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Aug
2005

Pilgrims of Protest in Crawford



By GREG MOSES
August 15, 2005
Counterpunch

"Today is kind of a blur to me."--Cindy Sheehan

Penny strides into the front lawn of the Crawford Peace House talking about that time up in Racine five weeks before the alleged re-election when she stood along the street with firemen and everybody, and flipped the President the bird. "Thank you," is what Penny recalls the President saying to her. "God, what a weak man!"

Like Cindy Sheehan, Penny is motivated by the death of her son, but Penny's son was not killed in an overseas war. He lost his life to the politics of health care funding in Texas. "I'm only the Governor," is how Penny recalls Bush's response when she asked him to help restore a sudden cut in funding to the cancer research trial in Arlington, Texas that was doing good things for her son. "My son died because that treatment was delayed," says Penny. And that's one reason why she flipped the President the bird. [...] Read more about one of the people who came to join Camp Casey at http://counterpunch.org/moses08152005.html


© Virginia Metze



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