Cindy Sheehan (Politician) – Overview, Biography

Cindy Sheehan
Name:Cindy Sheehan
Occupation: Politician
Gender:Female
Birth Day: July 10,
1957
Age: 63
Country: United States
Zodiac Sign:Cancer

Cindy Sheehan

Cindy Sheehan was born on July 10, 1957 in United States (63 years old). Cindy Sheehan is a Politician, zodiac sign: Cancer. Nationality: United States. Approx. Net Worth: Undisclosed.

Trivia

In late 2013, she announced her intent to run for Governor of California in the 2014 election.

Net Worth 2020

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Before Fame

After attending Cerritos College in Southern California, she took history courses at the University of California-Los Angeles. She went on to work as a Catholic youth group leader.

Biography

Biography Timeline

1957

Cindy Sheehan was born Cindy Lee Miller in Inglewood, California, in 1957. Her father worked at the Lockheed Corporation while her mother raised her family. Sheehan graduated with honors from Cerritos College and studied history at UCLA. She worked as a youth minister at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Vacaville, California for eight years, and also coordinated an after-school program for at-risk middle school children for the City of Vacaville. In 1977, she married Patrick Sheehan in Norwalk, California; they had four children, including Casey Sheehan (born in 1979), who was killed in action in Iraq on April 4, 2004. Patrick Sheehan filed for divorce on August 12, 2005, citing irreconcilable differences.

2000

In May 2000, Casey Sheehan enlisted in the United States Army as a light-wheeled vehicle mechanic, MOS 63B. It has been reported that he may have considered enlisting as a chaplain assistant MOS 56M. (Sheehan had acted as an altar server during the Palm Sunday mass on the morning of his death).

2004

Near the end of his active service, the U.S. invasion of Iraq began. Sheehan reenlisted, knowing that his unit would be sent there. Sheehan’s division, the First Cavalry Division, was sent to Iraq. On March 19, 2004, Sheehan’s Battery C, 1st Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, arrived at FOB Camp War Eagle in Sadr City. On April 4, 2004, Sheehan was killed in action after volunteering to be part of a Quick Reaction Force to rescue American troops in the “Black Sunday” incident that began the Siege of Sadr City.

Cindy Sheehan said that she initially questioned the urgency of the invasion of Iraq but did not become active in the antiwar effort until after her son’s death. Sheehan and other military families met with President George W. Bush in June 2004 at Fort Lewis, near Tacoma, Washington, about three months after her son’s death. In a June 24, 2004, interview with the Vacaville Reporter, published soon after the meeting, she stated, “We haven’t been happy with the way the war has been handled. The president has changed his reasons for being over there every time a reason is proven false or an objective reached.” She also stated that President Bush was “sincere about wanting freedom for the Iraqis. I know [he] feels pain for our loss. And I know he’s a man of God.”

Sheehan gave another interview on October 4, 2004, stating that she did not understand the reasons for the Iraq invasion and never thought that Iraq posed an imminent threat to the United States. She further stated that her son’s death had compelled her to speak out against the war.

2005

For the presidential inauguration in January 2005, Sheehan traveled to Washington, D.C. to speak at the opening of “Eyes Wide Open: the Human Cost of War,” a traveling exhibition created by the American Friends Service Committee that displays pairs of combat boots to represent U.S. military casualties. She also traveled with the exhibition to other locations and donated her son Casey’s boots, stating, “Behind these boots is one broken-hearted family.”

Sheehan was one of the nine founding members of Gold Star Families for Peace, an organization she created in January 2005 with other families she met at the inauguration. It seeks to end U.S. presence in Iraq, and provides support for families of soldiers killed in Iraq.

On August 6, 2005, Sheehan arrived at the Crawford Peace House on a bus full of combat veterans, including Desert Storm Veteran Dennis Kyne and Camilo Mejía. They marched along a dirt road in the direction of The Bush Ranch. Stalled by law enforcement from walking all the way to the front door because the group refused to march as ordered in the Barr ditch, she created a makeshift camp that would be remembered as the “ditch.” Three miles (5 km) from President Bush’s Prairie Chapel Ranch near Crawford, Texas, Sheehan announced her intention to stay (sleeping in a pup tent at night) until she was granted a face-to-face meeting with the president. Sheehan started her protest the day the president started a planned five-week vacation. The encampment was publicized widely on behalf of Gold Star Families for Peace and Military Families Speak Out. A few days later, the media began referring to Sheehan’s camp as “Camp Casey.”

In September 2005, Sheehan moved into the Berkeley, California, home of Stephen Pearcy and Virginia Pearcy, where she lived for just over a year, during which time she wrote two books. Also that month, Sheehan met with Senator John McCain, and later called him a “warmonger.” Between 2005 and 2007, Sheehan attended several antiwar events in Sacramento organized by the Pearcys. Also in September 2005, the Bring Them Home Now Tour was organized by Gold Star Families for Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, and Veterans For Peace. Inspired by Sheehan and frequently including Sheehan as a speaker, it was a rolling antiwar protest against the Iraq War, beginning in Crawford, Texas, traveling three routes across the country (with rallies along the way) and culminating in a rally in Washington, D.C., later in September 2005.

On October 24, 2005, Sheehan said that she planned to speak at the White House and then tie herself to the fence. She and 28 others were arrested in a sit-in at the White House on October 26.

2006

Casey Sheehan is buried in Vacaville-Elmira Cemetery in Vacaville, California. In May 2006, the tombstone that Casey’s family had been designing and commissioned was finally ready and placed at Casey’s grave. Cindy Sheehan paid for the tombstone herself, which is normally the case, stating, “It is important for the rest of Casey’s family to have one…. I guess the pain of seeing it etched in marble that he is dead is another pain I will have to deal with.” Cindy Sheehan maintains that the U.S. government “should have paid for it because of its responsibility for his death.” The Sheehan family did not want the furnished monument that the government provides because it didn’t reflect Casey’s entire life or personality.

