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Where Impeachment is Taken Seriously ... The Streets of San Francisco
Here is a good story from Counterpunch about Brad Newsham, Beach Impeach, Cindy Sheehan, a luke-warm Nichols, and a cold Pelosi office.
Where Impeachment is Taken Seriously ... By Everyone But Nancy Pelosi
The Streets of San Francisco
By BEN TERRALL
On January 6, 2007, two days after Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, about 1,000 activists laid down on San Francisco's Ocean Beach to spell out the word "IMPEACH!" in 100-foot letters. Photos of the clear message to Pelosi taken from a helicopter appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, and on websites around the world (for photos and footage, see http://www.beachimpeach.org).
On April 28, five days after Representative Dennis Kucinich filed articles of impeachment against Dick Cheney, the second "Beach Impeach" event spelled out the words "IMPEACH NOW!" In the neighborhood of 1,500 people participated in that event, which also involved standing in formation to spell out "PEACE NOW!"
When by mid-summer Pelosi was still disinterested taking action against Cheney or Bush, Brad Newsham, the principal organizer of the first two events, was ready for a third. On September 15, he struck again on Crissy Field near San Francisco's Marina district.
Newsham wrote in a September 7 email: "Today I managed to speak to the senior staff member in Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco office, and through him I invited Ms. Pelosi to occupy the fourth seat in our helicopter. After all, there is going to be a crowd of impeachment-impassioned folks right there in her constituency, and maybe this would be a perfect time for her to at least have a bird's eye view of them. When he said that Rep. Pelosi was not available that day, I invited him, the senior staff member himself, but he quickly said he was not available either -- in fact no one from Pelosi's office would be available that day. 'So is this a dead end?' I asked. 'Yes.' End of curt, even icy, conversation."
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The Streets of San Francisco
By BEN TERRALL
On January 6, 2007, two days after Nancy Pelosi became Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, about 1,000 activists laid down on San Francisco's Ocean Beach to spell out the word "IMPEACH!" in 100-foot letters. Photos of the clear message to Pelosi taken from a helicopter appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, and on websites around the world (for photos and footage, see http://www.beachimpeach.org).
On April 28, five days after Representative Dennis Kucinich filed articles of impeachment against Dick Cheney, the second "Beach Impeach" event spelled out the words "IMPEACH NOW!" In the neighborhood of 1,500 people participated in that event, which also involved standing in formation to spell out "PEACE NOW!"
When by mid-summer Pelosi was still disinterested taking action against Cheney or Bush, Brad Newsham, the principal organizer of the first two events, was ready for a third. On September 15, he struck again on Crissy Field near San Francisco's Marina district.
Newsham wrote in a September 7 email: "Today I managed to speak to the senior staff member in Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco office, and through him I invited Ms. Pelosi to occupy the fourth seat in our helicopter. After all, there is going to be a crowd of impeachment-impassioned folks right there in her constituency, and maybe this would be a perfect time for her to at least have a bird's eye view of them. When he said that Rep. Pelosi was not available that day, I invited him, the senior staff member himself, but he quickly said he was not available either -- in fact no one from Pelosi's office would be available that day. 'So is this a dead end?' I asked. 'Yes.' End of curt, even icy, conversation."
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http://www.counterpunch.org/terrall0921200...
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Another place globally that the Impeachment is taken seriously is in the anti-fascist covenants which describe planning and doing agressive war as the supreme war crime and worst possible crime on the entire planet. These covenants are the Nuremburg Trials, World Court of the Hague, United Nations Charter, Geneva Conventions of war, and recently the International Criminal Court, the Tribunal on Iraq, and the International War Crimes Tribunal, and last but not least the U.S. Constitution which calls for impeachment as high crimes and misdemeanors
The anti-fascist united front globally is indeed actively doing its work in the background and is siding with the impeachment movement because of the unjust and illegal aggressive war which is the highest of all crimes, caused by U.S. and British Imperialism throughout the middle east, Africa, and Asia. When the lights come on again all over the world we indeed shall see what issues are dead and what issues are alive. History is moving on and is not dead. Pelosi's office is wrong and is not serving the electorate with what is required by the popular masses in this new millenium. Workers of the world, unite!!!
