On Memorial Day, many families can't forget the wars
Memorial Day has a distinct meaning for the veterans who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan and the families of the 5,400 Americans who have died in these wars.Just ask Carlos Arredondo, whose son Lance Cpl. Alexander Arredondo was one of seven Marines killed in the battle of Najaf in ...
The Afghan War Through a Marine Mother's Eyes
Nearly everything is a sad reminder for Mélida Arredondo: the news on TV, stories in the paper, speeches of Barack Obama and others who talk about a war that seems to have lasted so long and affected so many lives, those lost as well as those left behind."Did your son ...
Gold Star Dad's Mission Complete – Photo Ban Lifted
Roslindale, Massachusetts - Carlos Arredondo, 48, is the first one to tell you that this issue is personal. When he found out that it was against the law to have the flag-draped caskets of the fallen photographed, he believed that this was a government rule that dishonors the fallen. He ...
Boston father of fallen Marine leads protest
By Bryan Bender / Boston Globe ST. PAUL - The father of a Boston Marine killed in Iraq led thousands of antiwar protesters yesterday in a boisterous but largely peaceful demonstration outside the Republican National Convention, while riot police and National Guardsmen clashed separately with a collection of small fringe ...
Anti-war Vets March on GOP Convention
Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn. - About 100 veterans marched in formation to the site of the Republican National Convention on Monday, hoping their experience would lend credibility to their anti-war message. Many members of Iraq Veterans Against the War were in uniform as they pressed for a meeting with ...
Anti-war protesters target Bush in Maine
By David Sharp / Associated Press KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine — The scene played out Saturday for what could be the last time: a sitting president visited Walker's Point, tourists held out hope of getting a glimpse of the president, and a group of noisy protesters paraded through the heart of town.President ...
Protest march planned during President Bush's visit to Kennebunkport, Maine
WHEN: Saturday, August 2, 2008 at 1:00 PM WHERE: Protest March begins at 1:00 from the Consolidated School on School Street in Kennebunkport (The Google) and protesters will make a 2 mile walk to the Bush family compound at Walker's Point (The Google). CONTACT: Jamilla El-Shafei, organizer of The Kennebunks ...
Gold Star Father Kicked Defending Dead Son's Memorial ... by Mélida Arredondo
Mélida Arredondo is the stepmother of Lance Cpl. Alexander S. Arredondo, killed in Iraq, Aug. 25, 2004. Carlos Arredondo, 47 year old father of two sons, arrived in the nation's capitol on Monday, 09/10/07 to share a memorial he has made to honor for his eldest son, Alex. Carlos has ...
Week of Antiwar Events To Start With a 'Die-In'
Protesters Advocate Civil Disobedience By Michelle Boorstein and Allison Klein / Washington Post A week of events meant to crank up a national demonstration against the war in Iraq is set to begin Saturday, with a 1,000-person "die-in" at the U.S. Capitol led by current and former American troops and ...
Two of the speakers at today's peace rally share a sad reason for their activism: the loss of a son. By Noel K. Gallagher / Portland Press Herald KENNEBUNKPORT—Today is Carlos Arredondo's birthday. It is also the third anniversary of the death of his son, a Marine killed by a ...
"Give War a Chance" ...by Cindy Sheehan
Journey for Humanity and Accountability - Day 9 Being in the deep south has been a very interesting experience. As George's approval numbers hover down somewhere in Congress's range and approval for their war is shrinking, we have encountered very little opposition to our message, but the opposition we have ...
'A Special Camp Casey Family Reunion' ...by Ava Lowery
This past Thursday, my Mother and I traveled to Austin, TX for a Camp Casey Family Reunion. We attended the Camp Casey Peace Awards and I was honored to accept the Camp Casey Peace Institutes first Young Activist Peace Award. I was especially inspired by being in the company of ...
Marine's Father Finds Healing In Telling Son's Story
KXAN-TV Lance Cpl. Alexander Arredondo was a proud Marine with a proud father. "He always was smiling," said Carlos Arredondo, Alexander's father. "My son, Alexander, he believed it's not what the country can do for you, it's what you can do for the country. That's how he grew up." While ...
'Six Days in Times Square' ...by Joan Wile
Granny Peace Brigade Holds Read-In of Names of War Dead Joan Wile is the Founder-Director of Grandmothers Against the War and proud Granny Peace Brigade Jailbird Times Square 18 At dawn, Sunday, March 11, the Granny Peace Brigade and many supporters began reading the names of those killed in Iraq ...
War protesters plead guilty of disturbing the peace
By Norman Miller / Daily News NATICK, MA - Flanked by supporters inside and outside Natick District Court, the so-called Sherborn Five, pleaded guilty yesterday to charges in connection with a January protest against the war in Iraq. Lewis Randa, 59, of Sherborn, Sarah Fuhro, 65, of Natick, Carol Coakley, ...
A Father With a Coffin, Telling of Warâ??s Grim Toll
By Trymaine Lee / New York Times Carlos Arredondo leaned toward the coffin in the back of his pickup truck yesterday and renewed a promise to his dead son, one that he has kept for more than two years. In a whisper, he vowed never to let his son’s death ...
