Synopses & Reviews
Cindy Sheehan is America's loudest, clearest, and most articulate voice calling for an end to the U.S.-led wars now being waged around the world. This pamphlet is her voice.
Five days after Cindy's oldest son Casey arrived in Iraq, he was killed in an ambush. Now she wants answers to some really basic questions, starting with this: For what "noble cause" are we sending thousands of young Americans to their grave in Iraq and Afghanistan? In a calm motherly voice Cindy says, "there is no noble cause."
Having lost her son, Cindy has dedicated herself to the mission of not just ending this war, but to addressing the underlying causes that lead us as individuals and as a society to accept violence and war as a solutions to our problems. Cindy Sheehan says another way is possible.
When she camped outside President Bush's Crawford, Texas, home last month to demand that the President come out and talk with her about the war, she not only succeeded in putting the war back into national debate, she started the Camp Casey antiwar movement. That President Bush never came out to meet her comments on our collective situation. Cindy is on a long, determined mission that's just getting started. In this pamphlet Cindy shares her journey from private grief and despair, to public action and nonviolent civil disobedience. Inspired by Martin Luther King , Jr., Henry David Thoreau, and Mahatma Ghandi, this pamphlet traces Cindy's arc from being the mother of a fallen solider, to the mother of a falling nation. The text is a transcript of a conversation between Cindy Sheehan and Greg Ruggiero.
Synopsis
This pamphlet, released on the day of the Sept. 24 anti-war protest in DC, is an abbreviated version of a longer forthcoming book by Open Media.
Cindy Sheehan has become the most effective voice of the anti-war movement. This is her first publication available to the book trade.
Cindy and her nationwide organization, Gold Star Families for Peace are currently on a 51 city tour of the United States.
Cindy has been featured in all the major media and will continue to be giving interviews, holding press conferences, and leading Peace rallies nationwide until the last US soldier returns home.
About the Author
Cindy Sheehan is an American anti-Iraq War activist who attracted international attention in August 2005 for her 26 day demonstration at a peace camp outside President George W. Bush's Texas ranch. Sheehan became a vocal antiwar activist after the death of her son, US Army Specialist Casey Sheehan, in Iraq last year. She is sometimes referred to by the media as the "Peace Mom."Greg Ruggiero cofounded the Open Media Series in 1991, and has since published some of the most outspoken scholars, social justice advocates, and dissidents of our time, including Angela Davis, Allen Ginsberg, Alice Walker, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Ralph Nader, Arundhati Roy and Subcomandante Marcos.