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Protest at CIA, Cheney's house Jan 16, 2010

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Cindy Sheehan leads protest at CIA, Cheney's house

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Vigil for Fahad Hashmi, NYC, Martin Luther King Day, 2010

On January 18th, as our Nation commemorates Martin Luther King Day, for the slain civil rights leader who peacefully spoke out against war, racism and injustice, members of THAW (Theaters Against War) and friends, family and supporters of Fahad Hashmi invite you to join us for a special Free Fahad Vigil across from the MCC, Metropolitan Correctional Center, in New York City, where Fahad Hashmi has been detained for over two and half years before trial under conditions of severe solitary confinement.

January 11, 2010 marks the 8th year of the Guantanamo prison establishing indefinite detention, torture and operating outside the established rule of law and Geneva Conventions by the United States government against international terror suspects. Last year President Obama declared and then voided a deadline for closing this prison. Some of the Guantanamo detainees have even been cleared for any "wrongdoings" by the Dept. of Defense yet remain imprisoned there. While these detainees and the conditions they are being held under at Guantanamo have received worldwide attention and due criticism, similar unlawful abuses and inhumane treatment of U.S. Citizens that is happening here in NYC has not. The case of Fahad Hashmi is particularly disturbing because he has been held at the MCC, Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City for over two and half years before trial under "Special Administrative Measures", known as SAMS, that keep him in perpetual solitary confinement, under electronic surveillance and subject to a regime of severe deprivation, equivalent to torture and in violation of Habeas corpus. The U.S. government has a very weak case against him, accusing him of allowing an acquaintance to sleep on his couch who then traveled with waterproof socks and ponchos to his birth country of Pakistan (his family immigrated to the U.S. when he was three). The U.S. Government argues this as material support to al Qaeda and justifies Fahad's harsh detention conditions under the threat of terrorism. There is also a lot of ancillary evidence being used by the U.S. Government against Fahad pertaining to his reputation as a devout Muslim and student activist that suggest a pre-crime, racist and discriminatory profiling, prosecution and torture of a man based more on his ethnicity and religion than for anything else. To learn more about the case go to: FreeFahad.com and educatorsforcivilliberties.org.

Please join members of THAW (Theaters Against War) and friends, family and supporters of Fahad Hashmi for a special Free Fahad Vigil featuring Kathleen Chalfant, Andre Gregory, Chris Hedges, Bill Irwin, Cindy Sheehan, Wallace Shawn and folksinger Dar Williams across the street from the MCC at 150 Park Row and Pearl Street from 6 to 7 pm on Monday, January 18th, this Martin Luther King Day, as we stand up and say to NYC and the Federal Government No Guantanamo's at Home or Abroad.On January 18th, as our Nation commemorates Martin Luther King Day, for the slain... more

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Regan's Attourney General Ramsey Clarke calls on US to disclose purge data gathered by illegal wiretapping

We the undersigned call on the Obama Administration and Congress to immediately begin identifying and expunging from all government databases the massive accumulation of information collected by the Bush administration’s illegal domestic spying operations on millions of people who broke no law.

Some of these illegal spying programs were suspended and yet the government maintains the illegally collected data. These databases should be expunged.

We also oppose the continuation of other programs initiated during the Bush era which continue on in wholesale data collection and mass surveillance, unchecked and unabated. For instance, federal agents, local law enforcement and U.S. military personnel, with input from private right-wing political groups, continue to collect and report surveillance data, including fabricated disinformation, to the 72 government Fusion Centers around the United States. Fusion Centers have been found to target political, student, and religious organizations and activities.

The people of the United States have a legal right to be free from government surveillance, the type of which was initiated by the Bush administration on an enormous scale. Using the Sept. 11 attacks as a pretext, the Bush White House permitted the FBI, the National Security Agency, the CIA, Pentagon and other law-enforcement and military agencies to conduct unprecedented data collection against the people.

Thousands have been targeted because of their political beliefs and activities, their religious beliefs, their race and ethnicity, or because they inadvertently fell into one of the many broad categories to justify and execute the sweeping data collection programs. This is the modern-day variant of the discredited witch-hunts of the 1950s.

We call on the Obama Administration and Congress to order a complete audit of law-enforcement and military data and record-keeping systems and to disclose to the public the scope and parameters of data-collection on people and organizations in the United States.

