A family asks: How many more war dead? ...by Celeste Zappala and Dante Zappala
Philadelphia Inquirer On a warm Sunday afternoon in March 2004, our family tearfully held Sherwood in our arms for the last time and said goodbye to him as he left for Iraq. We could not have predicted what would happen to him. We had only our worst fears tempered by ...
What's Michael Moore Doing This Election?
By Richard Corliss / Time Magazine Four years ago, he was a figure of inspiration and division: Joe the Plumber and Bill Ayers in one large package. In the presidential campaign of 2004, one party saw Mike the Documentary Filmmaker as a spokesman for working class rebelliousness, and the other ...
Americans across the nation protest the war on the 5th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. DID SOMETHING (let us know if we missed you): Bisbee, AZ | Glendale, AZ | Phoenix, AZ | Tucson, AZ; "I started paying attention to war when my brother died." | Benicia, CA ...
My Son's Grave ...by Celeste Zappala
Beliefnet The sorrowful convergence of the fifth anniversary of the war and the observation of the 4000th fallen U.S. soldier in Iraq looms sadly ahead. Soon candles will be lit and vigils held, arguments will ensue as to who was right, and the meaning and value of sacrifice and the ...
Parents recall fallen soldiers
By Bob Kalinowski / Scranton Times-Tribune JENKINS TWP., PA - It was a conversation about the war, but not about the politics behind the conflict. The discussion was about people, about soldiers - the human cost of war. Three area families who lost a loved one in the Iraq war ...
In the name of the fallen we go to DC to speak, again
By Celeste Zappala / Gold Star Families Speak Out Tomorrow, Tuesday, some of us in Gold Star Families Speak Out will go to Washington to speak to our Senators and plead with them to stop funding this disastrous, immoral needless war in Iraq. After all these painful years, after the ...
Bush to grads: 'Lead lives of purpose'
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review President George W. Bush challenged St. Vincent College's Class of 2007 to uphold the lessons they learned at the Catholic institution and live a life of service to others. "Here at St. Vincent College, you have learned that service outside the classroom is as important as what you ...
Thousands of Christians protest Iraq war
By Sarah Karush / Associated Press WASHINGTON - Thousands of Christians prayed for peace at an anti-war service Friday night at the Washington National Cathedral, kicking off a weekend of protests around the country to mark the fourth anniversary of the war in Iraq. Afterward, participants marched with battery-operated faux ...
Christian Groups To Stage Protest
Thousands Expected to March To White House to Voice Opposition By Michael E. Ruane / Washington Post Several thousand Christian peace activists plan to march on the White House tonight to demonstrate their opposition to the war in Iraq, organizers said yesterday. The march, which is unrelated to tomorrow's antiwar ...
3,000 Christians from Across America Coming to D.C. Worship and Protest to End Iraq War
Christian Peace Witness Set for March 16th; Worship to be Followed by Procession to White House and Peaceful Protest (ChristianPeaceWitness.org) Thousands of Christians -- Evangelicals, mainline Protestants, and Catholics -- from more than 40 states will fill the Washington National Cathedral to capacity on March 16th to mark the fourth ...
By Jeff Donn / Associated Press A four-figure number hovers 50 feet over a busy Philadelphia street, visible in an office window. It changes maybe once or twice a day like the cost of something. A janitor once stopped, just to stare. "I see that number, and it makes me ...
Rumsfeld honored for citizenship amid protests
By Jon Hurdle / Reuters PHILADELPHIA, Dec 1 - Outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was honored for citizenship by a patriotic organization on Friday as peace protesters outside criticized his role as one of the architects of the U.S.-led war in Iraq. Rumsfeld, whose departure was announced by President George ...
By K.C. Myers / Cape Cod Times EASTHAM - Her son taught nursery school. He was a case worker for mentally retarded adults. And he was a member of Pennsylvania National Guard who hoped the military would help him pay for his education. Sgt. Sherwood Baker, 30, lost his life ...
By Celeste Zappala, Mother of Sgt Sherwood Baker, KIA 4/26/04 / Military Families Speak Out Sue Niederer and I carrying large pictures of our lost sons stood with ten other MFSO members today in the hot bright light of the Capitol. The display of empty boots representing soldiers lost since ...
Peace activists protest near Specter's house
About 75 in Phila. pushed for troops to return and opposed war funding. By Joel Bewley / Philadelphia Inquirer A coalition of peace activists marked the third anniversary of the Iraq war by giving U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter an earful yesterday outside his home in the East Falls section of ...
Report back from Istanbul By Celeste Zappala In Taksim Square in Istanbul near a statue of Ataturk, the founder of the modern Turkish nation, I stood with 500 people who had come to commemorate the day three years ago that the people of Turkey defied the United States, and demanded ...
30 Dead Since New Year's Day... How do we respond?
--A message from Celeste Zappala Dear Friends- Since the new year began 30 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq. Some by bullets, many by bombs, others by road accidents. Each leaves behind a family reeling in grief and a wasted future. The loses are only numbing to those who ...
Defending Catholic Workers in a Season of Peace
A message from Celeste Zappala, Gold Star Mother for Peace Dear Friends, I have always admired the saintly people who are part of the Catholic Worker movement. It strikes me that they practice Christianity in its purest form, caring for the poor, relinquishing their own possessions, living humbly and following ...
About 1,000 protesters and onlookers massed on Broad Street. Some said officers assaulted the arrested men. By Robert Moran and Daniel Rubin / Philadelphia Inquirer Police arrested two antiwar protesters - who some witnesses alleged were assaulted by officers - as almost 1,000 demonstrators and onlookers assembled yesterday outside the ...
A message from Celeste Zappala I did not get in to see the President today. Wealthy patrons of the president filed in to hear for the third time this month his delusional justification for the war in Iraq. For three hours I stood with a fluid crowd of nearly 1000 ...
An Open Letter to Wealthy Patriots, from a Gold Star Mother
--A message from Celeste Zappala George Bush will be speaking at the World Affairs Council in Philadelphia on Monday. Tickets for the event are sold out, however, the luncheon tickets that are closest to Mr. Bush were sold for $10,000. I would like to be at a table close enough ...
Dead soldiers' mothers feel betrayed
By Robert Fisk / Seattle Post-Intelligencer NEW YORK -- I sit in one of the dives on 44th Street, uncertain how to approach Sue Niederer and Celeste Zappala, afraid that their stories can be too easily turned into tears, their message lost after the Veterans Day march. They were put ...
By Celeste Zappala and Anne Roesler / Philadelphia Inquirer Celeste Zappala of Philadelphia is the mother of Sgt. Sherwood Baker, who was killed in Iraq in April 2004. Anne Roesler of Saratoga, Calif., is the mother of a soldier currently serving in Iraq. They are both members of Military Families ...
Activists link Katrina crisis, Iraq war
By Frederick Cusick / Philadelphia Inquirer Antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan yesterday laid some of the blame for the death and destruction associated with Hurricane Katrina on President Bush's Iraq war. Sheehan, a Californian who became an international figure when she camped out next to Bush's vacation ranch in Crawford, Texas, ...
WORKING VACATIONS The American general in charge of near-term planning for the war in Iraq advocates a strategy of prolonged cut and run:“We believe at some point, in order to break this dependence on the... coalition, you simply have to back off and let the Iraqis step forward. “You have ...
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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
Mike, was the triple overtime Outback Bowl come-from-behind win the greatest Spartans game ever?
Yes -- or at least it will be until their appearance in next year's Rose Bowl, a game which... Continue Reading
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