JollyJane
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Camp Democracy
Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad:
Bring Democracy to DC Beginning Sept. 8, 2006.
For Immediate Release: July 6, 2006
Contact: David Swanson 202-329-7847,
www.campdemocracy.org
Cindy Sheehan to Move Camp to National Mall
Washington, D.C., September 8 to 21
Camp Casey to Expand into Camp Democracy
Cindy Sheehan and activists in the growing peace
movement plan to establish Camp Casey in Crawford,
Texas, again this August 16 to September 2. They then
plan to move the camp to the National Mall in
Washington, D.C., beginning September 8.
The camp on the Mall will carry the name Camp
Democracy at Fort Fed Up, and details are available at
www.campdemocracy.org . Organizers intend the camp to
bring together peace activists and activists for
social justice, united in demanding a shift of public
resources from war to the needs of people.
Participants will lobby Congress to end all funding of
the occupation of Iraq, and will demand that Congress
hold the Bush Administration accountable for the
falsehoods that launched the war and the abuses of
power here at home that have accompanied it.
President Bush has yet to answer Sheehan's question,
"For what noble cause did my son die?" If it chose to
do so, Congress could compel the President and members
of his administration to answer that question.
Participants in Camp Democracy will encourage Congress
Members to do so.
Camp Democracy is launching an outreach effort today
to include organizations in the planning of the camp's
activities, which are all in the initial stages.
Organizations already on board include Gold Star
Families for Peace, AfterDowningStreet.org, National
Immigrant Solidarity Network, Traprock Peace Center,
CODE PINK, Global Exchange, Progressive Democrats of
America (PDA), Democrats.com, Democracy Cell Project,
The World Can't Wait, Velvet Revolution, Association
of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), New
Orleans Voices for Peace, Cities for Peace, Backbone
Campaign, Hip Hop Caucus, Democracy Rising, Voters for
Peace, DC Labor for Peace and Justice, U.S. Labor
Against the War, National Organization for Women
(NOW), Reclaim the Commons, Veterans for Peace, Stop
the War Coalition (UK), San Juan Peace Network,
Consumers for Peace, Texans for Peace. Others are
being encouraged to join here:
https://campdemocracy.org/node/3
The Camp Democracy website describes the event as "a
camp for peace, democracy, and the restoration of the
rule of law…focused not only on ending the war but
also on righting injustices here at home and on
holding accountable the Bush Administration and
Congress."
Tents will provide activist activities, trainings,
workshops, and entertainment on at least these themes,
if not others:
War/ Peace
The Constitution/ Accountability/ Censure/ Impeachment
Poverty/ Katrina/ Immigration/ Labor
Environment/ Health Care/ Education
Participating organizations and guest experts and
celebrities will provide workshops and training
sessions on the above topics, as well as on
communications, voter registration, nonviolent civil
disobedience, lobbying, organizing, media production,
and performance arts. Congress Members and
congressional candidates will take part. Local
elected officials will instruct attendees on
participation in local government. Musicians will
perform concerts. New films will be shown on a large
screen. The intention is for participants to go home
having acquired useful skills for civic participation,
to enjoy themselves, and to demand fundamental change
from a government whose actions so rarely follow
majority opinion. Trainers, speakers, and performers
who want to propose activities are being encouraged to
contact Camp Democracy here:
https://campdemocracy.org/node/4
While civil disobedience is not planned for Camp
Democracy, education in civil disobedience will be
provided in preparation for the activities of Sept. 21
to 28 being organized by the Declaration of Peace:
https://www.declarationofpeace.org
Cindy Sheehan, Co-Founder of Gold Star Families for
Peace and mother of Casey Sheehan, KIA in Iraq, said:
"We are going to bring to the front door of Congress
our demand that they fulfill their Constitutional
obligation to check the abuses of the President. We
will ask them to compel President Bush and members of
his administration to answer the question 'Why was my
son sent to die in Iraq?' And we are going to ask
Congress Members themselves why they are allowing the
killing to continue, together with the drain on
resources that is putting at risk all of the needs of
people in this country and abroad."
NOW President Kim Gandy said of Camp Democracy plans,
"We must keep raising our voices for peace -- and the
harder that becomes, the more necessary it is."
Nancy Wohlforth, Co-convenor of U.S. Labor Against the
War, and President, Pride At Work, AFL-CIO, said, "The
hard-earned tax dollars of every working person in the
United States are being squandered on the war in Iraq.
Working people must use the power of their labor,
organized through unions, to demand a reordering of
priorities, to peoples' needs rather than corporate
greed. Through participating in Camp Democracy, U.S.
Labor Against the War joins the surging, broadening
movement to bring our troops home now and end the war
on Iraq."
