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Minneapolis Organizer: World Can't Wait-Drive Out the Bush Regime ~~~ Co-Founder: ImpeachforPeace.org ~~~ Theatrical Entertainer and Ballroom Dance Instructor by trade
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, December 3, 2006 Who Killed the Kennedys After All?
Most damning, however, is direct testimony from the former attorney for the now-deceased Morales, Robert Walton, saying that Morales admitted to him that he saw it was time for a change and that "I was in Dallas when we got the son of a bitch and I was in Los Angeles when we got the little bastard."
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, January 1, 2007 Saddam Dead, Bush Hoodless
Saddam is Dead.
And President Bush didn't even have to wear a black hood. includes graphic, potentially disturbing image of dead, hanging Saddam.
Nor a white one.
(5 comments) SHARE Thursday, May 1, 2008 Methodists reject SMU Bush Presidential Library 844-20
News Flash: SMU Bush Presidential Library Rejection, passed 844-20.
This rejection passed on Wednesday morning,
30-April-08, at the quadrennial General Conference of the United Methodist Church that is still meeting in Fort Worth, Texas.
(9 comments) SHARE Monday, April 23, 2007 "Impeachment Should Be on the Table": Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN)
Four members of ImpeachforPeace.org met with Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN 5th) in his Minneapolis offices Saturday morning, April 22nd to discuss the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
Early in the meeting, Ellison made clear that his opinion hasn't changed since he introduced a Resolution for the impeachment of President Bush as a Minnesota State Legislator by saying:
(5 comments) SHARE Monday, October 22, 2007 Single Payer Health Care works in Italy
A sudden illness in my family made very clear to me how important the proposed United States National Health Insurance Act (HR 676) is to get enacted.
SHARE Monday, April 28, 2008 If I Had a Million Dollars...
If I had been recruited by an "America's Got Talent" Casting Agent who had seen my YouTube video earlier this year I might have decided "what the hell?" and made the trip to Navy Pier in Chicago a few weeks ago to be among what may or may not have been 30,000 people we may or may not have been told who auditioned in a dozen cities around the nation and/or sent in a DVD of their work for a chance to gain a spot on the show.
SHARE Wednesday, April 4, 2007 Graduate Student to Walk from Chicago to D.C. Calling for Peace through Impeachment of Bush & Cheney
Mario Penalver, a graduate student in the Humanities Program at the University of Chicago, is walking the seven hundred miles from Chicago, Illinois to Washington D.C. to demand an end to the Iraq War and in protest of the impending attack on Iran. Penalver calls for this to be done through the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 15, 2006 Impeachment: A Moral Imperative
Impeachment is being criticized in some quarters as a "waste of time an money" or a "distraction" and some are saying "just let the Pelosi-led Congress move a positive agenda forward. Since when is enforcement of existing law and being guided by Constitutional principles optional?
SHARE Sunday, July 22, 2007 New Hampshire Representatives ready to call for impeachment?
New Hampshire was one of the first Thirteen Colonies, the very first to declare independence from tyrannical King George, the very first state to have its own constitution and is where the first primary in the quadrennial U.S. presidential election cycle is traditionally held. Does New Hampshire hold the key to accelerating the nationwide grassroots movement to impeach?
(6 comments) SHARE Sunday, August 19, 2007 Impeachment: It's now or possibly never for Democracy
It may be now or never to save the American Dream of an "...of the people, by the people and for the people" Democratic Republic. You've got two weeks while your Representative is home on 'recess'.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 6, 2008 Wexler Impeachment Petition nearing 200,000 signatures
Florida Representative Robert Wexler is steadily closing in on 200,000 signatures on an online petition he posted in December calling for citizen support of impeachment proceedings commencing at once against Vice President Richard B. Cheney. You can add your name online at: www.WexlerWantsHearings.com
(9 comments) SHARE Monday, July 30, 2007 Blind Party Loyalty is a Mental Illness
Green Party? Democratic Party? Independent? It is far too early to decide on who you are going to vote for in any election.
SHARE Tuesday, February 6, 2007 "How" to Impeach
Here are three resources that we of www.ImpeachforPeace.org feel can really make an even bigger and more effective difference:
SHARE Saturday, September 15, 2007 Oaths of Office ignored by most City Councils
Here and there around the country debates are raging over whether or not to open City Council meetings with The Pledge of Allegiance. This discussion is the very definition of the political "red herring". Nothing could be less critical or more distracting from the real issues of priority facing our nation.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 27, 2008 Minneapolis School Board unanimously restricts military recruiters
The Minneapolis School Board last night voted unanimously to restrict military recruiters to school Career Centers, insisting that they had to apply in advance and sign in whenever they were on campus. The decision also included the stipulation that other career groups advocating "Peace" or with other perspectives on military careers would have equal access.
