Kucinich Introduced 35 Articles Of Impeachment Against Bush

THURSDAY Feb. 21: "You are Not a Lap Dog!" Call-In Day

Call Speaker Pelosi at 202-225-0100 and Majority Leader Hoyer at 202-225-4131. Tell them to stay strong against warrantless wiretapping and $102 billion more for Iraq.

In a surprising and long-overdue display of courage,
the House Democratic leadership last week stood up to Bush and refused
to bring to the floor a bill that would allow Bush to continue to spy
on the people of this country without a warrant. Also every Democrat
but one voted to hold Harriet Miers and Josh Bolton in contempt of Congress. Can this newfound Democratic courage last?

We need Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer to continue to stand strong against domestic spying and telecom immunity. And we need them to learn that they do have power if they choose to use it, and apply this lesson to ending the occupation of Iraq. Pelosi and Hoyer can start by simply refusing to allow Bush's $102 billion Iraq war funding request to come up for a vote.

Thursday Feb. 21: Join United for Peace and Justice, Democrats.com, AfterDowningStreet.org, Progressive Democrats of America, and other groups in a Massive National "You are NOT a Lap Dog*" Call-In Day!

Call Speaker Pelosi at 202-225-0100 and Majority Leader Hoyer at 202-225-4131. If you don't get through to a person, leave a voicemail.

Talking points:

1. Thank you for standing up against Bush's warrantless wiretapping, and keep standing up.

2. Stand up against Bush's new $102 billion Iraq war funding request by refusing to bring it to the floor for a vote.

In addition to your call, please sign our petition to your own Representative and Senators: No More Funds for Iraq
http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/124

This Democratic Congress was elected to end the war,
but they have given Bush one blank check after another, most recently
for $70 billion on January 16. But 42 Democrats and 4 Republicans
finally said no in January, so our calls and emails are making a
difference, and we need to keep up the pressure.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2008/roll011.xml

And we must do more than call and email - we must
take to the streets and put pressure directly on our Representatives.
Here's a flyer you can hand out in front of your Representative's
office today:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/outofiraq-wanted-flyer

Connect with other Democrats.com members in your Congressional District (login required):
http://democrats.com/local
Look
down to your Congressional District, read past posts and add your
comments, or create a new post with your ideas and plans.

In mid-March, UFPJ member groups and allies around
the country will mobilize for a wide range of powerful actions marking
the 5th anniversary of the war and occupation in Iraq. Join us in March to say, 5 YEARS TOO MANY!
http://resistinmarch.org

Background

* "We're not the lap dog of the president or the United States Senate."
-Rep Hoyer on Feb. 13, when the House leadership refused to bow to political pressure on warrantless wiretapping.

Early last week, the Senate passed an extension of
the Orwellian "Protect America Act" that allows Bush to wiretap all of
us without a warrant and offered immunity to telecoms that facilitated
illegal wiretaps in the past. Bush and the Senate wanted the House to
quickly pass the Senate bill, because the act expires on Feb. 15. The
House stood up to Bush and the Senate and allowed the "Protect America
Act" to expire. The fear-mongering has not stopped, with Bush claiming
that terrorists are planning an attack that will far surpass 9/11, and
he will be helpless to stop them without the ability to spy on us
without a warrant.

Unfortunately, the battle over domestic spying and
telecom immunity is not over. The House will return to the subject next
week. The leadership must be assured that they did the right thing by
refusing to bow to pressure and fear mongering, and that they must
continue to defend the Constitution.

The battle over FISA
teaches an important lesson about Congressional power - the Democrats
have it, if they care to use it. Pelosi and Hoyer have demonstrated
that they are willing to go to the mat over domestic spying and telecom
immunity - now we want to see them go to the mat to end the occupation
of Iraq.

Bush has requested another $102 billion for Iraq - which would push total spending on the war so far above $624 billion. Rep. John Murtha,
Chair of the Defense Appropriations subcommittee, is preparing a bill
to fund that request. He says the bill will be ready by the end of
February. The peace movement will have to wage a strong campaign to
defeat the war supplemental, or to turn it into a bill that only funds
the withdrawal of all troops and contractors. It won't be easy - the
presidential elections are capturing the attention of activists and the
general public. We must keep the pressure on!

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Plus just search on here or wherever for more things to do, but just DO SOMETHING ! Impeach Bush AND Cheney!

Hey folks, let me preface this with the fact that every single issue we all deal with relies on our having an impact on our own government. BushCo ignores us and the law.

 

All the animal and environment and human rights issues will mean nothing at all unless we rescue our type of government.

 

We won't save the arctic from drilling, we won't get funds to find a cure for cancer, we won't save whales, we won't be able to accomplish anything.

Impeachment is necessary.

 

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Conyers Considers Cheney Impeachment Hearings

On Thursday, Chairman John Conyers' House Judiciary Committee held a hearing at which Attorney General Michael Mukasey said that he would not investigate torture or warrantless spying, he would not enforce contempt citations, and he would treat Justice Department opinions as providing immunity for crimes.

