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250+ Make Plans to Build a Movement to Impeach Bush for War Crimes Feb. 17-18

Posted on February 20, 2007
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 250 people and a range of
organizations came together in NYC Feb. 17-18 for an emergency summit to
organize a movement to impeach Bush for war crimes.  Participants all felt a shared sense of
urgency to remove Bush from office and stop the direction he is taking the
world, before his whole agenda is cemented into place and wreaks even more
havoc on the planet and its people.  With
a war on Iran looming on the
horizon, Bush’s escalation of the Iraq war, and the Democratic
Party’s continued refusal to put a stop to Bush, this summit was absolutely crucial
to mobilize millions of people to demand Bush be impeached.

 Plans were made at this
summit for seizing on this crucial moment in history, including making
the March
on the Pentagon 3/17
(the 4th anniversary of the Iraq war) as
large and powerful as possible; holding people’s impeachment hearings all
across the country; major mobilizations demanding impeachment April 28; a day
this spring when 50 prominent people stand on the Capitol steps demanding
impeachment; a “Bush Is Over If You Want It” visual campaign; a week
of boycotting major chain stores in April; and a “Make Hip Hop, Not
War” tour this spring.

In the wake of this summit, a coalition of organizations called Imeach07 Campaign has come together to take up these plans.  Click here to find out more.

Video of speeches at the summit:

  • Cindy Sheehan

  • Ramsey Clark

  • Debra Sweet, National Director of World Can’t Wait

  • Liam Madden, former Marine

  • Rev. Lennox Yearwood

  • David Swanson,
    AfterDowningStreet.org


  • Laura Flanders, Air America Radio Host


  • Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, ImpeachBush.org


  • Jonathan Tasini, Progressive Democrats of America


  • Rebecca Rotzler, Green Party of the US

  • Letter
    from John Nichols to the Summit

 


 

Impeachment Resources:


Must reads:

Impeachment by the People by Howard Zinn

Daring to Change Minds and
Move Millions: The Case for Impeachment Now

Speech by Sunsara Taylor 1/4/07

Why Demand Impeachment Now?
By Debra Sweet, World Can’t Wait national director, 12/11/06


DVD’s (click on DVD to order):

Featuring Daniel Ellsberg, Cindy Sheehan, John Nichols, Michael Ratner,
Sunsara Taylor, & Gore Vidal.
Held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on January 4th, 2007,
the opening day of Congress.

 Get the evidence on why the Bush administration is guilty of war crimes and much more.

 


Flyer to distribute: 

Side 1: the Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime

Side 2: Stop the War Now! Impeach Bush for War Crimes!

Poster:

(sticker coming soon)


Impeachment Books:

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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 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.

 

Sponsors of the conference:

ACERSNow.org
AfterDowningStreet.org

American-Iranian Friendship Committee
Brooklyn Greens
Code Pink
Democrats.com
Progressive Democrats of America
Freedom Socialist Party
Gold Star Families for Peace
Grandmothers Against the War
Granny Peace Brigade
Green Party of the United States
Hip Hop Caucus
ImpeachBush-Cheney.com
ImpeachBush.org
ImpeachforPeace.org
International Action Center
National Lawyers Guild – NYC Chapter
New York Greens
North Jersey Impeach Group
Not In Our Name
PeopleJudgeBush.org
Radical Women
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, NYC Chapter
World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime
9-11Truth.org
Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Cynthia McKinney, Laura Flanders.

 

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