Impeach07 Campaign Launched
via David Swanson.
(Goddess bless him, he has been a tireless warrior in the fight against this criminal administration.)
The impeachment movement is uniting and expanding. We're joining with many other organizations to launch Impeach07, a coordinated series of actions aimed at impeaching Bush and Cheney through widespread public protest, creative dissent, media activism, education, and lobbying:
http://www.impeach07.org
Bush and Cheney have misled this nation into an aggressive war, spied in open violation of the law, and sanctioned the use of torture -- among numerous other offenses. Newsweek reported in October that a majority of Americans favor impeachment, and in January that 58% said they wished the Bush administration were over. "Only a great popular upheaval," Howard Zinn said recently, "can push both Republicans and Democrats into compliance with the national will."
We need to end one war and prevent another, and impeachment is the way we will do it.
On March 17, the anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, Impeach07 will mobilize for a
March on the Pentagon to demand peace and impeachment. Go here to get involved:
http://www.marchonpentagon.org
On March 18-20, Impeach07 will organize local events for peace and impeachment around the country:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/event
Impeach07 is also planning:
A "Make Hip Hop, Not War" bus tour promoting peace and impeachment on March 19 - April 21:
http://www.hiphopcaucus.org
A boycott of major corporations that are profiting from the Bush administration's policies, making a killing off of killing, on April 15- 22:
http://www.wearenotbuyingit.org
And a nationwide day of protest:
Impeachment Day, April 28, 2007:http://www.a28.org
Initial participating organizations represent hundreds of thousands of antiwar, military family, peace, youth and women activists and lawyers. They include: 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, 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, and World Can't Wait: Drive Out the Bush Regime.
Organizations that want to join should write to jacob@a28.org
Labels: Bush, Bush_War_Crimes, Evil_Corporations, Greed, Impeach, Iraq, Peace, Progressive, protest, resistance, Swanson, Violence, war_crimes
posted by Morgaine @ 12:23 AM
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2 Comments:
Morgaine, I heard somewhere recently -- probably Air America -- that impeachment won't work, for the following reason: You can't impeach both Bush and Cheney on the same day. You have to impeach one first, and then the other. Whoever's left unimpeached, gets to choose who replaces the impeached person. So if we impeach Bush first, then Cheney gets to choose the new Prez. Then when Cheney gets impeached, the Prez gets to choose the new Vice Prez.
So can you imagine it? WE impeach Bush, Cheney chooses Don Rumsfeld to the new President of the U.S. Then Cheney gets ousted. And then Rumsfeld chooses -- who? Donald Duck? Minnie Mouse? AS Vice Prez....
Have you heard anything like this? If we impeach Bush, is it really Cheney who gets to select the new Pres?
Hi, Athana-
Well, impeachment is just a trial before the Senate. They could easily try both then announce the verdicts at the same time. There's some flexibility as to how far down the totem pole the eligibility for impeachment goes - they could also include Gonzales, Wolfowitz or Feith among others. No one has ever removed a sitting president. Johnson and Clinton were cleared, and Nixon resigned. Shrub would have to be dragged out kicking and screaming, and that's assuming he didn't try to turn the military against the Senate.
It is quite possible to remove all the bastards at once and if Cheney and Bush both go, Nancy is next in line. Whether anyone has the stones to do it is another question. I say one good coup deserves another. I want my country back.
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