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Revolution, A Love Story

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Send a check/money order to Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox at PO Box 6264 Vacaville, Ca 95696 Or, use the donate button.             Dear Friend, This is a hard letter to write. Last February, I was so excited to tell you that my request to travel to Venezuela to interview President Hugo Chavez had been granted, and that I wanted to make a documentary of that visit. How nice, and different, to tell the truth about that country. In Revolution, A Love Story , I wanted to produce an anthem to the power of the individual in making courageous and powerful changes. Not only did I talk to President Chavez, but with President Evo Morales of Bolivia and many other government officials and Venezuelan citizens. I also had the pleasure of interviewing some amazing American intellectuals: --Michael Parenti, Ed Asner, and Gore Vidal on US Imperialism:; --Cynthia McKinney on stolen elections in the US; --Martin Sanchez, Consul General of Venezuela in San Francisc

"Second Chances" by Cindy Sheehan

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THE BEAT GOES ON In case you don’t know, Michael Vick is the current starting quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles, but while he was QB of the Atlanta Falcons, he was arrested, tried and convicted of running a dog-fighting ring that contained some of the most vile torture, cruelty, and death to mans’ “best-friend” that were tragically bred for Michael Vick’s sick and twisted pleasures. After spending 23 months both in prison or under house arrest, Michael Vick was signed to play for the Philadelphia Eagles and he earned the position of starting QB with a seven million dollar, two-year contract. I believe prisons should be rehabilitative and not punitive, but was justice served and did Michael Vick pay his debt to society for his horrendous crimes? Is he redeemed? Of course, what he did was heinous and inhumane and thinking about it fills me with disgust, but our president is not similarly conflicted. On Sunday, from Hawaii, Obama reportedly called Jeffrey Lurie, owner

Ground the Drones--January 4th in SF

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JANUARY 4th, 7:00 pm Where:  AFSC, Quaker Meeting House,  65 9th St., San Francisco (Near Civic Center BART) RESISTANCE TO DRONE WARFARE:   MOBILIZING AGAINST DRONES AND ENDLESS WAR. Everything you ever wanted to know about drone warfare but were afraid to ask. As the Pentagon and CIA continue to wage endless war, the use of unmanned planes for reconnaissance and missile attacks are increasingly the vehicle of choice.   Since these drone attacks and targeted assassinations result in no American casualties, in the short term they lesson  public outcry to our failed foreign policies.   In the long run, because of high civilian casualties,  they create more enemies and ultimately a more insecure world, as drone technology is  being propogated around the world without serious oversight into the ethical ramifications. - Find out about the current status of ACLU lawsuits on U.S. drone warfare,  - Learn the latest about drone technology and why we need to halt it in it

Don't go, Don't Kill (DGDK) by Cindy Sheehan

FIRST PUBLISHED IN AL JAZEERA ENGLISH LINK TO AL JAZEERA ENGLISH ARTICLE The recent repeal of the US military policy of "Don't ask, don't tell" is far from being the human rights advancement some are touting it to be. I find it intellectually dishonest, in fact, illogical on any level to associate human rights with any military, let alone one that is currently dehumanising two populations as well as numerous other victims of it's clandestine "security" policies. Placing this major contention aside, the enactment of the bill might be an institutional step forward in the fight for "equality"; however institutions rarely reflect reality. Do we really think that the US congress vote to repeal the act and Obama signing the bill is going to stop the current systemic harassment of gays in the military? While I am a staunch advocate for equality of marriage and same-sex partnership, I cannot - as a peace activist - rejoice in the fa

The Spread of the BP Plague!

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-Dear Friend, This Sunday's Soapbox (The final one of 2010 --where did this year go?), may be the most important show we have ever aired. I speak to four people who are working with survivors of the BP Gulf Oil Spill that is far from over--in fact, for 10-20 million residents of that region and over six-billion people on this planet, it is just beginning. Please listen beginning at 2pm Pacific on Sunday (at: www.CindySheehansSoapbox.com ) to a show that even fired up my engineer, Scott, who has been in this business forever, so much so, that he is sending press packets, with the show included, to the White House! The problem is as profound as terrible health problems for the residents and interrupting the Gulf Stream to as simple as changing our own habits in our personal lives with regards to the usage of fossil fuels.  Photo I took on Grand Isle last May In Solidarity, Cindy Sheehan PS: I'd like to extend a special thanks to all of our guests t

Open Letter to the Establishment Left to Climb off the Obama Bandwagon and hit the Streets

This letter is a call for active support of protest to Michael Moore , Norman Solomon , Katrina van den Heuvel , Michael Eric Dyson , Barbara Ehrenreich , Thomas Frank , Tom Hayden , Bill Fletcher Jr. , Jesse Jackson Jr. , and other high profile progressive supporters of the Obama electoral campaign. With the Obama administration beginning its third year, it is by now painfully obvious that the predictions of even the most sober Obama supporters were overly optimistic. Rather than an ally, the administration has shown itself to be an implacable enemy of reform. It has advanced repeated assaults on the New Deal safety net (including the previously sacrosanct Social Security trust fund), jettisoned any hope for substantive health care reform , attacked civil rights and environmental protections , and expanded a massive bailout further enriching an already bloated financial services and insurance industry. It has continued the occupation of Iraq and expanded

