Antiwar protester Cindy Sheehan who is camped in Crawford, Texas demanding a meeting with President Bush over the death of son, Army Spc. Casey Sheehan, in combat in Iraq has surrounded herself with groups that have endorsed the so-called Iraqi resistance.
Last June, groups opposed to the American-led war to depose the regime of Saddam Hussein gathered in Istanbul to hear testimony before a 'jury of conscience' on charges of war crimes and violations of international law by the United States.
Endorsers of the statement issued by the World Tribunal on Iraq at the end of the conference include Code Pink Women for Peace, United for Peace and Justice and Veterans for Peace; while not a named endorser, Tim Goodrich, co-founder of Iraq Veterans Against the War , testified before the tribunal against his country.
Representatives of these four groups have been at Sheehan's side since she arrived in Crawford August 5.
The lengthy statement issued by the tribunal contains several statements legitimizing the so-called Iraqi Resistance. One reads, "It is the brutality of the occupation that has provoked a strong armed resistance and certain acts of desperation. By the principles embodied in the UN Charter and in international law, the popular national resistance to the occupation is legitimate and justified. It deserves the support of people everywhere who care for justice and freedom."
Another statement by the tribunal denounces the January election in Iraq and the new constitution being constructed by the Iraqi parliament:"Any law or institution created under the aegis of occupation is devoid of both legal and moral authority. The recently concluded election, the Constituent Assembly, the current government, and the drafting committee for the Constitution are therefore all illegitimate."
Code Pink Women for Peace, United for Peace and Justice, Veterans for Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War, despite what they tell the media in Crawford, are not peace groups. They have taken sides against America and stand with the terrorists killing American soldiers in Iraq. Cindy Sheehan, grieving mother of a fallen G.I., stands with those who stand with our enemies.
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MEDEA BENJAMIN
Anti-war activist
Founder of Global Exchange, leader of the anti-Iraq war movement
Has said that living in Castro's island prison made her feel "like [she] died and went to heaven."
Exhorts Americans to examine "the root causes of resentment against the United States in the Arab world - from our dependence on Middle Eastern oil to our biased policy towards Israel."
Organizer of Iraq Occupation Watch, an organization dedicated to undermining the US presence in Iraq
Anti-war activist Medea Benjamin was born in 1952 with the name Susie Benjamin, and was raised as a self-described "nice Jewish girl from Long Island," New York. During her freshman year at Tufts University, she renamed herself after the Greek mythological character Medea. Having completed a year at Tufts, she then dropped out of school and spent some time hitchhiking across Europe and Africa, supporting herself by teaching English, picking grapes, and doing a variety of odd jobs. In Africa, she worked at refugee camps that housed ill and hungry people. She thereafter returned to New York and, after passing undergraduate equivalency tests, earned master's degrees in economics and public health. She then lived for some time in Cuba with her first husband, who was the coach of that country's national basketball team. Because Cuba's Communist social and economic structure satisfied Ms. Benjamin's own political leanings, her move to that island nation initially made her feel "like I died and went to heaven." She was deported, however, after writing an anti-government article in the Communist-run newspaper for which she worked. She moved to San Francisco in 1983 to work for Food First / The Institute for Food and Development Policy. Soon thereafter, she and her husband separated.
In 1988 Ms. Benjamin founded the activist organization Global Exchange, which devotes its resources and manpower to a variety of leftist causes - most prominently an anti-war agenda. In Benjamin's view, America's declared war on terror is, itself, a form of terrorism. She asserts that President Bush "has responded to the violent attack of 9/11 with the notion of perpetual war . . . [starting with] a war in Afghanistan that included dropping over 20,000 bombs, many of which missed their targets and led to the killing and maiming of thousands of civilians." Global Exchange has pressed the U.S. government to create a fund that would pay $10,000 apiece to Afghani victims of the war who need medical care, help in rebuilding their homes, and compensation for the loss of a caretaker or breadwinner.
Late in 2002, Ms. Benjamin led a group of Americans, each of whom had lost loved ones in the 9/11 attacks, to Afghanistan to meet people whose relatives had perished in the U.S. bombing campaign there. "We must insist that governments stop taking innocent lives in the name of seeking justice for the loss of other innocent lives," she said. "Let's be clear," she stated on another occasion. "These [Afghani] people had nothing to do with Osama bin Laden or the al-Qaeda network, and they didn't vote to have their country taken over by the Taliban. Some were sleeping in their humble dwellings when the [American] bombs hit. Others were walking in their fields and accidentally stepped on an unexploded bomblet from a cluster bomb. Many of the victims are young children."
