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What does one get when her son is killed in Iraq? A Gold Star and...

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Violation and Arrest for Exercising her Rights! (Vandenberg AFB, February 25, 2012)

Dueling Trajectories at Vandenberg AFB

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Very good coverage of our protest at Vandenberg early Saturday morning. Cindy Sheehan arrested at Vandenberg. February 25th, 2012 Daniel Ellsberg being arrested at Vandenberg, AFB; February 25, 2012

Long Live Hugo Chavez! by Cindy Sheehan

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LONG LIVE HUGO CHAVEZ!  The same day that I learned that the feds were suing me, I also learned that, Hugo Chavez, someone whom I admire greatly would have to undergo more cancer surgery because another lesion was discovered on, or near, the place the cancerous tumor he had removed last year. My struggle with the Empire has been intense, but our Comrade in Venezuela has sacrificed much in his struggle against the Empire and now he is battling something that will be his greatest struggle, and victory. Chavez had an emotional send off from his people to Cuba for treatment this past Thursday with cheers and showers of flowers as he traveled from the presidential palace, Miraflores, to the airport in an open jeep. I can't imagine a US president going anywhere unless he travled in an armored convoy. What a tribute to this great man (Chavez) who has done much to improve the life of the poorest of the poor in Venezuela. Please send your good energy his way and my story

Roseanne Returns: Listen to the Soapbox at 2pm Pacific

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Or at the archives forever! 'Roseanne returns !   Click here to listen or download, beginning at 2:00 PM San Francisco time.  Today, (February 26th), Cindy is unavailable for comment (due to issues related to her"Surprise: Cindy.  You're being sued!" post, linked above) and our website editor is also under the weather, so all we have is a maximally excellent appearance of comedian Rosanne Barr - once more running for President of the United States.  (Only this time she has the endorsement of NORML - which is most important in the State of California!)  Cindy also brings us musician David Rovics, author of the 2005 tune our webmaster always thinks of as Casey's song , but which David actually recorded under the title "Song for Cindy Sheehan." David also talks about his new song for Palestinian political prisoner, Khader Adnan, and an update about his case. The day after Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox sent out a plea to help him, he ended his

The Sound of Collapse by Cindy Sheehan

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I was invited to jump on a bus called the Green Tortoise this past Friday (Feb 24) to travel down to Vandenberg AFB in central California to protest the test launch of an ICBM missile. The bus originated in Oakland and we stopped in San Jose and Salinas on the way down to pick up more anti-nuke/pro-humanity activists and met dozens of others who were already near the entry of the base at about 11:30pm. The “launch window” was open from 2am to 8am on the 25 th . The missile was destined to come down about 25 minutes after launch in the Marshall Islands. Cindy speaking at rally According to one of the organizers of the event and long time anti-nuke protester at Vandenberg, MacGregor Eddy, the combination of the missile launch and missile cost US taxpayers 28 million dollars. Needless to say the potential loss of life in a nuclear holocaust is mind numbing. As heroic legend, Daniel Ellsberg said at the rally before the launch: “this is only one missile being launched, can you imagi

What else does this government want from me?

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Surprise, the US Attorney Has Filed a Law Suit Against You!

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Surprise, the US Attorney Has Filed a Law Suit Against You! Cindy Sheehan It’s not a secret, and hasn’t been one for about 8 years now, that I am a conscientious tax objector. It’s also no secret that the IRS has been on my case about it recently. So, tonight I was having coffee at a local restaurant with an activist/friend and we were chatting about some very sensitive issues when a man wearing a blue long-sleeved shirt and tie approached our table. I thought that it might be the manager of the restaurant but he said, “Hi Cindy, I am Cornell from Channel 10 News in Sacramento.” Sometimes it happens that members of the media recognize me and say “hi” when their presence has nothing to do with me, so I shook his outstretched hand and replied, “Hi, what are you doing here in Vacaville? Just passing through?” He said, “No, actually I am here to talk to you.” I have been pretty quiet lately, working on my radio show and trying to promote my new book, so I was r

Urgent Appeal for Khader Adnan

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Urgent Call for Action Monday, 20 February 2012 00:00   We call upon you to exert all possible influence and pressure on the Israeli Authorities to immediately release detainee Khader Adnan, whose life is in immediate danger as he has been on a hunger strike for the past 64 days. The arbitrary detention of Adnan commenced on 17 December 2011, when he was kidnapped from his home in the northern West Bank village of Arrabe, during a nightly raid carried out by Israeli soldiers. His two young daughters and pregnant wife were witness to this. Adnan initiated his current hunger strike on 18 December, protesting being detained without charges or being notified of the reason for his detention. He is being detained without charge or trial under a four-month administrative detention order, which could be indefinitely renewed for the duration of six months. For the past decades Israel has applied the procedure of administrative det

INTERVIEW WITH MY FAVORITE AMERICAN PRESIDENT--DEAD PRESIDENTS DAY FUNDRAISER

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Dead Presidents' Day Soapbox Fundraiser What do we do on a day that honors a rogue's gallery of scoundrels? Buy sheets?  Work? (if you're lucky enough to have a job) Our favorite presidents are those who have stood up to US presidents and the neo-liberalism of the global shock doctrine---so: Listen, or re-listen to Cindy's interview with President Hugo Chávez (RIP) at Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox  And/Or Make a donation to keep it on the air and keep Cindy in the streets! Dead Presidents! Our goal is 500.00 today! CLICK ONE OF THE IMAGES OF THE U$ FUNNY MONEYS TO DONATE.  We need 500 people to send one of these: George Washington was our first President and it is fabled that he said: "I cannot tell a lie, Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox rocks!" OR We need 100 people to send one of these: Our 16th President, Abraham Lincoln was often quoted as saying: &

