Pimping The Gold Star For Cash By Left Wing Extremists [Sheehan is now Pay-Per-View]

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[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.

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.

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
"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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Cindy Sheehan speaks in Berkeley Friday (corrected info) by Todd C Friday, Nov. 18, 2005 at 2:35 PM
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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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

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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Cindy Sheehan Speaks at UC Davis on Monday, November 21
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.

Sheehan wanted to ask Bush what the "noble cause" was
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.

Tickets are $10 general, $5 students on sale at Freeborn
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.

[Mears]

Cindy's still around? I assumed she would have REALLY cracked up by now. She's really on the edge IMHO.

[DoughtyOne]

Shouldn't that read "Pay per pew?"

[Doctor Raoul]

Pew, as in charitable trust?

[DoughtyOne]

No, Pew as in a real stinker...

[fat city]

Wow- that $175. gig must have been a screamer.

[p23185]

Mother Sheehan is joining the ranks of Sharpton and Jackson. Big bucks for them to arrive in your town.

[Alia]

Dr. Raoul, this tells me that their "networks" are starved for cash. In CA, very liberal students, stormed then Governor Grey Davis' office when he requested they pay something to shake his hand. And the fee wasn't anywhere as high as that being requested for a live show of Cindy Sheehan. The Governor, at least, was a power broker: Cindy is not.

This all tells me, that not only are the lefty orgs starved for cash (witness unions going into big time debt from last CA election); but that the liberals are nervous. So, this generally puts the average Joe and Jane out of the "attendance picture" at Sheehan's events. No, no... these events are for something "else", I wager. It may even be Cindy's "payoff" moment for "services rendered". Someone(s) will buy a block of tickets and not attend, I wager.

[clintonh8r]

Medea Benjamin:Cindy Sheehan

::

Paul Winchell:Jerry Mahoney

[Fiddlstix]

That damn Media Whore should Comments Censored and that's my opinion on the subject!

[armymarinemom]

Paying for Cindy and others. Have you ever read the transcripts from Fernando Suarez del Solar's online live question and answer session with Islamonline.net? This is the guy who has to have a translator often speak for him at press conferences. He seemed to be typing English very well in this interview.
His and links to a couple of others who have spoken at live conferences at islamonlinet.net can be found on this link on the mfvov.org blog.
del Solar is also one of the paid speakers at Global Exchange.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"This all tells me, that not only are the lefty orgs starved for cash...It may even be Cindy's "payoff" moment for "services rendered". Someone(s) will buy a block of tickets and not attend, I wager."

Man! You are right on the money, Honey!

I wouldn't pay this woman to sort my laundry, let alone listen to a single thing she had to say! But I love, love, love your theory of the left being starved for cash, and them paying her to finally Go Away!

Follow the money. That's always where the answers lie. Always. :)

[Alia]

Follow the money. That's always where the answers lie. Always. :)

Yes. Always. As the Bush Admin and solid leadership has reduced frivolous and exorbitant tax "hand-outs", the activist left seems to be hurting for walking/talking monies. Nope, not even going to go into Frozen International Networks monies.. and its "deleterious" effects upon the socialist propoganda machines here in the U.S.

However, not to ruin the moment, Diana.. Cindy could still be a "money or communications mule" for the liberals and their "large corporate" behind the scenes sponsorships..

[axes_of_weezles]

Pay per Spew....

[Doctor Raoul]

The left isn't starved for cash, they are addicted to cash. Global Exchange takes in several million dollars a year. They are just milking the Sheehan Cash Cow dry before they discard it.

[malia]

and why not! Pew as in charitable trust?

[malia]

"I wouldn't pay this woman ---"

But someone is!!!!

[Lancer_N3502A]

Jackass is more like it.

[Nothometoday]

is this just NOT a total waste of system resources?

[Alia]

Worldwide, they take in that much cash?