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Why I'm Voting for Obama

denisecd@windstream.net — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:25:04 -0400

Does anybody really understand their health insurance policy? If McCain wins and we have to find our own health insurance (I have a pre-existing condition) how in the world can you be sure what kind of policy you end up with?
My son is in the military and was part of the "surge". I trust Obama to be sure that my son will be safe and he will not put us into the spot of invading another country. I think McCain is very likely to choose military action before diplomacy.
The democrats have always stood for providing a safety net for those who need it--that's why I have been a democrat since casting my first vote in 1971. We need to negotiate drug prices for Medicare. We need to either fund No Child Left Behind or fix it. We need to protect the consitutional rights of our citizens. We need to push for real jobs that provide real products--renewable energy, cars that make sense, and companies that provide jobs for Americans.
I love this country and Barack Obama represents the ideals that I believe in. I am tired of Bush/Cheney/McConnell and their sleazy politics. I want America to return to her rightful place in the world.

That's pretty much it!!

Honk to Impeach

Adam M. — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:36:38 -0400

I was wondering if there is any interest amongst residents of Kennebunk, or nearby towns to organize a "Honk-to-Impeach" event, or some kind of comparable function, especially in light of Congressman Kucinich's recent filing of articles of impeachment against President Bush.

If so, write to me at adammarletta@yahoo.com and let me know. If we do it, and it's a success, perhaps we could make it a regular event.

Anyone who is interested, write to me.

Imagine a Campaign that Called for Slashing Military Spending by 75%

dlindorff — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:42:24 -0500

While the Democratic and Republican candidates for president blather on about non-issues like who will be meaner to immigrants, who will use the most water on torture victims, who wanted to be president at the youngest age, who’s the best Christian and other such nonsense, and while Congress and the president dance their meaningless dance of pretend conflict, let’s for a moment ponder something more momentous.

What if the US just packed up and left Iraq and Afghanistan, and brought the troops all home, shut down the 750-odd overseas bases we operate around the globe, and slashed our military budget by 75 percent?

That would be an instant savings of roughly $365 billion per year.

Now, the first thing we need to do is address the criticism that such an action would be abandoning the people of Afghanistan and Iraq, whose countries we have been systematically destroying for the last four to six years.

Okay. I agree we have an obligation here. So let’s allocate say $50 billion in annual aid to those two countries, to be funneled through international aid organizations, from the U.N. to CARE and the Red Cross/Red Crescent.

That still leaves $315 billion in funds to play with.

We also have to address those who will ask fearfully if we aren’t opening ourselves to attack from our many enemies abroad.

` But hold on a minute. If we cut the US military budget down to a paltry $115 billion a year, that would still leave us with by far the largest military budget in the entire world. The next biggest spender on its military is China, at $62.5 billion, followed by Russia, at $62 billion. That is to say, our military budget, if slashed by three quarters, would still be about equal to Russia’s and China’s military budgets combined. And that only tells part of the story. Most of China’s army is a repressive police force, required to keep order in what is a widely despised dictatorship, and would never be available for foreign adventures. (That’s why China, with a million or more soldiers, hasn’t ever invaded Taiwan, with a population of just 23 million. The army China could spare for an invasion would probably be no larger than the one little Taiwan could field to defend itself.) The same can be said for Russia, which is eternally in danger of splitting apart into myriad smaller states, and has to be held together by threat of force. Figuring that neither China nor Russia is likely to attack us anyway, given that one needs us to buy all the junk they make, and the other needs us to buy their oil, maybe we should look at those “axis of evil” states and their ilk, that might think we’re easy pickin’s if we were to slash our military spending.

Well, maybe not. It turns out if you add up all the military budgets of America’s other “major” enemies—those so-called “rogue” states like Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria—and throw in a few extra possible hostiles for good measure like Myanmar, Somalia and, oh, what the heck, Grenada (you never know when that troublesome little island might have another revolution!), it comes to a grand total of $15 billion spent on military stuff. That’s less than one-seventh of what we’d still be spending.

And of course we wouldn’t be alone. Our allies—Britain, Germany, France, Japan, Israel, Holland, Canada, Italy, Australia, South Korea and Spain for example, though there are surely more who would come to our aid in a crisis—collectively spend another $258 billion on their militaries (and yet even today we have our military based in many of those countries. Go figure!). So we would hardly be at anybody’s mercy.

