit our MySpace page and be our friend!
We also need volunteers in cities along the route to help coordinate rallies/actions and food/ housing for walkers. To volunteer, e-mail Dede Miller at tiggerloli@aol.com or call: 562-912-5838 (we don’t take blocked calls.)
Walk Route
Date – Leave – Arrive
July 10 Crawford Tx — Houston Tx
July 11 Houston Tx. — New Orleans La.
July 12 New Orleans La. — Montgomery Al.
July 13 Montgomery Al. — Ft. Benning Ga,
July 14 Ft. Benning Ga — Atlanta Ga.
July 15 Atlanta Ga. — Gainsville Ga.
July 16 Ganisville Ga. — Clemson SC
July 17 Clemson SC — Charlotte NC
July 18 Charlotte NC — Greensboro NC
July 19 Greensboro NC — Lynchburg NC
July 20 Lynchburg NC — Charlottesville Va
July 21 Charlottesville Va. — Richmond Va.
July 22 Richmond Va. — Arlington Va
July 23 Arlington Cem — White House/ Capital
July 23 Washington DC — Philadelphia PA.
July 24 Philadelphia PA — Allentown PA
July 25 Allentown PA — New York City NY
July 26 United Nations Action
July 27 Begin to Gather at Central Park
July 28 TBA
July 29 Gathering of Hearts Fest Central Park
Cindy Sheehan is the mother of Spc. Casey Sheehan who was killed in Bush’s war of terror on 04/04/04. She is the co-founder and president of Gold Star Families for Peace and The Camp Casey Peace Institute. Read other articles by Cindy.
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