Cindy Sheehan in the News

GOLD STAR FAMILIES FOR PEACE An organization of the families of soldiers who have died as a result of war, organizing to be a positive force in our world to bring our country’s sons and daughters home from Iraq, to minimize the “human cost” of this war, and to prevent other families from the pain we are feeling as the result of our losses.\| www.gsfp.org	MILITARY FAMILIES SPEAK OUT An organization of people who are opposed to war in Iraq and who have relatives or loved ones in the military. They were formed in Nov. 2002 and have contacts with military families throughout the United States and in other countries around the world. \| www.mfso.org/
IRAQ VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR Iraq Veterans Against the War went public on July 28th, 2004. The main objectives of IVAW are threefold. They are: 1: Bring the troops home now; 2: Support Iraqi reconstruction in whatever way possible; 3: Support our veterans and our troops now and upon their return home. \| www.ivaw.net	CENTRAL COMMITTEE FOR CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS The Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors has been in existence continuously since 1948, helping people who get caught in the military’s web and helping them get out. Programs include: Military Out of Our Schools, The GI Rights Hotline, Third World Outreach Program and AWOL! Youth for Peace and Revolution. \| www.objector.org
CODEPINK CODEPINK is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement that seeks positive social change through proactive, creative protest and nonviolent direct action.. There are over 80 active CODEPINK communities. CODEPINK-Central serves to connect CODEPINK groups with the international network of global peacemakers. \| www.codepink4peace.org	VETERANS FOR PEACE VFP is a national organization that includes men and women veterans from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, other conflicts and peacetime veterans. They draw on personal experiences and perspectives to raise public awareness of the true costs and consequences of militarism and war, and to seek peaceful, effective alternatives. \| http://www.veteransforpeace.org/
AFTERDOWNINGSTREET.ORG Leads a campaign to urge the U.S. Congress to begin a formal investigation into whether President Bush has committed impeachable offenses in connection with the Iraq war. \| http://www.afterdowningstreet.org	IRAQ COALITION CASUALTY COUNT This web site provides information that has been scrupulously culled from government sources and cross-checked against other existing lists to ensure the most accurate and complete accounting of deaths that we can possibly assemble. \| http://icasualties.org/oif/

GOLD STAR FAMILIES FOR PEACE An organization of the families of soldiers who have died as a result of war, organizing to be a positive force in our world to bring our country’s sons and daughters home from Iraq, to minimize the “human cost” of this war, and to prevent other families from the pain we are feeling as the result of our losses.\| www.gsfp.org	MILITARY FAMILIES SPEAK OUT An organization of people who are opposed to war in Iraq and who have relatives or loved ones in the military. They were formed in Nov. 2002 and have contacts with military families throughout the United States and in other countries around the world. \| www.mfso.org/
IRAQ VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR Iraq Veterans Against the War went public on July 28th, 2004. The main objectives of IVAW are threefold. They are: 1: Bring the troops home now; 2: Support Iraqi reconstruction in whatever way possible; 3: Support our veterans and our troops now and upon their return home. \| www.ivaw.net	CENTRAL COMMITTEE FOR CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS The Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors has been in existence continuously since 1948, helping people who get caught in the military’s web and helping them get out. Programs include: Military Out of Our Schools, The GI Rights Hotline, Third World Outreach Program and AWOL! Youth for Peace and Revolution. \| www.objector.org
CODEPINK CODEPINK is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement that seeks positive social change through proactive, creative protest and nonviolent direct action.. There are over 80 active CODEPINK communities. CODEPINK-Central serves to connect CODEPINK groups with the international network of global peacemakers. \| www.codepink4peace.org	VETERANS FOR PEACE VFP is a national organization that includes men and women veterans from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Gulf War, other conflicts and peacetime veterans. They draw on personal experiences and perspectives to raise public awareness of the true costs and consequences of militarism and war, and to seek peaceful, effective alternatives. \| http://www.veteransforpeace.org/
AFTERDOWNINGSTREET.ORG Leads a campaign to urge the U.S. Congress to begin a formal investigation into whether President Bush has committed impeachable offenses in connection with the Iraq war. \| http://www.afterdowningstreet.org	IRAQ COALITION CASUALTY COUNT This web site provides information that has been scrupulously culled from government sources and cross-checked against other existing lists to ensure the most accurate and complete accounting of deaths that we can possibly assemble. \| http://icasualties.org/oif/