We could even take a few billion of that $115 military budget and shift it productively from our huge and useless strategic nuclear program (you know, the one that just lost six nuclear-tipped cruise missiles for 36 hours, and flew them across the country, unprotected and unnoticed) over to operations like border patrol, satellite monitoring, and the Coast Guard, where it might actually help protect us, instead of just funding futuristic weapons that will never be used for anything but helping generals justify their stars by having units to command.

So here we would be with still, by a factor of two, the largest and most advanced military in the world, but at peace and with $315 billion a year suddenly freed up and at our disposal.

What might we do with all that money?

Well, for starters, if we accept for argument’s sake that the Social Security System is running at a deficit and will eventually be defunded (which, by the way, I do not for a minute believe), actuaries say that injecting about $130 billion a year into the fund (the equivalent of increasing everyone’s SSI payroll tax by 2 percent) would solve the alleged problem indefinitely, allowing all current and future Americans to count on an inflation-adjusted secure retirement forever. So let’s do that. Then there’s education. Currently, the federal government spends about $58 billion a year on education. That gives us classroom sizes in our cities of 30-35 kids (40 here in Philadelphia). That’s not education—that’s child abuse (and teacher abuse). So what say we boost that amount by 50 percent—a much better educational reform than a lot of stupid “No Child Left Behind” testing regimens. Then there’s healthcare, on which the government spends a paltry $52 billion, leaving us with declining life expectancies and infant mortality rates, particularly among our poorest citizens, that are a scandal. Let’s boost that spending by 50 percent, too.

Geez! We still have another $130 billion left!

The federal government right now only spends some $40 billion a year on science, energy and the environment. That includes nuclear power and waste containment, and the entire NASA budget. Given the global climate change disaster we’re facing, we should probably double that, with the added $40 billion going all to environmental research, don’t you think?

Now we’re left with $90 billion.

Well, it turns out that’s about what the government spends on “social programs.” You know, like welfare—the thing that we were supposedly ending? Truth is, of course, that over the last decade, the number of poor people and hungry people in the US has been rising, not falling, so maybe we should rethink that “ending welfare as we know it” mantra, and start thinking about improving the lives of those at the bottom of the ladder. That extra $90 billion, by doubling social programs—especially if it was spent on housing and job creation—would go a long way towards making America a better place for all. It would also reduce crime significantly, meaning we’d have a whole lot of money freed up that currently goes to police and prisons, so we could spent that money on other good stuff too.

So who’s going to make this eminently sensible proposal?

I’m frankly sick to death of hearing about how “tough” our next president is going to be.

Our current president has shown just what being tough is good for: nothing. The country is less safe, we’ve got 80,000 returned soldiers suffering from life-long injuries, we’ve made enemies out of friends all over the world, and this country’s been going down the tube, with joblessness rising, the economy teetering and the once mighty dollar headed for Third World currency status.

Until I hear political candidates start talking about slashing military spending—and I mean on the order of 75 percent, none of this nickel-and-dime stuff, and about funding the things that really need funding—I’m not even listening to these moronic campaigns.
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DAVE LINDORFF is a Philadelphia-based journalist and columnist. His latest book, co-authored by Barbara Olshansky, is "The Case for Impeachment" (St. Martin's Press, 2006 and now available in paperback). His work is available at www.thiscantbehappening.net

Impeachment

ImPeachmentkeen — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:00:35 -0400

Impeachment organizing in Orange county every month we move locations to get new people to see us and expose and educate. I would like to go to campus's in oc and long beach need a driver. I was a public speaker for 30 years. Also a spanish interpetor would be great and someone to volinteer for some computor and office type work. Can you help? My contact info is 949 259 3218 e mail is info@angelhearttravel.net

Write It!