Sunny Miller, Director of Traprock Peace Center, and
daughter of a Vietnam Vet said, "The first woman
elected to Congress, Jeannette Rankin, had it right --
'You can no more win a war than you can win an
earthquake.' The bloody warring and profiteering must
be stopped, or we're headed for calamity. Women know
this. Ordinary people know this everywhere. I think
it's time to support real reparations with a women's
strike for peace, and a time to live the dream that
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., held up for us."
Kevin Zeese, Director of Democracy Rising, said:
"Anti-war and social justice voters need to bring
their message to Washington, DC, to kick off the final
months of the mid-term elections. Join us so we can
present a unified presence and energize anti-war
voters throughout the United States. Let's make the
anti-war vote a powerful one in 2006 and 2008."
Added Karen Bradley of Democracy Cell Project: "Come
and learn how we will take the country back."
Former U.S. diplomat and U.S. Army Colonel Ann Wright
said, "Camp Democracy is an critical event to continue
to put pressure on the Congress and the Bush
Administration to end the war in Iraq and bring the
troops home, as well as for discussing the criminal
activities the Bush administration is involved in."
Tim Carpenter, Director of PDA, said: "Progressive
Democrats of America is proud to be a part of this
historic effort to organize and mobilize the
progressive community from across this country to
focus the upcoming election on ending the occupation
of Iraq, cutting off funding for the war and holding
the President, Vice President and the entire Bush
Administration accountable for the lies that lead to
this war."
Medea Benjamin, Cofounder, CODEPINK: Women for Peace,
said, "We need to be in Washington DC, where the
decisions are being made to continue this immoral war.
Elected officials need to hear our voices and feel
our pressure when we, the people, say 'Bring the
Troops Home.'"
Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of
Independence, added, "To secure these rights,
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their
just powers from the consent of the governed; whenever
any Form of Government becomes destructive of these
ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to
abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying
its foundation on such principles and organizing its
powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely
to effect their Safety and Happiness."
--
Pete Perry
571-271-1313
www.peteperry.net
https://beltwaybeast.blogspot.com/
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with
the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the
one who gets burned."
Join TROOPS HOME FAST "Shouldn't we be as serious about making peace as some people are about making war?" Diane Wilson www.codepinkalert.org
We can make the world a better place. Check out www.plenty.org and
www.peaceroots.org
__________________________________________________
Camp Democracy
Stop the Wars at Home and Abroad:
Bring Democracy to DC Beginning Sept. 8, 2006.
For Immediate Release: July 6, 2006
Contact: David Swanson 202-329-7847,
www.campdemocracy.org
Cindy Sheehan to Move Camp to National Mall
Washington, D.C., September 8 to 21
Camp Casey to Expand into Camp Democracy
Cindy Sheehan and activists in the growing peace
movement plan to establish Camp Casey in Crawford,
Texas, again this August 16 to September 2. They then
plan to move the camp to the National Mall in
Washington, D.C., beginning September 8.
The camp on the Mall will carry the name Camp
Democracy at Fort Fed Up, and details are available at
www.campdemocracy.org . Organizers intend the camp to
bring together peace activists and activists for
social justice, united in demanding a shift of public
resources from war to the needs of people.
Participants will lobby Congress to end all funding of
the occupation of Iraq, and will demand that Congress
hold the Bush Administration accountable for the
falsehoods that launched the war and the abuses of
power here at home that have accompanied it.
President Bush has yet to answer Sheehan's question,
"For what noble cause did my son die?" If it chose to
do so, Congress could compel the President and members
of his administration to answer that question.
Participants in Camp Democracy will encourage Congress
Members to do so.
Camp Democracy is launching an outreach effort today
to include organizations in the planning of the camp's
activities, which are all in the initial stages.
Organizations already on board include Gold Star
Families for Peace, AfterDowningStreet.org, National
Immigrant Solidarity Network, Traprock Peace Center,
CODE PINK, Global Exchange, Progressive Democrats of
America (PDA), Democrats.com, Democracy Cell Project,
The World Can't Wait, Velvet Revolution, Association
of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), New
Orleans Voices for Peace, Cities for Peace, Backbone
Campaign, Hip Hop Caucus, Democracy Rising, Voters for
Peace, DC Labor for Peace and Justice, U.S. Labor
Against the War, National Organization for Women
(NOW), Reclaim the Commons, Veterans for Peace, Stop
the War Coalition (UK), San Juan Peace Network,
Consumers for Peace, Texans for Peace. Others are
being encouraged to join here:
https://campdemocracy.org/node/3
The Camp Democracy website describes the event as "a
camp for peace, democracy, and the restoration of the
rule of law…focused not only on ending the war but
also on righting injustices here at home and on
holding accountable the Bush Administration and
Congress."
