Phila. Daily News Sr. Writer: Impeachment—for "political treason"more.Bush and "appeasement"—what's the connection? One answer.What if they tell you "it's too late" for Impeachment? Swanson's answerAMERICA Must NOT Torture!! SIGN Patriot's petitionRead Nichols' article | PetitionVermonters want Guard Home; Tell feds to obey laws.Learn more & HELP.Gen. Wm. Odom calls for Impeachment & Ending War Funding!More. 235,000+ Sign up for Impeachment Hearings. Let's get more! YOUR Job: Get 10 others to Join them!! Today!
Send Them to SIGN-UP: WexlerWantsHearings.com.
"President Bush committed political treason today," says Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily NewsRead.
"...Today, it's a whole new ballgame. I believe this treacherous statement by a U.S. president in Israel is a signal to the Democrats in the House in Washington, that it's time to play its Constitutional role in ending this trauma"
All the President's Nazis (Real and Imagined): An Open Letter to Bush
by Larisa Alexandrovna in the Huffington Post Read.
"...I am ashamed of you Mr. Bush. I am ashamed of those who applauded your political porn played out against the hallowed backdrop of the Holocaust.... You are, sir, the most abhorrent human being...in the lifetime of this nation."
WEXLER on House Floor: The charges are too serious to ignore. There is credible evidence that the Vice President abused the power of his office... It is the constitutional duty of Congress to hold impeachment hearings.
...if we do nothing, [Congress] may be held liable...
ALSO, Listen to Wexler, David Swanson, Bob Fertik (& SFIC's A. Kobrin) on web radio show
HELP send this ad to Congress:
A letter from Barbara G. Ellis, Communications, We the People National Coalition for Impeachment to Impeachment organizations across the US:
Here is an impeachment notice for a Roll Call ad as the newest strategy to try getting the House to do what the 1973 House did to force Nixon's resignation: Flood the House with dozens of separate impeachment bills.
People can copy or paste or just put this pdf notice on your email list(s)...or your website(s) Thank you.
An Impeachment Ad Congress Will Read!
We want to run this Impeachment ad on Tuesday, April 29 in Roll Call, the Capitol Hill paper ALL members of Congress and their staffs read avidly. The ad answers House Speaker Pelosi’s argument—echoed by many House members (perhaps your Representative)—that President Bush and Vice President Cheney will be out of office by January 30 “so why bother with impeachment?”
If House members don’t “bother” with impeachment, they are permitting all the “high-crime precedents” that Nixon and Bush and Cheney have put in place to be used by future presidents. And those “Presidential Precedents” will nullify Congress, overthrow tha “unitary executive” dictatorship. Read More.
Rocky Anderson wants your help to investigate Dick Cheney for torture. Salt Lake City mayor asks for support to sign a letter to Conyers to start investigations SIGN Petition.
MORE REASONS TO IMPEACH: FBI Deputizes Private Contractors With Extraordinary Powers, Including 'Shoot to Kill' More.
Elizabeth Holtzman - a new Call for IMPEACHMENT Read.
--> Support the historic "March In My Name" for Impeachment.Find out more.
Keith Olbermann scores another Direct Hit on Bush Torture Regime.Watch commentary.
Listen to Nicole Sandler — Impeachment ally — on WINZ (940 am) M-F, 6-9 am. GO: Nicole's Blog w/info & some shows recordings. Masochists can listen again to Debbi Wasserman Schultz's impeachment interview.
ACTIONS:
HELP send this ad:
Nancy Pelosi is coming to S. Florida: Sunday, Feb. 24 for a $2500/plate fundraiser Schedule: 1:30 to 2 p.m. Host Reception, 2 - 3 p.m. luncheon, Timpano Restaurant, 450 Las Olas Blvd., Ft. Lauderdale, FL. We've got to ask: At $2500/plate, is there any room for IMPEACHMENT on that table?
CALL CONYERS!! HAVE YOU CALLED OR E-MAILED CONYERS LATELY? NAIL HIM with your calls!!
Do so (and please continue to call Debbie W-S and the other members of the House Judiciary Committee who haven't signed on to impeachment – 1-800-828-0498).
