author: Barbara G. Ellis
If you're for impeaching Bush & Cheney, and are tired of just talking or stressing out about what they're not doing—or might do in the Middle East in the next 27 months, come join a group that's been working since January to oust them when the House goes Democratic in January. It's the SE DemocracyforAmerica meetup team.
We've been bannering, posting fliers, petitioning, and putting the impeachment resolution before City and County Commissioners. Plus lobbying Oregon's Congressional delegation to join David Wu and 36 other co-sponsors
of the House bill that will start impeachment proceedings immediately: Rep. John Conyers' HR 635. And all these deeds just earned "ink" earlier this week from the national impeachment movement ( http://www.impeachbush.tv/impeach/state_or.html).
One action—now—is to bring your homemade impeach sign to Monday's evening rush hour and join our bannering/flash-mobbing crew staging this week's rally at 13th and SW Clay Streets from 4:30-6 p.m. The din of all those horns/cheers and seeing all those thumbs-up/waves says most of the Portland area is for impeachment—and will lift your spirits immensely as you show the folks that impeachment's really possible.
Or you can call or email these three city officials to pass the resolution to impeach Bush and Cheney:
Sam Adams (503-823-3008)  commissionersam@ci.portland.or.us)?
Randy Leonard (503-823-4682) randy@ci.portland.or.us )?
Mayor Tom Potter (503-823-4127) http://www.portlandonline.com/mayor/index.cfm? c=41652)
Or come to our DFA meetup over in SE Wednesday evening—from 7 to 9—to choose one of their other upcoming
impeachment actions (2-mile Sunday afternoon fliering in mid-August; bannering on the National Day of Mobilization Oct. 5 on seven of PDX's 11 bridgeheads, etc.)
The meetUp is at the True Brew Coffee House, 3370 SE Milwaukie Avenue on the Aladdin Theater side of Powell Boulevard.
Two years ago, we worked to take back our country. Now, we must work to save it!
Questions? Contact Joan Coates: westcoates@gmail.com Or call: 503/235-2572 after 7 p.m.
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As the original poster notes, this is but one element of the Impeachment Movement here in Portland!! However, given the reluctance of the City Council to move on adoption of the Resolution for Impeachment that our group has urged numerous times, we need Portlanders to know about the possibility of initiating impeachment at the city and state level, and to call on the waffling City Council members to STAND UP FOR THE COUNTRY and say THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION MUST GO!! Please call, email, fax the 4 commissioners and Mayor Potter to voice your opinion!!
Bush has done nothing positive for this country during his entire term in office. He is a FRAUD!! Please learn the facts about this NeoCon and Far Right takeover of our government, and ACT NOW!!
Styve~~
PS -- This just hit the newswire, but won't be carried by Mainstream Media, so pass this on...
EXCLUSIVE: Bush Admin May Have Violated 26 Statutes, Dems Say
By Justin Rood - July 31, 2006, 1:53 PM
The Bush administration may have broken over two dozen federal laws and regulations -- some of them multiple times -- according to an unreleased report from the House Judiciary Committee Democrats.
"The misconduct I have found is not only serious, but widespread," reads a draft summary of the report by Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI):
The laws implicated by the Administration's actions include federal laws against making false statements to congress [sic]; federal laws and international treaties prohibiting torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment; federal laws concerning retaliating against witnesses and other government employees; Executive Orders concerning leaking and other misuse of intelligence; federal regulations and ethical requirements governing conflicts of interest; the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act; communications privacy laws; the National Security Act; and the Fourth Amendment.
The document, an update to the Democrats' December 2005 report, "A Constitution in Crisis," will be released later this week, according to knowledgeable sources. It is several hundred pages long, with over a thousand footnotes.
In earlier days such a report would be easily ignored. But with the looming possibility of Democrats taking control of the House of Representatives in November, Conyers' charges pose a potentially serious threat to the Bush administration. After all, it takes only a simple majority vote in the House to impeach a sitting president.
On their face, the laundry list of alleged wrongs form a natural basis for impeachment proceedings -- but Conyers has insisted he has no intention of rushing to impeach. No, a slow walk to possible impeachment (preferably down a path that includes months of hearings) is more what the would-be chairman envisions, he has said.