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Impeachment Cosponsors Wanted!

Submitted by Bob Fertik on June 12, 2008 - 10:55am.
Cosponsors

FL19: Robert Wexler
CA06: Lynn Woolsey
CA09: Barbara Lee
NY22: Maurice Hinchey
WI02: Tammy Baldwin
CA17: Sam Farr

 

Candidates

CA08: Cindy Sheehan
(indy v. Nancy Pelosi)
CA24: Mary Pallant
MA01: Bob Feuer
(primary John Olver)
NY08: Adam Sullivan
(primary Jerry Nadler)
WA06: Paul Richmond
(primary Norm Dicks)

Rep. Dennis Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment, H.Res. 1258, needs Cosponsors so we can pressure Speaker Pelosi and Judiciary Chairman John Conyers into starting impeachment hearings. (We will update the list on the right as we learn of new cosponsors.)

You can play a crucial role in persuading your Representative to be a cosponsor!

  1. Email your Representatives to support Kucinich's Articles of Impeachment
  2. Call your Rep. at 202-224-3121
  3. Call your favorite talk shows and tell everyone who supports impeachment to sign the petition at Democrats.com
  4. Login and click local to meet your neighbors and plan local lobbying actions:
    • organize a "Honk To Impeach" event
    • turn out and ask questions at community events your Representative will be attending
    • pass resolutions by Democratic clubs, local governments, unions, civic and veterans' groups, etc.
    • ask community leaders to speak out 

Of course most incumbent Democrats and all Republicans have turned a deaf ear to all of our lobbying. So we're also active in House races, encouraging Democratic challengers to endorse H.Res. 1258, and we are listing them above. (We also listed independent Cindy Sheehan because Speaker Pelosi abused the unique power as Speaker by declaring impeachment "off the table," even though it's not her table, but ours!)

Wexler Lights Impeachment Fire in Congress

Submitted by Bob Fertik on January 16, 2008 - 10:24am.
As promised, Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) went to the floor of the House to demand impeachment hearings, and he set the House on fire with his passion! Watch for yourself:

You can see Wexler holding the printed signatures of nearly 200,000 activists from Democrats.com and our pro-impeachment allies. (And thanks for thanking all of us, Rep. Wexler!)

How to Create a Congressional District Impeachment Committee

Submitted by Bob Fertik on November 8, 2006 - 7:11am.

Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic leaders in Congress say impeaching Bush is "off the table." We must change their minds!

Our plan is simple: we will form Impeachment Committees in all 435 Congressional Districts to persuade all of our Representatives to support impeachment.

Help us Impeach Bush by taking the following 4 steps:

1. Join (or create) an Impeachment Committee in your Congressional District.
2. Collect petitions and handwritten letters.
3. Build support for impeachment by holding an educational town forum, writing letters to the editor, etc.
4. Meet with your Representative, deliver the petitions and ask them to Impeach Bush.

More detailed instructions are below.

Why I Interrupted Bush at Monticello

Submitted by davidswanson on July 4, 2008 - 10:50am.

By David Swanson

I'll be uploading video and photos, so watch http://afterdowningstreet.org

When Bush opened his mouth to speak I shouted "Defend the Constitution, Impeach Bush!" I repeated that several times, as people nearby knocked me over, cops handcuffed me, people gave me smiles and thumbs up signs. They threw me out and a couple of more defenders of our Constitution behind me, and then a few more, and then a few more. The handcuffed citizens who'd done their duty kept comign down the hill. They did not arrest us but did give us a ride down the mountain where we joined a crowd of protesters in the road who greeted Bush's limo coming and going.

Why did we do this? Here's why:
http://afterdowningstreet.org/busharticles

Growing Coalition Plans to Protest Bush in Charlottesville

Submitted by davidswanson on July 3, 2008 - 2:26pm.

The coalition of groups and individuals planning to protest President George W. Bush's Fourth of July visit to Charlottesville on Friday continues to grow. Participating organizations include RVA4Peace, the Augusta Center for Peace and Justice, CODEPINK Women for Peace both National and Charlottesville, AfterDowningStreet, Democrats.com, and Charlottesville MoveOn.org. Many other people expected to participate are not members of any of these groups.

The protest will take place at Route 20, outside and a ways removed from the grounds of Monticello. Participants will gather at 7 a.m. at Quarry Park [Come at 6!!], the entrance to which is on the west side of Rt. 20 just north of Interstate 64.

Organizers of the protest are drawing a connection between the charges found in the Declaration of Independence and the abuses of power in which the current president has engaged.

Bush's July 4 Speech Transcript

Submitted by davidswanson on July 2, 2008 - 9:04pm.

The full remarks as provided by the White House:

THE PRESIDENT: Distinguished guests, fellow citizens, and future citizens: the grounds of this house, which saw so many changes during President Thomas Jefferson's lifetime provide an ideal setting to reflect on the history of our nation. We have progressed so far in so many ways since that day on which the Declaration of Independence was signed, in that distant time when slaves inhabited this place.

We have also progressed in dramatic ways since that horrific day on which the forces of evil and Islamic extremism flew airplanes into the World Trade Center. This is not the same world it was in 2001, and not the same nation it was in 1776. In the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson and the members of the Continental Congress complained of certain actions taken by the King of England which were not then justifiable.

Cheney to Join Bush in Celebrating Constitution (R.I.P.) on Fourth of July

Submitted by davidswanson on July 2, 2008 - 10:34am.

While George Dubya will desecrate Monticello with some dishonest remarks from a podium on Friday as new citizens swear to defend the Constitution he has destroyed, this AP story has the plans of the man in charge. Dick Cheney will make his remarks on a ship named the Constitution and talk about fighting pirates rather than being one:

Dick Cheney to visit Boston on July Fourth
By Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney will be in Boston on July Fourth to attend a ceremony aboard the USS Constitution.

Cheney spokeswoman Megan Mitchell said today that Cheney will attend Friday’s military reenlistment ceremony on the historic warship, known as "Old Ironsides."

The Constitution was commissioned in 1797 and is docked at Boston’s historic Charlestown Naval Yard, a national park. The ship never lost a battle, from fighting pirates in the Caribbean to British in the War of 1812.

101 Reasons Not to Resist Bush's Power Grab

Submitted by davidswanson on July 2, 2008 - 9:41am.

By David Swanson

The number and variety of the excuses for failing, in various ways, to resist the transition we are in from democratic republic to dictatorship never ceases to amaze me. A lot of the time I imagine that Congress members hold all the prizes in this regard, with perhaps some dishonorable mentions for party leaders and directors of national activist organizations. But I've been repeatedly jolted out of that notion by being involved in specific plans to organize protests, most recently protests being planned for Bush's Fourth of July visit to my town of Charlottesville, Virginia.

Please Add Your Voice to This Discussion of Bush as Fourth of July Speaker

Submitted by davidswanson on July 1, 2008 - 10:06pm.

Here's a discussion that might benefit from your voice. Just take a moment and add a comment. Thanks. If link doesn't work, just go to http://www.cvillenews.com

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