Orange County (CA) Register: 'Beginning of a true people's movement'

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Sunday, August 28, 2005

'Beginning of a true people's movement'

Another caravan traveled through California to Texas last week, stopping in Long Beach on its way to support Cindy Sheehan on Saturday.

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Jim Gibson of Laguna Woods got in a minivan in Long Beach last week and was in Crawford on Saturday, where he said it feels like the peace demonstrations he attended 35 years ago.

"It looks like the beginning of a true people's movement, a movement to end his (Bush's) war," he said. Gibson served during the Vietnam War as an Army medic; these days he wears a "Veterans for Peace" T-shirt and a "Wage Peace" button. He camped out in a ditch near Camp Casey with others from Southern California. So many people are fainting from heat exhaustion and dehydration that the sheriff put him to work again as a medic.

His time in Crawford has been very emotional, he said, especially when he heard Sheehan speak and listened to Joan Baez sing"Amazing Grace." When he comes home on Sept. 1, "I'll be satisfied I did the right thing," he said.

Rosalind Freeman returned to Huntington Beach from Crawford last week, before the Saturday rallies. Freeman opposed the war since before the invasion. In her view, the government emerging in Iraq is a "perverted idea of democracy" that essentially will shut out women. The U.S. presence there is "based on lies," she says. The Iraqis need to figure out their own future, she says. "We have created the terrorists there - I don't know how we think staying there will make it better."


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http://www.ocregister.com/ocr/2005/08/28/sections/news/news/article_652585.php

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. I like that - "True People". Truth. What a thought....the scud that is..

trashing Cindy with their signs and messages of ignorance are bearing false witness (worshiping at the idol called Dimson) - practicing false religion in the name of the real one. Hell is going to be a crowded place (leaves more room for us in the good place!)

[asjr]

2. His followers are worshipping a false idol and I

bet God is really pissed off!

[Cha]

3. Pretty exciting coming from,

especially, the Orange County Register!

[Im with Rosey]

4. Sunday A.M. O.C. Register

Much to my shock and amazement, the OC Register had two huge pics, front page, above the fold! One pic was a small group of pro-war?(anyone know what that really means?). The other pic was a HUGE anti-war crowd shot. For those of you that don't live in Orange County, it is extremely repug and to see anything that doesn't have that spin is amazing. I haven't read the article yet, so I'm not sure if the words match the photos. I am at least encouraged that a paper like this would put pics that show an honest view rather than rightie spew. Back to original post- while attending a vigil, I was surprised to see as many Laguna Woods residents as I did. It was wonderful, they apparently have a very active group that I would love to join. Many that I spoke with did not seem to be aware of the blogging groups they could be active with, but perhaps I made a small contribution to their knowledge. At the very least, I think I convinced some to try to buy blue! This could be such a powerful group, I really wish I could think of a way to tap in.