Topic: National Groups Push Public Impeachment Events
ShadowEagle's photo
Sun 04/22/07 10:08 PM

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 andjê 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/

no photo
Sun 04/22/07 10:22 PM
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.

Redykeulous's photo
Sun 04/22/07 10:24 PM
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.

AdventureBegins's photo
Sun 04/22/07 10:33 PM
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.

Fanta46's photo
Sun 04/22/07 10:46 PM
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......