The people’s rights protected under the Constitution are fundamentally diminished unless these illegal operations are halted and the rights of all people are restored by the identification of data collection programs, and the expunging of those databases.We the undersigned call on the Obama Administration and Congress to immediately begin... more

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Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires

The War in Afghanistan is like being caught in a brier patch. Once you get in far... more

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What Does Peace Mean? By Cindy Sheehan

By Cindy Sheehan Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Oct. 9, 2009 I guess to the... more

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Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox Net Radio: Ann Garrison on Military Recruitment in the City of San Francisco

I spoke with Cindy Sheehan, oh Cindy's Soapbox Internet Radio, on April 12, 2009,... more

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Join the 'Green Party' Group on Current.com

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Anti-War leader Cindy Sheehan supports a new investigation into 9-11

Cindy Sheehan 7/16/2009 On April 4th, 2004, my son Casey was killed serving the... more

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Cindy Sheehan New Radio Program and Book

Cindy Sheehan on the Alex Jones show today. Listen on line (You can listen on... more

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The Punk Patriot * I'm Not Mad at Obama. I'm Mad at You.

I'm Mad at you. Not you specifically. I like you.

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Wall Street Time Bomb?

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Pelosi and the CIA Briefings: Why all the Fuss Over Old News?

Strangely absent from the recent coverage of Pelosi's past knowledge of U.S. torture policies is any acknowledgement that this story is old news. Really old news. Way back in December, 2007, the Washington Post ran a piece headlined, "Hill Briefed on Waterboarding in 2002." It hit Pelosi with the exact same allegations that have been so breathlessly reported as of late:

In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual tour of the CIA's overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk.

So what's new? For one, Republicans are under intense moral and political threat and see a chance divert responsibility for their misdeeds back to Democrats.

To be sure, Pelosi should have taken action against U.S. torture policies as soon as she was briefed on them. And she's now paying the price for being too politically cowardly-or opportunistic-to address this issue head-on when the Post broke the story back in 2007. But it's disingenuous for the press and Pelosi's political rivals to feign outrage over what Pelosi knew and when. What did they know and when? Assuming they read the news, why didn't they make an issue of this back in 2007?

One politician did make an issue of the Post story at the time.

Cindy Sheehan, the Peace Mom, ran a quixotic campaign against Pelosi for her House seat last year, and garnered 16 percent of the vote and very little press. Key to her electoral strategy was capitalizing on liberal outrage-surprisingly tepid outrage, it turned out-over what Pelosi knew. She even called for Pelosi to be stripped of her leadership post over the news. "I was appalled and really saddened," Sheehan told me at the time. "We can't be represented by a person like this."

Seventy two percent of San Francisco voters thought otherwise.

With Sheehan's failed challenge in mind, it's hard to put credence in today's New York Times story on Pelosi's political fate, which quotes Bay Area resident Delphine Langille of San Ramon: "I'm very skeptical of what she's saying, Langille told the Times on the steps of San Francisco City Hall, "and when she goes to get re-elected, this could really damage her credibility." Yeah right. There's simply no way a Republican could ever mount a viable challenge in San Francisco, no way the Democratic establishment would ever try, and no way--as we've seen--that a third party outsider will take her down.

Politics is morally mushy business. The political climate was clearly more pro-torture back in 2002 than it is now. A braver politician might have spoken out sooner, but also might not have risen to the Speaker post. The interesting thing about San Franciscans is that they are politically sophisticated enough to entertain a race like Sheehan's while also voting for a pragmatist like Pelosi. And they can certainly distinguish between the moral clarity-or absolutism-of someone like Sheehan, and the immoral opportunism of liberal-come-lately Republicans. Let's hope the press and the rest of the nation eventually figure this out too.Strangely absent from the recent coverage of Pelosi's past knowledge of U.S.... more

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Cindy Sheehan-- Nancy Pelosi is either stupid, or lying

Cindy was on Pacifica's Flashpoint this past Friday, and in answer to host,... more

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Cindy for Congress needs a Bailout! (Get a signed T-Shirt from Peace Activist Cindy Sheehan!)

Dear Friend, Last year I waged one of the toughest battles of my life against the... more

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Peace

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Congress Must Act Before January 20th Or There May Be No Accountability Ever

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Change? Atrocity-Linked U.S. Officals advising both DNC and GOP Presidential nominees

Independent journalist Allan Nairn and American Conservative correspondent Kelley... more

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Speaking as a Liberal-- WHY I HATE LIBERALS

A criticism of the liberal/progressive movement in the USA.

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Cindy Sheehan's campaign headquarters heavily damaged in late night attack

Just 5 days before the election, at 3a.m. on October 30th, all of the front windows of... more

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Protest at CIA, Cheney's house Jan 16, 2010

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Vigil for Fahad Hashmi, NYC, Martin Luther King Day, 2010

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