Conference Agenda: Impeach Bush for War Crimes

Emergency Summit to
Impeach Bush for War Crimes
February 17-18, 2007, New York City

Saturday,
Feb. 17, 2007
West-Park
Presbyterian Church
105 West 86th Street at Amsterdam Avenue

Sunday,
February 18, 2007
Synagogue
for the Arts
49 White Street (between Broadway & Church Street, three blocks
south of Canal Street)

It is time for the
people to put impeachment on the table!

Iraq spins out of control. 
Bush escalates and threatens still wider war with Iran.  The Bush program of
torture and illegal detentions continues.  These are war crimes and crimes
against humanity.

Bush’s full program
remains in effect.  NSA Spying, the Patriot Act, the Military Commission
Act: all continue.  And all are illegal. The whole program of the Bush
Administration must be thoroughly repudiated by removing him from office before
his term expires; otherwise, the whole direction he has taken society will be
condoned, legitimated, and made permanent.

A movement to
Impeach Bush for War Crimes can quickly advance the whole struggle; making
ending the war and removing Bush a reality.  As impeachment becomes
imminent and his war options grow more limited; the more his war crimes
are exposed, the greater the impetus for his removal and repudiation.

Initiated by World Can’t Wait –
Drive Out the Bush Regime

Co-Sponsors:

Saturday,
February 17, 2007

NOTE:
Time slots for Workshops subject to change. 
Room locations to be announced.

9 -10
a.m.                     Registration
& Coffee

10 a.m.
– 12 noon         Opening Session: Putting
Impeachment on the Table        

Presentations:

Prachi Noor and Alan Lang, National Steering Committee, World Can’t Wait-Drive Out the Bush
Regime

Liam Madden, Co-founder, Appeal for Redress

Jonathan Tasini, Progressive Democrats of America

Rebecca Rotzler, Green Party of the United States

Mara Verheyden-Hilliard,
ImpeachBush.org

Laura Flanders, host, Air America
Radio

12
noon-1p.m.  Lunch Break

1-6 p.m.    Why the Bush Regime Must be Driven Out.

Presented by Bush Crimes Commission. Multi-media presentation includes
short video clips and speakers to update developments on each of the five
indictments the Bush Crimes Commission focused on.

a) Response to Hurricane Katrina: Before, During &
After, speakers TBA

b) Destruction of the Global Environment, Daphne Wysham,
Institute for Policy Studies

c) Attacks on Global Aids Programs, Vanessa Brocato,
formerly with Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S.

d) Torture & Indefinite Detention/Attacks on Civil
Rights, Shayana Kadidal, Center for Constitutional Rights Staff Attorney

e) Wars of Aggression, Larry Everest, author Oil,
Power & Empire: Iraq and
the U.S.
Global Agenda, and other works.

Q/A and discussion on each segment.

1:30 –
3:30 p.m. First Set of Workshops (Choose One)

Environmental
Crimes of the Bush Administration

Presented by Green Party of the United States

Rebecca Rotzler & Others

Strategies and Grounds for Impeachment, incorporating
proposals

Jodin Morey, ImpeachforPeace.org, Minneapolis

 

Ron Fisher, ACERSNow.org, DC, The Progressive Action Plan to Replace
President Bush and Other [with Well-Qualified Candidates] Now

 

Cynthia Papermaster, CodePink Women for Peace, The People of the U.S. v. Richard
Cheney and George W. Bush

 

The Crimes of 9/11 and the Case for Impeachment

Presented by 911Truth.org 
Janice Matthews and Bryan
Sacks

 

This workshop will present a case for impeachment based on
widely accepted claims of executive indifference in the face of clear warnings
that a terror strike was imminent, as well as investigative obstruction after
the fact.

Mission of a Generation – Drive Out the
Bush Regime, Session 1

Presented
by World Can’t Wait Youth and Students, including discussion of the campus speaking tour, teach-ins
on campuses this spring, and the recent student strike.

Organizing for Oversight, Investigation, Accountability –
Impeachment

Presented by Progressive Democrats of America (PDA)

 

David Swanson, one of the movement’s leading impeachment strategists,
co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org, Washington Director of Democrats.com,
Board Member of PDA; Jonathan Tasini, former Democratic candidate for
Senate (NY), state coordinating committee for PDA-NY Chapter; Dan Dewalt,
founder, Patriotic Response to Renegade Government, organizer of effort to pass
Resolutions of Impeachment in the VT State Legislature; Mike Zmolek,
former Legislative Aide for Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, co-wrote the
legislation on impeachment introduced by the Congresswoman in 2006.

 

Panel Moderated by Frances
Anderson, NY State Coordinator, PDA

Outrages Calling for Impeachment

Bob Fitrakis, Columbus, OH,
Stolen Elections

 

Fr. Frank Morales, Lower East Side, NYC, Decimation
of Civil Liberties

 

Mitchel Cohen, Brooklyn
Greens, People’s Impeachment Hearings

How to Build an Affinity Group &
Stage Creative Protests

Laurie Arbeiter, Artists Against War & The
Critical Voice/We Will Not Be Silent Campaign

 

Peter Cobb, Not in Our Name Project.

Understanding and Supporting Millitary Resistance, Methods
of Troop Outreach, and What Impeachment Means to Military Families

Carlos & Melida Arredondo, Juan Torres, Elaine Brower & Liam Madden

5:45 –
7:30 p.m. Dinner Break

7:30 – 10 p.m.    Evening Program

Impeach Bush for War Crimes! The Time is Now, with

Cindy Sheehan, Gold Star Families for Peace

Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General

David Swanson, AfterDowningStreet.org

Rev. Lennox Yearwood, The Hip Hop Caucus

Debra Sweet , Director, The World Can’t Wait –
Drive Out the Bush Regime

9-10
a.m.                      Registration
& Coffee

10 a.m.-12 noon           Presentations and Plenary Discussion:

Strategies for Removing the Bush Regime from Office in 2007
by leaders of Co-sponsoring Organizations for the Summit

12-1:00
p.m.     Lunch
 

1:00 –
3:30 p.m. Break-Out Planning Sessions

We
encourage people to organize additional breakouts.

Make
Hip-Hop, Not War

Presented by
Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Hip Hop Caucus,

 Mission of a Generation –
Drive Out the Bush Regime, Session 2

Presented
by World Can’t Wait Youth & Students

Why the U.S.
Has Iran in its Sights; How
Do We Stop an Attack on Iran?

Presented by Ardeshir Ommani, co-founder
American-Iranian Friendship Committee

Larry Everest, author, Oil, Power and Empire.

4 – 6 p.m.  Panel and Discussion: After Bush, What?
Different Perspectives on What Should Replace the Bush Regime

Sunsara
Taylor, writer for
Revolution newspaper; World Can’t Wait Advisory Board

Steve
Cobble, co-founder, Progressive Democrats of America; Institute for Policy
Studies

 Gloria Mattera, Co-Chair, Green Party of New York State

Please be
sure the organizers of this summit have your contact information.  A report from the Summit will be sent out via email, and posted
on the co-sponsors” websites.


The proceedings of the summit will soon be available on DVD. 

summit@worldcantwait.org  866 -973 4463

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