Vigil For Peace: Iraq, 5 Years Too Many
03/16/2008 5 p.m.
Unitarian Universalist Church, Franklin @ Greary, San Francisco, CA US
Sponsored by Iraq Moratorium-SF Bay Area, Unitarian Universalists for Peace, other local peace groups
Actor Sean Penn, Gold Star Mother Cindy Sheehan, Rev. Gregory Stewart and other peacemakers will speak. Join us to remember American and Iraqi dead and wounded. A time for reflection and renewal. End the occupation now, and hold responsible those who started the war. Suggested contribution $5 to $10, but no one will be turned away.
PermaLink: http://iraqmoratorium.org/events/listings/7/739.html
Reports, Updates, Comments
A peace vigil and march at San Francisco's Unitarian Universalist Church Sunday night drew more than 500 people, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Daniel Ellsberg (pictured)noted that it was the 40th anniversary of the My Lai massacre, and a weeping Cindy Sheehan that it was Palm Sunday -- the day her son, Casey, was killed in Iraq four years ago. Others on the program included State Sen. Carole Migden and former San Francisco Supervisor and current Green Party vice presidential candidate Matt Gonzalez. Ellsberg invited the crowd at the church to join him in a "die in" Wednesday at noon outside the San Francisco office of Sen. Dianne Feinstein. "We may be arrested for disturbing the peace," he said. "But there is no peace." The Iraq Moratorium-SF Bay Area co-sponsored the event. Here's a much more complete story from the Golden Gate Xpress, campus newspaper at San Francisco State, which includes this: 
Cindy Sheehan,(left) a congressional candidate ... concluded the event by reflecting on her personal loss. She told the story of her son who was killed in the third bloody mission into Sadr City, a mission forced upon him against his will. “Today I have one dead son,” she said to a silent hall, using a tissue to dry a tear. “When your child is killed in a war, they always say ‘Your child volunteered. Your child was a hero,’” she said. “What makes him a hero if he was ordered to kill innocent Iraqis?” Sheehan further acknowledged the Americans and Iraqis who lost their lives in the war and the politicians who put them there. “It’s bullshit that we’re not impeaching,” she said.