For Immediate Release
What: IMPEACHMENT
for Bush & Cheney Rallies
When:
Friday July 27
Where: nationwide,
see http://www.worldcantwait.org
Contact: Debra
Sweet 866 973 4463
Calls for Impeachment of President
Bush and Vice President Cheney Spreading
Declare It Now: Wear Orange! Drive Out the
Bush Regime campaign Launches
Asking,
“Do you want to see the Bush regime impeached and driven from office? Do you want the war in Iraq ended?” a
new campaign challenges people to “Declare It Now! Wear Orange.” Proponents of removing Bush and
Cheney from office are wearing bright orange shirts, bandanas, ribbons and
buttons, wrapping trees and cars in orange tape, and holding bright orange
signs.
Launch
events Friday July 27 will inaugurate “Orange
Fridays” on which people are especially urged to wear orange and gather in
public places. According to Dr. Dennis
Loo of California State University Pomona, the Declare
It Now campaign is “a way of publicly declaring ourselves, seizing the
moral high ground and showing our collective determination to bring the crimes
of the Bush administration to a halt NOW. People will stand out loud in the
crowd, making their sentiments visible as more people associate orange with
“Bush & Cheney must go,” and find people who think as they do.”
Speakers
at Friday’s rally in New York City
are anti-war leader Cindy Sheehan, Colonel Ann Wright, Jonathan Tasini, Victor
Toro, Rev. Billy, and Elaine Brower.
Wednesday
the Washington
Post poll reported a poll showing that President Bush has a disapproval
rating of 65%, nearly equal to Richard Nixon’s 66% rating, four days before he
resigned the presidency, and reporting that this is the longest sustained
disapproval rating in modern history.
Articles
of impeachment against Vice President Cheney (House Res 333) now
have 15 co-sponsors in Congress. The
Bush administration is openly defying subpoenas in the Gonzales federal
attorney firing case to testify before Congress, asserting that the Justice
Department will not enforce them.
Recently, commentator Keith
Olbermann, columnist Jimmy
Breslin, and film maker Michael Moore called
for President Bush to be impeached or resign.
The demand reached Capitol Hill on Monday, where 46 people were arrested
at the office of John Conyers, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee,
protesting the committee’s refusal to move on impeachment.
Proponents
of impeachment say that holding President Bush and Vice President Cheney
accountable for their most unpopular acts of occupying Iraq, authorizing the
use of torture in interrogation, and vastly increasing the powers of the
presidency is both morally right and the only way to stop further destruction
of the rule of law and end the Iraq war.
Debra
Sweet, Director of The World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush regime said in
Washington this week, “If George Bush is not driven from office, if his program
is not repudiated, before the end of his term then everything he has done —
from the legalization of torture, the ripping up of the rule of law, the spying
and lying and assaults on women and gays and science and critical thought, his
betrayal of Black people in New Orleans — all this will remain no matter who
becomes the next president. It’s on us to change this.”
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