Cindy speaks in Montclair NJ, Pics...........of course

[FogerRox]

We had a Peace event at a local church in Montclair today, the big draw was Cindy Sheehan, of course. And Amy Goodman. I was up in the balcony, and I took very bad pictures. But the before and after shots were ok, plus one shot of the crowd inside the church, here:





Me & Cindy, she signed books and spoke to people before the event.



Afterwards Cindy just hung out with people, signing more autographs and talking.










Edit, to add some more pics:




Cindy and Paul Sorvell (SP?), Paul heads up South Mountain Peace Action, of South Orange and Maplewood NJ.



Heres one that came out ok, of Cindy as she was speaking.



Cinday signed my copy of the Montclair Times from last August, when we did the Moveon thing for Cindy.
She got a good laff from that. Thats me on the front page pic, gettin some honks.



And she signed her book, that I had just bought.

[babylonsister]

1. Thank you for this! Cindy is so gracious; you're a peach for

posting. Did Amy Goodman chat, too? Sounds like a terrific event and looks like lots of people showed up! :thumbsup:

[FogerRox]

2. Amy spoke, and may have chatted, but Cindy just walked into the crowd

to the front lobby of the church, found a chair & table and sat down. I'm loading sime pics - shouldnt be too long ... be back in a few........

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Thanks for the photos

and the report!

[FogerRox]

4. She got 3 or 4 standing ovations, and dozens of applause breaks

ANd the occasional person shouting out, "YEAH" or whatever. She mentioned that swasticas should be the logo for the Bush Regime, I yelled out "double-yous". ANd she said she liked that........ LOL.

[Libby2]

5. Very nice!! Thank you for posting! (nt)

[FogerRox]

6. Your welcome, news from the front...... LOL

[FogerRox]

7. kickin

[LittleClarkie]

8. Was her protest of Clinton also today?

I thought I heard something about that on the radio. How did it go?

[FogerRox]

9. I dunno-- pics are from Sunday....................

[Cha]

10. This is beautiful! I was reading

about Cindy Sheehan in The Nation mag(Al Gore's cover) today when I was in the sauna..

article | posted May 25, 2006 (June 12, 2006 issue)
Cindy Sheehan: Mother of a Movement?
Karen Houppert

Snips~

"On the side of a hot, dusty road in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, peace activist Cindy Sheehan, 48, sits on the tailgate of an SUV with her sister, Dede Miller, 47. Although it is not yet 10 AM, a relentless sun beats down and the two women pass a tube of sunscreen back and forth, slathering up for the day of protest marching in front of them.

Dede, who quit her job of twenty-seven years as a human resources manager at a California K-Mart to head Sheehan's fledgling antiwar group, Gold Star Families for Peace, and to help manage her more famous sister's schedule, pushes dark curly hair off her already red and sweaty face. She wordlessly hands Cindy a baseball cap, which her sister promptly puts on.

The women sit in companionable silence, waiting to hook up with a parade of 100 antiwar marchers--and hurricane survivors--traveling from Mobile, Alabama, to New Orleans. Tired from air travel the day before, they sip from water bottles, squint against the glare as they peer down the road for signs of marchers, check their watches and wait. They are on autopilot; they have been around the block on this one before."
Soon, along with dozens of antiwar activists who will swarm Sheehan with requests for her to autograph their T-shirts, to pose for photos with their arms across her shoulders, to listen to their stories, she will be approached by CNN, a local reporter, the BBC, Al Jazeera, The Nation.

Over the next three hours, she will sign each T-shirt, pose for each photo, listen to each story and agree to every interview.

More..
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060612/houppert