MVT - On Monday July 27th at 7:30 p.m. Cindy Sheehan will bring her "Myth America" tour to North Central Washington. She will be speaking at the Cascade Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1550 Sunset Highway N, East Wenatchee, under the sponsorship of Veterans for Peace Chapter 913 and the CUUF Social and Environmental Action Team.

If you cannot make it that night you will also have the opportunity to hear her the following night at 7 p.m. at the Merc Playhouse in Twisp. The events are free but donations will be gratefully accepted.

Sheehan is an American Peace activist who was compelled to speak out after her son, Casey Sheehan, was killed in Iraq in 2004. She attracted international media attention for her prolonged protests at a makeshift camp outside then-President G.W. Bush's ranch near Crawford, Texas beginning in August 2005. She wanted to have Mr Bush answer the question: What Noble Cause was it for which her son died? The death of her son caused her to reach beyond her own small town world and energized millions to stand up and speak out. It was her energy and commitment in August of 2005 which inspired a small group of people in Wenatchee to begin a weekly Vigil for Peace in Iraq and worldwide. Sheehan's actions led supporters such as Rev. Lennox Yearwood, CEO of the Hip Hop Caucus, to describe her as "the Rosa Parks of the antiwar movement."

Sheehan has been the featured speaker at the "Eyes Wide Open: the Human Cost of War", a traveling exhibition created by the American Friends Service Committee. She is one of the nine founding members of Gold Star Families for Peace, an organization that seeks to end the U.S. occupation of Iraq, and provides support for families of soldiers killed in Iraq.

Sheehan has published several books over the past few years and is currently traveling around the United States promoting her latest, an online-only book, with the intriguing title, Myth America, the 10 Greatest Myths of the Robber Class and the Case for Revolution!

A flyer for this event can be downloaded from the ncwpeace.org website at: http://ncwpeace.org/ResourceFiles/CindyInWenatchee.jpg