In a few minutes a live broadcast from Camp Casey in Crawford, Texas is scheduled to begin. Brad Friedman has been hosting the Raw Radio show there for the past few days. It starts at noon in Crawford, which is 10 am here in the Pacific NW.
Information about Brad and his Raw Radio show can be found on
Bradblog.com. Today's show will be in cooperation with
Air America! Details below...
There is a page specifically for the
BRAD SHOW also. That page contains links to several interviews that were conducted at Camp Casey in the last few days. I highly recommend the one with Joan Baez. He also has one with Cindy. I'm hoping he'll get one up of the show yesterday afternoon. The camp's "Kitchen Goddess" sang some songs in Spanish. It was very moving.
Was really glad to see that fellow Oregonians are standing up with Cindy to show their support. You can see the DeFords from Oregon in the picture of the press conference at Camp Casey yesterday.
They are the Gold Star couple directly to the left of Cindy. The photo is from the Lone Star Iconoclast. If you go to the Iconolast site you can see another picture of Steve DeFord there and can read his shirt, which says "Bush Lied, My Son Died"
Going to submit this now. I'm connected to the broadcast and they have music playing. They tested their mikes a few minutes ago and will be on the air very soon.
Here's an update from the Iconoclast site:
1:17 p.m.
Michael Harvey reporting for the Iconoclast
At Camp Casey I, it is hot, probably 110 degrees. Members on each side of the triangle are yelling at each other, veterans for the war on one side, veterans against the war on the other. They are taunting each other.
The crowd is growing and parking has become a big problem.
At the pro-Bush side of the encampment, a hot-dog stand has been set up.
1:15 p.m.
Gene Ellis reporting for the Iconoclast
Joan Baez has returned and just led everyone in singing Amazing Grace at Camp Casey II. When she finished she said, "Christian right, eat your heart out."
She is slated to sing interspersed throughout the rally this afternoon. The barbecue is still to follow, as is the continued rally. Various artists from Austin are slated to perform later.
Another busload of people has come in. Several helicopters are flying about.
The newest update from the Iconoclast:
1:30 p.m.
Michael Harvey reporting for the Iconoclast
At Camp Casey I, the Bush side is chanting "George Bush!" and the anti-war side is finishing their sentence by chanting "War criminal!"
The Bush side is loudly calling out, "Where is your anti-semitic leader?"
One pro-war sign says, "Cindy and Osama sitting in a tree." Another says "Who's paying you?"
A bunch of cars are passing by honking, as they have been constantly today.
Now the Bush side is yelling, "I'm for W."
There are close to 200 people out here now (both sides combined).
Music and barbecue is planned on the Camp Casey side this afternoon.
The latest news from the broadcast (at 1:20 Pacific) is that the ProWar protest, which numbered in the thousands, is breaking up now. Some of the Gold Star people who are not with Cindy are going over to Camp Casey (from Pirate Field where their rally was held) to ask that they remove the crosses with their relative's names on them. They have a police escort, so nothing bad should happen (we can hope).
Update from 5:30 pm Pacific:
Crooks and Liars has a video file of the
interview of Cindy on Real Time that Brad played this afternoon. They're still going strong over there. Reg Keyes, the British Gold Star Dad, who is sueing his government was just on. They are getting some young people on who are talking about how "Cindy speaks for me". They have relatives in the military. They're talking about how recruiters lied to them.