Cindy Sheehan on Hunger Strike at the White House
“We’ve marched, held vigils, lobbied Congress, camped out at Bush’s ranch, we’ve even gone to jail, now it’s time to do more”
“This war is a crime,” the icon mother told a crowd of clapping, cheering protesters.
“We represent millions of Americans who withdraw their support from this government.”
Millions of American have just watched in disgust as our congress ignored the will of the American people and voted against setting a timetable for withdrawing our troops from Iraq. Who exactly are they representing and what course of action do ‘we the people’ have at this point?
Cindy Sheehan has began a hunger strike at the White House and is pledging to stay as long as it takes until our government does right by our troops and the Iraqi people and returns US troops from Iraq immediately. If you browse around the net however, you wouldn’t even know that she and 150 patriots are camped out in direct confrontation of Bush and his policies. Cindy is providing the spark, but she needs our help to spread the word and raise the volume of our demands for justice.
Cindy needs our support to stop this war now. It is time to start asking questions of everyone who still supports these war crimes, starting with your ‘representative’ and senators.
Questions 4 Bush PDF Flyer
When discussing the 4th of July with friends and family, perhaps now is the time to gently remind them of the meaning of the holiday.
Sheehan said just because Tuesday is the 4th of July does not mean we should be celebrating.
“Everybody needs to stand up, go out of their comfort zone,” Sheehan said. “And I don’t understand how people can party tomorrow while people are suffering.”
Don’t just sympathize, open the window and yell,
“We’re mad as hell and we’re not taking it anymore!”
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July 4th, 2006 at 7:02 pm
I am with you Cindy, although i believe Bush and Pals don’t care… But I stand with you in mind and heart.
God Bless you…
we need to celebrate a NEW 4th of July, hopefully you can help pave that way.
July 4th, 2006 at 8:10 pm
We are like that flock of people who came out from Egypt with Moses. They could have avoided their 40 year sojourn in the wilderness if they’d had more courage. They were at the mountain separating their promised land from the desert wilderness, and Moses sent 10 spies to have a look around and see whether they could conquor it. Eight of them came back, saying they appeared as ‘grasshoppers’ to the furriners, that the land would consume them in their attempt to conquor it.
Our once proud country is owned by the corporations, and eight out of 10 of the people we look to for information about how we might get rid of the corporate powers that be say, ‘No, we can’t do it, we’re nothing but grasshoppers compared with them,’ even though our Constitution does say this land is ours.
Just how many years are we going to wander through the wilderness with this mess — or are we going to leave it up to our children to clean it up?
July 4th, 2006 at 9:04 pm
Cindy, you are such an awesome person. I was so impressed when I saw you speak in Maui that I actually made a little video in honor of the feelings you stirred up in me. It’s set to the Blondie song “One Way or Another” which I find appropriate to your determination to hold Bush accountable for his actions.
Keep the faith, girl, we’re with you all the way.
One way or Another!
Lela
July 4th, 2006 at 9:05 pm
Cindy, you are such an awesome person. I was so impressed when I saw you speak in Maui that I actually made a little video in honor of the feelings you stirred up in me. It’s set to the Blondie song One Way or Another which I find appropriate to your determination to hold Bush accountable for his actions.
Keep the faith, girl, we’re with you all the way.
One way or Another!
Lela
July 4th, 2006 at 9:06 pm
We are in deep shit. While the people of America soundly sleep, our Constitution and Bill of Rights have been completely shredded. It’s too late now to save this country with hunger strikes and lobbying. Nothing short of another REVOLUTION has a snowball’s chance in hell to save what’s left. The dollar is set to bust soon, so all of us can finally see the people who sit in their “comfort zone” watching Faux News finally be pushed out of their homes, and onto the mean streets. Can you imagine the look on their faces, as their make-up runs off their face into a sick sort of sludge, as they finally realize that IT WAS PLANNED ALL ALONG. By the way, Happy fourth.
July 5th, 2006 at 2:29 am
Shut it Down!
The Corpo-Pirates have stolen our Government.
D.C. is a armed camp.
The Faux Media
Is an Improper-Gander outlet.
The Voting Machines are broken!
WAR!
DEBT!
TREASON!
A FAUX Resident resides in the Black House.
Dick the Heartless runs Americo!
911 was an attack
On the American people
By
These
Fascist
Tools.
The system is corrupted
By Corpirate GREED!
Shut it Down!
Clean the system!
Then
REBOOT!
