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Cindy Sheehan

Sometimes all it takes to start a movement is just one Gold-star mother. Here's the latest on Cindy Sheehan from USA Today

Peace House a center of dissent in Crawford
Soldier's mom, others rally near Bush's Texas getaway
By Oren Dorell

CRAWFORD, Texas - When Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrive at President Bush's isolated ranch today, they'll face an unwelcome greeting: scores of peace protesters who have joined a vigil by the mother of a soldier who died in Iraq.
Local authorities and activists also are gearing up for a possible confrontation Friday. The group's protest site sits beside a two-lane country road between Bush's Prairie Chapel Ranch and the Broken Spoke Ranch, where his top campaign fundraisers are invited to a barbecue with the president.
The base for the protesters - these and others over the past three years - is a modest two-bedroom bungalow near the center of town with the grand name of the Crawford Peace House. Since 2002, it has served as refuge, kitchen, laundry, flophouse and launchpad for thousands of protesters in this town of 705 residents.

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