Fed up Granny — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 22:52:32 -0400

I am coordinating a very active CODEPINK group in Redlands, CA. Our first action is "Write IT"

Write 1. IMPEACH or 2. BRING THE TROOPS HOME ALIVE or 3. HEALTHCARE NOT WARFARE on the envelope of all your outgoing snail mail in hot pink. "Write it" on your money, especially $20s because everyone uses ATM machines. This a visual display to fellow Americans of the level of discontent.

in peace,

Corla

P.S. If you are in the Inland Empire and wish to join this CODEPINK women (and men) for peace pleace contact me at codepinkredlands@gmail.com

Let Bush "Decide" - Exit Iraq or Be Impeached

Bob Fertik — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:08:49 -0400

House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers says he can't impeach Bush or Cheney because he doesn't have 218 votes for impeachment out of the 231 Democrats in the House.

Why do most Congressional Democrats (including Speaker Pelosi) oppose impeachment? Because they say it would interfere with their efforts to solve the nation's problems, starting with Iraq.

So here's a simple two-step solution to both problems.

Step 1. In August, Congress should hand Bush a bill requiring a phased withdrawal of U.S. troops by April 1, 2008.

Step 2. If Bush doesn't (a) sign the bill (without a "signing statement") and (b) bring our troops safely home by next April, Congress should impeach Bush and Cheney and let President Pelosi finish the job.

In other words, the Democratic Congress should let Bush do what he likes best, which is to be the "Decider." But they should give him just two choices: exit Iraq or be impeached.

There are two obstacles to this plan, both of which are easily surmountable with some "hard work," as Bush likes to call it - even though he's never done any in his wretched life.

First, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid needs to pass Levin-Reed by breaking the Republican filibuster led by Mitch McConnell. Last week the cloture vote on Levin-Reed got 53 votes, 7 short of the 60 needed to end McConnell's filibuster. (Harry Reid voted tactically with the Republicans so he could call another vote at any time.)

Here's how to get to 60 votes:

1. Name names. Who are the 46 Senators who are keeping U.S. troops in Iraq? Call them the "Iraq 46", and make them household names. Every time a Democrat makes a speech on or off the floor of Congress, (s)he needs to recite the list in full. We can create web sites and viral emails. Print card decks and Wanted posters. Put billboards on our highways. Run newspaper, radio, and TV ads.

2. Weekly votes. Starting next Monday, Harry Reid should schedule a vote on Levin-Reed every week until it passes. If our troops don't get a vacation in the 130 degree heat of August, neither should the Senate. (That would also prevent "recess appointments" of more Republican ideologues and hacks.)

3. Frame the debate. Democrats have been way too polite in talking about the Iraq War. This war is destroying America. It is killing and maiming our troops, breaking our military, corrupting our intelligence, bankrupting our country, multiplying terrorists, and turning the whole world against us. And for what? For Bush's delusions, Cheney's lust for power, and the insatiable profits of Big Contractors and Big Oil.

4. Hit the Road. After each Monday vote, Senate and House Democrats should fly to each of the 30 states of the "Iraq 46," visiting one each day. Upon arrival, they should fan out and lead "Iraq 46" rallies in each county organized by local Democrats. For extra crowd appeal, the Presidential candidates should join them.

5. Take names. We know 70% of Americans oppose Bush's Iraq policy - but we don't know their names or where they vote. We need to create an army of voters who will march to the polls to sweep the "Iraq 46" out of office, starting with the 21 who are up in 2008. Let's use every technology - online petitions, text messaging, robocalls, Moveon-style volunteer phone banks, door-to-door canvassing - to get the names, addresses, phones, and emails of every single American who wants to get out of Iraq, along with a firm pledge to vote the "Iraq 46" out of office. And let's keep a running tally of pledges for each state with a goal of 70% of the state's voters.

6. Build a warchest. Republicans can't win elections without massive amounts of money to saturate the airwaves with Swift-Boat style lies. But with the support of 70% of the American people, Democrats can raise twice as much - or more. Democrats are already $100 million ahead in the money race. Let's make our lead so big that Republicans are too afraid to even run.

Some of this effort is already underway. A Moveon-led coalition called Americans Against Escalation in Iraq (AAEII) is running a multi-million-dollar "Iraq Summer" campaign targeting Olympia Snowe (ME), Susan Collins (ME), Norm Coleman (MN), John Sununu (NH), George Voinovich (OH), Arlen Specter (PA), John Warner (VA), Mitch McConnell (KY), Chuck Grassley (IA), and Pete Domenici (NM). They have 100 paid organizers on the ground in 15 states.

