Appeal to Independent Media Readership: Petition to Get MoveOn to Talk Impeachment

David Lindorff :

Time for MoveOn to Make a MoveOn Impeachment!

For several years now, MoveOn, one of the most effective grassroots organizers in the Democratic Party, has ducked the issue of impeachment.

Even though it is clear that most progressive Democrats want impeachment and are frustrated that the party's leaders are actively blocking efforts to get impeachment going, even though most of MoveOn's own members almost certainly favor impeachment, MoveOn, which claims to be a membership-driven organization, has refused to poll its own ranks to see if they want impeachment on the organization's agenda. This is true even though MoveOn polls its members all the time on other issues like war funding.

The time has come to call the question! MoveOn's three million active Democrats, if they all started demanding impeachment hearings, would be a powerful force compelling Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic Party leaders to stop their unconscionable stonewalling and to start honoring their oaths of office and standing up in defense of our battered Constitution.

If you want MoveOn to stop ducking this important issue, join Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, David Swanson, Cynthia McKinney, Medea Benjamin, Tim Carpenter, Bob Fertik, Elizabeth Holtzman, and me and sign the call for MoveOn to open a dialogue with its membership on the importance of impeaching President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

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