Cindy Sheehan’s courageous stand has reawakened us to our power as individuals

When the hour and the real cause has come, the infection flashes like an electric spark over hundreds of miles. . . . The message goes through the air, and, in the one thing that counts all men are suddenly of one mind even if only in a blind conviction: Things must change.

–Jacob Burckhardt

Cindy (Sheehan) has been compared favorably to Rosa Parks who ignited the civil rights struggle by refusing to move to the back of the bus. . . . Cindy and her band of supporters in Crawford are electrifying the nation with a crusade for the truth as to the reasons we went to war.

–Ahmed Amr

On the evening of August 17, tens of thousands of supporters of Cindy Sheehan, mother of Specialist Casey Sheehan who was killed in action in Iraq on April 4, 2004, gathered at more than 1,600 locations across the nation. Several hundred of us met in downtown Asheville at Pack Square in a candlelight vigil to demonstrate our solidarity with this courageous mother and her call for an end to the war in Iraq. (more…)

Wednesday, August 24th, 2005