Your message: Whatever you would like to say.
Diane Lawrence's message to Conyers: I want impeachment hearings on Richard B. Cheney to begin as soon as the holiday break is over. FDR said, "There is nothing to fear but fear itself," so don't be afraid of Pelossi, Dean and Hoyer. What are they going to do, fire you? I don't think so.
SIGN VETERANS FOR PEACE IMPEACHMENT PETITION
Veterans For Peace has a petition for impeachment circulating with a goal of over 10,000 signatures:
House Judiciary Commitee member Brad SHERMAN now urges Hearings! Even though he doesn’t use the “I” word, Judiciary Committee member Brad Sherman (from CA) takes a significant step in the right direction with this letter to John Conyers. Letter
General Wm. Odom Calls for Impeachment. AfterDowningStreet.org reports that General Odom says Congress should Impeach and stop funding the Occupation. More.
AWARD for Wexler. Congressman Wexler received the "Backbone" Award from DFAM in Deerfield Beach the evening of March 10 for his efforts to face down the Bush administration and stand up for Saving Our Consitution through his call for Impeachment hearings. Details
Daniel Ellsburg: Bush Likely to Attack Iran, Impeachment a Must
Vietnam Era Whistleblower-revealer of the "Pentagon Papers" and anti-war hero, Daniel Ellsburg pleads NEED for Impeachment to PREVENT attack on Iran. Read details in AlterNet article.
OBAMA, One of Two Remaining Democratic Candidates, States Impeachment is NOT Acceptable. Details "you reserve impeachment for grave,...intentional breaches of the president's authority," he says. SUGGESTION: Let's all move to the country HE'S living in. It sure ain't THIS one!
Does that mean attacking Iran IS "Acceptable", Barrack?
KUCINICH, Author of Cheney Impeachment Bill, Barred From Debates, Drops Out of Presidential Bid.
WEXLER (D-FL 19th dist.), on Judiciary committee, starts Impeachment Hearings Website, gets over 100,000 signatures in under a week! CALL,WriteWEXLER with support!! MORE than once!
WEXLER'sOpEd letter sent to major newspapers across the country ignored by media for over a week; now getting some coverage if not publication.
Games people Play — Putting the 'MOCK' in Democracy:
In Iowa, Democrats Simply 'Eliminate' Contrary Positions on Impeachment, Healthcare, Trade, and War by Keeping Kucinich Out of Debate Des Moines Register sets arbitrary 'rule' keeping Kucinich, author of historic Impeachment Resolution before the US Congress, from speaking in debate; other Dems say nothing. Read more.
....Who here still believes we live in a democracy??!
South Florida Impeachment Coalition Supporters Dog Debbie on Impeachment
Diane Lawrence writes about experience with article on AfterDowningStreet.org. Read details.
Robt. WEXLER (D-FL 19th), member of Judiciary committee, supports Impeachment, declaring: “The American people are served well with a legitimate and thorough impeachment inquiry. I urge the Judiciary Committee to schedule impeachment hearings immediately and not let this issue languish as it has over the last six months." more
Kucinich Resolution goes to Committee! Attempt to table it by House Democrats fails in high-drama political maneuvering. Time to STEP UP Impeachment organizing!
House approves Mukasey for Attorney General. MORE reason to IMPEACH Cheney/Bush before MORE torture of people and laws, and a further degrading of our standing in the world and our SECURITY.
CONYERS in Miami: non-committal on Impeachment.
National Lawyers Guild calls for Impeachment of Cheney/Bush! details
About ACTIONS: Ya' want IMPEACHMENT??Ya' gotta help. Make yourself SEEN and HEARD. PARTICIPATE!
Let's Tell the Public:
Save the Constitution! Get Impeachment ON THE TABLE!
Shock Doctrine: An important concept central to understanding our times Naomi Klein, author of the Shock Doctrine, spoke December 3 to a STANDING ROOM ONLY (400+) house at the Coral Gables Congregational Church in Coral Gables.Klein says: "system fails us": this is "not incompetence" we see, rather it is very active, intentional antiDemocracy at work. While any community (or nation) is "in shock" from a disaster (attack, invasion, masssive debt, hurricane, etc.), radical institutional and economic changes can be imposed, such as the "re-making" of New Orleans and the current destruction of our Constitution. Watch video (2 segments — see both) on Shock Doctrine. In a private conversation, Klein considers IMPEACHMENT would be a "people's shock" to the Administration.
