Cindy and the New Orleans Peace Train

[funkybutt]

by Greg Moses

http://neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2005/08/3739.php

When the Amtrak Crescent leaves New Orleans Sept. 22, Cindy Sheehan will be on board.

Two months ago while exhausted from a Summer Soulstice peace festival, and while looking with dismay into a long hot summer of war, Louisiana attorney Buddy Spell, his spouse Annie, and their guest of honor Cindy Sheehan decided they needed to do something, but not something too high energy. So they browsed through the train schedule and designated an Amtrak Crescent as their Peace Train. Come September they'd board the train in New Orleans and put out word to folks along the way to hop on for a ride to the big peace march in Washington D.C. That would be enough to keep their peace hopes on track. Of course, that was then.

"We had about 60 people signed up before Cindy went to Crawford," says Buddy, "but that has tripled." With a pre-boarding rally in Covington, Louisiana the night before Cindy and friends depart, the little town of Covington may soon be feeling like next month's Crawford. And when the train hits Union Station, Buddy says 'old fart' activists will be greeted by the Campus Action Network, and wherever they go for the weekend, they will be marching 500 strong. And that's how you go in just a couple of months from a little ol’ z-net zap to a global headliner by way of the little ditch that could.

[bananas]

1. I like the t-shirt design

http://www.newdemocracyrising.com/stuff.asp
http://www.newdemocracyrising.com.nyud.net:8090/images/PT-tshirtFRONTweb.jpg

[rodeodance]

3. cool

[rodeodance]

2. it will be a beautiful site.

[Toots]

4. Peace Mom boards the Peace Train in Support of our Troops and country

Protest the War Mongers for they are evil. "Blessed be the Peace makers."

[donsu]

5. kick

nt

[Cha]

6. This AWESOME!

I'm so glad to see this happening..how exciting to be boarding THE PEACE TRAIN for Washington D.C. ALL ABOARD!

Cat Stevens(Yusuf Islam) will be proud.

[funkybutt]

7. Here is the route of the Peace Train

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22
7:20 AM New Orleans, LA
8:16 AM Slidell, LA
8:38 AM Picayune, MS
9:43 AM Hattiesburg, MS
10:17 AM Laurel, MS
11:17 AM Meridian, MS
12:51 PM Tuscaloosa, AL
2:31 PM Birmingham, AL
4:04 PM Anniston, AL
7:40 PM Atlanta, GA
9:03 PM Gainsville, GA
9:44 PM Toccoa, GA
10:20 PM Clemson, SC
10:57 PM Greenville, SC
11:43 PM Spartanburg, SC

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23
12:43 AM Gastonia, NC
1:25 AM Charlotte, NC
2:36 AM Salisbury, NC
3:17 AM High Point, NC
3:35 AM Winston-Salem, NC
3:42 AM Greensboro, NC
4:44 AM Danville, VA
5:54 AM Lynchberg, VA
7:07 AM Charlottesville, VA
7:59 AM Culpeper, VA
8:33 AM Manassas, VA
9:27 AM Alexandria, VA
9:50 AM Washington, DC!!

[0007]

8. Looks great - Keep up the good work

[funkybutt]

9. kick

[pacalo]

10. Excellent!

[Skink]

12. Better end the funding for amtrack now.

some midnight legislation in the works.

[Megahurtz]

11. Wow, This is Getting Bigger! n/t

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

13. I used to know Buddy Spell ! We graduated from the same high school

ST M !!! in Metairie

Anyone else here know Buddy!?
Very proud of his efforts-!!
-our school has produced some radical characters (including myself!)

[funkybutt]

14. Yep, he's a friend

He's in Crawford right now. He is Dylan Garcia here at the D.U.

:hi:

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

15. cool! didn't know that

thanks for that info--I'll email him-
I've been living in L.A. since the 80's.
if you see him tell him night tripper knows him from "coffin corner" at school.
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