We Don't Have To Ask What Jane is Doing!

Published on Thursday, March 29, 2007 by San Francisco Chronicle

Berkeley Woman’s Iraq Quest Sleeping Bag in Tow, She Hopes to Embed with Army and Blog

Joe Garofoli wrote this for commondreams.org....

and introduced us to Jane Stillwater. Jane is a 64-year-old Berkeley woman who left for Kuwait on Wednesday, hoping to embed with the U.S. military there and in Iraq as a blogger. And if she is refused? She’s got a sleeping bag and plans to sleep on the beach in Kuwait until her return flight in three weeks.Protection? A Berkeley city councilman tried in vain to get her some body armor; she’s accepting online donations through PayPal so she can buy some in Kuwait.

Credentials? The military said the prolific blogger needs to be sponsored by a media outlet. No problem: The Lone Star Iconoclast, a 900-circulation liberal weekly in President Bush’s vacation getaway of Crawford, Texas, is sponsoring her. Not that it’s paying her. Then again, nearly all of the dozens of online columns Stillwater has produced over the past seven years for various publications have been labors of love.

Money for Arabic translators? Unnecessary. “I’ve been all over the world,” she said, “and you always find people who speak English.”

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