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(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 25, 2012 Help Vermonters Combat Federal Overreach
A Federal judge has just delivered a slap in the face to Vermont's sovereign right to govern itself and its utilities industries. The citizens are fighting back and we need your help.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 1, 2014 Obama Care, Thanks But No Thanks
Health Insurance has nothing to due with staying healhty and everything to do with making a profit and bleeding the economy with no returned beneiit. I'm not buying.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 4, 2012 Why Can't They Accept Our Benevolent Tutelage?
If Americans knew how Iran has been treated by the West over the last century or so,, they would not be so quick to judge Iran's defiance of U.S. interference today.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, June 16, 2011 Why the Tea Party Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Vermont
While Vermont has a reputation as a liberal state, we are way more complicated than that. A central issue that the state faces today is one that Tea Party activists should be rallying behind - federal government over-reach and the jack booted foot of big business trampling our rights.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 26, 2014 Glass Houses
Western politicians and media are righteously indignant about Putin's aggression in Crimea, but American and European actions and policies have played their part as well.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 16, 2015 We're helping the Terrorists win
The war talk in America is playing right into the terroists hands. Its time to finally live up to American ideals if we don't want to crash and burn.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 8, 2014 Vermont Joins the war on Women
The Vermont Senate's reluctance to protect women in the face of gun lobby opposition brings the state down to the level of so many other misogynistic state legislatures.
(9 comments) SHARE Friday, March 28, 2008 Gathering of Eagles, or Chicken Little's Lament
Two articles about a trial of an 82 year old woman who found herself charged with assalt by a buly from A Gathering of Eagles
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, April 22, 2014 misplaced power
America's self assumed role as world policeman has only made us weaker.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 23, 2012 The big Lie in Afghanistan
U.S. war policy is directly funding the Taliban in Afghanistan. Has Obama improved this situation? No, he's only made it worse.
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, August 22, 2011 Justice for Some
Strauss-Kahn gets all charges dropped, and Justice for all takes another hit.
SHARE Tuesday, July 19, 2011 Pro-Life
As we become increasingly defined not by ourselves, but by corporation publicilty wonks, we discover that we are nothing but consumers. In reality, we are sentient human beings and must act as citizens and shed the consumers cloak that is warping our vision and existence.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 16, 2008 Who's Afriad of the Yellow Rose Peace Bus?
Jim Goodenow has driven the Yellow Rose Peace Bus across the nation many times, helping peace and justice initiatives of all stripes. This week, at a New Jersey rest area, his bus was burned under unusual circumstances, but Jim will not be silenced.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, August 20, 2007 History will judge, not impeach.
Democrats are saying that "History will impeachthe Bush administration". But a look at History instructs us as to how Congressional inaction in the face of unconstitutional acts of the President will be seen as tacit approval in the eyes of future Supreme Courts.
(6 comments) SHARE Friday, August 3, 2007 A Call for Action from the Northeast Impeachment Coalition
On July 29, meeting in Worcester MA, The Northeast Impeachment Coaltion developed a region-wide unified plan for action to take back our Republic and to force Congress to start impeachment proceedings against Bush and Cheney.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 31, 2009 Is This The Best That We Can Do
Five Vermont activists met with Senator Leahy yesterday to talk about truth commissions and prosecutions.
In spite of a Bush/Cheney policy of systematic torture, criminal war and spying on Americans, Leahy is doubtful that his commission will get off of the ground and offered scant prospects for prosecution either.
(7 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 20, 2008 Maverick Republican Drops WC Bomb on Bush/Cheney
At a Feb 19 NH House committee hearing on impeachment, a Republican House member accused Bush and Cheney of war crimes and stated that they should be tried for crimes against humanity. This capped off four hours of testimony from a packed audience and experts representing everything from Progressives to the John Birch Society, all united in the call for impeachment of the so called President and Vice President
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 14, 2007 The ties that bind us-- Grassroots Impeachment-- Are Elected Dems With Us?
One week ago, the calls for impeachment at Vermont town meetings showered sparks across our state, igniting a smoldering populace. We are coming to realize how great our numbers are, and we shall now harness our power to direct the attention of our representatives.
(9 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 23, 2007 Will Brattleboro Indict Bush?
Brattleboro Vermont citizens are launching a ballot initiative to get their town to indict Bush and Cheney for crimes against the Constitution.
This is not as frivolous as some may first think. There is solid ground to assume that citizens have such a right to act.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 11, 2007 Whose Honor
Congress can get as offended as they want to, but we can no longer automatically assume that our top Generals will deliver the truth.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, September 4, 2007 Vermont Marine Takes it to Bush Down Under
Bush won't visit Vermont, but that didn't stop Vermonter and ex-marine Matt Howard from calling on Bush today in Australia.
We should all be doing the same.
(3 comments) SHARE Thursday, August 2, 2007 Why We'll be Running Against Democrats
Democratic members of Congress who won't back impeachment will face electoral challeges in the next election.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 30, 2008 Who is Congressman Welch Representing, Anyway?
Vermont's lone U.S. Representative is doing his best to keep Bush/Cheney from being held accountable. That isn't why we elected him.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, December 18, 2007 Upping the Vigil Ante
Its time to move ourselves out of the passive protest mode and start to take actions to make the change we need. John Nirenberg gives us an avenue to do just that.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 24, 2007 Cry Wolf!
Bush has used threats of terror time and again to distract the public from things which might enrage them.
This doesn't mean that the threat isn't real, and we must show now that the Bush administration's malfeasance is what will make it possible.
SHARE Tuesday, April 15, 2008 N.H. Impeachment Vote Gets Boost
Daniel Ellsberg's Vietnam/Nixon experience can serve as inspiration for the impeachment movement today.
SHARE Wednesday, December 20, 2006 New England Towns Mobilize for Impeachment
Calls for impeachment are growing louder across the nation. Vermonters are organized statewide (and in Maine and New Hampshire) and are moving on impeachment from several directions at once. Find out what we're doing and what you might be able to do. It's not that difficult.
SHARE Tuesday, May 16, 2006 Small State, Big Issue
As more small towns across the nation call for impeachment, some question their right to do so. Its not only their right, it is their obligation.
SHARE Sunday, May 21, 2006 Keep Move-On Moving Forward
Lets not allow Move-On's search for a "positive" progressive agenda be a smokescreen for avoiding impeachment
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, August 24, 2007 They're Already Spinning the Surge, and the Media is Buying it.
In spite of an understanding that the Iraq war is going badly, the media is still warming to the administration hints that the Petraeus report will look favorably on the surge.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, March 13, 2008 Even Vermont's Senators Just Don't Get It
Vermont's Senators Leahy and Sanders show how much they just don't get about the oocupation and shredding of the Constitution by the content of their latest constituent letts.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 7, 2006 Liar in Chief
Its time to call George Bush the liar that he is and to demand that he be brought to justice for his crimes against our nation.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, October 1, 2007 Congressman Welch Scores a Hat Trick
Peter Welch, (and lots of other Democrats) managed to give Bush/Cheney three votes of support last week.
SHARE Monday, November 13, 2006 Start Your Engines
We've elected a new Congress. But the Democrats need a firm and unrelenting push from the American people to get us out of Iraq , and to hold the administration accountable for its crimes.