On January 31, 2006, Sheehan wore a T-shirt reading “2,245 Dead. How many more?” to Bush’s State of the Union address and was removed and arrested by Capitol Police.

On March 7, 2006, Sheehan was arrested in New York “after blocking the door to the U.S. Mission to the U.N. offices” during a protest with Iraqi women against the war.

Several organizations planned a hunger strike to begin on July 4, 2006; Sheehan stated she would participate. On July 5, Sheehan appeared on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews to discuss the war and her upcoming hunger strike. On the show, she called Bush “the biggest terrorist in the world” and “worse than Osama Bin Laden,” and conceded that she would rather live under Venezuela’s Hugo Chávez than Bush. Later that month, Sheehan purchased 5 acres (20,000 m) of land in Crawford, Texas, near Bush’s private residence.

2007

On May 26 and May 28, 2007, Sheehan posted two messages to Daily Kos announcing that she was leaving the Democratic Party after the Democratic-controlled Congress passed a bill authorizing the continued funding of the war in Iraq. She also submitted her resignation as the “face” of the American antiwar movement, stating that she wanted to go home and be a mother to her surviving children. However, on July 3, 2007, in response to President Bush’s commutation of Scooter Libby’s sentence, she announced her return to activism. She focused on her congressional campaign in 2008.

In July 2007, Sheehan announced that she would run against Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi for representative of California’s 8th District, based on Pelosi’s failure to attempt impeachment of Bush. Up until her run for the U.S. Congress, Sheehan lived outside Pelosi’s district, in Dixon, California; however, she moved to San Francisco’s Mission District after declaring her candidacy. Earlier, in 2006, she had spoken of ambitions to challenge Dianne Feinstein for her seat in the United States Senate.

2009

In August 2009, Sheehan protested at Martha’s Vineyard during President Barack Obama’s stay there. According to ABC News: “Sheehan invoked Senator Ted Kennedy’s passing as part of her message, noting that he was firmly antiwar and how he said his proudest vote as a senator was his 2002 vote against the Iraq war.” On October 5, 2009, Sheehan was arrested with 60 others at the White House protesting President Obama’s continuation of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. She told CNN: “I think the mood of the country and the mood of our movement is getting a little bit more desperate, and [that] this will be the time to be able to translate our tireless activism and work for peace.” On December 10, 2009, Sheehan protested on the streets of Oslo, Norway, as President Barack Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2009, she was awarded the US Peace Prize by the US Peace Memorial Foundation for “extraordinary and innovative antiwar activism.”

Sheehan hosts a weekly radio show which began in 2009. She has interviewed activists and world leaders, including Howard Zinn, Ray McGovern, Ann Wright, and Hugo Chávez. Sheehan maintains a blog, “Cindy’s Soapbox.”

2010

On March 20, 2010, Sheehan was again arrested in front of the White House, along with seven others, after they refused to listen to orders by officers of the United States Park Police to clear the sidewalk on Pennsylvania Avenue. On July 12, Sheehan and four other activists were on trial in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia stemming from the arrests. The government decided not to try three others arrested that day, and had their cases dismissed. Sheehan and two others were acquitted of crossing a police line, while the other two were found guilty.

Sheehan has, through her own blog, described herself as a socialist. In 2010, Sheehan changed her voter registration in California and became a member of the Peace and Freedom Party.

2011

On May 2, 2011, Sheehan released a statement indicating that she considers the death of Osama bin Laden to be a hoax, stating: “If you believe the newest death of OBL, you’re stupid.” She referred to America as a “lying, murderous empire” and told Americans, whom she called “brainwashed,” to “put [their] flags away.”

In October 2011, Sheehan was arrested in Sacramento as part of an anti–Wall Street movement.

Although Sheehan agreed to stand as the vice presidential nominee of the Socialist Party USA for the 2012 elections, the party’s national convention voted on October 15, 2011, to block her candidacy, on the official grounds that she was not a member of the party. The nomination went to Alejandro Mendoza, of Texas.

2012

In 2012, Sheehan was sued by the federal government for failure to pay back taxes. “I feel like I gave my son to this country in an illegal and immoral war. I’ll never get him back,” Sheehan said. “And, so, if they can give me my son back, then I’ll pay my taxes. And that’s not going to happen.”

In the summer of 2012, television personality Roseanne Barr named Sheehan as her running mate for the presidential nomination of the Peace and Freedom Party in the 2012 presidential election. Barr and Sheehan were nominated by that party as its presidential ticket on August 4, 2012.

2013

On March 12, 2013 Marsha Feinland, state chair of California’s Peace and Freedom Party, made the announcement that the central committee of the party had unanimously endorsed Cindy Sheehan for Governor of California in the 2014 election, should Sheehan choose to run.

2017

In 2017, when President Donald Trump was expected to announce the sending of thousands of additional troops, Sheehan fears that more opposition to the war will be only because of who occupies the presidency, stating, “If Trump announces that there will be a continued U.S. military presence or an increased presence, I am afraid any opposition from the ‘left’ will only be anti-Trump, because, of course, Obama escalated in Afghanistan and maintained that illegal war for the entire eight years of his presidency with not a peep from those same pro-DNC forces.” Additionally, she believes “nothing but total withdrawal to give the people of Afghanistan autonomy over their own country will be acceptable” but said that she’s concerned about the sincerity of possible protests.

Upcoming Birthday

Currently, Cindy Sheehan is 64 years, 4 months and 29 days old. Cindy Sheehan will celebrate 65th birthday on a Sunday 10th of July 2022.

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