Author: Chuckjones

Summer of Love ‘07 On a Journey for Humanity Cindy Sheehan The other day I came out of my short retirement due to yet another Bush flagrant abuse of power. We decided that we would walk from Atlanta to DC to gather a people’s movement for humanity. The longer BushCo are in office the less… Continue reading Summer of Love 07 by Cindy Sheehan

[July 3, 2007 note by Cindy: Since I sent out the last piece, the Rev’s hearing has been postponed for a month…so our walk will be starting on July 10th from Camp Casey…details TBA.] Call Out the Instigator Cindy Sheehan Call out the Instigator Because there’s something in the air We got to get together… Continue reading Call Out the Instigator by Cindy Sheehan

CONGRESS CAN STILL FOLLOW THE LIBBY OIL TRAIL By Nick Mottern, Director, ConsumersforPeace.org The first famous obstruction of justice in which Scooter Libby was involved came at the end of the Clinton presidency when Bill Clinton pardoned Marc Rich, the notorious international criminal who has made billions from illegal oil trading. One can argue that… Continue reading CONGRESS CAN STILL FOLLOW THE LIBBY OIL TRAIL

How to Destroy an African-American City in Thirty Three Steps – Lessons from Katrina By Bill Quigley. Bill Quigley is a human rights lawyer and law professor at Loyola University New Orleans. You can reach Bill at Quigley@loyno.edu Step One. Delay. If there is one word that sums up the way to destroy an African-American… Continue reading How to Destroy an African-American City in Thirty Three Steps

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… Continue reading Turn-Turn-Turn by Cindy Sheehan

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… Continue reading Open Letter to Cindy Sheehan

Being Hope by Kathy Kelly May 31, 2007 Earlier this week, the American Friends Service Committee asked me to speak about finding hope in hard times as part of an interfaith service to conclude their “Eyes Wide Open” display in Chicago’s Grant Park. The display arranged 3,438 soldiers’ boots to commemorate U.S. military people killed… Continue reading Being Hope, by Kathy Kelly

[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 a… Continue reading Cindy Sheehan’s Heartbreaking Conclusion

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… Continue reading Where Have All the Giants Gone by Cindy Sheehan

Street Heat Cindy Sheehan When we left Lafayette Park yesterday there were 3396 Americans dead in Iraq. When we got to the Capitol about 45 minutes later, the count was up to 3498 and when we got out of jail 8 hours later, 3401 were gone. Three-hundred amazing Americans joined us yesterday in The Mother… Continue reading Street Heat by Cindy Sheehan