ANOTHER MUST_SEE: FRIDAY Channel 2 and Ch. 42, 9 pm* - Bill Moyers: "How far can a President go to defend the nation?"
A look into Presidential Power BILL MOYERS JOURNAL examines the unprecedented Presidential power that some say is being amassed by our current Administration and kept secret in the name of national security. Moyers gets perspective from Charles Fried, who teaches Constitutional law at Harvard Law School and served as solicitor general in the Reagan Administration, and Fritz Schwarz, who served as chief counsel to the Senate Select Committee, which led by Frank Church of Idaho uncovered decades of abuse by the CIA and other intelligence agencies.
*also airs: Sunday, October 28, 1:00am on CH. 2 On Channel 42 WXEL in Palm Beach:
Saturday, October 27, 2:00am
and Saturday, October 27, 4:00am
Action:
ONTO the Table and INTO the Streets! JOIN US next time!
Supporters of the South Florida Impeachment Coalition step up Impeachment Awareness in downtown Miami. This is just one part of our program to make Impeachment a household world in South Florida. Let's Save our Constitution. Join us.
Contact us to volunteer for this and other important actions in our community.
There will be an action Sat., Oct. 20 outside the office of Rep. Debby Wasserman-Schulz, where Diane Lawrence read the Constitution.
Write or phone to participate in these and other actions.
RumoredConfirmed:
GEORGE W. BUSH slips into town, unnoticed? INDEED, he did!
A group of outraged citizens were there on Friday, as George Bush left the downtown Radisson Hotel, demonstrating with signs and chants outside as Bush addressed a presumably very select audience inside. Impeachment Coalition members Simon Rose and Dave Patlak report that Bush looked straight at them and their signs as he departed. Police, they say, were surprisingly cordial. Considerable honking indicated public support for their vigil. No advance mention of the Bush event appeared in local media. Could that be because South Florida gave him such a nice reception last time?
News: Poll Shows 64% of Vermonters In Favor of Impeachment details
Leading Americans Ask U.S. Military to Refuse Orders to Attack Iran.Details
Reagan's Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Decries "The Fraudlent War on Terror" Bush Preaches Democracy, Proposes Tyranny warns Paul Craig Roberts. Read article
To Prevent a Disastrous New War with Iran Now, more than ever: IMPEACH Cheney & Bush!
Get your own Coalition Handout: "SAVE Our CONTITUTION!" Spread the I-word wherever you go! Get folks thinking!
IMPEACHMENT Agenda:Standing Room Only!
John Nichols, author, The Genius of Impeachment: "Impeachment can be done until Jan. 20, 2009,"
he tells Books & Books overflow audience.
"Keep building citizens' movement until a tipping point is reached.
It is what has saved this nation in the past."
South Florida Impeachment Coalition hosts reception for Nichols and gains new supporters at event. Help us build this movement.
EVERY 10 MINUTES...
Every 10 minutes an Iraqi civilian is killed in a war that George Bush says will not end until he leaves office.
Every 10 hours an American soldier is killed in a war that George Bush says will not end until he leaves office.
Every 10 days $2 billion is removed from the U.S. Treasury and placed in the accounts of Halliburton, Blackwater and all other war profiteers that are getting rich off the misery of Iraqis and Americans by a government that will continue to remove those amounts or more every ten days as long as George Bush is President of the United States.
IS IT TIME TO IMPEACH YET?
Earth to Congress: It's about the Constitution, stupid! OR Just say "NO" to a police state.
Remember that "Oath of Office" thingy?...Wake up...and WATCH Bill Moyers
See Bill Moyers' Journal "We will never get out of Iraq without impeachment which, as you know, is long overdue. The spineless Democrats in Congress are enabling this criminal administration to spill more blood for oil. Could that be why [their] approval rating is down to 11% (Reuters)?" asks Diane Lawrence (South Florida Impeachment Coalition) in a message to Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (D-NY).
