December 10, 2006: Human Rights and Impeachment Day

Posted on November 17, 2006
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World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime is encouraging people to attend these impeachment town hall meetings on Dec. 10th across the country.  Bring copies of the Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime and join the discussion about what it will take to drive this regime from power.

At the event in Washington DC, Debra Sweet, the national director of World Can’t Wait, will be speaking.  (The event is held at Bus Boys and Poets Restaurant
Langston Hughes Room (in the back)
2021 14th Street, NW, December 10, 2006, 1:00 PM)

Click here to read Impeachment: A Moral Imperative by Mikael Rudolph

Below is the call for the Dec. 10 events, which are sponsored by a coalition of organizations:

December 10 is Human Rights Day, and this year we’re making it Human Rights and Impeachment Day. Slogan: “Putting Impeachment on the Table.”

We encourage you to organize a town hall forum or rally on this day for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney.

You can create a public listing of your event here. You will be able to communicate with the people who sign up for your event, and to edit the listing for your event, changing or filling in details later.

You can view existing events and sign up to attend one here.

Here is a list of available speakers with their contact info.

Be sure also to invite your Congress Member or newly elected future Congress Member to speak.

Here are resources that will make your event easy and effective.

 

Impeachment Books

“United States v. George W. Bush et al.,” by Elizabeth de la Vega, an indictment, a presentation to a grand jury charging Bush and gang with fraud — very well argued and documented, even entertaining.

“The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders’ Cure for Royalism,” by John Nichols, a masterpiece that should be required reading in every high school and college in the United States, a history and portrait of the practice of impeachment.

“Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush,” by the Center for Constitutional Rights, a short book that lists and explains four (multi-part) articles of impeachment.

“The Impeachment of George W. Bush: A Practical Guide for Concerned Citizens,” by Elizabeth Holtzman (former Congresswoman and member of the Nixon impeachment panel) and Cynthia L. Cooper, an excellent and readable book laying out five major grounds for impeachment of Bush, plus an extra section on Dick Cheney.

“The Case for Impeachment,” by Dave Lindorff and Barbara Olshansky, an amazingly popular and extremely readable book that explains the context while also setting forth six articles of impeachment against Bush, plus an extra section on Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, and Alberto Gonzales.

“Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney,” edited by Dennis Loo and Peter Phillips, with an introduction by Howard Zinn, a wonderfully well written collection of essays organized around a list of 12 grounds for impeachment of Bush and Cheney.

“George W. Bush versus the U.S. Constitution: The Downing Street Memos and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Cover-ups in the Iraq War and Illegal Domestic Spying,” by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff, a book that not only collects the evidence but also tells us what Congressman John Conyers, the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, is thinking (the full text, minus a new introduction by Joseph Wilson, is available here.)

“Verdict and Findings of Fact,” by the International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration of the United States, a report that looks at five major international crimes and overlaps significantly with most lists of impeachable offenses (the full text is available at the link and can also be purchased for $10);

“Impeach Bush: A Funny Li’l Graphical Novel About the Worstest Pres’dent in the History of Forevar,” a comic book account of Bush’s impeachable offenses – the crimes really are self-evident, but pictures don’t hurt.

“Pretensions to Empire: Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration,” by Lewis Lapham, a collection of essays from Harper’s magazine, concluding with one called “The Case for Impeachment,” which focuses on Rep. Conyers’ report.

“The Twilight of Democracy: The Bush Plan for America,” by Jennifer Van Bergen. Find out what the Bush Plan is and how it diverges from what the law and Constitution say.

In New York City, World Can’t Wait will be sponsoring:

Drive Out the Bush Regime!
They have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Start impeachment!
A Town Hall Meeting
Sunday, Dec. 10 – 4:00 PM
Pope Auditorium, Lowenstein Building
Fordham University (Columbus Circle Campus)
Corner of 60th Street and Columbus Avenue, Manhattan
[note: awaiting final confirmation of location]

If war crimes, legalized torture and crimes against humanity are not reason to impeach, what is?

If we allow George Bush to finish out this term, all the destruction he’s wrought here and around the world will be legitimated.

We must, and can, create a political situation where the Bush regime’s program is repudiated, where Bush himself is driven from office, and where the whole direction he has been taking  society is reversed.

Let the lies and cover-ups be uncovered. Open the investigations to expose their criminality to all. Start impeachment now.

For the war to end, for torture to stop, to restore rights stolen, for justice, we, the people, must act. No one will do this for us.

SPEAKERS & PANELISTS will include:

CINDY SHEEHAN, Anti-war leader and mother of Casey Sheehan, who died in Iraq; author of “Peace Mom, One Mother’s Journey Through Heartache to Activism”, co-founder of Gold Star Families for Peace who has called people to be in Washington the day Congress opens to demand an end to the war and the impeachment of Bush & Co..

SUNSARA TAYLOR, member of the national advisory board of World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime and writer for Revolution newspaper.

JOHN NICHOLS, Washington, DC correspondent for The Nation  and author of The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders’ Cure for Royalism.

LYNNE KATES, Shut Down Guantanamo Organizer, Center for Constitutional Rights

CAROLYN HO, mother of Lt. Ehren Watada who is facing jail for refusing orders to go to Iraq

Sponsored by WORLD CAN WAIT, New York City Chapter
Co-sponsors include: National Lawyers Guild, Fordham University Law School Chapter, United for Lt. Watada, Father Luis Barrios, and Iglesia San Romero (list in formation)

For more information contact: 212-969-0772, or nyc@worldcantwait.org or visit www.worldcantwait.org

 

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