Posted on 11/19/2005 5:25:22 PM PST by Doctor Raoul
Far left extremists are now using Cindy Sheehan as a cash cow. Medea Benjamin is the using Cindy Sheehan for her own benefit. Benjamin's Global Exchgange runs the Green Festivals and Code Pink. The anti-war march and Green Festival both ran the same weekend in Washington, DC. Come to DC and protest and while you are there, buy something green from Medea, if not a ticket as it were. The Green Festivals in DC and SFO brought in nearly a million dollars in exhibit booth rentals. SFO has 25,000 people at @ $15 a head, that's $375,000!!! If DC had 15,000 (a conservative estimate) then there were 40,000 people at the two events totalling $600,000. That's $1.6 million for four days. So why did people have to pay to hear Sheehan? Back in Oakland, they held a fundraiser for Sheehan, Code Pink and Global Exchange at the Grand Lake Theater. At $20 a head, they drew about 300 people. Not much in terms of bucks, but with Global Exchange and Code Pink being the same folks (Medea Benjanmin), was it fair to split the proceeds, One for Cindy, two for me as Medea Benjamin's groups did? Again this Friday, at Berkeley, the center of the free speech universe, the leftist extremists ALSO charged to hear Cindy speak. Saturday, you had to pony up perhaps $175 to hear Cindy. And Monday, Cindy will cost you $10, $5 if you're a student at UC Davis. Below are a number of internet URLs and excerpts top back up my position. http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/speakers/119_events.html Sun, Sep 25 4pm GREEN FESTIVAL
Cindy Sheehan speaks in Berkeley Friday (corrected info) by Todd C Friday, Nov. 18, 2005 at 2:35 PM
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:rKHVxXxrB-kJ:www.clothingoftheamericanmind.com/EV01.htm+%2B%22Green+festival%22+%2B%22cindy+sheehan%22+%2B%22san+francisco%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Cindy Sheehan Speaks at UC Davis on Monday, November 21 Sheehan wanted to ask Bush what the "noble cause" was Tickets are $10 general, $5 students on sale at Freeborn
Cindy Sheehan was a speaker at the Green Festival in DC. Only you had to spend $15 per head to attend that event. Medea placed the Green Festival ahead of the anti-war march in her press release for the Sep 24-25 protests. She even laughed and plugged it on Laura Ingraham's radio show.
"Stop the Next War Now"
Mainstage at the Green Festival
Washington DC Convention Center
802 Mount Vernon Place NW (Just north of New York and
Mass Avenues at M Street. Mt. Vernon Square Metro,
on the Green Line metro)
Washington, District of Columbia
Cindy Sheehan will be speaking at the Green Festival along with co-authors of the book "Stop the Next War Now ": Medea Benjamin, Phyllis Bennis, Adrienne Maree Brown, Jodie Evans, Laura Flanders, Camilo Mejia, Rebecca Solnit, Fernando Suarez, Nina Utne and Diane Wilson. (The DC Green Festival runs September 24-25 at the DC Convention Center.)
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Welcome Home Event
Grand Lake Theater
3200 Grand Ave.
Oakland, California
WELCOME CINDY HOME WITH LOVE
Cindy Sheehan and others will speak.
$20 suggested donation. Benefits Gold Star Families for
Peace, Global Exchange and Code Pink
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ToddChretien@comcast.net
Cindy Sheehan, Barbara Becnel, Peter Camejo and Todd
Chretien speak tonight (Friday) at 7pm at UC
Berkeley's Valley Life Science Building in room #2050. Sliding scale, no one turned away. Call 510-590-6073 for info
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Office of the Americas’ 22 nd Anniversary Celebration…
What: Office of the Americas’ Annual Anniversary Event
When: Saturday, November 19 th :: Buffet Dinner, 5:30 pm / Program, 7:30 pm
Where: Beverly Hills Country Club :: 3084 Motor Ave., LA 90064
Info: http://www.officeoftheamericas.org / 323.852.9808
The Office of the Americas’ 22 nd Anniversary
Celebration will honor Daniel Ellsberg, Jodie Evans
of Code Pink, Dolores Huerta and Cindy Sheehan.
Other special guests to include Danny Glover, Mimi
Kennedy, Martin Sheen, Fernando Suarez del Solar,
Blasé & Theresa Bonpane and many others. Ticket
prices range from $10 to $175. Contact Office of the
Americas to reserve your tickets.
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by Dan Bacher Friday, Nov. 18, 2005 at 8:55 AM
danielbacher@hotmail.com
Don't miss this talk by Cindy Sheehan at UC Davis on Monday, November 21!
Cindy Sheehan To Speak At UC Davis on November 21
Cindy Sheehan, the local peace activist and Gold Star
Mother who has reinvigorated the anti-war movement
throughout the country, will speak at the UC Davis
Freeborn Hall on Monday, November 21, at 7:30 pm.
When her son Casey was killed in Iraq in April 2004,
Cindy Sheehan started to rally against the war. She
began protesting in her hometown of Vacaville,
California, and eventually camped out in front of
President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas demanding
that he speak with her.
that her son died for. Sheehan and Camp Casey
sparked a national debate serving as the catalyst
for rallies across the country, both for and against
the war.
After the president’s vacation was cut short due to
Hurricane Katrina, Sheehan has continued to speak
out against the war and Bush’s policies. Cindy
Sheehan founded Gold Star Families for Peace after
her son Casey was killed.
Hall Box office. Proceeds will go to Gold Star
Families forPeace.
Sponsors include the Unitarian Universalist Campus
Ministry, UU Peace & Justice Group, UCD Women's
Resources and Research Center, Davis Peace
Coalition, Davis Religious Community for Sanctuary
and Code Pink Women For Peace.
For information on tickets, parking and directions to
Freeborn Hall, call (530) 752-1915.
This is the third time I have posted this today, but the woman cant even speak in comlete sentences!
...another add campaign in the making. LOL
Which "system?" Free Republic bandwidth or leftists funds?
If leftist funds, I agree. I love to see them waste their money wherever possible. ;)
... most of her groupies can't either. It's a fit. They "grok" each other.
I mean, her cause is done. I half thought at the VERY start, she did have angst for her son.
As a mom, I felt some of that.
However, it all turned into anti_ Bush retoric.
I doubt, That her son would be proud of her now.
Anyone who would pay to see Cindy Sheehan speak deserves to be screwed.
Shehag knows no shame!!!
You can trace the wackier stuff Sheehan spews to specific groups in her entourage of handlers.
They've put her on tour as "the angry mom" and when she's stuck for something to say, she reaches for the lines that get her applause at the left wing extremist meetings. That's why she says those left wing extremist things in public.
To a large extent, she's the victim of a cult like abduction. Code Pink, MFSO and VFP all validated anything she originally believed. Then they put her on tour and indoctrinated her in their extremist left wing beliefs. And also isolated her. In her own words, she has no friends that go back before Casey's death, she abandoned he children for "her pain and her work", abandoned her husband, abandoned her job.
Classic cult progression, validation, indoctrination and isolation.
Two nurses with qualifications in treating the mentally ill, one a military mom and one a counter Cindy organizer, both tell me they fear for her well being while she's with those groups. Especially since they will jentison her as soon as she's a liability.
There is a God!
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