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Local activists back from Crawford

Thursday, August 18, 2005

George Tuley/Caller-Times David Dow speaks about bringing home American troops home from Iraq at a vigil at Cole Park Amphitheater in support of Cindy Sheehan’s weeks-long protest outside the President Bush’s ranch in Crawford. RELATED STORIES Pro-Sheehan vigil held here Vigil spurs others, countervigils One was awed by numbers of people who came together By Sara Lee Fernandez Caller-Times Five local peace activists traveled back from Crawford on Wednesday after spending about 24 hours with others supporting a California mother protesting the Iraq war. "There were people lined along the road," Emily Olivarez, a member of South Texas Alliance for Peace and Justice, said before the group began driving back to Corpus Christi. "The crosses were along the side of the road, each with the name of a U.S. soldier who has died." Olivarez, along with Sylvia Samaniego, Martha Moore and Jim and Geanne O'Leary, left Corpus Christi on Monday to be a part of Cindy Sheehan's vigil outside President Bush's ranch. Sheehan, whose son died in Iraq last year, has promised to stay outside Bush's ranch for his month-long stay unless he meets with her. Bush, who has said he sympathizes with Sheenan, met with her and other parents two months after her son died. He has made no indication that he will meet with her again, according to The Associated Press. Olivarez said that while they were there, the camp was about to be moved to an acre of land loaned to the protesters by an area resident. She said there is a map for Sheehan's supporters to mark where they are from and a notebook for their names. "There are people from all over the country and around the world," Olivarez said. "Someone sent 30 red roses from California. They lined them up in water bottles." Samaniego said the feeling at the camp and in the city of Crawford is one of a great community and almost spiritual in nature. "It was extraordinary," Olivarez said. "All the people coming together." Contact Sara Lee Fernandez at 886-3767 or HYPERLINK mailto:fernandezs@caller.com fernandezs@caller.com

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