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...New Jersey and Independence avenues outside the Cannon Office Building was the Band of Mothers on Thursday afternoon, playing patriotic music, waving signs and asking passers-by to write postcards to soldiers as they have done at least 10 times over the past two years. "We give lots of hugs to veterans, too," said Band of Mothers founder Beverly Perlson. But not every demonstration is so warm and fuzzy, she said. Mrs. Perlson told this reporter about the time Rep. John P. Murtha, Pennsylvania Democrat, called the Capitol Hill Police on her last year. She had gone into his office to...

Band of Mothers founder Bev Perlson is excited to have the 9/12 Tea Party organization join her and supporters, FReeRepublic and Gathering of Eagles/Eagles Up members. I say the 9/12 Tea Party is joining us is because Bev and her supporters have been at the Cannon Building five times previously since December, 2007. Last year she made the week before 9/11 a Band of Mothers yearly event at the Cannon Building. Just like Gen. MacArthur, Bev promised to be back and she is. Band of Mothers will be at the corner of Independence Ave and New Jersey, SW, in front...

Fiery Mother of a multi-tour soldier, who had Code Pinko Media Benjiman hiding from her one Walter Reed FReep, needs your help. Bev Perlson, founder of Band of Mothers, has spent numerous Tuesday thru Thursday on Capitol hill protesting Nancy Pelosi's anti-troop ideology. She needs your help this coming week. Also, on Thursday, Sept. 11, the 7th Anniversary of 9/11, there will be several elected officials holding a press conference in support of our brave troops. I'll ping the D.C. Chapter for specific times when I get them. Last time Bev was in D.C., Code Pink surrounded her and her...

www.blogtalkradio.com/clintons4mccain Beverly Perlson and Debra Bartoshevich will join Clintons4McCain Blog Talk Radio 5 p.m. ET Saturday, August 16, 2008 Discover how the Band of Mothers feel about Obama and why this delegate was stripped of her status. Clintons for McCain radio vow to discuss basic American freedoms and responsibilities. United States of America (Press Release), August 13, 2008 Perlson, from the Chicago, Illinois area, founded The Band of Mothers (TheBandofMothers.com), an organization of soldiers' moms committed "to Step Up, Stand Up and Stick Up For Our Soldiers." As a member of the 82d Airborne Division, Perlson's Bronze-Star-winning son, Sergeant John...

I received this email from Bev Perlson, founder of Band of Mothers" and mother of a four tour soldier. Bev has been a regular in front of the Cannon Building over the last year or so, rain, shine, cold. She needs help. She is usually the only one out there trying to call attention to the DemoRats "cut 'n run" surrender tactics. Just several weeks ago Bev and RonGKirby, Eagle and FReeper, were harassed by Code Pink. The harassment was so bad that the Capitol police had to step in and move Code Pink out of her permitted area. Contact...

PEQUANNOCK — Protesters bearing placards deriding anti-war "hippies" and "murderers" picketed New Jersey Peace Action's annual gathering at The Regency House Hotel on Sunday, while a former U.S. State Department official and a war dissenter spoke inside. About 20 people from a coalition of groups that support the Iraq war, including Gathering of Eagles and The Band of Mothers, stood by the hotel driveway on Route 23 and shouted "victory" to passing motorists. They were there to protest the presence of Ann Wright, a Foreign Service official who quit to protest the Iraq war, and Medea Benjamin, the founder of...

Victory in New Jersey In solidarity with our friends in Berkeley , on Sunday, April 27th, The Gathering of Eagles told Susie Benjamin and her friends from Code Pink that they were not welcome in New Jersey . What a great day for Eagles and Freepers!