Tents will provide activist activities, trainings,
workshops, and entertainment on at least these themes,
if not others:
War/ Peace
The Constitution/ Accountability/ Censure/ Impeachment
Poverty/ Katrina/ Immigration/ Labor
Environment/ Health Care/ Education
Participating organizations and guest experts and
celebrities will provide workshops and training
sessions on the above topics, as well as on
communications, voter registration, nonviolent civil
disobedience, lobbying, organizing, media production,
and performance arts. Congress Members and
congressional candidates will take part. Local
elected officials will instruct attendees on
participation in local government. Musicians will
perform concerts. New films will be shown on a large
screen. The intention is for participants to go home
having acquired useful skills for civic participation,
to enjoy themselves, and to demand fundamental change
from a government whose actions so rarely follow
majority opinion. Trainers, speakers, and performers
who want to propose activities are being encouraged to
contact Camp Democracy here:
https://campdemocracy.org/node/4
While civil disobedience is not planned for Camp
Democracy, education in civil disobedience will be
provided in preparation for the activities of Sept. 21
to 28 being organized by the Declaration of Peace:
https://www.declarationofpeace.org
Cindy Sheehan, Co-Founder of Gold Star Families for
Peace and mother of Casey Sheehan, KIA in Iraq, said:
"We are going to bring to the front door of Congress
our demand that they fulfill their Constitutional
obligation to check the abuses of the President. We
will ask them to compel President Bush and members of
his administration to answer the question 'Why was my
son sent to die in Iraq?' And we are going to ask
Congress Members themselves why they are allowing the
killing to continue, together with the drain on
resources that is putting at risk all of the needs of
people in this country and abroad."
NOW President Kim Gandy said of Camp Democracy plans,
"We must keep raising our voices for peace -- and the
harder that becomes, the more necessary it is."
Nancy Wohlforth, Co-convenor of U.S. Labor Against the
War, and President, Pride At Work, AFL-CIO, said, "The
hard-earned tax dollars of every working person in the
United States are being squandered on the war in Iraq.
Working people must use the power of their labor,
organized through unions, to demand a reordering of
priorities, to peoples' needs rather than corporate
greed. Through participating in Camp Democracy, U.S.
Labor Against the War joins the surging, broadening
movement to bring our troops home now and end the war
on Iraq."
Sunny Miller, Director of Traprock Peace Center, and
daughter of a Vietnam Vet said, "The first woman
elected to Congress, Jeannette Rankin, had it right --
'You can no more win a war than you can win an
earthquake.' The bloody warring and profiteering must
be stopped, or we're headed for calamity. Women know
this. Ordinary people know this everywhere. I think
it's time to support real reparations with a women's
strike for peace, and a time to live the dream that
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., held up for us."
Kevin Zeese, Director of Democracy Rising, said:
"Anti-war and social justice voters need to bring
their message to Washington, DC, to kick off the final
months of the mid-term elections. Join us so we can
present a unified presence and energize anti-war
voters throughout the United States. Let's make the
anti-war vote a powerful one in 2006 and 2008."
Added Karen Bradley of Democracy Cell Project: "Come
and learn how we will take the country back."
Former U.S. diplomat and U.S. Army Colonel Ann Wright
said, "Camp Democracy is an critical event to continue
to put pressure on the Congress and the Bush
Administration to end the war in Iraq and bring the
troops home, as well as for discussing the criminal
activities the Bush administration is involved in."
Tim Carpenter, Director of PDA, said: "Progressive
Democrats of America is proud to be a part of this
historic effort to organize and mobilize the
progressive community from across this country to
focus the upcoming election on ending the occupation
of Iraq, cutting off funding for the war and holding
the President, Vice President and the entire Bush
Administration accountable for the lies that lead to
this war."
Medea Benjamin, Cofounder, CODEPINK: Women for Peace,
said, "We need to be in Washington DC, where the
decisions are being made to continue this immoral war.
Elected officials need to hear our voices and feel
our pressure when we, the people, say 'Bring the
Troops Home.'"
Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of
Independence, added, "To secure these rights,
Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their
just powers from the consent of the governed; whenever
any Form of Government becomes destructive of these
ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to
abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying
its foundation on such principles and organizing its
powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely
to effect their Safety and Happiness."
--
Pete Perry
571-271-1313
www.peteperry.net
https://beltwaybeast.blogspot.com/
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with
the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the
one who gets burned."
Join TROOPS HOME FAST "Shouldn't we be as serious about making peace as some people are about making war?" Diane Wilson www.codepinkalert.org
We can make the world a better place. Check out www.plenty.org and
www.peaceroots.org
__________________________________________________