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Over Twenty-five national groups have endorsed a Spring 2007 impeach Bush and Cheney drive that includes the following activities; National Corporate Shopping Boycott April 15 (Tax Day) to April 22 (Earth Day) is set with over 1,000 community organizers signed up and local groups formed in cities all over the US and in many foreign countries. Supporters of ending the Iraq War and Impeaching Bush and Cheney will forgo major purchases and shopping in corporate chain stores and shopping malls for seven days, and instead find locally owned community markets, coffee shops and 2 nd hand shops. For down loadable posters and flyers to support this effort see: http://www.wearenotbuyingit.org/ The Show It Off! Campaign Launched! April 23-27, 2007 Wear impeachment T-shirts, armbands, buttons, stickers, ties, scarves, and become the millions all over this country - on the beach, in the valley, on the plains, in the mountains, on the farms, in school, at work, in the stores, on the sidewalks, in the parks, on the buses, subways andjê trains of America saying no to Bush's war and yes to Impeachment. http://showitoffnow.blogspot.com/ April 28, National Impeachment Protest Day Spell out Impeach everywhere with human bodies. Organize local people on the beach, in the park, on campuses, and spell out the words Impeach. Send a message to Nancy Pelosi to put impeachment back on the table and support Dennis Kucinich in helping bring impeachment back to Congress. http://www.a28.org/ Dennis Loo, co-editor of "Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney" states that; "Anyone who's been paying attention to what's been going on for the last seven years knows that something's rotten in D.C. Our government has arrogated to itself the right to invade countries that pose no threat to us, to carry out indefinite detentions and suspend habeas corpus, torture people, spy on tens of millions of Americans without warrant, and to use hundreds of signing statements to negate Congressional intent." Lew Brown, national coordinator for the shopping boycott, declares the importance of these actions, "Bear in mind all of these tactics are but one facet of the greater movement towards peace and justice, but they are perhaps the most potentially damaging to the power elite. Without their flow of revenue, without millions of compliant "consumers" pumping money into their accounts every single day there is nothing they can do except jê watch it all slip away and into the hands of an empowered and informed public." Peter Phillips, co-editor of Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney, exclaimed, "The American people voted against the war in November. Opinion polls show two-thirds oppose the war, and over half support impeachment. We have the individual choice of being 'Good Germans' and hiding our heads in the sand, or taking united action to dethrone the imperial powers through the people's option of impeachment." Spring 07 Impeachment Sponsors: Gold Star Families for Peace, After Downing Street, Backbone Campaign, Center for Constitutional Rights, Citizens Impeachment Commission, CODE PINK Women for Peace, Constitution Summer, Consumers for Peace, Democrats.com, Democracy Rising, Gold Star Families for Peace, Green Party of the United States, Green Party California, Hip Hop Caucus, Impeach the President, ImpeachBush.org, Military Free Zone, National Lawyers Guild, Patriotic Response to Renegade Government, Progressive Democrats of America, Independent Progressive Politics Network,Velvet Revolution, World Can't Wait: Drive Out the Bush Regime, Pledgetoimpeach.org. For Information Contact: Peter Phillips Ph.D. Professor Sociology Sonoma State University, Director Project Censored, President, Media Freedom Foundation, 707-664-2588: peter.phillips@sonoma.edu Dennis Loo Ph.D. Associate Professor Sociology California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, 909-869-3892: ddloo@csupomona.edu Lew Brown, National Coordinator: Impeach for Peace, 707-869-1712, info@wearenotbuyingit.org Reasons for Impeachment from Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney, Seven Stories Press, 2006, 1. Stealing the White House in 2000 and 2004 through outright voter fraud. 2. Lying to the American people and deliberately misleading Congress in order to launch an unprovoked war of aggression upon Iraq. 3. Authorizing and directing the torture of thousands of captives, leading to death, extreme pain, disfigurements, and psychological trauma. Hiding prisoners from the International Committee of the Red Cross by deliberately not recording them as detainees and conducting rendition of hundreds of prisoners to "black sites" known for their routine torture of prisoners. Indefinitely detaining people and suspending habeas corpus rights. 