"Listen to Constitutional experts Bruce Fein and John Nichols," she goes on to say.
Diane — and the Coalition — recommend: Watch Fein and Nichols on Bill Moyers' Journal.
The program is in two parts. First click on “Clinton Impeachment.” After that, click on “Tough Talk on Impeachment,” and click on “watch video.” That is the longer segment with the two constitutional experts. WATCH
Footnote on History: IMPEACHMENT upstages O.J. — for a moment — in Miami media.Read more.
PHONE CALLS YOU NEED TO MAKE: they CAN make a difference; HAMMER 'em! HAMMER 'em!
SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI
(202) 225-4965
CONG. DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ
(305) 936-5724
CONG. JOHN CONYERS
(202) 225-5126
CONG. ROBERT WEXLER
(954) 972-6454
CONG. KENDRICK MEEK
(305) 690-5905
CONG. RON KLEIN
1-866-713-7303
... Have you CALLED TODAY yet?
First Coalition Rally a big success. September 15th Kickoff Rally w/ DAVID SWANSON draws nearly 200.
Dade, Broward (& hopefully Palm Beach) ready to gear up Impeachment cry!
To the NAYSAYERS, or people who think "we have more important things to do": WATCH video or read transcript of David's speech. There are "Reasons A'Plenty" to Impeach!
WINZ's Nicole Sandler vows to continue talk about Impeachment on the air. Listen to her talk with Swanson
This is just the beginning!Volunteer to help with Coalition. We need your energy.
Support H. Res. 333 calling for impeachment of Dick Cheney.
Let's push for more sponsors to the Kucinich Resolution. Learn More
DEAD-ON OBSERVATIONS: "PRESIDENT PLAYS WITH TROOPS" — "Night is day, and death is life, and enraging the world against us is safety." Keith Olbermann"s outrage decries need for Bush's impeachment or resignation. "We cannot afford another 500 days," concludes Olbermann. Watch commentary. MEMBERS & EVENTS South Florida Impeachment Coalition members, endorsers, and event supporters so far include: local groups of DFAM, PDA, the Green Party, the Broward Anti-War Coalition, the Unitarian Universalist Church, the Veterans for Peace (South Florida) individual Democrats (incl. members of the DEC), individual Republicans, Libertarians, and independents...and the list is GROWING! If you want your group to be part of our Coalition, get in touch. Support Impeachment!Join us!
Labor Day, Monday Sept. 3 - Tabling at the Dem Picnic at Jose Marti Park; If you're there, stop by.
Big, positive, honking reception for impeaching Cheney & Bush as hundreds defend democracy in Kendall, FL on April 28. See more photos - (courtesy, St. Pete for Peace)
Join us on this exciting adventure:
SAVING Our Constitution!
IMPEACH Cheney & Bush!
PARTICIPATE in the activities of the South Florida Impeachment Coalition. SUPPORT US with Information, Links, and Donations.
Bringing information to people and letting them know they are not alone in wanting to DO something is a first step. The presence of both Swanson and Nichols in SouthFlorida has helped galvanize patriotic, concerend citizens.
A 911 Reflection:Ariel Dorfman's "Open Letter to America" (2002) still resonates today. Share this with others.
Reception at Books & Books on Sept. 25 with John Nichols
Education/dissemination/petitioning
WHYS for & HOWS of Impeachment
Public Actions/Events/Marches/Forums/Phoning...
YOUR Ideas...[Go Here]!
HOST your own educational and eye-opening 'Impeachment Party.' Take patriotism home! Get info
LET'S TAKE seriously our duties to our children and as citizens to defend our Constitution and freedoms.
LET'S MAKE "IMPEACHMENT!" a household word and end the taboos. Get Impeachment onto South Florida's Table!
Growing Public Pressure on media and Congress can stop the abuse of power, secrecy and lies, and restore lawful behavior to our highest offices.
Tell your Congressperson to support H. Res. 333, Kucinich's "Impeach Cheney" Bill as though their career depended on it: IT DOES!
OUR JOB is to get Congress to do THEIR job! Such crimes and abuses cannot be given a pass. We have little time. Join us. Donate.
