Articles Archive for July 2006
Photojournalism »
Full page of photos by HiMY SYeD published in Weekly Carvan Canada, Page 15 – Thursday July 27, 2006.
Saturday, 22 July 2006: 15,000 People gathered and rallied in the rain in Toronto on the Global Day of Action.
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Banners • Carvan Canada • Global Day of Action • International Day of Action • July 22 2006 • March • Peace • People • Placards • Protest • Rain • Rally • Signs • Toronto
Law and Government, Photojournalism »
By Faisal Kutty, Washington Report, July 2006, pages 50-51
“OUR CHILDREN did not enlist to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity,” said Cindy Sheehan, the prominent American anti-war activist who toured Toronto, Vancouver and Ottawa during the first week of May. Sheehan, who lost her own son, Specialist Casey Sheehan, in Iraq in April 2004, rose to prominence last year when she camped out at President George W. Bush’s Texas ranch, demanding answers for the war.
Sheehan called on the Canadian government to welcome American war resisters as refugees. “I believe …
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Afghanistan • Asylum • Brandon Hughey • Bush • Casey Sheehan • Cindy Sheehan • conscientious objector • court martial • Court of Appeal • Federal Court of Appeal • foot soldier • Geneva Convention • Human Rights Watch • Immigration and Refugee Board • International Committee of the Red Cross • international law • IRB • Jeffrey House • Jeremy Hinzman • Justice Anne Mactavish • Michelle Robidoux • Ottawa • Pierre Trudeau • refuge from militarism • refugees • Toronto • United States Supreme Court • vancouver • War Resisters • War Resisters Support Campaign
Photojournalism »
By Shelina Merani, Washington Report, July 2006, pages 69-70
AS MOTHER’S DAY approached, Cindy Sheehan visited Canada on a speaking tour organized by the Canadian Peace Alliance. After her son Casey’s death in Baghdad in 2004, Sheehan’s high-profile campaign has enabled her to move on from this intensely personal tragedy. In Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Vancouver she spoke to packed audiences and received intense media coverage.
Her presence in Canada showed that she has an uncanny ability to sense the pulse of a nation that opted out of the war in …
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Afghanistan • Baghdad • Bush • Canadian Peace Alliance • Canadian Soldiers • Canadians • Casey Sheehan • Cindy Sheehan • Conservative Government • CPA • debate • Fallen Soldiers • Gold Star Family • Iraq • media • Military Moms • Montreal • Mother's Day • Ottawa • Parliament Hill • Poll • Quebec • Sid Lacombe • Speaking Tour • Strategic Council • Toronto • Troops • vancouver • War Resisters Support Campaign • Washington D.C.
