Peace Day and Impeachment Day are this Saturday and Sunday

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Camp Democracy has exciting events happening on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., right now and up through September 21st. Here are highlights for the upcoming weekend:

Friday Night

Movie -- pre-premier showing of the new movie finished just this week by award wining producer Dorothy Fadiman, "Stealing America, Vote by Vote" Introduced by panelists Rob Fitrakis and Jonathan Simon. Make this your Friday night movie date....under the stars at Camp Democracy.

Plus: Ice cream social provided by Busboys and Poets.

Saturday PEACE DAY

The Case for a Reinvestigation of 9/11 – Kyle Hence and a 9/11 family member.

Joe Jencks, Singer/Song-writer

Allison Hantschel (Athenae of First Draft), author of "Special Plans: The Blogs on Douglas Feith & the Faulty Intelligence that Led to War"

Gael Murphy - Code Pink - Report on visit by U.S. peace workers' delegation to meet with Iraqis in Jordan.

Kevin Zeese - How to Prevent More Violence in the Middle East

Raed Jarrar- Iraqi political analyst and blogger and member of Jordan peace delegation.

Nick Mottern, Director, Consumers for Peace - ExxonMobil and the Middle East War

Aseel Albana – A resident of Baghdad now living in the U.S. and a member of the Jordan peace delegation.

Workshop provided by Center on Conscience and War's J.E. McNeil, Pat Elder and Oskar Castro, Director of Youth and Militarism Program, Ameircan Friends Service Committee: "Working for the De-Militarization of Our Nation: Counter-recruitment, JROTC, and the Poverty Draft."

Nonviolence Training with Nadine Bloch, Gordon Clark

PLUS:

The Nuclear Relapse: Public Education and Organizing. Presented by Paul Gunter, Director – Reactor Watchdog Project of the Nuclear Information and Research Service

The Case for a Department of Peace, presented by the Virginia Department of Peace Campaign

Uranium Weapons: What You Can Do. Presented by Sunny Miller – Stop DU (Depleted Uranium) Activist

Sunday IMPEACHMENT DAY

9 – 10 a.m. David Green: Evidence of Impeachable Offenses

10 a.m. – noon Panel discussion with: John Nichols, author of "The Genius of Impeachment"; Marcus Raskin, member of the special staff of the National Security Council in President Kennedy's Administration, and author of "Liberalism," and co-editor of "In Democracy's Shadow"; Elizabeth de la Vega, former federal prosecutor; Dave Lindorff, authors of "The Case for Impeachment"; Moderated by David Swanson, cofounder of AfterDowningStreet.org.

Noon – 2 p.m. Songwriting for Peace: MUSIC
Dream Kitchen http://www.myspace.com/thedreamkitchen

Spook Handy http://spookhandy.com

Sue Jeffers http://www.fbirecords.com

2 – 3 p.m. Coalition for Justice and Accountability

3 – 5 p.m. Panel discussion with: Elizabeth Holtzman, former congresswoman and co-author of "The Impeachment of George W. Bush"; Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst; Jennifer Van Bergen, author and professor; Geoff King, President of Constitution Summer; Michael Avery, president of the National Lawyers Guild; Moderated by David Waldman, who blogs as Kagro X;

5 – 7 p.m. Impeachment strategy meetings organized by home state / region, led by and with opening workshop by Dan DeWalt, Steve Cobble, Anthony St. Martin.

7 – 8 p.m. Screening of film "Articles of Impeachment."

PLUS:

Cindy Bogard: How to Frame Peace

Hip Hop Caucus Helping the Homeless "Stop the War, House the Poor" A panel on the homeless situation in DC: while our president sleeps in his bed at 1600 Pennyslvania Ave, over 12,000 people are homeless in DC.

Nonviolence Training with Mubarak Awad, Susan Crane

Hands-on Workshop on How to Get Ink in Local Media with Dave Lindorff

DC Anti-War Network: How to Organize Actions.

Freeway blogging with David Waldman and Frank Anderson.

Monday and Tuesday

Stick around if you can. On Monday we will have lobbying training and on Tuesday lobbying for Rep. Jim McGovern's bill to cut off funding for the war. For all the other exciting activities on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, see
http://www.campdemocracy.org/schedule

Camp Democracy is a 17-day event focused not only on ending the war but also on righting injustices here at home and on holding accountable the Bush Administration and Congress.

For more information see: http://www.campdemocracy.org

Cindy Sheehan Urges You to Come:
http://campdemocracy.org/node/339

David Swanson Urges You to Come:
http://campdemocracy.org/node/326

Authors Website: http://davidswanson.org

Authors Bio:
David Swanson is the author of "When the World Outlawed War," "War Is A Lie" and "Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union." He blogs at http://davidswanson.org and http://warisacrime.org and works for the online activist organization http://rootsaction.org