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Cindy Sheehan along with some Morning Star headlines from 2005
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TOWARDS the end of last month, independent US online radio station Women’s Liberation Radio News broadcast an interview that merits considerable further attention — particularly for those involved in the peace movement and other progressive politics.
The interviewee will be a name that’s familiar to Morning Star readers from the height of the battle against the murderous crimes being committed by the US and Britain in Iraq as part of George Bush and Tony Blair’s so-called “war on terror.”
Cindy Sheehan hit the news in the mid-2000s after her son Casey was killed while serving in the Iraq war. Following his death Sheehan became a staunch anti-war and anti-imperialism activist, setting up a protest camp, dubbed “Camp Casey,” outside Bush’s Texas ranch, which garnered media attention from around the world.
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