Camp Casey: A Place in Crawford for Peace, Justice and Remembrance

View the trailer for CRAWFORD, David Modigliani’s documentary about the small Texas town that President George W. Bush calls home:

View Bree Walker’s video about Camp Casey:

Part I:

A Visual Story of the Birth of Camp Casey Through the Words of Bree Walker

In August of 2005, the mother of a fallen Specialist in the United States Army demanded an answer to a simple question from the President of the United States:

“For what noble cause did he die?”

The President refused her an answer.  But her cold silence would not deny Cindy Sheehan. Her persistence, her perseverance became a clarion call for thousands.

With her they made their commitment to the cause of peace by making a pilgrimage to a small, raw patch of land deep in the heart of Texas. Camp Casey was born.

Nearly thirty thousand Americans gathered on these five acres in the heart of loyal Neo-Con country to protest the illegal occupation of Iraq. Camp Casey officially became a place of history as the first US anti-war citizen protest site of the 21st Century.

Camp Casey continues its legacy as a permanent sanctuary in the peace and justice movement. Cindy Sheehan moves on Washington in her bid to unseat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who signed into law the Iraq War funding bill that originally compelled Cindy to visit the president’s back yard.