[Bookstoprisoners] Cindy Sheehan

[Lyman (Bob) Tieman]

Cindy Sheehan is coming to the U of I.  For those of you who are facebook
members, here's the address:

http://uillinois.facebook.com/event.php?eid=2235519153

For everyone else:


Name:

Cindy Sheehan, University YMCA Student Activist Conference Keynote Speaker


Host:

University YMCA


Type:

Education <http://uillinois.facebook.com/s.php?k=40010&c1=3>  - Lecture
<http://uillinois.facebook.com/s.php?k=40010&c1=3&c2=28> 

 


Time and Place


Date:

Thursday, March 1, 2007


Time:

7:00pm - 8:00pm


Location:

228 Natural History Building


City:

Champaign, IL

 


Contact Info


Phone:

217.337.1500


Email:

ymca.activists at gmail.com


Description


This event hopes to bring together all of the activist groups on campus,
whatever their agendas, for a day of workshops, panels, and speakers that
will address issues important to all students working to make a difference
here on campus and beyond. The conference will be held on Saturday, March
3rd from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm and is free, including meals, for all UIUC
students. 

We are very excited to welcome experienced and accomplished activist Cindy
Sheehan as our keynote speaker. She will give her talk, entitled "One Person
Can Make a Difference" at 7:00 pm on Thursday, March 1st , and will also
meet informally with students prior to her talk. Cindy Sheehan tells her
powerful and provocative story of her work as an anti-war activist that
began upon the death of her son, Casey, who was killed on April 4, 2004 on a
mission in Iraq. In early August of 2005, Cindy, or "Peace Mom", as she has
come to be called, camped in a ditch near President Bush's ranch in
Crawford, Texas. She was requesting a personal meeting with the president,
who had declared that the fallen soldiers had died for a "noble cause".
Cindy wanted to know exactly what that cause was, and to demand an immediate
end to what she viewed as an unjust and immoral war. So many people,
activists, and celebrities stopped by or joined in to show their support,
that her somewhat spontaneous demonstration became known as "Camp Casey". A
few days later, a neighbor offered the Camp Casey participants some land to
use as their base. Camp Casey has become a regular protest event, gathering
when President Bush is in Crawford for holidays and vacations. Cindy has
purchased land where the protesters can camp. Between Camp Casey operations,
Cindy has traveled extensively, meeting with people and leaders from all
over the world, and been featured in many protests and rallies. She is
credited with having revived the anti-war protest, and providing a name and
face for the peace and justice movement. Her published works include Not One
More Mother's Child - an account of her first year of activism, "Dear
President Bush" - a collection of writings and speeches, and Peace Mom: A
Mother's Journey through Heartache to Activism. Whatever one's position on
the Iraq war, Cindy Sheehan's commitment to activism is inspiring.

 

 

Lyman (Bob) Tieman

Keystaff for UC Books 2 Prisoners (http://www.books2prisoners.org/)

Senior in Philosophy/Psychology at the University of Illinois

(217) 352-7382

 

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