It's hard to see how this plan can fail. 4 Republicans already support cloture on Levin-Reed: Susan Collins, Chuck Hagel, Gordon Smith, and Olympia Snowe. 4 more Republicans are wavering in public: Pete Domenici, Dick Lugar, George Voinovich, and John Warner. Many more Republicans are hiding under their desks, waiting for the Petraeus report in September. The 21 Republicans who are up in 2008 know they will lose if our troops are still dying in Iraq next year, even if they live in a red state like Virginia (ask George Allen) or Montana (ask Conrad Burns).

So sooner or later the Senate will pass Levin-Reed. And then Democrats must make Bush decide: sign the bill and bring our troops safely home, or face impeachment and removal from office.

What should Bush and Cheney be impeached for? Ideally the whole Iraq War - the lies, torture, murder, corruption, and profiteering. But that would take a full-fledged War Crimes Tribunal which is beyond the capability of this Democratic Congress. So Congress should focus on one small Iraq scandal that symbolizes the whole disaster: the Oval Office conspiracy to punish whistleblower Joe Wilson by outing covert CIA agent Valerie Plame, and the Oval Office coverup to protect George Bush and Dick Cheney through perjury, obstruction of justice, and the commutation of Scooter Libby's sentence.

This crime was investigated for three years by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, but his investigation was blocked by Libby's perjury and obstruction of justice. Congress can simply pick up where Fitzgerald left off: issuing subpoenas to Libby, Rove, Cheney, and Bush to appear before Congress to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. If they refuse to appear, plead the 5th, or lie under oath, the House can impeach them.

Impeachment in the Democratic-controlled House is the easy part since it requires a simple majority. All we need are the 219 Democrats who voted for an April 2008 deadline on July 12, plus the 4 Republicans who joined them to make it bi-partisan.

Following impeachment in the House, Bush and Cheney would go on trial in the Senate, where 67 votes are need for removal. If we've built a massive voter list and a warchest, we can apply the same intense pressure on the 21 Republicans who are up for election, and let them make their own choice - remove Bush and Cheney or lose.

So what would it take to implement this plan?

1. The support of the blogosphere, starting with DailyKos.com.

2. The support of Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John Edwards.

3. The organizational leadership of Howard Dean and the DNC, Chuck Schumer and the DSCC, and the 30 targeted state parties.

4. The organizational support of Moveon and AAEII.

5. A kickoff event at YearlyKos.

All in favor say Aye. All opposed say Nay.

Note 1: Here are the Iraq 46 (not counting Harry Reid):
Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Coleman (R-MN)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Dole (R-NC)
Domenici (R-NM)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lott (R-MS)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Specter (R-PA)
Stevens (R-AK)
Sununu (R-NH)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)

Note 2: Here are the 30 states they represent:
AK, AL, AZ, CO, CT, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, MN, MO, MS, NC, NH, NM, NV, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WY

Cindy Sheehan Occupies John Conyers' Office - NEW with photos

Bob Fertik — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:26:53 -0400

Cindy Sheehan led 2-300 impeachment activists on a march from Arlington Cemetary to the Congressional office of Rep. John Conyers, whose job as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee puts him in charge of impeachment. AP reports:

"Impeachment is not a fringe movement, it is mandated in our Constitution; Nancy Pelosi had no authority to take it off the table," Sheehan told her group of orange-clad activists Monday. "If Nancy Pelosi doesn't do her constitutionally mandated job by midnight ... I will announce that I'm going to run against her."

I just got a live report from David Swanson, who says Conyers is nowhere to be found - but Sheehan, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, and former CIA presidential briefer Ray McGovern are inside his office holding a press conference!

In fact, there are so many reporters with Cindy that they are taking turns going into the packed office to ask questions.

At least 300 activists are lining the halls outside the office, both the marchers and those who went directly to the Capitol.

Update 1:30: Conyers staff is negotiating with activists to move the protest to a larger room.

In Detroit, 50 people went to Conyers' district office, but they only let 5 people in and wouldn't let them keep their cellphones so we're not getting any reports.

Update 1:35: Conyers just arrived!! As he walked down the hall, activists shouted IMPEACH so loud the whole floor echoed. Conyers and his staff took Cindy, Rev., and Ray into a private office without the media. Stay tuned!

