Cindy Sheehan in Vancouver

Military Mom Speaks Out
Cindy Sheehan

As a mother looking for answers to her son's death, Cindy Sheehan has become a beacon to many in the struggle to end the illegal occupation of Iraq. More than 600 came to hear her at the May 6, 2006 War Resisters / stopwar.ca meeting in Vancouver at Shaughnessey Heights United Church.

May 6, 2006 - Shaughnessey United Church, Vancouver

Cindy Sheehan lost her son, Army Specialist Casey Austin Sheehan, in an ambush in Sadr City, Baghdad, on April 4, 2004. As information became available that the war in Iraq was based on lies and "cooked intelligence," she began speaking out. In August 2005, she went to Crawford, Texas, to confront the president, and the floodgates of a renewed American peace movement were opened. In Not One More Mother�s Child, she chronicles her thoughts and actions, and her reflections on war, truth, and accountability.

�There is a rhythm and tempo in her prose which recalls the great epic writers of Greece. She has a gift of candor and directness and epic simplicity. Cindy � is a born writer."� �Dario Fo, Winner of Nobel Prize for Literature