Camp Casey Update
Cindy Sheehan's efforts in Louisiana - Read
Posted: Saturday October 1st, 2005
Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in the Iraq War, was on her way to Washington D.C. to continue her vigil and seek audience with President Bush, when Hurricane Katrina hit and devastated the Gulf States coastlines and transformed historic city of New Orleans to a contaminated wetland.
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Peace Action Denton welcomes Cat Bucher and Mike Sutton
Posted: Monday September 12th, 2005
Cat Garlit Bucher returned last month from five weeks accompanying clergy and human rights workers under death threat in northern Colombia. A majority of the accompaniment assignments were to displaced persons camps, and to conflict zones from which people were being displaced for a multitude of economic and political reasons.
Colombia has the second largest population of internally displaced in the world (Sudan is worse). Out of a population of about 43 million people, 3 million are registered as displaced, but there are at least as many millions more who are displaced, but choose not to register because registration can make them targets for extortion or even assassination.
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Cindy Sheehan in Louisiana: New Orleans Refugees want answers, too!
A Letter from Veterans for Peace
Posted: Monday September 5th, 2005
Dear Friends,
Cindy Sheehan, Gold Star Families For Peace, Veterans For Peace and Military Families Speak Out were on their way to DC when the White Rose, the VFP bus with the southern route made its way into Covington, Louisiana, a community near New Orleans that is full of working class refugees from Katrina. They have set up a kitchen, clinic and communication center in Covington, which had no electricity or phone service...not even cell phones...before they arrived.
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Summer, 2005 − Denton businessman takes his car to Crawford, Texas.
The car names all U.S. soldiers who have died in Iraq.
Posted: Saturday July 16th, 2005
President George Bush vacationed at his ranch in Crawford, Texas. Cindy Sheehan, mourning the death of her son Casey, set up camp near the Bush ranch to await a visit. She only asked for him to talk to her and tell her why her son and other mother's sons had to die in a war that had no good cause.
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The War in Iraq is Two Years Old
by Özlem Altiok
Posted: Monday March 7th, 2005
Upcoming Event: Saturday March 19th, 2005.
“For years, the Lebanese people have suffered from the aftermath of a horrific civil war and occupation by Syria. Lebanese citizens who have watched free elections in Iraq are now demanding the right to decide their own destiny, free of Syrian control and domination. Syria has been an occupying force in Lebanon for nearly three decades, and Syria's support for terrorism remains a key obstacle to peace in the broader Middle East.”
G.W. Bush’s radio address on March 5, 2005.
On March 19, 2003, the United States invaded Iraq.
Two years later, on Saturday, March 19, 2005, at 11a.m., citizens of Denton join at the Denton County Courthouse on the Square to march against the ongoing war in Iraq.
Here’s why.
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Cindy Sheehan, Gold Star Families For Peace, Veterans For Peace and Military Families Speak Out were on their way to DC when the White Rose, the VFP bus with the southern route made its way into Covington, Louisiana, a community near New Orleans that is full of working class refugees from Katrina. They have set up a kitchen, clinic and communication center in Covington, which had no electricity or phone service...not even cell phones...before they arrived.