Update 2:55: After an 80-minute meeting, Cindy emerged and told the activists that Conyers said "our only recourse is elections," and the activists groaned. Cindy announced she will run against Pelosi because she and Conyers haven't "stepped up," and the activists cheered. Rev. Yearwood is giving a fired-up speech and activists are crowding in to Conyers' office for the sit-in.

Update 3:43: Capitol Police arrested Cindy Sheehan, Ray McGovern, Rev. Yearwood, David Swanson, and 20 other activists and put them on a police bus. But all is not grim - Cindy is calling it her "campaign bus."

Update 7:55 PM CST:Sheehan arrested while calling for Bush, Cheney impeachment

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was arrested Monday at the Capitol for disorderly conduct, shortly after saying she would run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over the California Democrat's refusal to try to impeach President Bush.
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Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan says "Impeachment is not a fringe movement."

Sheehan was taken into custody inside Rep. John Conyers' office, where she had spent an hour imploring him to launch impeachment proceedings against Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Conyers, D-Michigan, chairs the House Judiciary Committee, where any impeachment effort would have to begin.

"The Democrats will not hold this administration accountable, so we have to hold the Democrats accountable," Sheehan said outside Conyers' office after the meeting. "And I for one am going to step up to the plate and run against Nancy Pelosi."

Sheehan and about 200 other protesters had walked to Conyers' office from Arlington National Cemetery. She said Conyers told her there weren't enough votes for impeachment to move forward on the issue.

Forty-five of Sheehan's fellow protesters also were arrested. Capitol Police spokeswoman Sgt. Kimberly Schneider said that after they are processed, the arrested activists could each pay a $50 fine to be released.

"Impeachment is not a fringe movement, it is mandated in our Constitution. Nancy Pelosi had no authority to take it off the table," Sheehan told her group of orange-clad activists before they began their march from the national cemetery.

Sheehan, whose 24-year-old son, Casey, was killed in Iraq, has been saying for two weeks that she would seek to oust Pelosi from office by running against her as an independent in her San Francisco district if Pelosi didn't change her mind by July 23 on trying to impeach Bush.

Conyers introduced a bill last term calling on Congress to determine whether there are grounds for impeaching Bush. Pelosi has steadfastly dismissed any talk of impeachment, saying Democrats should focus their efforts on ending the war in Iraq.

Update 10:35 PM CST:Democracy Cell Project has the photos

Liveblogging the Orange Revolution

Bob Fertik — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:46:31 -0400

Five years ago today, Richard Dearlove, the head of Britain's MI-6, returned to Britain from Washington and reported on his meetings to Tony Blair's cabinet. Here are the minutes of that cabinet meeting by Matthew Rycroft, who (in James Bond fashion) identifies Dearlove as "C":

C reported on his recent talks in Washington. There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. The NSC had no patience with the UN route, and no enthusiasm for publishing material on the Iraqi regime's record. There was little discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action.

There is the whole Iraq fiasco in a nutshell, 3 full months before Bush bullied Congress into authorizing his "use of military force" against Iraq.

To mark the 5th Anniversary of the Downing Street Memo, we launched the Orange Revolution, and I'm liveblogging from Orange Revolution HQ in a secret undisclosed location. Here's what's happening:

