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Photos from Camp Casey, Joan Baez, Sunset Vigil

by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
Crawford, Texas: Hundreds gather outside of the Bush vacation ranch for a performance by Joan Baez. Camp Casey settles down to prepare for the next wave of activity leading up to next weekend. Bush leaves town for Salt Lake City, a core of approximately two hundred hunker down in Crawford to await his, and Cindy’s return.
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August 22, 2005

Crawford, Texas: Following Saturday’s mini-surge of anti-Cindy activity led by local businessmen and touring bikers, it felt like Crawford settled down a bit as hundreds of anti-war folks trekked up to Camp Casey II for Joan Baez’s evening performance. Following Joan’s performance, Marine Jeff Key played taps standing at the top of the now infamous ditch along Prairie Chapel Road. With Joan by his side, and facing two hundred wooden white crosses, Jeff played to nearly a dozen family members of troops killed in Iraq.

Each of those two hundred crosses represent ten US servicepersons killed in Iraq. However, sometimes what I feel is missing is the acknowledgement that each of those crosses could also represent nearly 1,000 Iraqis who have died as a direct result of our government’s unjust and illegal war and occupation of their country.

The President’s helicopter just did a low-pass fly-by with a Blackhawk escort over Camp Casey II. Folks waved. Today and tomorrow look to be slow “news” days, so that might be one of the highlights. Today is reported to be the hottest day of the year here in Crawford. Joan Baez has arranged to stick around for a roundtable discussion there evening, and a panel of military resisters, objectors, and conscientious objectors is coming together as well.
§"Wanted"
by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
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§Day of music
by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
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§Joan Baez
by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
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§Joan Baez under a big tent
by Jeff Paterson, Not in Our Name (jeff [at] paterson.net)
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