Please Join
Cindy Sheehan, Mark Levy, and Friends
in Celebrating Her EPIC Campaign
End Poverty in California
Eliminate the Prison Industrial Complex
Empower People Instead of Corporations
7 P.M. Thursday, February 13th
Resource Center for Nonviolence
612 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz
Contact: 688-8692
Cindy Sheehan, aged 56, is an internationally renowned peace and social justice activist.
Sheehan’s oldest son Casey was killed in Iraq on April 04, 2004 and many came to know about her and her work when she set up a peace camp near the faux-ranch of then president George W. Bush in Crawford, TX in the summer of 2005.
Since then, Cindy Sheehan, has traveled the world working with fellow activists demanding peace and working with others to help create a world that is peaceful and more economically secure and equal.
Cindy Sheehan is a native Californian who was raised in a California where education was excellent and other social safety nets were not as small and filled with holes so big, millions of Californians fall through while the rich and corporations keep exploiting more of this state’s wealth and resources.
Sheehan majored in California History at UCLA and envisions a state that leads the world in peace, economic stability and equality, environmental sustainability and delivering high-quality public education from pre-K through university. She knows it can be done because it has been done before.
Cindy Sheehan has published seven books, been arrested for peace about 21 times, is currently a resident of Vacaville, CA and the mother of three surviving children and four grandchildren who are her love and her inspiration.
She has said she is a socialist. I’m not aware of Nader having characterized himself as one.
I think her political evolution is pretty interesting. She started out campaigning against teh war in Iraq, and over the last ten years has increasing become a strong critic of capitalism and state power. I don’t think she is a Marxist, more like Nader – believing that democracy and openess in aosciety can curtail both the powers of the state and the powers of the money.
Alternately, she looks like Bill Gates’ sister, which is somehow frightening.
She looks like the love child of Alfred E. Neuman and Richard Nixon in this photo, if such a thing were possible.