SHARE Thursday, September 4, 2008 EMERGENCY ACTION ALERT! TOWN HALL(S) NEEDED IN MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL
Concerned citizens of Minneapolis/ Saint Paul demand immediate response by their civic leaders in the form of a joint Town Hall meeting in response to the pervasive, illegal pattern of preemptive arrest, search & seizure of peaceful protesters and journalists in and around the Republican National Convention at the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul.
SHARE Sunday, December 3, 2006 National Call-In TODAY for Peace AND Impeachment
So by all means make your call, but please say instead:
"I insist that Congress act immediately to bring all U.S. troops home from Iraq NOW!, AND I demand full accountability of the President, the Vice President and their entire Administration for the lies that got us into this mess in the first place. I insist that impeachment be BACK ON THE TABLE immediately.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 6, 2008 Multiple Impeachment Resolutions pass in Minnesota Democratic Party precinct caucuses
With record turnout last night to the DFL (Democratic Farmer-Labor) Party precinct caucuses all over the Twin Cities, impeachment resolutions passed in a number of areas. In my precinct in Senate District 62, Precinct 11/7, the small group that remained until the end of a long night voted narrowly to pass my very strongly worded resolution in support of efforts to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 3, 2008 Impeachment is NOT "far left" politics
Even moderate and liberal writers can get caught up in the pervasive framing spin woven by the corporate press. True journalists need to learn to 'just say no'.
SHARE Saturday, November 18, 2006 With apologies to Nat King Cole's "Mona Lisa"
Condoleeza, Condoleeza: Sung to the tune of Mona Lisa". Forever immortalized with "The Family" naming an oil tanker after her.
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 2, 2007 ImpeachforPeace.org lobbies Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) to support accountability and justice through impeachment
In no way do we wish to diminish or distract you from your chosen and assigned mission as Representative of your city and your district in Congress. On the contrary, we challenge you to stand up and speak out as only you uniquely can in favor of full accountability by all means available to Congress for those who threaten not just the physical health but the Constitution of our nation.
SHARE Tuesday, August 21, 2007 A Minneapolis Democrat's call for the resignation of Senator Klobuchar (D-MN)
In voting for S. 1927, my Senator Amy Klobuchar has violated her oath of office to "support and defend the Constitution" by abetting the destruction of my 4th Amendment rights to protection from illegal seaerch and seizure. I am asking her to resign from office.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, December 21, 2007 Cheney to be Impeached?
If you believe impeachment hearings to investigate Vice President Richard B. Cheney are warranted there has never been a better time to say so. Sign the impeachment petition at: www.WexlerWantsHearings.com initiated by House Judiciary Committee members Robert Wexler (D-FL), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) TODAY!
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 2, 2006 Bush Emulates Jesus' Captors and Torturers
An Open Letter to my Fellow Christians. You cannot be a Christian and support Torture as a "Family Value". Who would Jesus torture?
(3 comments) SHARE Sunday, September 23, 2007 What Conyers Didn't Hear from ImpeachforPeace today
We of ImpeachforPeace.org had a 15 minute meeting scheduled with Chairman Conyers today. The meeting didn't happen. We will give our full perspective on www.ImpeachforPeaceorg and on YouTube very soon as to why that appointment was not kept by Conyers and his staff over the next 24 hours. For now, here is the opening and closing statement I prepared with the help of our group and other "justice through impeachment" folks.
SHARE Tuesday, August 21, 2007 To Al Franken: Support Impeachment & I'll Support You
One of the best ways to influence our candidates is to make our financial support conditional. Return campaign donation forms with "SUPPORT IMPEACHMENT AND I'LL SUPPORT YOU" written on them.
SHARE Monday, September 24, 2007 Pat Tillman + Cindy Sheehan = Peace?
No matter how much effort I and we of www.ImpeachforPeace.org put into holding the White House and other corrupt officials accountable, each and every veteran or active duty soldier has the authority in the public eye to have twice the effect I or any other 'justice through impeachment for peace' activists have regarding Peace and Justice issues around our military in half the time.
SHARE Wednesday, September 19, 2007 Conyers/Ellison in Minneapolis Town Hall Meeting on Health Care/Impeachment this Sunday
Sun., Sept. 23 in Minneapolis, Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison is hosting a Forum on "Health Care for All Americans" with special guest Congressman John Conyers, Jr.
Conyers is the chief sponsor of HR 676, the United States National Health Insurance Act and is also the Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, where any impeachment proceedings must start.
ImpeachforPeace.org wants to talk to Rep. Conyers about impeachment.
SHARE Saturday, February 16, 2008 Rep. Leonard Boswell (D-IA) cosigns 333 to Impeach Cheney
Iowa Representative Leonard Boswell - a member of the powerful House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence - quietly added his name as the 25th cosigner of House Resolution 333 on Valentine's Day, February 14th, joining the rising call for the impeachment of Vice President Richard B. Cheney.
