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Cindy Sheehan Confronts Power
August, 2005
Cindy Sheehan combined a Gold Star Mother's grief over her lost son Casey (KIA, Iraq, 2004) with experience as a peace activist. She got the country talking about the war just when it seemed the most as if nobody ever would. When the president went to Crawford, TX for one of his many vacations in the middle of a war, she went too, in a bus with others from the Veterans for Peace convention in Dallas. Of course, Cindy's first tent in a roadside ditch wasn't as nice as dubbya's ranch.
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 Crawford, TX is a tiny 4-corners kind of town, population about 500 when the president isn't around, in ranching country around 18 miles' drive west from Waco. It's not near much of anything. Here is how you are welcomed to their city. |
This is one of the larger buildings in beautiful downtown Crawford, and certainly the one which gets your attention. Along with "Bush gifts," they sell tack, guns, and ammo.
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Staging area was at the bustling Crawford Peace House, a real home bought by activists a while back. Shuttles went out the three miles or so to the camps, but of course you could also walk in the 110 degree heat, afternoon storms, and very mean fire ants.
The Coalition For World Peace thanks all the photographers who made their work available for us to use.
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