updated Mon. April 15, 2024
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Common Dreams
January 18, 2018
There is one thing missing from the upcoming Women's March publicity and philosophy: the urgent need for Peace not War! The March will speak out against hate, discrimination and exploitation. That's good. The March will also speak out strongly in favor of equality, women's reproductive choice andÃâà...
East Bay Times
October 19, 2016
Sylvia Amorino, founder and director of Solo Opera, who collaborates with Cantabella Children's Chorus and Contra Costa Children's Chorus to perform operas that exemplify social aspects of living in Contra Costa County. Michael and ... Sheehan was one of the founders of Gold Star Families for Peace.
New York Times
August 1, 2016
“In the military and veterans community, Gold Star families are sacred,” said Paul Rieckhoff, the founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. ... anyone berating a Gold Star family member for exercising his or her right of speech or expression,” the group's leader, Brian Duffy, said in a statement.
The Guardian
December 31, 2015
Republican primary frontrunner criticises US president for White House screening of The Force Awakens and calls for leader with 'real priorities' ... of children from families whose relatives were killed in the Iraq war met US first lady Michelle Obama as part of the Gold Star Families for Peace initiative.
Chestnut Hill Local
January 30, 2015
Cindy Sheehan is a co-founder and President of Gold Star Families for Peace and the author of two books as well as the mother of Casey Sheehan, who was killed in Iraq. by Cindy Sheehan. Ed. Note: The biggest Hollywood box office hit these days is “American Sniper,” the hagiography biopic of ChrisÃâà...
CNN
May 30, 2007
His death prompted his mother to found Gold Star Families for Peace. But in Monday's 1,200-word letter, titled, "Good Riddance Attention Whore," Sheehan announced that her son "did indeed die for nothing." "I have tried ever since he died to make his sacrifice meaningful," she wrote. "Casey died for aÃâà...
Fog City Journal
January 4, 2007
A Gavin Newsom for Mayor 2007 kickoff fundraiser event was held on New Year's Eve at Medjool Restaurant in the Mission District. It is not known how much money was raised at the bubbly soiree but if everyone who attended the standing room only event pony'd up the suggested $500 maximumÃâà...
In These Times
August 31, 2006
In the summer of 2005, a television station in Salt Lake City, Utah (KTVX-TV) refused to run an advertisement sponsored by Gold Star Families for Peace, an organization co-founded by anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan. The advertisement was released two days before the president was scheduled to speakÃâà...
Bay Area Indymedia
August 22, 2006
and Gold Star Families for Peace co-founder Cindy Sheehan were read to gathered supporters, followed by a message via cell phone from Suzane's mother Sara Rich. Specialist Swift refused to return to Iraq because of the extreme duress she suffered in the form of sexual harassment at the hands of threeÃâà...
