Over 100 "Out of Iraq" events have been planned for cities around the country, to take place on January 7th or the dates surrounding it. More info about the events While all of these events will focus on ending the US war and occupation of Iraq, many of them will also address Congressman John Conyers' new resolutions to censure President Bush and Vice President Cheney and to create a select committee to investigate and make recommendations on impeachment. A National Call-In Day on Accountability is planned for January 9th. Tens of thousands of members of Progressive Democrats of America and other organizational members of the After Downing Street Coalition will phone Members of Congress in their district offices on January 9, urging them to cosponsor three bills: H.Res.635 to create a select committee to investigate and to make recommendations on grounds for impeachment; H.Res.636, to censure Bush; and H.Res.637, to censure Cheney. More info about the bills

In Northern California, events will be held on January 7th in places like Sacramento, San Francisco, San Anselmo, Mount Shasta, Hayward, and Napa. Search for events by zip code An Impeach Bush & Out of Iraq Protest will be held in San Francisco at Golden Gate Avenue at Larkin and Polk Streets (one block from Van Ness Avenue, at Civic Center) on January 7th at 12:00pm. A discussion, "Is impeachment possible?" will be held at the Social Justice Center of Marin, at 1000 Sir Francis Drake Blvd in San Anselmo, at 3:00pm. A Lantos vigil will be held in San Mateo, at 3:00pm at in front of the district office of Rep. Tom Lantos, who supports the war. At 7:00pm in Hayward, a documentary about the Downing Street memos will be screened, followed by discussion, in a private home.

Also on January 9th, the International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity By the Bush Administration will serve indictments on the White House for its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its actions and policies on torture and illegal detention, its promotion of abstinence-only in the midst of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, its fueling of global warming, and its response to Hurricane Katrina. This is in preparation for its January 20th through 22nd hearings at Riverside Church and Columbia Law School in New York City (where the Administration will be invited to present a defense).

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