For Immediate Release

Cindy Sheehan to Speak at Princeton Seminary

Princeton, NJ, November 2, 2005– Princeton Theological Seminary will revive the art of the teach-in on Saturday, November 12 with a teach-in on the Iraq War: “Listen to Mothers for a Change.” The teach-in will take place from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. in Stuart Hall, Room 6, on the Seminary campus. Cindy Sheehan, one of the founders of Gold Star Families for Peace, will be the featured speaker.

Sheehan, whose son, Casey, was killed in action in Sadr City, Baghdad, has been an outspoken critic of the war in Iraq and of the Bush administration’s reasons for entering and sustaining the war. She gained national attention for her candlelight vigil outside the President’s Crawford, Texas, ranch this past August. The group she helped found, Gold Star Families for Peace, takes its name from the practice approved by President Wilson after World War I of allowing grieving mothers to wear a gold star on the traditional black armband of mourning. Its stated goals are “to bring our country’s sons and daughters home from Iraq, to minimize the ‘human cost’ of this war, and to prevent other families from the pain we are feeling as the result of our losses” (www.families4peace.org).

Other speakers at the teach-in will be Princeton Seminary professors George Hunsinger, one of the founders of Church Folks for a Better America; Deborah van Deusen Hunsinger; Peter Paris; and Mark Taylor. The event is sponsored by the Seminary’s student organization Seminarians for Peace and Justice. For more information, contact Professor George Hunsinger at 609-252-2114.