Cindy Sheehan Goes to Washington: list of speakers Saturday

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Thu, 22 Sep 2005 20:46:38 -0700 (PDT)

list of speakers Saturday and a request

 

 

 

 

If anyone is going to DC and has the time tonight or

in the morning to type out flyers for our boycott

group, just giving a website and email address, please

let me know and I'll send you the pdf.

 

 

 

Saturday morning:

 

Here's a partial list of speakers:

 

- Jessica Lange, actor

- George Galloway, British Member of Parliament

- Ramsey Clark, former U.S. attorney general

- Cindy Sheehan*

- Dolores Huerta, Co-Founder, United Farm Workers of

America

- Malik Rahim, New Orleans community activist who

survived Hurricane

Katrina

- Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney

- Ralph Nader

- Mahdi Bray, Exec. Dir., Muslim American Society

Freedom Foundation

- Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, attorney/co-founder,

Partnership for Civil

Justice, National Lawyers Guild

- Elias Rashmawi, National Council of Arab Americans

- Brian Becker, National Coordinator, A.N.S.W.E.R.

Coalition

- Lynne Stewart, human rights attorney

- Rev. Al Sharpton*

- Anita Dennis, mother of Iraq War veteran / resister

- Clayola Brown, President of the A. Philip Randolph

Institute, Vice

President of UNITE HERE**

- Ben Dupuy, Former Ambassador At Large for the

government of President

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

- Jos Williams, President, President of the

Metropolitan Washington

Council, AFL-CIO

- Michael Berg, father of Nicholas Berg

- Christine Araquel, Alliance for a Just and Lasting

Peace in the

Philippines

- Andy Thayer, Equality Campaign

- Curtis Muhammed, Community Labor Union of New

Orleans*

- Margaret Prescod, Global Women's Strike

- Hadi Jawad, founder of Crawford Peace House

- Chris Silvera, Teamsters Black Caucus

- Musa Al-Hindi, Al-Awda National

- Michel Shehadeh, L.A-8 defendant, a Palestinian

activist framed

COINTELPRO-style

- Nancy Wolforth, Executive Vice President, AFL-CIO

- Manuel Santos, Socialist Front of Puerto Rico

- Brenda Stokely, Million Worker March, New York City

Labor Against the

War

- Peta Lindsay, Youth and Student A.N.S.W.E.R.

Student, Howard

University student

- Mounzer Sleiman, National Council of Arab Americans

- Macrina Cardenas, Mexicanos Sin Fronteras

- Jeanette Caceres, Spoken word artist from New York

University

- Gloria La Riva, National Committee to Free the Five

- Riya Ortiz, Network in Solidarity with the People of

the Philippines,

Campaign for Justice Not War

- Larry Holmes, Troops Out Now Coalition

- Chuck Kaufman, Nicaragua Network

- Women's Anti-Imperialist League

- Representative of Bayan USA

- Eugene Puryear, Youth and Student A.N.S.W.E.R.

Student, Howard

University student

- Patti Smith, singer

 

 

" Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They

never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people,

and neither do we. "

 

George Bush, at the signing ceremony for a 417 billion dollar

" defense " bill.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cindy Sheehan Goes to Washington

By Sarah Ferguson

The Village Voice

 

Wednesday 21 September 2005

 

Peace mom takes her message to the president, Congress, and a lot

of television crews.

 

 

 

September 21, 2005 | The press and interested parties clamor around as

the Bring Them Home Now tour arrives in the nation's Capitol.

(Photo: Laura Sennett / Isis)

 

Cindy Sheehan brought her anti-war crusade to Washington, DC, on

Wednesday, arriving with a caravan of three RVs and several cars

ferrying about three dozen military families and Iraq War veterans on

the final leg of their 21-day Bring Them Home Now tour.

 

The tour included members of Gold Star Families for Peace, which

Sheehan helped found, Military Families Speak Out, Iraq Veterans

Against the War, and Veterans for Peace. They set off from their

encampment outside Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, on August 31 and

covered 51 cities in 28 states in a hell-bent sprint to mobilize

public opinion against the war in Iraq while building momentum for

what they hope will be a 100,000-strong peace march in DC this Saturday.

 

The plan was to close out the tour by converging on the steps of

the Capitol for a noon press conference, where they would lambaste

Congress for continuing to fund the Bush administration's misguided

war. But the schedule was derailed by Capitol police, who blocked the

RV Sheehan was traveling in, claiming they could not let the RVs pass

until a bomb-sniffing dog had searched the vehicles.

 

Read the complete article.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092205Z.shtml