Tue 4/13 in SF - "Iraq War & The Constitution: Has Bush Committed Impeachable Offfenses?"

Tuesday April 13, 7:00 pm
"The Iraq War and The Constitution: Has President George W. Bush Committed Impeachable Offenses?"
New College Theater, 777 Valencia Street, San Francisco

Public Forum with John C. Bonifaz, Eva J. Paterson & Tobias Barrington Wolff
along with special musical performance by Terry Bradford

John C. Bonifaz is an attorney and author of Warrior-King: The Case for Impeaching George W. Bush (Nation Books-NY, January 2004, foreword by Rep. John Conyers, Jr.) an accounting of that case and its meaning for the United States Constitution. In February and March 2003, Mr. Bonifaz served as lead counsel for a coalition of US soldiers, parents of US soldiers, and Members of Congress (led by Representatives Conyers and Kucinich) in a federal lawsuit challenging the authority of President Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld to launch a war against Iraq absent a congressional declaration of war or equivalent action. He is also the founder of the National Voting Rights Institute.
Mr. Bonifaz will be available for a book-signing following the event.

Eva J. Paterson is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Society and the former director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights for the San Francisco Bay Area. She has campaigned for civil rights for more than three decades and is a nationally-recognized civil rights leader. She has received more than 50 awards for her work, including most recently being named an attorney of the year for 2003 by California Lawyer magazine.

Tobias Barrington Wolff is a Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and Assistant Professor of Law at UC Davis Law School.

Requested donation $5. No one turned away for lack of funds. Proceeds will benefit Global Exchange. For advance tickets or more information, call Global Exchange at 415-575-5542.

Sponsored by: New College Center for Education and Social Action and Global Exchange