Entries Categorized as '"The 'Movement"'

Eric Ruder on the weak antiwar movement

Date October 31, 2007

Original article in Socialist Worker
Why is the antiwar movement so weak?
October 12, 2007
ERIC RUDER analyzes the state of the national antiwar struggle and what lies ahead.
SINCE THE start of the Iraq war, antiwar sentiment has grown dramatically in the U.S. In 2003, 23 percent of the U.S. population thought the U.S. invasion was a mistake. [...]

Turn-Turn-Turn by Cindy Sheehan

Date June 19, 2007

Turn, Turn, Turn
Cindy Sheehan
To everything there is a season.
A time for war, a time for peace.
Ecclesiastes, Hebrew Scriptures
I wish I could say I thought of something profound as
I saw the president and his wife’s picture on that
billboard on Hwy 317 in my rear view mirror on my way
out of Crawford today. I will be back [...]

Open Letter to Cindy Sheehan

Date June 4, 2007

Open Letter to Cindy Sheehan: We need you now more than ever
from the Campus Antiwar Network
We remember first hearing about you standing up to Bush in Crawford, Texas with admiration and hope. Just months before he had been re-elected, not because the majority of people supported the war, but because John Kerry offered us nothing [...]

Cindy Sheehan’s Heartbreaking Conclusion

Date May 29, 2007

[Ed. Note: This writer (Charles Jenks) fully agrees with Cindy Sheehan about the peace movement. It too often works at cross purposes, and is beset by turf defending and sectarianism. I also believe that partisan politics has failed the American people, the Iraqi people and the people of the world. The Iraq War is [...]

Where Have All the Giants Gone by Cindy Sheehan

Date May 20, 2007

Where have all the Giants Gone?
Cindy Sheehan
We have an old saying in my adopted state of Texas and you may have it in your own state too: “Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” America is not unique for perpetuating a history that was founded on genocide and where violence is [...]

Frances Crowe - Blow up Balloons Not Bombs

Date May 16, 2007

On Mother’s Day - May 13, 2007 - Frances Crowe tells story from a previous Mother’s Day protest of 25 years ago. She was speaking with Sunny Miller, Executive Director of Traprock Peace Center.
Frances Crowe is a prominent peace organizer and pacifist. She was a co-founder of Traprock Peace Center. She urges Traprock to “carry [...]

Kent State Keynote by Cindy Sheehan

Date May 5, 2007

Kent State 37 Years Later
Cindy Sheehan
This is the keynote address Cindy gave on May 04, 2007, at the commemoration of the Kent State Massacre.
First of ail, I would just like to say that I am not only in favor of impeaching George Bush and Dick Cheney, but of trying them for war crimes and locking [...]

Four Dead in Ohio

Date May 2, 2007

Four Dead in Ohio
Cindy Sheehan
May 4th, 2007 will be the 37th year since the Kent State, Ohio, massacre where four anti-war protesters were killed by Ohio National Guardsmen during a protest against Richard Nixon’s announced escalation in Vietnam.
On that day in 1970, anti-Vietnam war sentiment in the entire nation was high as hundreds of soldiers [...]

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