With Her New Campaign Headquarters Shaping Up-- Cindy Takes Time Out to Visit Step It Up!

November 3, 2007
San Francisco

About a dozen volunteers spent the day painting and renovating Cindy Sheehan's new campaign headquarters in San Francisco. Located at 1260 Mission Street between 8th and 9th Streets, her new office space will take up the ground floor of a building that once housed a night club called the "Barbary Coast".

Cleaning and painting the grungy place was quite a challenge. The walls were previously painted jet black and were coated with layers of dust-- but the volunteers made speedy headway into the project because of their exuberance for Cindy's cause.

There will be plenty of work left to do in the weeks ahead, but by day's end the place had already utterly transformed.

Cindy, her son Andrew, and her sister Dede participated-- and also treated some of the volunteers to lunch at a pizza parlor nearby. After lunch, Cindy Sheehan walked over to the United Nations Plaza where a public event on behalf of environmental causes was taking place.

The name of the event was "Step It Up! san Francisco". There, she briefly addressed the modest gathering about her campaign to unseat Nancy Pelosi and answered peoples' questions about their environmental concerns-- especially about Global Warming. Sheehan chastised the Bush Administration for not ratifying the Kyoto Protocol.

A number of mayoral candidates also attended the event and gave speeches. Josh Wolf, Quinton Mecke, and Ahimsa Porter Sumchai spent time enjoyably talking with Cindy Sheehan.

Below are a few snapshots from the day's events, plus a short 15 second video clip of the front office.