[Iowa-dx] GP RELEASE Greens thank 'Peace Mom' Cindy Sheehan for her courage & sacrifice

Thu, 31 May 2007 11:10:37 -0500

GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES
http://www.gp.org

For Immediate Release:
Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Contacts:
Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624,
mclarty@greens.org
Starlene Rankin, Media Coordinator, 916-995-3805,
starlene@gp.org

Green Party thanks Cindy Sheehan for her courage,
dedication, and sacrifice as she retires from
antiwar activism

WASHINGTON, DC -- Green Party leaders offered
their thanks to antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan
for dedicating three years of her life to ending
the Iraq War, in the wake of Ms. Sheehan's
announcement that she is retiring from the
movement to end the war.

Ms. Sheehan joined the antiwar movement and
emerged as a representative of those who suffered
the loss of family members after her son Casey, a
Specialist in the US Army, was killed in Iraq in
April 2004.  The Green Party has consistently
supported Ms. Sheehan's call for a quick end to
the occupation.

Bill Holloway, Chairperson of the Travis County
(Austin, Texas) Green Party and participant in
Camp Casey in August 2006: "Cindy Sheehan gave a
human face to the peace and justice movement that
neither the media, the White House, or Congress
could ignore.  Ms. Sheehan exposed the Bush
Administration's lies and made it impossible for
President Bush to hide the fact that the war has
cost the lives of thousands of young American
service members, as well as hundreds of thousands
of Iraqi civilians."

Echo Steiner, co-chair of the Green Party of the
United States and member of Military Families
Speak Out <http://www.mfso.org>, with a brother
who served a tour in Iraq as a navy SeaBee:
"Cindy Sheehan's exhausting work, especially her
long vigils at Camp Casey, stands as a monument
to her son.  When the war finally ends and the
troops are ordered home some day, it'll be
because of Ms. Sheehan's courage and personal
sacrifice.  We will never forget Cindy or Casey."

Carl Romanelli, Pennsylvania Green candidate for
the US Senate in 2006: "We share Cindy Sheehan's
dismay and anger at Democratic members of
Congress for their continued support of the war
in Iraq.  The willingness of so many Democrats to
drop the troop withdrawal timetable and vote for
$120 billion more in war financing reminds us
that the war machine has always been bipartisan.
We extend thoughts of peace and comfort to Cindy
Sheehan."

MORE INFORMATION

Green Party of the United States
http://www.gp.org
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Washington, DC 20009.
202-319-7191, 866-41GREEN
Fax 202-319-7193
Green Party News Center
http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml

Peace Action Committee of the Green Party (GPAX)
http://www.gp.org/committees/peace/

"Green for a Change": 2007 Green Party Annual
National Meeting
Reading, Pennsylvania, July 12-15
http://www.gp.org/meeting2007/

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