Grieving dad takes war protest to Times Square
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A grieving father took his personal protest against the Iraq war to Times Square on Wednesday -- a pick-up truck carrying an empty flag-draped coffin and a picture of his son's open casket and funeral. Carlos Arredondo, 46, said he has traveled the United States for ...
Father of slain Marine pleads for an end to war
Mass. man who set himself afire after son died in Iraq becomes U.S. citizen LOWELL, Mass. - Two years ago, Carlos Arredondo tried to destroy a military van and set himself on fire in his grief over the news that his son, a Marine, had been killed in Iraq. On ...
Man who set himself ablaze after son died in Iraq becomes citizen
By David Weber / Associated Press LOWELL, Mass.— Two years ago, Carlos Arredondo tried to destroy a military van and set himself on fire in his grief over the news that his son, a Marine, had been killed in Iraq. On Tuesday, Arredondo became a citizen of the country his ...
Gold Star Father Becomes US Citizen on 12/12/06
Five and one half years after application for citizenship People United for Peace Boston, Massachusetts - Carlos Arredondo of Roslindale, MA on Friday, December 1, 2006, learned that he would be granted his US citizenship on 12/12/06 at the Lowell Memorial Auditorium. The ceremony begins at 10:30 a.m. Previously denied ...
Return of parade marked by tribute, call to end war By Michael Levenson / Boston Globe Two World War I veterans, one leaning on a cane, the other steadying himself on his wheelchair, patted the heads of Boy Scouts and kissed the hands of female admirers. A mother with a ...
Grieving parents speak about the war in Iraq
By Joe Cohen / Thousand Oaks Acorn THOUSAND OAKS, Ca. -- As dozens filed in to the Thousand Oaks Library to hear the parents of a 20-year-old Marine speak about his death in Iraq, Carlos Arredondo, the father of the soldier, was busy taping poster-sized color photos of his lost ...
Two S. Fla. families who lost sons in Iraq war now seek peace in different ways
By Mike Clary / South Florida Sun-Sentinel As the nation today celebrates an independence won on the battlefield more than two centuries ago, few will be more conscious of the toll a war can exact than South Florida families who have suffered losses in Iraq. Ryan Sorensen and Alex Arredondo ...
War Is Personal: Carlos Arredondo, Age 45, Roslindale, Massachusetts
The Nation I remember the war in Nicaragua in the 1980s, the contra scandal, the weapons for hostages. Oliver North took the blame for Ronald Reagan. I remember when a bomb blew up in Beirut and kill about 200 Marines. I watch them on the TV, searching for them, carrying ...
A Father Transformed by Anguish
Scars Define the Man Who Burned Himself After Son's Death in Iraq By David Finkel / Washington Post BOSTON -- Another day of trying to recover. Once again, Carlos Arredondo, whose reaction to the death of his son became one of the iconic images of the Iraq war, is reading ...
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January 17th, 2012
STOP SOPA: Why MichaelMoore.com Will Be Blacked Out Wednesday, January 18th
My websites MichaelMoore.com and Mike's High School Newspaper will both be going dark for 24 hours starting at midnight tonight in protest of the Stop ...
December 30th, 2011
75 Years Ago Today, the First Occupy
On this day, December 30th, in 1936 -- 75 years ago today -- hundreds of workers at the General Motors factories in Flint, Michigan, took ...
December 28th, 2011
Click here to donate to the congressional campaign of Flint's own Dan Kildee I have many things I'm planning to do in the New Year ...
December 24th, 2011
A Little Christmas Gift for You to Download
Thanks for all the wonderful comments regarding the short story about my mom from HERE COMES TROUBLE that I sent you a few days ago. ...
December 20th, 2011
Here's a New Free Chapter from HERE COMES TROUBLE
Thank you to the tens of thousands of you who have read HERE COMES TROUBLE and helped to make it a New York Times bestseller ...
December 18th, 2011
LAST CALL: Signed First Editions Will Be Gone by Tomorrow! ORDER TODAY, RECEIVE BY XMAS
My publisher has informed me that they are down to their last crate of the first printing/first editions of HERE COMES TROUBLE -- the ones ...
December 17th, 2011
A Man in Tunisia, a Movement on Wall Street, and the Soldier Who Ignited the Fuse
It's Saturday night and I didn't want the day to end before I sent out this note to you. One year ago today (December 17th), ...
September 11th, 2010
If the 'Mosque' Isn't Built, This Is No Longer America
OpenMike 9/11/10 Michael Moore's daily blog I am opposed to the building of the "mosque" two blocks from Ground Zero. I want it built on ...
December 14th, 2010
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that ...
May 12th, 2011
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
"The Nazis killed tens of MILLIONS. They got a trial. Why? Because we're not like them. We're Americans. We roll different." – Michael Moore in ...
November 22nd, 2011
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and ...
September 22nd, 2011
A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
I encourage everyone I know to never travel to Georgia, never buy anything made in Georgia, to never do business in Georgia. I will ask ...
December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
Home Front: Portraits from Sheikh Jarrah
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