4. Ordering free fire zones and authorizing the use of anti-personnel weapons in dense urban settings in Iraq leading to the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians – war crimes under international law. 5. Usurping the American people's right to know the truth about governmental actions through the systematic use of propaganda and overt disinformation. 6. Building an imperial presidency by issuing signing statements to laws passed by Congress that negate Congressional intent. Hiding government decisions from public and Congressional view through subverting the Freedom of Information Act. Illegally spying on millions of Americans without court authorization and lying about it for years. 7. Undermining New Orleans' capacity to withstand a hurricane prior to Hurricane Katrina; allowing New Orleans' destruction by Katrina; and failing to come to people's aid in a timely fashion, leading to the unnecessary deaths of thousands of Americans. 8. Denying global warming, disregarding peak oil, and placing oil industry profits over the long-term survival of the human race and the viability of the planet. 9. Violating the constitutional principle of separation of church and state through the interlinking of theocratic ideologies in the decision making process of the US government. 10. Failing to attempt to prevent the 9/11 attacks, despite a wealth of very specific evidence of a pending terrorist attack upon New York, and the World Trade Center in particular. Using this failure as a rationale for pre-emptive attacks on other countries and for the suspension of Americans' fundamental civil liberties and our right to privacy. 11. Promotion of US global dominance of the world and the building and use of illegal weapons of mass destruction. 12. Overthrowing Haiti's democratically elected president Jean-Bertrand Aristide and installing a highly repressive regime. For additional Information see: http://www.wearenotbuyingit.org/ http://www.impeachthepresidentnow.com/ |
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Heh. Stupid useless movements. If these guys have to crybaby, you'd
think they could find something important. With all this time on their hands, a "feed some third world nation" campaign would be some much more admirable. I'll address the 12 reasons now. 1. Wrong. Technically, they did win. Even if they lost the popular. The system is flawed. 2. Congress was NEVER lied to. And Saddam was provoking since the end of Desert Storm. 3. This one you have an argument on. But these were authorized by the congress and senate post-haste. So EVERY congressman and senator is just as guilty. 4. Except those "civilian" areas were also war zones. With your enemy using children as human shields- the rules of war change, and understandably know. 5. Only according to the nutjobs who are too stupid to know the true facts. 6. The "freedom of information" act only applies to things that no longer have tactical value. An ongoing war is ALWAYS on that list. 7. Undermining? The ones who undermined New Orleans were the leaders of the city who never maintained or upgraded the system (because of costs). And, yes, we were untimely- but that's merely a mistake, not deliberate. 8. Psst- that's every president that's ever run america since the concept of global warming ever showed up. 9. Except that "seperation of church and state" is not a constitutional concept. Never mentioned. Not once. 10. Whatever. We didn't have an effective communications system. Once you put the materials together, it's true, we had a warning. But that's like handing someone a jiggsaw puzzle and expecting them to know the picture without assembling it. And I'm not happy about the P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act, either, but it's not an impeachable, or even criminal, offence. 11. Psst- it's not "illegal" to make WMD's. And every country promotes their interests in the world. That's the nature of countries. 12. First- he was a bastard. Second- if you call that "duely elected" then I call you insane. |
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Well, we're at the 'show it off' stage. We'll see how far-reaching this
campaigne goes. Actually this is the first I've heard of anything actually being organized. Will be interesting to see what might be reported by the news media, if this SHOW of opinion becomes unavoidably visible. |
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Better to speak with the vote at the next election.
Sure cost a lot of money (wasted) to do this when HE WILL BE OUT OF OFFICE IN A FEW MONTHS. |
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Right on adventure, I was alive during watergate and it sure did a
number on the attitude of the country back then. Not the thing to do while troops are engaged in conflict in another country. There will be time to bring charges on Bush and his cronies. I did not hear about what shadow is talking about, but I have heard of plans to bring charges up after he is out of office and my boys are home. Thats what I said.... MY BOYS!!! my brothers...... |
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