The anti-fascist united front globally is indeed actively doing its work in the background and is siding with the impeachment movement because of the unjust and illegal aggressive war which is the highest of all crimes, caused by U.S. and British Imperialism throughout the middle east, Africa, and Asia. When the lights come on again all over the world we indeed shall see what issues are dead and what issues are alive. History is moving on and is not dead. Pelosi's office is wrong and is not serving the electorate with what is required by the popular masses in this new millenium. Workers of the world, unite!!!
Pelosi's office is completely out of step with most people in San Francisco.
Their attitude is that they know everything already and that they don't have to attend or even listen to the emotional demonstrations of the people.
They show no respect for democracy.
What they are likely to get is more money-- from disaffected Bush Rangers who believe that Bush has failed to do the "job" they needed done well.
Their attitude is that they know everything already and that they don't have to attend or even listen to the emotional demonstrations of the people.
They show no respect for democracy.
What they are likely to get is more money-- from disaffected Bush Rangers who believe that Bush has failed to do the "job" they needed done well.
Impeachment Hearings: The People Are There But Where is Congress and the Media?
By Joe from Olympia, WA - Aug 19th, 2007 at 4:01 pm EDT
The fact that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney haven’t been impeached is a testament to Congressional Democrats’ choice of politics over principle and the abject failure of the mainstream media to do its job and provide substantive coverage of the Bush Administration’s shredding of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
In the case of the Democrats, they would rather ride out the end of a lame duck Presidency and score big majorities in November of 2008 than risk generating a sympathetic backlash and alienating independent voters. Big Media, dominated and dumbed down by executives to maximize corporate profits, is loath to chance alienating any portion of its audience, even to defend the Constitution that guarantees their right to function freely.
The public, once again, is ahead of the politicians and most of the media establishment. A poll taken back in early July 2007 by the American Research Group found that, despite Big Media failing to call Bush and Cheney on their assaults against the Constitution in any meaningful way, 45 percent of Americans favor impeachment hearings for Bush and 54 percent favored impeaching Cheney. (and of the 120 communities who have voted on the topic to date, an astounding 86, or 71.6 percent, also PASSED legislation calling for the impeachment of both) Nearly One Million Americans have signed petitions calling for impeachment hearings.
Consider the arguments for impeachment as outlined by former United States Attorney General Ramsey Clark.
By Joe from Olympia, WA - Aug 19th, 2007 at 4:01 pm EDT
The fact that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney haven’t been impeached is a testament to Congressional Democrats’ choice of politics over principle and the abject failure of the mainstream media to do its job and provide substantive coverage of the Bush Administration’s shredding of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
In the case of the Democrats, they would rather ride out the end of a lame duck Presidency and score big majorities in November of 2008 than risk generating a sympathetic backlash and alienating independent voters. Big Media, dominated and dumbed down by executives to maximize corporate profits, is loath to chance alienating any portion of its audience, even to defend the Constitution that guarantees their right to function freely.
The public, once again, is ahead of the politicians and most of the media establishment. A poll taken back in early July 2007 by the American Research Group found that, despite Big Media failing to call Bush and Cheney on their assaults against the Constitution in any meaningful way, 45 percent of Americans favor impeachment hearings for Bush and 54 percent favored impeaching Cheney. (and of the 120 communities who have voted on the topic to date, an astounding 86, or 71.6 percent, also PASSED legislation calling for the impeachment of both) Nearly One Million Americans have signed petitions calling for impeachment hearings.
Consider the arguments for impeachment as outlined by former United States Attorney General Ramsey Clark.
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