[Howlin]

Sheehan is scheduled to return from Venezuela on Monday and will travel to the nation's capital to take part in an alternative State of the Union event.

What the heck is that all about?

[Mo1]

http://www.codepinkalert.org/article.php?id=732

DC - CODEPINK DC and special guests Cindy Sheehan, Ann Wright and others will be getting started a little early with a surprise action at the Mott House. Afterwards we'll head over to Bus Boys & Poets to watch the State of the Union Address. Join us for a fun action and evening - we'll be out 'til closing.

People's State of the Union Action
Time: 3pm
Location: Mott House / 122 Maryland Ave., NE
(Equal distance from both Union Station and Capitol South Metro stations).
Confirmed Speakers:
Cindy Sheehan, Malik Rahim, Ann Wright, John Cavanaugh and more!

State of the Union Party
Date: January 31st
Time: 8pm
Location: Bus Boys & Poets

[Indy Pendance]

It's the liberal bash fest. They're not only going to trash republicans, they're going to cannibalize their own. Or I can only hope!

[Mo1]

2006 The Year The Chickenhawks will go home to roost
by CindySheehan
Wed Dec 28, 2005 at 02:07:09 PM PDT

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/12/28/1679/8399

[Txsleuth]

I haven't read anything here on FR or seen anything on Fox about "an alternative State of the Union event"..

But, it doesn't surprise me that they will have one...and if we are lucky, we will be able to find Kerry, Hillary, and others there...if they follow through on the threat to boycott the SOTU address..

[blake6900]

What the heck is that all about?

It's an alternative State of the Union for those living in an alternative universe. Kinda like Arianna Huffinton's Shadow Convention...it was there but really undefined.

[Nasher]

Sheehan is scheduled to return from Venezuela on Monday and will travel to the nation's capital to take part in an alternative State of the Union event.

This is what I want to know: Just who is paying for shipping her all across the globe? Let me see - Crawford to Washington to Argentina back to the States now off to Venezuela. With extensive tours of both the United States and Europe thrown in as well!

Somewhere in all this "grassroots protesting" I sense funds being slipped in by the DNC.

[BigSkyFreeper]

I'm thinking she'll be at the SOTU pre-buttal event in Washington on the afternoon of the day of the SOTU address itself.

[kcvl]

What the heck is that all about?

It's sort of like the basement hearings. They are running their own alternative shadow government.

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Cindy Sheehan to protest at State of the Union January 31

On January 31st , we will be in Washington, DC for the State of the Union address when George gets in front of Congress and the world and lies through his teeth about how great everything is going in Iraq and here at home. His idiotic policies have ruined Iraq and New Orleans and made the world a more dangerous place...allowing that terrorist attacks have tripled world wide since he decided to "fight them over there." He also may be laying the ground work for further acts of needless aggression against Syria and Iraq. GSFP (Gold Star Families for Peace)and representatives from other peace organizations and refugees from New Orleans will be gathering in DC to give the "Real State of the Union." Check our website for place and time.

* January 31, 2006 The People's State of the Union Address in Washington D.C. Come join peace activist such as Cindy Sheehan and Ann Wright as they deliever the true State of the Union. More details will be coming soon.

http://families4peace.org/article.php?list=type&type=5

[kcvl]

January Monday 23rd 2006

Bush Administration Seeks to Squelch State of the Union Protest at Capitol on January

31 January 22, 2006

World Can’t Wait Capitol Hill Office:
511 ‘C’ St. NE Washington DC 20002, Stanton Square DC

PRESS CONTACT: Don Spark, 202-536-4310, donspark@worldcantwait.org

Press Conference: Monday, January 23, 9:30 a.m.
National Press Club,
Edward R. Murrow Room 529 14th Street, NW
Washington DC

The Bush administration has expanded the special security zone around the Capitol, effectively denying a meaningful public space for a protest called by World Can’t Wait-Drive Out the Bush Regime during the State of the Union address on January 31, 2006. This action, one of many held simultaneously that night at 8pm EST in cities and towns across the country, calls for symbolically “drowning out Bush’s lies” and demands “BUSH STEP DOWN.”

At a meeting on January 10 with the National Park Service Police, Capitol Police, and National Parks Department, the World Can’t Wait was offered the area surrounding the Capitol Reflecting Pool for the January 31st gathering. This was accepted by World Can’t Wait. However, on January 19, the organization received word that this area had been reclassified as part of a “secure perimeter” for that day.

In addition, the grass areas of the National Mall have been closed for “turf renovation” up to 7th Street. Thus, the proposed demonstration area is restricted to the “gravel and concrete walkways of the national Mall between 3rd and 4th Streets.”


