US: Support the Kucinich Impeachment Hearing on Friday

from Democrats.com

If you are a US citizen, tell your congresspersons to support impeachment by cosponsoring H. Res. 1345!


Rep. Dennis Kucinich has led the fight for impeachment since April 2007, when he courageously introduced 3 Articles of Impeachment (H.Res. 333/799) against Vice President Cheney. On June 10, Kucinich introduced 3 5 Articles of Impeachment (H.Res. 1258) against President Bush.


When Speaker Pelosi refused to allow hearings on any of the 38 Articles, Kucinich returned to the floor of Congress to introduce one more Article of Impeachment against President Bush (H.Res. 1345).


Thanks to massive pressure from Democrats.com and our pro-impeachment allies, Speaker Pelosi finally allowed Chairman Conyers to hold a hearing this Friday. Kucinich will get a few minutes to argue for impeachment along with Rep. Robert Wexler, former Rep. Liz Holtzman, and former Salt Lake City mayor Rocky Anderson. Kucinich made a video to thank us for our efforts.


H.Res. 1345 focuses on Bush's ultimate crime - invading Iraq on the basis of lies. The evidence is overwhelming that George Bush and other top officials manufactured those lies to "sell" an invasion whose real purpose was to gain control of Iraq's oil and establish military bases in the heart of the Middle East - the agenda of the Project for a New American Century that Bush and McCain fully embraced.


When Kucinich testifies on Friday, he will naturally face hostile questions from rightwing Republicans who impeached President Clinton. But Kucinich will also face hostile questions from key Democrats who oppose impeachment.



Some of these Democrats supported the invasion of Iraq: Howard Berman (CA28), Rick Boucher (VA09), Adam Schiff (CA29), Brad Sherman (CA27), and Anthony Weiner (NY09).
But most of these Democrats oppose impeachment because they are cowering in fear of a counterattack from the White House and FOX News: John Conyers (MI14), Artur Davis (AL07), Bill Delahunt (MA10), Zoe Lofgren (CA16), Jerry Nadler (NY08), Linda Sanchez (CA39), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL20), Bobby Scott (VA03), Betty Sutton (OH13), and Mel Watt (NC12).


Only a few Judiciary Democrats understand that the Founding Fathers gave Congress the power of impeachment as the only way to stop a President from defying the Constitution and becoming a dictator, as Bush has done: Robert Wexler (FL19), Tammy Baldwin (WI02), Steve Cohen (TN09), Keith Ellison (MN05), Luis Gutierrez (IL04), Sheila Jackson Lee (TX18), Hank Johnson (GA04), and Maxine Waters (CA35).
If anti-impeachment Democrats get their way, Friday's 2-hour hearing will be the only "impeachment" hearing for this entire Congress - and then Bush will try to pardon himself and everyone else before leaving office next January, just as his father pardoned six Iran-contra criminals.


So it is crucial for all of us - now over 500,000! - to tell our Representatives today to support impeachment by cosponsoring Kucinich's H. Res. 1345.



And if you can do more, please make free calls to every Judiciary Democrat who opposes impeachment through Cause Caller:

http://www.causecaller.com/causes.php?c=House_Judiciary_Democrats_Impeachment



This is cool:

Simply enter your phone number and click the "Start Calling" button. (Click "Call me back if I accidentally hang up" in case you hang up by mistake.) In a few seconds, your phone will "magically" ring and CauseCaller will say the name of the first Representative on the list. Listen carefully for the name of each Member so you can repeat the name to the receptionist - or just say "The Representative." Don't hang up between calls - let the receptionists hang up and CauseCaller will dial the next Representative.


If you want to do even more, call your favorite radio or TV talk shows and tell them how important Friday's hearings will be, and how strongly you support impeachment for whichever reasons are most important to you. Prepare your thoughts in advance so you sound informed and determined.


And if you're near Washington DC, join Veterans for Peace to lobby Congress on Thursday and hold a pro-impeachment rally on Friday!


Lots more details and actions here:

No War with Iran!

from Peace Action

George W. Bush is now regularly accusing Iran of supporting attacks on U.S. troops, without any evidence, - remember the WMD's in Iraq, anyone? - adding that "we will seek out and destroy" these networks. Bush has authorized U.S. forces to kill Iranian "operatives" in Iraq, and he is sending nuclear aircraft carriers and missile defense batteries to the Persian Gulf. The unthinkable - a wider war in the Middle East - is unfolding.

John D. Rockefeller IV, D-W.Va., chairman of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, said that any military move by his nation into Iran would be "catastrophically stupid" and would "unleash a conflagration like we've never heard of before."

We could not possibly agree more.

Resistance to a Bush planned military strike on Iran is growing in Congress, but it needs your help! Sign our petition to Congress - No War with Iran! House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said recently that she would introduce legislation to stop such a strike, so our demand is beginning to get through. But the pressure needs to be much, much stronger to stop a man who has apparently gone mad with war and his own power.

SIGN THE PETITION

OKC Peace Rally Draws 500

About 500 peaceniks gathered in Oklahoma City's Peace Rally today. James Nimmo of OK Stonewall Democrats reports on a subtle act of civil disobedience at the State Capital building:

[W]e heard from, among others in the state legislature, Sen. Constance Johnson and Rep. Anastasia Pittman. ... Family members of deceased American veterans and those who have survived tours of duty to the Iraq Civil War also spoke of their experiences. Keynote speaker for Saturday was the redoubtable Dr. Robin Meyers, senior minster at OKC's Mayflower Congregational Church. Dr. Meyers spoke of the economic draft created by the Bu$h Administration in which an economy geared for tax cuts for the wealthy as created so little advantage for the the middle and poor classes of America that they have little opportunity other than to join the military. ... De-facto President Cheney did not go unremarked. Cheney, by calling those who see the need for a withdrawal from Iraq as dividing America's support for the troops as a 'slow bleed', Dr. Meyers turned the tables and referred to the budget cuts in veterans assistance and health care as well as the lack of military equipment such as body and vehicle armor as the insidious siphoning off of our human treasure and moral reputation. ...

The rally concluded with a reading of all of the Oklahoma military personnel killed so far in the Iraq Civil War. As the Oklahoma legislature has passed a law forbidding the public use of these names in the public record, this respectful reading of these Oklahoma citizens is an act of civil disobedience, an intervention, in which many Oklahomans, including this writer, stepped forward to participate. The activities today and on Sunday could not have taken place without the experience and good nature of the OKC Peace House volunteers, Nathaniel Batchelder, director, ; and Darla Sheldon, of MoveOn. OK Stonewall Democrats was a co-sponsor.

The Associated Press reports on the big March on the Pentagon via the Guardian.

Gearing Up for March 17 Antiwar Protests

Peace and antiwar activists will flock to Washington, DC, and sites across the country on Saturday, March 17, 2007 to call for an end to the Iraq occupation. All kinds of info and event updates are available at MarchOnPentagon.org.

ALSO: Million Musician March for Peace - Austin, TX

March 17, 2007 - 12:00pm

Info: Austin Against War or Instruments of Peace