The well being of every American is connected to the well being of every human being and every form of life on our planet.

We the people need to elect people who will work to protect the environment, the nurturing of children, and an end to all Occupations.

 We need elected officials who will uphold the spirit and intention of the Constitution of America that successfully separated and balanced governmental powers to safeguard the interests of majority rule and minority rights, of liberty and equality, and of the central and state governments.

We the people need a revolution!

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Reporter and Editor http://www.wearewideawake.org/
Author "Keep Hope Alive" and "Memoirs of a Nice Irish American 'Girl's' Life in Occupied Territory"
Producer "30 Minutes With Vanunu." 

by Eileen Fleming (172 articles, 101 quicklinks, 274 diaries, 650 comments [16 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Sep 27, 2007 at 10:34:23 PM

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Salt to bring out the flavors and pepper to give it zest. A pinch of sugar to give it smoothness and usually a splash of vinegar to take off the edge. Overdoing any ingredient and the whole thing may not be worth finishing. And so I remember the biggie--when finally Dick Nixon was shown his walking papers. There were those who road bicycles to comemberate Earth Day and then came in to the office wanting to talk impeachment. There were those who worked in offices by day and spent the evenings meeting with the Committee of Concerned Laity and Clergy. And there was stonewalling by newspaper editorials. Whatever Congress was doing was their business. The people were waiting for a breakthrough. All those hours of hearings finally found the tapes and the editors were on the spot. Finally on the last Monday of March 1973 the Wall Street Journal announced a go-ahead. Why? Because the Chicago Tribune had budged.

It took until the end of July 1974 to get the deed done. But then we needed the House to make its findings. As I watched almost every hour that weekend, I reminisce on such a wonderful experience as listening to the wisdom of Barbara Jordan. And also I broke the tension of the time by wondering which Representative would wear which color for their suit the next day. It was the era of the leisure suit.

Yesterday a polite young woman called me from the DNC. It's the end of the quarter for figures to the FEC. I cut her off, explaining I had already made my opinion clear in June. No contributions to any group or candidate until they tell me what they think about impeachment. Her talking points got her energized to tell that sad tale about the Congress, people, not time--all the tired excuses we read in otherwise interesting blogs. Money won't do it, I argued. It takes guts! That's the people's job. They are plenty upset, but each in his own way is waiting for someone else to lead the charge. I gave her my litany--the Moyers Journal breakthrough with Fein and Nichols, and Nichols great book Genius of Impeachment. We settled into a discussion. She said she took notes and would look into it.

"Hell, no! We won't go!" worked for that other movement against a quagmire. I leave it to you who have been in the forefront of this long nightmare to fashion a national bumper sticker.

by Margaret Bassett (45 articles, 2909 quicklinks, 42 diaries, 1851 comments [99 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Friday, Sep 28, 2007 at 12:16:20 AM

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seem to be fairly cowardly  in general if they hide behind the women and  women have to  go first  in the fight for true democracy. One of the  paradoxes of the US psyche ( males especially) is  the perverted sense of manhood- you can be proud  when you killed  an animal with a powerful rifle ( like they recently  had shown on TV about some stooge in Alabama)  but you cannot  show any compassion to humans.  In  fact, the US men are little mishievous children with guns. The behavior of the top US men  from Bush to Bollinger is disgusting adolescent   mean stupidity and  the more stupid it is the more vehement they are in defending it.  I  cannot understand why the US men are so  unfortunately immature and why this immaturity is so  promoted. I also cannot understand why people do not see that all those institutions Cindy so properly mentioned as  wasteful and  evil  are targeting us and only us. NONE of the Bush  concoctions   targets anyone but us. 

American men, fathers,etc. seem to be too preoccupied with their butts and navels, their  beer and their guns. I have news for you, folks: you are  a prey. While you puff your cheeks and wave your guns you are  marked for death. You are in the crosshairs and the killer smirks. He  drinks his bourbon  alone, talks to Jesus, chokes on the pretzel and kils. He kills you, your children, your wives, your relatives, you.   Cindy Sheehan fights for your  lives.  You  better listen.

by Mark Sashine (72 articles, 19 quicklinks, 269 diaries, 4101 comments [131 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Friday, Sep 28, 2007 at 9:26:19 AM

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