Sheehan To Start Tent City at Washington Monument
But she admits, "I'm kind of over the whole camping thing"
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Cindy Sheehan is planning an anti-war camp at the Washington Monument.
Cindy Sheehan's setting up an anti-war camp at the Washington Monument.
But she's not exactly roughing it.
"I'm kind of over the whole camping thing," Sheehan told The Hill. So she'll be renting a bedroom where she can stash her supplies, shower and nod off.
Her new coalition, Peace of the Action, will begin its Camp OUT NOW campaign at the Washington Monument on Monday. The group will launch its first act of civil resistance on March 22. Sheehan told The Hill the event will be located somewhere around the White House.
According to the group's Web site, its objective is to "clog Washington, DC every week day through diffuse Civil Resistance (CR) actions to have the effect of tampering with 'business as usual' in the Capital of the United States of America."
According to The Hill, Sheehan's group will focus on Congress this spring, as lawmakers consider the president's war funding request.
Sheehan's anti-war activism has brought controversy -- and made international headlines. In 2005, she set up "Camp Casey," named after her son, who died in Iraq. The "camp" was a five-week protest outside of former President George W. Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas.
Posted Thursday, Mar 11, 2010 - 8:48 AM EST
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