DEAD PRESIDENTS' DAY FUNDRAISER

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Obama's "Progress" Report: Epic fail for the 99%, Epic Success for the 1%

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Dear Friend, In what has become a Soapbox tradition, this Sunday (2pm pacific) I interview Black Panther and Black Commentator columnist , Brother Larry Pinkney with his analysis of the Obama regime. Incredibly, this will be Brother Larry's 4th appearance as Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox heads into its 4th year! I also chat with anti-nuke activist, MacGregor Eddy and a planned action on February 25th at Vandenburg AFB in California. Don't forget that we stream at Community Progressive Radio at 2pm Pacific Time---and forever at Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox Archives. We literally can't do it without you! Make your tax deductible donation today! Love & Peace Cindy Sheehan Soapbox Team

Autographed Copy of Revolution a Love Story by Cindy Sheehan

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12.00 Each 4.00 Shipping/Handling GET YOUR AUTOGRAPHED COPY  FOR JUST 12.00  (SHIPPING AND HANDLING INCLUDED!)  Use the convenient link below, or send a check/money order for the amount of books you order - (please allow four-six weeks for delivery) to: Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox, LLC PO BOX 6264 Vacaville, Ca 95696 CLICK TO ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY! FROM A READER: "I was handed your book, 'Revolution:A Love Story' at a CPUSA meeting in San Antonio and devoured it that night. " Joel Benaividez    CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO CINDY'S MARCH 2010 INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT HUGO CHAVEZ   "Cindy Sheehan gives us hope." President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela, 2006 Revolution, A Love Story is the story of how it's possible for "ordinary" people to reclaim their dignity through participation in politics and community organiz

The Chris Hedges Controversy. Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox for Feb 12

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from artist Rob Shetterly and his series: Americans Who Tell the Truth Chris Hedges .   Click here   to listen or download.  Today, (February 12th), Cindy remarks:  Journalist/activist, Chris Hedges, caused quite a stir this past week when he wrote a column for Truthdig saying, in essence, that the "black bloc anarchists" were killing the Occupy movement.  The response was immediate and sometimes fierce.  Although, I agree with Chris that violence for the sake of violence is counter-productive, it's been my experience that the violence usually begins with law enforcement, with little, if any, provocation.  What should our response be within a society where top-down violence is perpetrated with near impunity all over the world?  These are questions that need to be asked and the answers need to be devised with the greatest and highest good (fostering peace and justice) kept at the forefront.   I had the opportunity to interview Chris a few days before he

ROBERT FISK ON SYRIA

 Robert Fisk: From Washington this looks like Syria's 'Benghazi moment'. But not from here Look east and what does Bashar see? Iran standing with him and Iraq refusing to impose sanctions ORIGINAL LINK AT THE INDEPENDENT President Bashar al-Assad is not about to go. Not yet. Not, maybe, for quite a long time. Newspapers in the Middle East are filled with stories about whether or not this is Assad's "Benghazi moment" – these reports are almost invariably written from Washington or London or Paris – but few in the region understand how we Westerners can get it so wrong. The old saw has to be repeated and repeated: Egypt was not Tunisia; Bahrain was not Egypt; Yemen was not Bahrain; Libya was not Yemen. And Syria is very definitely not Libya. It's not difficult to see how the opposite plays in the West. The barrage of horrifying Facebook images from Homs, and statements from the "Free Syrian Army", and the huffing of La Cl

Republican for President? by Cindy Sheehan

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When I opposed the wars and oppression of civil rights here at home during the Bush scandal, there was a certain segment of the population I knew I could always count on to be in solidarity with me: Liberal Democrats. While George Bush was president and Congress was primarily of a Republican nature, even organizations like MoveOn.org and blogs like the Daily Kos were on my side. I attended HUGE protests in 2005-2006 before the Democrats took control of Congress in the elections of 2006—but after that, the protests began to weaken or evaporate. Once when there was an event in DC on the 5 th Anniversary of the invasion of Iraq in 2008, I was told by the lead organization that it didn’t want Cindy Sheehan “anywhere near Washington DC.” I, and many others, were in favor of a large demo in DC that year, as we always did, but one of the lead antiwar(Bush) organizations actually told us, since Democrats were in the majority in the House and they were continuing to fund Bush’s wars an

Cindy Sheehan's Speech at No War on Iran Rally in San Francisco

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Cindy Sheehan HEARTS Phil Donahue: 4th Season Premiere!

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NOW HEAR THIS: Cindy's Internet broadcasts continue ! Phil Donahue !   Click here to listen or download, beginning at 2:00 PM San Francisco time.  Today, (February 5th), Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox is pleased to kick off our 4th season with GUSTO as we present progressive and legendary TV personality, Phil Donahue. Listen only if you want to be inspired with enthusiasm and optimism that we the people can, and will, make change for the better. Click here for more information about Phil's antiwar documentary, Body of War . I first met Phil Donahue in September of 2005, when Camp Casey activists were on a tour from Crawford, TX to Washington DC after our initial Occupation in August of 2005. Phil came to a talk I gave in Brooklyn, NY--then, a few days later he was on Bill O'Reilly's show defending me as, "one tough mother." The video of that appearance has been brought to my attention so many times recently, I asked my producer, Mikey, to get