In a lengthy piece focusing on Cindy Sheehan’s previous efforts, including her independent run for Congress against Nancy Pelosi, the Hill reports: Five years and a new president later, however, Sheehan will be sleeping under the stars again, and for the same cause. Her new coalition, Peace of the Action, is launching the Camp OUT [...]

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H/T ABC News On her blog, Cindy Sheehan writes that she “found out that the ‘operation’ that killed my son is over. ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom’ got its name after the ‘great’ Powers That Be figured out that ‘Operation Iraqi Liberation’ stood for ‘OIL.’ Now, Obama’s SecDef, Robert Gates, has changed that benign name to an [...]

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Found at Libertarian Peacenik: I’ve been asked to forward this, and instruct readers to do likewise: I have been on the national board of Voters for Peace since its inception and believe strongly in the Pledge for Peace. I have not voted for a pro-war candidate since. Unfortunately, many people are still mired in fear-based [...]

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The following was sent as an email to Cindy Sheehan supporters: Three events over the holidays have caused me great consternation and they proved to me that I am not so cynical and jaded that my government can’t still shock me, if anything Of course, the first event has to be the “Crotch Bomber.” The [...]

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Posted at On The Wilder Side: An Interview with Cindy Sheehan Obama, Progressives and the Press By MIKE WHITNEY You know a lot of people across the country. What’s the mood among Obama supporters? Have they thrown in the towel already or do they still think he’ll turn out to be the leader they hoped [...]

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Posted at On The Wilder Side by Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer from Dandelion Salad Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Blog Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox Dec. 19, 2009 I dreamed I saw Casey Sheehan last night alive as you and me Says I, “But Casey, you’re two years dead,” “I never died,” says he, “I never died,” says he. [...]

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Cynthia McKinney was the Green Party candidate for President in 2008. Peace activist Cindy Sheehan has said, “If any American ‘politician’ got the NPP, it should have been Cynthia McKinney.”

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In an email to her supporters today, anti-war activist and 2008 independent congressional candidate Cindy Sheehan announced an ambitious protest that she hopes to see started by March of next year.  Before saying what she will be doing, Sheehan listed things that she sees wrong in this country, which she called a “police state.”  She [...]

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Cindy Sheehan, third party supporter and former independent congressional candidate, updates her supporters about upcoming events and the “International People’s Declaration of Peace.”

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Cindy Sheehan sent an email to supporters that conveyed her condolences to the Kennedy family and the people of Massachussetts. She also talked about her progress on a new project.

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A few days ago I interviewed Cindy Sheehan, half as an blogger and half as an interested citizen activist.  Below the fold is the audio of the interview.  I’ve also typed up a brief summary of the interview, or at least what I could write down of her answers while holding a tape recorder in [...]

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On Sunday, June 21st I will be interviewing Cindy Sheehan, the famous woman who became an anti-war leader and independent candidate for Congress after her son was killed in Iraq.  If you have any questions you would like me to ask, just leave a comment. The interview will not be on Independent Political Report Radio, [...]

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Former independent Congressional candidate Cindy Sheehan has blogged the following address to be read at San Francisco’s local End the Fed demonstration, part of a nationwide coordination of protests being held today outside of all Federal Reserve branches:

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Cindy Sheehan, a peace activist who ran for Congress against Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in 2008, is publishing an eBooklet next week which will either call for a new, third party and/or reject or our current system entirely. The eBooklet is titled, “Myth America: 10 Greatest Myths of the Robber Class and the Case for Revolution.”

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Cindy Sheehan is a peace activist, and was the 2008 independent candidate for Congress against Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco. Sheehan has launched a new web-presence and a radio show called, “Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox.”

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Posted at On The Wilder Side On the morning of December 10, 2008, Cindy Sheehan, Nelson Valdes, Saul Landau, and I signed a declaration as the U.S. delegates to an international conference assessing sixty years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights sponsored by the Network of Networks in Defense of Humanity. Here is our [...]

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From Op-Ed News by way of On The Wilder Side Peace is not an absence of war: it’s an absence of preparing for war or an absence of using violence or threats of violence to solve problems (Cindy Sheehan). Today is the 67th anniversary of the “day that will live in infamy.” Likely, if you [...]

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The following is reposted from OpEd News. It was written by former independent candidate for Congress and prominent anti-war protestor Cindy Sheehan: While Secretary of the Treasury from 1999-2001, Larry Summers worked with the Clinton administration and Congress to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act so that Citicorp could become Citigroup. The Glass-Steagall Act was a reform [...]

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Kat Murti reports in the Daily Californian: Big-name liberal activists-including Ralph Nader and Cindy Sheehan-celebrated the lifelong activism of late UC Berkeley alumnus Peter Camejo Sunday at the International House. Camejo, who ran as Nader’s vice president in 2004 and was seen by many to be a major figure of the American left, died of [...]

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