More...


http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=10046

[kcvl]

Both the January 31 and February 4 actions were announced in a full-page ad in the New York Times published January 20, signed by Edward Asner, Harry Belafonte, Michael Eric Dyson, Niles Eldredge, Eve Ensler, Jane Fonda, Martin Garbus, Paul Haggis, Jonathan Kozol, Jessica Lange, Lewis Lapham, Tom Morello, U.S. Rep. Major Owens, Sean Penn, Harold Pinter, Susan Sarandon, John Sayles, Richard Serra, Rev. Al Sharpton, Cindy Sheehan, Serj Tankian, Studs Terkel, Kurt Vonnegut, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, Cornel West, and Howard Zinn.

World Can’t Wait-Drive Out the Bush Regime

http://worldcantwait.org




3 days until the State of the Union - Demonstrate - Bring the Noise and Drown out Bush's lies.
7 days until Feb 4th -- Get to DC -- The White House at 11 am.
If not now, when? If not us, who?
DEMAND: BUSH STEP DOWN,
and take your program with you!

Make your plans now to participate in the State of the Union protests:

[kcvl]

The Truth About the Crimes of the Bush Regime: "[Bush’s] ideologically driven prevention agenda has in fact accounted for millions of deaths in the five years since he took power." -Dr. Alan Berkman, Prof. of Public Health, Columbia University

Join the latest signers of our Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime: Brig. General Janis Karpinski (retired), Dr. Quentin Young, Health and Medicine Policy Research Group*, Novelists Francine Prose, Gloria Steinem, Craig Murray, former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan, Dahr Jamail, independent reporter, Ted Glick, Climate Crisis Coalition, Daphne Wysham, Institute for Policy Studies, Barbara Olshansky, Center for Constitutional Rights, Mark Ruffalo,actor; St. Clair Bourne, film maker; Cynthia McKinney, U.S. Representative; Bobby Rush, US Representative, Chicago (more below).

Endorsers Include

Malik Rahim, New Orleans Community Organizer (Black Panther)

Michael Ratner, Center for Constitutional Rights*

Jane Fonda

Edward Asner

Harry Belafonte

Michael Berg, anti-war activist (Nick Berg's father)

im Carpenter, Director, Progressive Democrats of America

Ward Churchill

Code Pink: Women for Peace

Democrats.com

Michael Eric Dyson, author, "Is Bill Cosby Right?"

Jodie Evans, Code Pink

Global Justice and Peace Ministries, Riverside Church, New York (it's okay to mix church & state if your a leftist)

Andy Griggs, US Labor Against the War, Exec. Board of United Teachers of LA*

Haitian Coalition for Justice

Warren M. Hern, MD, MPH, PhD, Director, Boulder Abortion Clinic

Hip Hop Caucus

Islamic Association of America Abdeen Jabara, past president, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee*

M. Ali Khan, American Muslim Council

Jim Lafferty, Executive Director of the National Lawyer's Guild of Los Angeles

Ray Laforest, organizer, DC 1707, AFSCME*; member, Pacifica National Board*

Lewis Lapham, former editor, Harper's Magazine

National Lawyers Guild

Not in Our Name

R. Tomás Olmos, President, Mexican American Bar Foundation, Los Angeles County*, Dean Emeritus, People's College of Law*

Major Owens, 11th Congressional District, D-NY Ozomatli

Cindy Sheehan

Sean Penn

Progressive Democrats of America

Queers for Economic Justice

Raghava Reddy, stem cell biologist, biomedical scientist, film maker

Eric Resnick, Gay People's Chronicle* reporter, peace activist, one time candidate for US Congress

Bobby Rush, US Representative, Chicago

San Francisco Bayview Newspaper

Rev. Al Sharpton

Martin Sheen

Susan Sarandon

Sunsara Taylor, Revolution newspaper

Maxine Waters, US Representative

Rev. Dave Weissbard, senior minister, The Unitarian Universalist Church, Rockford, IL

Cornel West, Princeton University

Rev. Phil Wheaton, Episcopal Co-pastor, Community of Christ, Washington DC

Lou Shaw, writer, creator of Quincy MD

Standish E. Willis, National Conference of Black Lawyers

Ann Wright, former US diplomat, resigned in protest of Iraq war

Plus many, many more FAR LEFTIST KOOKS...

http://www.worldcantwait.net/

[kcvl]

The Mission of World Can't Wait


National Steering Committee:

Mark James, Los Angeles
Rev. Deborah Elandus Lake, Chicago
Allen Lang, New York City
Prachi Noor, New York City
Debra Sweet, New York City


Advisory Board:

Lynne Stewart, attorney
Rosemary Candelario, pro-choice activist
Boots Riley , hip hop performer
Gore Vidal, writer
Warren Hern MD, Physician and pro-choice activist
Sunsara Taylor, writer
Mark Crispin Miller, professor & writer
Tomás Olmos, attorney
Mark Leno, CA State Assembly
Howard Zinn, historian