Video: Song For Cindy Sheehan

Candlelight vigils were held all across the United States tonight to support Cindy Sheehan.

I went down to The Monument on Centre Street in Jamaica Plain, Mass to document the event.

When I got back from shoting video of the vigil I saw that David Rovics had written a "Song for Cindy Sheehan" on August 13th, 2005. On his site he says that he wants visitors to use the MP3 for any purpose. Cool.

So I set my video to his music.

Here are some still shots from the video.

This report was featured on Rocketboom.

Comments

[Chuck]

nice work Steve.

i posted it in on NewPatriot.org.

[Andre Sala (TVTonic)]

An absolutely stunning piece -- great work!

[Philip]

Beautiful!

The shot with the mother and baby son speeks a thousand words.

Thank You for this wonderful work.

Nice piece Stevie. I have been in the dark lately and this piece helped me get up to speed with what has been going on. thanks for the "enlightenment".

[happy engel]

Nice to meet you!!
I'm Happy Engel. This is a blog name. I'm from Japan.
When I read ASAHI WEEKLY which is one of the familiar news papars in Japan I found your blog's URL in the article.
Last year, I went to Boston to study English for about 1 month. The BOSTON RED SOX game which I watched was excited me!!
I have my blog URL but it's written in Japanese... There are some photoes I shot in Boston in my photo album.(my site's upper right)
Your video blog is so interesting!!

[Kent Bye]

That Rovics piece really tied this whole piece together. Very meditative.
Well done.

I read a few days ago that David Weinberger was at this vigil and that everyone enjoyed chatting with their neighbors. He says, "Yeah, I know it was supposed to be a silent vigil, but talking seemed more useful."

It looked like people enjoyed connecting with each other. Thanks for sharing.

[Steve Garfield]

There were a few of these in Boston and he was at another one.

I went in thinking that I wasn't going to interview anyone, also know it was supposed to be a silent vigil.

But a lot of people at this vigil were also talking to each other, while some stood in silence.

As I walked to it from my house, I noticed that my neighbors were coming out of their homes to attend, making the walk down to the center of town.

It was a unique experience.

It was different from a war protest on the Boston Common.

It was a hyper-local neighborhood vigil.

[Larry]

Hey Steve,... well done buddy. You've obviously got a talent and a passion for what you're doing. To evoke thought, but more so to demand emotion. You succeeded in touching many. You made us feel and think... at the same time. Even if it was just for a moment, you made us pay attention. Thanks.

[John K Fabiani]

Thank you for the video Steve.

Do you happen to have a MPEG2 or DIVX version that I may download to archive somehow?

Have you considered posting this to archive.org? If not, I would like to offer my assitance doing so.

Regards,
john fabiani

[richard]

in my 3 months in the vlog community (according to Schlomo that's about 30 blog years), this is probably the most powerful and important video ever, in my opinion, of course the song was great and the message profound, but you also did a really good job of shooting and putting the video together to enhance this ... I am so adding this to richards picks ... excellent

[Marcus McCoy]

I liked the song but I disagree with the message. As a soldier myself, we know what we are fighting for. There are people in Iraq that were not free. We went to give them freedom as we have it. We don't impose our religion or our way of life, but a freedom to choose how they want to live. It reminds me of another group of people that fought for the same thing and were helped by other countries. If we did it for America, why not for others. I am willing to give my life for others to be free. Regardless of the weapons, you should have seen the things Suddam had done to some of those people. I am a medic and saw many people he had disfigured, orphaned and left with nothing to live on. I lost many good friends in Fallujah. Each one of them knew they were fight for a good cause. I think Casey Sheehan also knew what he was fighting for. I think people asking questions about why we are over there is good. If we didn't, we'd be fighting everyone. So thank you for looking out for my well being as well.

[Carl Larisa]

Cindy Sheehan's son would be embarresed and ashamed of his mother's actions.

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Shorts from video were very touchy. Nice job.

[Hea_ros]

one, i hear allllll about Cindy Sheehan, her views, how she feels. Well, she is hurt. She lost her son. BUT what did her son believe? I want to hear what he would say, not Cindy. She did not go and fight for her country, he did. I think her son would not be proud of his mother right now. Two, Cindy is being used by anti-american propaganda and she is not wise to it. Democrats will USE anyone that is gullible and what a perfect sacrifice Cindy is making of herself. Three, Cindy Sheehan doesn't appear to be stupid but what person attending a political function goes dressed like she is going to mow the lawn? I wouldn't follow a grieving mother, I would follow what my men/women in the front tell me. There is where the truth lies.

[ali]

good sighn for us

[R. D. P.]

I can't say what the real truth behind the actions of our government is, but the leftest/communist ideas of Cindy and those like her are not the America I want to live in. The results of the last election should tip off the left to the fact that most of my fellow Americans feel the same way.

And as for an anti-war movement - where is it? I see a few people filmed from different angles in an attempt to convince us that the public at large is belching into the streets in an uncontrolable mob. And it's easy to tell too. They don't have enough warm bodies so they show the same people too much. Maybe they could hit up John Kerry's wifey for enough money to hire some stand-ins.

But our troups are there because they want to be there, so who is left to protest? Certianly not the record number of troops that re-enlist. Must be something else fueling this. There's a buck to be made in the protest business. If we had the draft there would be more money in anti-war protest scams. Maybe the left should loby to get the draft reinstated.