Cindy sheehan

An interview with antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan

Posted by Sandyenglish

"The Nation magazine has been supportive of me since March 2005. I think they exploited me and my popularity several times along the way. Now I think the editorials they’ve published are undermining my candidacy. That angers me. I feel like asking: do you care about the Democrats or do you care about democracy? These people who only care about the Democrats, I don’t think they care about democracy."

Post a comment

The Nation urges Cindy Sheehan not to run for Congress against Nancy Pelosi

Posted by Sandyenglish

The Nation magazine, a leading voice of left-liberalism, has come out in opposition to antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan’s decision to run for Congress as an independent against Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.

Read comments (2)

On Cindy Sheehan and impeachment: a reply to a Stalinist critic

Posted by Sandyenglish

The Communist Party’s essential functions remain: collaborating with the Democrats, serving as political hitmen for the labor bureaucracy, apologizing for and justifying countless acts of swinishness. Such a movement attracts unscrupulous people, people to whom history and principle mean nothing.

Post a comment

The political meaning of the conflict between Cindy Sheehan and the Democratic Party

Posted by Sandyenglish

The arrest of antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan along with several dozen others on July 23 in the office of Rep. John Conyers, Democratic congressman from Detroit, has a political significance that transcends the immediate event.

Post a comment

Iraq war opponent Cindy Sheehan arrested at Democratic Congressman's office

Posted by Sandyenglish

Antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan and dozens of supporters were arrested at the Rayburn House office building in Washington DC on Monday following an hour-long meeting with Democratic Representative John Conyers of Michigan.

Post a comment

Iraq war opponent Cindy Sheehan resigns from the Democratic Party

Posted by Sandyenglish

American antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan addressed an open letter to Congress May 26 announcing that she was leaving the Democratic Party, which now controls both houses of the legislature. Sheehan, whose 24-year-old son Casey died while serving in the US armed forces in Iraq in April 2004, came to prominence when she set up camp near George W. Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas in August 2005 as a protest against the war.

Post a comment

Antiwar Mom Leaving Camp to Aid Ailing Mother

Posted by Jeff from MSNBC

Post a comment