From
John Kennedy of the Colorado
Impeachment Coalition:
David
Swanson of AfterDowningStreet.org is calling for the peace movement to join
the impeachment movement. Here is his statement:
The peace movement has stood for peace and justice, for ending wars,
preventing new ones, and building peace. Our top priority in Washington, D.C.,
has been ending the funding of the occupation. That work is over for the
next year, because Congress has provided that funding. We can still
work against recruitment, we can still educate, we can still agitate, we
can still oppose an attack on Iran.
But one of our secondary priorities in Washington
has been imposing a penalty for the illegal attack on Iraq in order to discourage future attacks
on Iran
or anywhere else.
We have pushed half-heartedly for impeachment,
with our main lobbying focus on cutting off the money.
Now, at the same time that the money (for Iraq) is a done deal for
another year, the possibility of impeachment is beginning to spark.
After over two years of declaring impeachment "off the table,"
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has relented and suggested that some sort of
preliminary hearing be held in the Judiciary Committee - and specifically
on the impeachable offense of misleading a nation into war.
If the peace movement is not just a movement against one war or occupation,
but a movement for peace, we should push with everything we've got for that
(impeachment) hearing to happen, happen soon, and happen well.
We should ask everyone who cares about peace to phone Pelosi and Committee
Chairman John Conyers, as well as their own representatives, whom they
should ask to introduce their own articles of impeachment.
We've been on a losing streak, brothers and sisters, and the door is
cracking open toward a major victory. Let's open that door fully and lead a
peaceful march of millions through it.
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/34705
PLEASE CALL and demand that Impeachment Hearings be started BEFORE the
Election
House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, Jr.:
(202)
225-5126
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: (202) 225-4965
And your Congressman: Call Toll Free 800-828-0498
Or see http://www.house.gov/house
If we fail to motivate our Congressmen to call for Impeachment
Hearings before the Election, we will lose all of our power to change America for
four years.
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DAVID SWANSON BIO:
He serves on a working group of United for Peace and Justice,
is a co-founder of After Downing Street, a writer and activist, and the
Washington Director of Democrats.com. He is a board member of Progressive
Democrats of America, and serves on the Executive Council of the
Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, TNG-CWA. He has worked as a newspaper
reporter and as a communications director, with jobs including Press
Secretary for Dennis Kucinich's 2004 presidential campaign, Media Coordinator
for the International Labor Communications Association, and three years as
Communications Coordinator for ACORN, the Association of Community
Organizations for Reform Now. Swanson obtained a Master's degree in
philosophy from the University
of Virginia in 1997.
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