VERY INSPIRING report from Crawford

[dooner]

Sheehan Draws Tears of Support
by Greg Moses, August 09, 2005

When Robert DeLozier saw the story of Cindy Sheehan on television Sunday, he told his spouse right away: "I'm going up there. We have to drop everything and go." At the Sam's Club of all places, says Robert, he nearly broke down crying while he was shopping Monday morning thinking about what Sheehan was doing in memory of her son Casey, who was killed in Iraq last April.

"She's a strong woman," says Robert via cell phone as he drives back home Monday night. "She feels she has been wronged. She feels her son has been wronged. And she feels like this whole occupation of Iraq is wrong. She is strong and powerful enough to take a stand. When I see it, it just strikes a chord. She's speaking truth to power. That's it. David and Goliath."
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"It's very moving being out there," says Abbe. "I'm so glad I went." She's going to clear her schedule and go back soon. "I'm very emotional, very glad. If I could communicate to you what it's like to be there. If people could see it and experience it, well then number one..." But Abbe can't finish the sentence. "I can't finish the sentence, because I'm crying."

"Let me just say," says Abbe Waldman DeLozier through her tears, "that there would be millions out there. Millions."

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=1&ItemID=8473
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Greg Moses is editor of Peacefile and author of Revolution of Conscience: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Philosophy of Nonviolence.

[Lochloosa]

1. This Lady has the Repugs screaming....

listened to Boortz and the drug addict today....they are SCARED of this one.

Sorry can't bring myself to listen to Shehannity...I just can't...


When Robert and Abbe arrived at the camp about 4:00 this afternoon, folks had just moved off a "triangle" of grass at the request of police and were camped down in a "ditch area" with cows and field for as far as the eye could see. Press reports put the group five miles from the President's ranch, but Jim Harrington of the Texas Civil Rights Project says that if the media get to stand within a half mile of the ranch, so should the protesters. Legal help is another thing people are giving.

Later in the evening black suburbans started whizzing past. A stream of maybe 25, coming down the road, one after the other, about a minute apart, with government tags. Soon after that overhead came the presidential helicopter with a three helicopter escort, buzzing past the camp and over to the Western White House. But the impressive action was down in the ditch among the small band of resolute activists who have flung themselves together for this circle of courage and tears.

[Melodybe]

8. They should be scared! Thanks for this wonderful thread!

Kicked and Nominated.

[maddezmom]

2. Cindy made the papers here in the UK

a small blurb, but atleast they noticed. :thumbsup: Said she met with Hadley and someone else (can't recall) but the twig stayed inside.

[frictionlessO]

3. Please nom this! Some the most inspirational reporting from there yet!

and Im reposting this from the same post from a different thread earlier.

If your empathy didn't bring a tear to your eye

or a longing in your heart, then you need to repent and nom this! If it did, then you should nom this....

"Millions"... thats all I've been thinking since Saturday... "Millions"... fuck the security threat... its time to just start following this awful little man around until he listens to this mother call him out on his lies!

Nom it!


(pretty please..)

[cliss]

7. He may get his wish.

I believe that if they arrest Cindy and other protesters, it will blow this story wide open.

There's really nothing big in the news right now. There's a summer lull.....reporters are nosing around for some good stories. Of course, this story is radioactive.

Now, I believe there's a threat to arrest her on Thursday. I fully believe they will do this. I expect Bush will refuse to meet her. He'll brush it off like a mosquito on his arm. He'll ignore the danger.......

until it's too late. And after Thursday, it will be too late.

[no_to_war_economy]

12. she is ready to go to jail, this cause is worth it and she knows it

just like medea benjamin

[DanCa]

4. She is amazing

My heart bleeds for her loss, and soul is inspired by her dedication. The world would be a lot brighter, softer place if we had more people like Cindy. God loves cindy. my thoughts and prayers are with you.

[meganmonkey]

5. She is such a hero

:cry:

I wish I could go. I got my vacation time approved for the DC rally though - that's the best I can do right now...

[Imagevision]

6. I hope other families of KIA's in Iraq let there voices be heard!!

the whole world is watching and would be supported!

[malmapus]

9. I've been trying to get the time off to go myself

My boss put in his PTO starting this thurs already and shot me down all day yesterday. GRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!

[Peace Patriot]

10. Thanks for this post, dooner! Such an incredible, beautiful, inspired

thing this is. So amazing.

Here's info from the postcard to Cindy thread. Send card or envelope, including money if possible, or postcard of encouragement--maybe showing your home town, to:

Cindy Sheehan
c/o Crawford Peace House
9142 5th St.
Crawford, Texas 76638-3037

For those who can't go, publicize, fundraise. For those who can, GO! This IS the Second American Revolution, and this one's for peace!--so doable, if only we had "consent of the governed."

My mantra: 58% of the American people opposed the Iraq war BEFORE the invasion. I'll never forget that stat. Feb. '03. Across the board in all polls. 58%!

We were not fooled. We were DISENFRANCHISED. Next: Election system reform.

[frictionlessO]

11. kickers... I have read this like 5 times today.. really struck a chord...

did it for you as well?