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Keep the Change!
Keep the Change!
By Cindy Sheehan | CindySheehan'sSoapbox
“If George Bush was/is a war criminal; then Obama is a war criminal. If Obama is not, then Bush is not. We the people cannot have it both ways.” Cindy Sheehan, Martha’s Vineyard
Cindy Sheehan
Through many difficulties we faced on Martha’s Vineyard, (the sad passing of Senator Kennedy, Tropical Storm Danny---and even getting my wallet stolen) last week, a hearty band of about a two dozen of us, from off the island and on, tried our damndest to revive some kind of anti-war sentiment in this nation.
The media wanted to make it a story about the media: about how Crawford was such a big story and how Martha’s Vineyard is not. I don’t think that was the story, though.
Even though, we received endorsements from three of the most effective national anti-war groups; Veterans for Peace, Iraq Vets Against the War and World Can’t Wait and about a dozen others from smaller groups, but the large groups that supported the anti-Bush, anti-war message of the Camp Casey in Crawford were MIA physically and spiritually from the actions in Martha’s Vineyard. Read more.
The New York Times ran an article on Sunday claiming that after a long period of dormancy, the “anti-war” movement was getting “restive” and planned to do some actions in October around the 8th anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan.
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Cindy, you write that at the Vineyard, "We decided to write an International People’s Declaration of Peace which we will promulgate all over the world: raising grass roots support for a true People’s driven peace movement, not one driven by foundation funding or partisan politics." THE PEACE WAVE would love to be able to use your statement on May 1, 2010 to read everywhere on Earth. Let me know if you want another contributor to work with you all on the statement!
THE PEACE WAVE need peace workers to organize a rally for global peace: ~ ~ PEACE WAVE! ~ ~ MAY 1, 2010. The event will include everyone in the world who believes in peace, not war, and should not happen only in cities. It can happen anywhere in the world. rural/urban, farmyards, city streets, shipyards, factories, banks, state parks, mountains, airplanes, rivers, valleys and everywhere else. People just walk outside the building and take a stand for peace. Neighbors will gather on the sidewalks, parking lots, gardens, parks, state parks, main streets and squares ---- just everywhere! Those who are homebound will choose how to participate in it. Some, hopefully many, will choose to organize marches. We can have candlelight vigils, prayers, hold hands, dance and sing. We now have solidarity. We now have the drive. All for peace. Our roar shall sound throughout the world: "We are in charge for peace!" There are billions of us. Together we can send a strong message to governments that believe in the war. Please let me know if you are able to get this message to your friends and people still more in your area (if possible). If you can bring the message to the community through the media, please! Questions? Contact Linda Kendall-Hagan at
http:/voiceforpeace.ning.com/forum/topics/peace-wave or Facebook. Please email peacewave2010@gmail.com with your ideas, suggestions, questions, and how you can help. (Google Tanslate has been used to translate this message from English to Italian, Hindi, French and other languages at http://translate.google.com/translate. All you do is paste your Microsoft Word doc into the translate box, choose the language you’re translating to, press the button and there it is!)