Thursday, August 25, 2005

 

Recent Vigils at Allen Street Gates

A group of folks from State College, wider Centre County, and elsewhere in Central Pennsylvania have gathered for three consecutive Wednesdays to hold candilight vigils in support of Cindy Sheehan, in support of all those across the globe who have lost loved ones in Iraq and Afghanistan, as a reminder of the people's right peacefully to assemble and seek redress -- or for reasons they did not utter or put on a sign, responding bodily and perhaps spiritually to a need for a public space of reflection, respect, and remembrance.

Coverage of our first three vigils can be found here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/moveon/sets/774501/show/
(one photo of our first vigil as reflected in moveon.org's slideshow

more to come....

Comments:
news coverage of the THIRD vigil in the collegian:

http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2005/09/09-01-05tdc/09-01-05dnews-10.asp
 
collegian EDITORIAL on THIRD vigil and connection to sheehan:

http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2005/09/09-02-05tdc/09-02-05dops-edit-01.asp
 
finally, here's the CDT's adam smeltz's coverage of the first vigil on his blog, centresquawker:

http://asmeltz.blogspot.com/2005/08/pro-sheehan-vigil-draws-attention.html

thanks, adam.
 
Hi. Could you please add a link to past Allen Street gates vigil information:

http://www.personal.psu.edu/mxm586/citizenfm4_large_print.pdf

There are other issues of a newsletter that circulated in 2003 among vigil-people at the Gates.

Marc Maxson
 
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