(3 comments) SHARE Saturday, November 25, 2006 Not Out of the Northwoods Yet
The election results of November 7th were certainly encouraging, but nothing has changed yet. The atrocious laws passed and the limitless power of this President are still intact. We are just one "act of terror" away from losing everything we just won.
SHARE Thursday, March 13, 2008 Push CheneyBush Impeachment now with 'Nixon Flooding Plan'
Call your representative today to participate in the "Nixon Flooding Plan" to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney, patterned after the way dozens of Representatives dropped impeachment resolutions into the hopper, pushing the Nixon impeachment forward and eventually leading to Nixon's resignation. The crimes of Cheney/Bush are far more egregious yet our "Democratic" Congress is condoning the crimes through their inaction.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, December 16, 2006 SD Dem Senator Tim Johnson Falls Ill, Cheney Salivates
Shades of Paul Wellstone in 2002. Wouldn't it be wierd if a Democratic Senator in a State with a Republican Governor were to be incapacitated and have to be replaced by appointment just shy of the opening of the 110th Congress - thus negating the narrow Democratic majority and handing vote-splitting authority to Vice President Rich, Rich, Richard Halliburton?
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, June 29, 2007 [Breaking] Rep. KEITH ELLISON (D-MN) SIGNS IMPEACHMENT RESOLUTION 333
An aide called www.ImpeachforPeace.org from the offices of Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) this morning saying that Rep. Ellison has cosigned House Resolution 333 as authored by Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) calling for impeachment hearings to commence against Vice President Richard B. Cheney.
SHARE Monday, August 27, 2007 An Open Letter to Candidates Afraid of Justice
Happy 'Gonzo Gonzo Day'!!!
One more down, two (maybe two hundred) to be removed through impeachment.
Should we trust otherwise decent candidates who aren't publicly calling for accountability through impeachment? Are they ready to honor the oath they want to swear?
SHARE Monday, July 9, 2007 House reconvenes tomorrow - which Representative will next honor their Oath of Office?
The House of Representatives reconvenes at 2 p.m. tomorrow, Tuesday, July 10.
Every member swore an oath to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against"... Dick Cheney.
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent" ~ Thomas Jefferson
(3 comments) SHARE Monday, July 23, 2007 Twelve Steps for Congress toward Impeachment (from Patriots Anonymous)
1. We admitted we were powerless over George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney--that our government had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore our nation to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our actions over to the care of The American People as we understood them.
(1 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 15, 2007 SF's Beach Impeach III: "IMPEACH. REASON? TREASON!"
Beach Impeach III in San Francisco was another resounding success. Now if only they can get tone deaf Nancy Pelosi to listen to her constituents.
SHARE Wednesday, January 31, 2007 Impeach Cheney? Imprison Libby? But they are coming clean!
Documents submitted in the Lewis "Scooter" Libby CIA leak trial are reminescent of a recent headline in "The Onion", the lampoon magazine which proclaimed in it's November 30th, 2005 issue: "CIA Realizes It's Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years"
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, January 14, 2007 U.S. Protesters' Sandy Impeachment Message
Speaker Pelosi: Honor your oath to protect and defend the Constitution and Domestic Enemies and Impeach Bush & Cheney.
SHARE Thursday, January 31, 2008 Bring Cheney Impeachment Resolution to Caucus/Primary mtgs.
Just alter this slightly to work for your location, print out multiple copies and bring it. The rest will be explained to you at the event. Remember that the Peace Corp was initiated by a single resolution introduced by a Minnesota citizen.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, January 24, 2007 Less Popular: Bush or Impeachment?
Impeachment is neither a popularity contest nor a partisan weapon to be wielded as political retribution or as a stepping-stone to power.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 21, 2007 Is It for Freedom?
Images of the Iraq War to accompany the song by gifted singer/songwriter Sara Thomsen.
~ sarathomsen.com
~ impeachforpeace.org
SHARE Thursday, March 22, 2007 Tale of Three Georges
A Bush/Orwell montage to our good buddy Donal Hinely's song "Tale of Three Georges".
~ www.donalhinely.com
~ www.impeachforpeace.org
To Impeach the President and Vice President, ask your Congressperson if their oath of office to "uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America against enemies foreign AND DOMESTIC" means anything to them.
SHARE Monday, July 9, 2007 Media Very Slow to Acknowledge Majority Want Impeachment
Much of the American media has apparently grown so accustomed to regurgitating 'creative' White House press releases that when handed a fact, they seem incapable of recognizing it for what it is. 'War is peace? Love is hate? Sure, we'll buy it and make a buck on the resale!' A majority of Americans favor impeachment. When will the press notice?
SHARE Sunday, January 20, 2008 Wexler Petition to Impeach Cheney hits 210,000
Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, is working hard to see that VP Dick Cheney is held accountable for his crimes and misdemeanors. Do you agree? Then sign on to his online petition.