July 5th, 2006 at 2:42 am
The 4th of July is national kick out your current government and install a new one day. So let’s take this month and do just that. I mean if a bunch of guys 200 years ago can do it so can we. All we have to do is remove EVERY member of our current government and put the nation on hold maybe a week or two while we install 24 hr surveillance systems to watch every politician every moment of every day while they represent us. Call it a perk of the job that they get a lot of TV time. TRANSPARENT government that works like open source software is the answer here. 1 term each, checks and balances, CONSTANT surveillance made available on public TV with full audio/video LIVE. plus get rid of these jobs that stay while presidents come and go. You know like limit the time anyone can be involved in the Government at all. Oh and lets do something about the military industrial complex like Ike was telling us. Like maybe stop them from being able to buy politicians then make all patents publically available after 1 year or something like that to stop the suppression of technologies that exist that can solve ALL energy problems definitively. Or just make it illegal to hide certain tech advances from the people or easy licensing or something. My point here being… Let’s physically remove ALL gov employees and elected officials one at a time if neccessary due to national security reasons they will never be eligible for office again etc. Once they are removed (give them NO time to clean up) then we can sort through the mess they made and issue a public apology to our children for taking so long to do this.
Thank you for returning the USA to its rightful owners Cindy!
July 5th, 2006 at 5:13 am
Cindy must be credited with her vigilence at trying to stop the war. Unfortunately, it will not work. The US gov’t doesn’t care. What can one expect from a gov’t that cages protestors, forces book outlets to drop the book “America Deceived” by E.A. Blayre III and illegally wire-taps all Americans? Cindy eat a burger and forget this endeavor. A Revolution is the only way left.
Last link (before Google Books caves to the gestapo):
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?&isbn=0-595-38523-0
July 5th, 2006 at 6:07 am
Cindy, I appreciate you so much! You care about the issues, not your image (unlike so many) and you are willing to make the sacrifice necessary to do this non-violently. I don’t agree with the talk about revolution because violence only begets more violence and the cycle never stops. What I am doing, and what I think everyone needs to do (not the only thing to do but one thing that is important) is to educate people about what is really happening in the war in Iraq. Our war is not helping Iraq. It is tearing the country to pieces, and the pieces are bloody and cruel. I’d like to see an America united against the evil of war and violence because they finally understand (if we give them that understanding) that invading and occupying other countries solves nothing and only brings more suffering. Keep up the good work, Cindy! God bless you!
July 5th, 2006 at 6:19 am
cindy should ask bush what are american citizens doing fighting for israel then coming back to the USA to live whats wrong with the united states army? right now these traitors are killing innocent palestinians
July 5th, 2006 at 10:28 am
I think this summerizes what many of you are saying quite nicely, though I’m convinced one may use nonviolent means towards this end:
“When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
July 5th, 2006 at 10:53 am
Why aren’t ALL the blogs talking about this? Gold Star Families for peace link goes to a very old post. Afterdowningstreet.com…all the sites that are supposed to be supporting Cindy are letting her down.
Media Benjamin of code pink wrote about this and didn’t even mention Cindy Sheehan, an internationally known mother who has challenged Bush openly and been all over the corporate media. cindy is the spark we need, not code pink who has embarrassed themselves by protesting at walter reed military hospital among other things.
ken Lay died(yeah sure) and that is ALL OVER the news, but only the international media cares about Cindy on hunger strike at the White House? Can’t the blogosphere at least unite in support of Cindy?
It looks like we are going to have to spread the word about this protest ourselves!
July 5th, 2006 at 11:06 am
Starving for Attention: Troops Home Fast, Day One
by Cindy Sheehan
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=12439
July 5th, 2006 at 2:15 pm
Hi Cindy,
In solidarity! On the fourth I was out with my vigil buddies (we’ve been protesting out on our city’s corner for five years now every week) and decided that we needed to take give a differnent message besides the usual “No War” “No Bush”. Our recent sign said “The War On Terror is a Fraud — 911truth.org” because we have to acknowledge that it is just not just Bush and it is not just the war but it’s a systemic problem with country. It is run by a truly evil secret government and congress knows this, yet does nothing. We have to start looking a the problem in a much deeper way, otherwise nothing will ever change. Stop the war, stop the insanity! Expose the evil by reveling the inside job of 911!
July 5th, 2006 at 5:05 pm
Pictures of the protest
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=12449
July 6th, 2006 at 8:27 am
I had no idea that Cindy was having a hunger strike at the Whitehouse.
But I knew Ken Lay died.
I guess the criminals are the new
heroes of the government.
July 10th, 2006 at 11:19 pm
It’s been a week, is she dead yet? I’m sure its just a symbolic hunger strike and she’s not suffering at all. You liberals are all about symbolism but cannot grasp actual substance. You want the war to be over because soldiers are dying, yet you hate the military. If it wasn’t for our military, you probably wouldn’t be here much less be able to spout your hilarious “opinions”.
By the way, its been almost 5 years and how many terrorist attacks have we suffered since 9/11? Oh, Zero? Well, thank you Mr. Bush
July 21st, 2006 at 6:39 pm
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