Cindy Sheehan, David Swanson, and a cast of thousands are marching from Arlington Cemetary to Rep. John Conyers' office to demand impeachment, and will conduct a sit-in for as long as it takes for Conyers to say yes. Reports expected shortly...
On Friday, Conyers told Progressive Democrats of America that he needs the support of "3 more Members" to start impeachment. Democrats.com and our allies are calling our Representatives today to urge them to co-sponsor H.Res. 333, Articles of Impeachment for Dick Cheney. Have you called your Representative yet? 202-224-3121
Sit-ins are also being held at the offices of Reps. Pete Visclosky in Merrillville, IN. There are also rallies in Federal Way, WA.
The world wide web is turning orange. The Big Pumpkin is AfterDowningStreet.org. The Daily Gotham looks great in Orange - thanks Bouldin!
Are you wearing orange today? After today's kickoff, we'll be wearing orange every Friday.
CODEPINK Women for Peace and Breasts Not Bombs aren't wearing orange or anythese else - they are baring their breasts in San Francisco to persuade Pelosi and Hillary to end the war and impeach Bush and Cheney.
The Madison (WI) Impeachment Coalition and Impeachforpeace.org of Wisconsin are staging a Street Theatre Event Focusing on Torture and Impeachment.
ImpeachForPeace.org is heading to Washington DC for meetings with Reps. Robert Wexler (FL), Maxine Waters (CA), Adam Schiff (CA), and Debra Wasserman Schultz (FL) - all members of the House Judiciary Committee
Russ Feingold wants to Censure Bush and Cheney, which of course would accomplish nothing. Feingold is getting attacked from left, right, and center. Hey Russ - 54% of Americans want to Impeach Cheney First!
Dan Gerstein wants Howard Dean to stab the Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party in the back by leading the charge against impeachment, starting with a blog on OpenLeft.com. Gerstein sure knows Democrats - he's the consultant who led Joe Lieberman to a shocking defeat in the Democratic primary against Ned Lamont!
Newsday's legendary columnist Jimmy Breslin supports impeachment.
Bush locked Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) out of the Capitol's top-secret "bubbleroom" to keep him from reviewing Bush's secret plan for operating the government after a "terrorist" attack. Are you paranoid yet?
Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell confirmed the Downing Street Memo on Meet the Press: “My sense of it is their political faith and convictions influenced how they took information and interpreted [it], how they picked up and interpreted outside events. … I’ve read much more about the current set of players and they did set up a whole new interpretation because they didn’t like the answers. They’ve gotten results that in my view now have been disastrous,”

The Orange Revolution Begins July 23

Bob Fertik — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:01:53 -0400

On July 23, 2002, the head of British intelligence reported that Bush and Cheney were intent on invading Iraq and planned to "fix the intelligence and facts around the policy". Five years later a million people have died in Iraq as a direct result of these lies with no end in sight. Torture has been institutionalized, habeaus corpus eviscerated, and illegal spying made routine. New Orleans lies devastated along with the Constitution and the rule of law. And Bush and Cheney are making a mockery of the Democrats' feeble gestures towards accountability.

Enough is enough and this July 23rd, we will launch a new phase in the movement for peace and justice. We call it the Orange Revolution because starting that day wearing orange will signify that you want Congress to START IMPEACHMENT and STOP THE WAR. The majority of Americans want to see Bush and Cheney impeached and want an immediate end to this war are made effectively invisible by a complicit media. Wearing orange will be our signal to each other--and to the world--about where we stand. Anything orange will do: a t-shirt, a wristband, your shoelaces--get creative and post your ideas and photos on ImpeachSpace.com. Here are a couple of great items you can wear designed specifically for the Orange Revolution:

Orange
"Drive out the Bush Regime"
bandanas

Orange
"Impeach Bush and Cheney"
t-shirts

Other Orange Products

Orange Revolution "Impeach Bush and Cheney" stickers, buttons, t-shirts, tote bags, magnets and keychains

"Ask Me About the Orange Revolution" t-shirts

Orange "Impeach Bush and Cheney" bumper stickers

Orange Revolution magnets, keychains, and coffee mugs

Another orange "Impeach Bush and Cheney" t-shirt

Orange utility tape, ribbons, wristbands, and bandanas

The Orange Revolution will be launched with acts of civil disobedience in Washington and elsewhere to show Congress that we are serious.

In Washington, Cindy Sheehan, Ray McGovern, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Ann Wright, Debra Sweet, Dave Lindorff, David Swanson, Jodie Evans, Medea Benjamin, Kevin Zeese, Tina Richards, and others will march from Arlington National Cemetery to the office of Congressman John Conyers. They will sit in Conyers' office reciting the U.S. Constitution until they are either arrested or he agrees to start impeachment. See http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/sit for time and location.

Similiar actions will take place in the offices of Rep. Howard Berman in California, Rep. Pete Visclosky in Indiana, and Rep. John Conyers' district offices in Detroit. If you are willing to go to jail for justice your are encouraged to come to Washington to participate in the civil disobedience, or to stage a sit-in at your congress member's district office: http://www.democrats.com/sit.

If you cannot join them, please wear orange in solidarity and please phone Congressman Conyers' office that day asking him to move forward on impeachment: (202) 225-5126.