Monday, August 22, 2005

Too cool!



Folk Singer Supports Anti-War Protesters
CRAWFORD, Texas - Joan Baez was against the Vietnam War and she showed it —appearing at marches, once even blocking the entrance of a military induction center.

The folk singer is against the Iraq war, too, and she showed her support Sunday to protesters camping out near President Bush's ranch.

Baez took to the stage for about 500 people on an acre lot offered by a landowner who opposes the war, performing such classic peace anthems as "Song of Peace," "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" and "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot."

Not far way is the camp started by Cindy Sheehan, whose son Casey was killed in Iraq.

"In the first march I went to (opposing Vietnam) there were 10 of us. This is huge," Baez told the relatives of fallen soldiers before performing just up the road from the ranch.


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I think that this is great! It really looks like this is building something solid! Of course, there are still people who are supporting bush, though they have no articulate reason for doing so, but this grass roots movement is pretty amazing after all these years of catatonic apathy!