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Subject: Begin Change NOW With Cheney Impeachment Hearings
Begin Change NOW With Cheney Impeachment Hearings
By an overwhelming 79%-12% margin, Americans want to change the
disastrous direction George Bush and Dick Cheney have taken us. But there's no
need to wait until January 2009 - we can begin change now with impeachment.
Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) is organizing his colleagues to ask House
Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers to begin Cheney impeachment hearings,
and he needs our help.
We're asking other Judiciary Committee Members to co-sign Wexler's letter
to Conyers, and we're asking the rest of Congress to send their own letters to
Conyers. Please email your Congressmember here:
http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/125
On Wednesday, please call your Congressmember through the Capitol Hill
Switchboard (202) 224-3121, toll-free at 1-800-828-0498, or directly
(http://www.democrats.com/congress). Tell your Congressmember to urge Chairman
Conyers to begin impeachment hearings for Dick Cheney. Then tell your friends
and call and email the media.
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Tell the Candidates: Change Begins NOW
If Martin Luther King Jr. were alive today, he wouldn't be sniping over
the Voting Rights Act of 1964 or Iraq War speeches in 2002.
He'd be leading the largest protests our nation has ever seen to end to
the occupation of Iraq, restore the Constitution, massively shift funds from
the military to humanity, and impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney for their war
crimes and lies.
If the Democratic candidates for President want to compete on who is a
better agent of change, it's time for them - all of them - to stop talking and
start acting. Email Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Dennis Kucinich, and Barack
Obama to
1. Oppose any more Iraq War funds
2. Support Sen. Chris Dodd's filibuster of telco immunity for warrantless
wiretapping
3. Support Rep. Robert Wexler's call for Cheney impeachment hearings
4. Support Rep. John Conyers' single-payer non-profit health care plan
http://www.democrats.com/change-now-petition
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Grassroots Impeachment Activists Are Making a Difference
Impeachment activism is exploding from coast to coast.
* John Nirenberg, a retired college professor, has completed a 40-day
march from Boston to Washington D.C., where he will ask Speaker Nancy Pelosi to
begin impeachment hearings. He's garnered a great deal of media attention along
the way and has planned a press conference for noon on January 16th on the
Cannon House Office Building Terrace. Watch the end of the march:
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/30080
* Citizens with "Impeach" on their shirts were ordered not to view the
U.S. Constitution at the National Archives:
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/30068
* Subcommittee on the Constitution Chairman Jerrold Nadler's constituents
protested repeatedly at his office and went to jail asking for impeachment
hearings: http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/29969
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/29809
* Viggo Mortensen, John Kaminski, Dennis Kucinich, John Nichols, and
David Swanson spoke at New Hampshire forum for impeachment. Video:
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/29968
* A New Hampshire Democratic Party event exploded when Kucinich said the
word "Impeach" - http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/30065
* Maine impeachment activism led conservative Democratic congress member
Mike Michaud to ask Conyers to begin Cheney impeachment hearings:
http://afterdowningstreet.org/me
* A big name impeachment debate shakes up North Carolina:
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/30058
* Veterans for Peace brought impeachment to Rep. Pete Visclosky's (D-IN)
Town Hall Meetings: http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/30051
* Lois Capp's constituents baked her an impeachment pie:
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/30079
* Yet another ACLU chapter backs impeachment:
http://afterdowningstreet.org/aclu
* Cindy Sheehan to deliver huge stack of pro-impeachment letters to
Speaker Nancy Pelosi: http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/29986
* First newspaper editorialized for Cheney impeachment:
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/29955
* The Washington and New Hampshire state legislatures are taking up
impeachment resolutions this month. The first hearing in Olympia is scheduled
for January 17th. Here are details on Washington and New Hampshire, plus the
list of resolutions already passed around the country:
http://afterdowningstreet.org/wa and http://afterdowningstreet.org/nh
and http://impeachpac.org/resolutions-list
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Boycott General Electric for Censoring Kucinich
General Electric corporate family member NBC has rewritten its criteria
for including candidates in debates specifically to exclude the real peace
candidate, Dennis Kucinich. Of course GE is a major weapons manufacturer so
peace threatens its profits.
Less than 44 hours after NBC sent a congratulatory note and an invitation
to Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich to participate in the Jan. 15 Democratic
Presidential debate in Las Vegas, the network notified the campaign that it was
changing it announced criteria, rescinding its invitation, and excluding
Kucinich from the debate.
Contact your congress member and your local media:
http://www.usalone.com/nbc_debates.php
Tell GE you will boycott its products and why.
https://www.ge.com/contact/contact_form.html
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Start Planning for March 2008
Start planning your local and national actions to demand peace and
impeachment in March 2008 here:
http://resistinmarch.org
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