Grope-a-Palooza by Cindy Sheehan in Al Jazeera English

As a very frequent flyer, I have wanted to write about the abuses of the Transportation Security Agency (TSA) for years now. To tell the truth, since I am such a frequent flyer and often recognised by individual TSA employees, I was a little timid about this because I did not want flying to become an even bigger hassle and more invasive than it already is. But the recent brouhaha over the Chertoff-O-Scanners has given me the courage in numbers to be able to write about my experiences. The first thing that bugs me is how complacent my fellow travellers are about the civil rights abuses we endure to be able to take the airplane seats we pay hundreds of dollars for. The second we click 'purchase' on the airline's website, we are treated as though we are guilty just for wanting to go from point A to B by plane. This goes against our constitutional right of being presumed innocent until proven guilty. Every time a TSA operative asks me if he or she can "tak

PEACE OF HELP?

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Peace of Help? Dear Friends, My name is Cindy Sheehan-many people may not recognize my name or face anymore, but I know you remember what I did in the summer of 2005. My precious oldest son, Casey, was killed in Iraq on April 04, 2004, and since then I have spent my life trying to end the wars that were based on lies that took his life. That led me to set up Camp Casey on Prairie Chapel Road in Crawford, Texas, to ask then-U.S. president George Bush "What Noble Cause" killed so many Americans, Iraqis and Afghans. Since then, I have traveled America and the world-thanks to many wonderful invitations--seeking partners for peace. One of my favorite stories from all my travels was when I was speaking in Venice, Italy, and a young woman from Texas, of all places, approached me after the meeting and told me that every male in her graduating class was going to join the National Guard, but after my protest in Crawford, every single one of them decided no

PEACE OF HELP?

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Savage Austerity by Cindy Sheehan

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"Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class." James Connolly, Irish Freedom Fighter and founder of the Irish Labor Party “We’re all in this together,” is the chorus the ruling class loves to sing while it simultaneously bestows  “quantitative easing” upon banks after imposing “savage austerity” measures on the working class. I have been worried about Obama’s Bowles-Simpson “Cat Food Commission” (CFC) on reducing the deficit since it was announced, and it turns out my worries were well founded. Besides suggesting raising the retirement age to an ungodly 69, savage cuts to Social Security and Medicare are proposed. Who needs Social Security and Medicare? Not the elite, but they are not forgotten in the CFC plan, the CFC also proposes to REDUCE taxes on the top earners from an already too low 35%, to an absolutely obscene 23%! Obama is following the international sport of the ruling class o

See George Write by Cindy Sheehan

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So George Bush wrote a book—if you believe that, you probably also believe he actually won the elections in 2000 and 2004. Yes, I am sure, George, who couldn’t string two coherent words together without the help of a team of speech-writers and policy makers, wrote a 512 page book all by his widdle self. Whatever! Can you even imagine George at a computer keyboard, with a full ashtray next to him and a half finished scotch within easy reach, pounding away at his “book?” That image makes me giggle. I have written five books, it’s hard work and “Junior” has never had to do a spot of hard work in his entire life and has been constantly bailed out of bad judgment (Decisions?) and the military draft by George Senior and his friends. George calls his book Decision Points. What a title for the ol’ Decider himself! George’s “Decisions” rank near the very top in U.S. history for heartache and despair, and reportedly, in the book, he says that his biggest “failure” as POTUS was not priv

Help us send a message to Congress!

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Please donate 10.00 to help us spread the message of peace to Congress this January Or send a check/money order to: Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox, LLC PO Box 6264 Vacaville, Ca. 95696 Thank you!

Remember, Remember by Cindy Sheehan

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“Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission .” “V” from the Movie : V for Vendetta I arrived in London on November 5 th , tired and cranky from 12 hours on a cramped and crowded airplane with flight attendants calling everyone “darling” with a smiling mask that hid the fact that all they really wanted to do was slap the passenger that asked for another cup of tea; and sick from a virus my grandbabies gave me which was exacerbated by the dry airplane re-circulated stale air. As soon as I got to my closet called a hotel room in Paddington Square in the afternoon, I collapsed. A few hours later, I was

Slack Jawed Corporate Tools by Cindy Sheehan

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I am laid up today with a virus that I picked up from my grandbabies, so I finally took the opportunity to watch a movie I have been wanting to watch forever: 2004’s Iron Jawed Angels, starring Hillary Swank as badass woman’s suffragist, Alice Paul. Alice Paul and her friend, Lucy Burns, were two educated, young, and modern women who moved to Washington, DC to lobby for a constitutional amendment giving the women the right to vote, over six-score years after the U.S. Constitution was ratified, extending the right to vote to only propertied white men, and 50 years after black men received that right. While we still live in a chauvinistic nation that hasn’t ratified an Equal Rights’ Amendment, the sacrifices and commitment that our early sisters made has advanced the female cause here in the U.S. dramatically. They were arrested protesting in front of the White House during a Democratic Wilson administration, imprisoned, tortured and force-fed while on hunger strike (this stuff didn’t ju