Ms. Benjamin exhorts Americans to examine "the root causes of resentment against the United States in the Arab world - from our dependence on Middle Eastern oil to our biased policy towards Israel." The bombings in Afghanistan, she says, have "made Afghans so upset that some [have] talked about waging a jihad, or holy war, against the United States." "If the Muslim world sees the United States as willing to bomb but not feed people," she adds, "it will deepen the suspicion and mistrust already felt by millions . . . that the United States doesn't care about the lives of the Muslim people." "We are . . . determined," says Benjamin, "to stop the U.S. government from unilaterally dictating to other people - be they Palestinian, Iraqi or Venezuelan - who their leaders should be. This is for the people themselves to decide." In 2003 Ms. Benjamin was one of the signatories to the widely publicized Not in Our Name (NION) anti-war statement, which asserts that the U.S. war on terror poses "grave dangers to the people of the world." "War and repression," adds the NION document, " . . . has been loosed on the world by the Bush Administration . . . [in] a spirit of revenge."
A harsh critic of many aspects of American life, Ms. Benjamin states, "When most Americans hear of human rights abuses, they likely think of atrocities in some far-off country in a forgotten corner of the globe. . . . [But] abuses against individuals' basic rights also occur regularly here in the United States, and our money-saturated political system hardly deserves the title 'democracy.' "
Many of the causes that Ms. Benjamin espouses are Communist in nature. For instance, most of the major anti-war demonstrations at which she has spoken were organized by the Workers World Party, a Marxist-Leninist organization that openly supports Kim Jong Il's dictatorship in North Korea and proudly proclaims its dedication to "fight[ing] against capitalism" in America's "racist, sexist society." In years past, she vehemently opposed U.S. military aid to those fighting against Communist forces in Central America.
Passionately anti-capitalist, Benjamin is widely credited as a chief organizing force behind the 1999 Seattle riots in which 50,000 protesters did millions of dollars worth of property damage in their effort to shut down meetings of the World Trade Organization.
During the last week of December 2004, Benjamin announced in Amman, Jordan that Global Exchange, Code Pink, and Families for Peace would be donating a combined $600,000 in medical supplies and cash to the terrorist insurgents who were fighting American troops in Fallujah, Iraq. This news was reported by Agence France Press but was picked up by only two small news outlets. In an article dated January 1, 2005, the leftist online publication Peace and Resistance reported that Rep. Henry Waxman (D - California) had written a letter addressed to the American ambassador in Amman, Jordan to help facilitate the transport of this aid through Customs. Fernando Suarez Del Solar - an antiwar activist whose son, a 20-year-old Marine, was killed in Iraq on March 27, 2003 - carried Waxman's letter. He was accompanied on the trip by other family members of soldiers who had been killed in Iraq, as well as relatives of victims who had been killed in the 9/11 attacks. Said Benjamin, "I don't know of any other case in history in which the parents of fallen soldiers collected medicine . . . for the families of the 'other side.' It is a reflection of a growing movement in the United States . . . opposed to the unjust nature of this war. This is the positive face of the American people which we would like to show . . . so that we are not looked at with animosity but with love. Our hearts go out to the people of Fallujah and to all the Iraqi people."
Benjamin is currently married to Kevin Danaher.
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KEVIN DANAHER
Co-founder of Global Exchange, husband of Medea Benjamin
Has implied that the 9/11 was not a terrorist attack, but a U.S. government-organized conspiracy
At a June 2003 anti-America, anti-George W. Bush demonstration in California, Global Exchange co-founder Kevin Danaher (husband of antiwar activist and Global Exchange co-founder Medea Benjamin) distinguished himself as the event's angriest speaker, and thus drew the loudest cheers from the crowd. Danaher opened by claiming that President Bush had "stole[n] Florida," and "isn't the constitutional President of the United States - there is a coup d'etat in this story." He then stressed the need for the protestors to become recruiters for the campaign to oust Bush from the presidency, to mobilize en masse and approach others they encounter on buses, at work, and in other locations.
Danaher implied that the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon, which killed 124 on the ground and 64 on American Airlines flight 77, was not a terrorist attack, but a U.S. government-organized conspiracy. The crowd cheered.
In addition to Global Exchange, this rally was backed by the San Francisco branch of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee; the California branch of the National Organization for Women; the San Francisco branch of Al-Awda (the Palestinian Right of Return coalition); the Peninsula Peace & Justice Center (a Palo Alto-centered anti-war group); the South Bay Mobilization (a San Jose-centered anti-war group); the Children's Defense Fund; and the Revolutionary Communist Party-controlled Not In Our Name Project. Among Danaher's fellow guest speakers were members of the National Lawyers Guild, Code Pink for Peace, and Veterans For Peace. Also in attendance were two of the Communist Workers World Party's (WWP's) most prominent members, Richard Becker and Gloria La Riva.
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