None of this was new, but perhaps it touched
something in Conyers that had not been touched before. Following the
hearing, he and two staffers met for over an hour with two members of
Code Pink and discussed activism and impeachment, including Congressman Robert Wexler's proposal to begin impeachment hearings on Cheney.

Conyers expressed his concerns about what might
happen following an impeachment, the danger of installing a Bush
replacement or losing an election. But he said he's listening to
several advocates for impeachment, including Liz Holtzman and David
Swanson of Democrats.com. He hinted he could be swayed by a convincing argument, leaning out of his chair for dramatic effect.

So let's help Chairman John Conyers decide! We know Conyers agrees with all of us on the legal grounds for impeachment because he made this case himself in his 2006 book, "The Constitution in Crisis." Where Conyers needs persuasion is on the politics of impeachment, so we have addressed his concerns here:
http://www.democrats.com/conyers-start-impeachment-hearings

We'd like you to email Conyers (and other Judiciary Committee Democrats) with the link above, but please don't stop there.

1. Call his office at 202-225-5126 and say you would like him to begin Cheney impeachment hearings immediately. Tell him the hearings must
be on impeachment because that's the only way to force the White House
to comply with Congressional subpoenas. The phone in his office was
reportedly ringing once every second, 60 times per minute, all day long
on Monday. Let's ring it faster on Tuesday.

2. Print our petition
http://www.democrats.com/node/15663/print
and fax it to Conyers at 202-225-0072 with your name and address at the end.

3. Urge your Representative and Senators to sign onto Congressman Robert Wexler's letter to Conyers (which he plans to deliver on Friday) here:
http://democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/125

We know we're asking a lot, but we're not alone - our friends from Code Pink are fasting for impeachment and meeting with Conyers on Tuesday to discuss opening Cheney impeachment hearings.

 

Want
to do more? Start planning now to visit your congress member's office
when they're back in their district between February 16th and 24th.
Find ideas here:
http://impeachcheney.org

Join (or create) your Congressional District Impeachment Committee:
http://democrats.com/cdic-find

 

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International Days of Action Against Iraq Oil Law on February 22-23

Why did Bush and Cheney concoct WMD lies to scare Congress into authorizing an invasion of Iraq? After five years, it's clear the only reason was to steal Iraq's oil.

US Labor Against the War, United for Peace and
Justice, Oil Change International, and UK's Hands Off Iraqi Oil, are
working to expose the concerted efforts by the Bush-Cheney
administration and the major international oil companies to force
passage of an oil law in the Iraqi Parliament. This oil law would strip
the Iraqi people of their constitutional right to control their biggest
natural resource: oil.

Details on Facebook (login required):
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=16210280243

You can host a local action at your ExxonMobil, Shell, or BP station, or participate in a march in Washington, DC this Friday. If you need help and resources to host a local event email info@priceofoil.org

For more information about the Iraqi oil law visit http://priceofoil.org and http://www.USLaborAgainstWar.org

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Start Planning for March 2008

March 19 is the 5th Anniversary of Bush's invasion of
Iraq. Start planning your local and national actions to demand peace
and impeachment in March 2008 here:
http://resistinmarch.org

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December 9, 2007

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US Congressional Candidate Cindy Sheehan Calls on Pelosi to
Explain Silence on Torture Briefing.

US Congressional Candidate Cindy Sheehan today called upon Nancy Pelosi to respond to a story printed in the December 9 Washington Post which claims that the Speaker of the House was present in a 2002 meeting where four members of Congress were given a virtual
tour of the CIA's overseas detention sites and torture program.

According to the CIA, no objections were raised by any member of Congress present in the meeting, even though waterboarding, the interrogation technique profiled in the meeting, is illegal under international and US military law.

Pelosi has declined to comment on the story.

"My son was killed in part because of a battle that resulted from the torture happening at Abu Ghraib," said Sheehan. "If Nancy Pelosi had done the right thing in 2002 and taken a stance against the use of inhumane torture practices Casey might still be alive, so would thousands
more and think of those who could have been saved from this horrific
abuse."

"How she can claim that she supports the troops when her actions
and silence put them directly into harms way?"

Sheehan, who this year declared her candidacy to run for Pelosi's seat, reaffirmed her intentions to unseat the House Speaker.

"This is the smoking that makes it obvious why Nancy Pelosi 'took impeachment off the table.' It is more urgent now than ever that she is removed from office & I am even more determined to win her seat
in 2008."

Waterboarding, a simulated drowning technique used as a torture
method since the Spanish Inquisition, is outlawed under Article 3, Section 1 (a) of the Geneva Convention which prohibits, "Violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture." All countries signatory to the UN Convention Against Torture are subject to the prohibition on torture. In 2006, the US Department of Defense released a revised Army Field Manual entitled Human Intelligence Collector Operations prohibiting the use of waterboarding by U.S. military personnel.

"Nancy Pelosi and other members of Congress should be using their Constitutional authority to end all use of torture." said Sheehan, "Acquiring information through use of torture on prisoners of war is as inhumane as it is unreliable."

According to Article 1, Section 8, Clause 11 of the U.S. Constitution, "The Congress shall have power to….declare war… and make rules concerning captures on land and water;"


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