March 2008

Somebody Is Insane Here

By David Swanson

First John Lewis tells us that choosing between Clinton and Obama was harder than walking across the Edmund Pettis Bridge and getting his head beaten in.

Now John Dean lets us know that the Clinton and Obama contest is the greatest drama in history.

A Yale law professor is promoting the argument that there are only a few months left until one of them is president.

Excuse me, but my calculator must be broken. There would seem in my apparent madness to be nearly a year left before read more

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Five Years Too Many in Iraq FILM FESTIVAL

http://charlottesvillepeace.org/filmfest

Click for flyer:
Join us on March 13-16 for a film festival marking five years of occupying Iraq. Discussions will follow each film.

The Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice, OFFSCREEN, and University Democrats, are sponsoring. The film screenings will all be free and open to the public. The sponsors encourage everyone to come, regardless of their opinions on the Iraq occupation or political affiliations.

WHERE: Kaleidoscope Room in Newcomb read more

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New Hampshire Has Impeachment Fever

By David Swanson

New Hampshire State Representative Betty Hall is the chief sponsor of a resolution to be voted on this week in the state legislature, a resolution to petition Congress to impeach Bush and Cheney. Hall asked people to Email her their thoughts, and she is receiving more than one Email per minute, almost all of them from New Hampshire, but some from other states and countries, and every single one of them supportive of impeachment. Here’s a sampling:

Hi Betty,
I met you read more

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You Don't Need a Weatherman

By David Swanson

Do you support the right of the people of Iraq to fight back against a hostile foreign occupation? If so, why are you at peace, fat and happy and not risking your precious little life? Why are you not joining in the fight against the empire by striking violent blows in the homeland?

Or do you support the use of nonviolence as a superior tactic for achieving lasting peace? Then why are you not actively trying to persuade the Iraqis to make more use of nonviolent resistance and read more

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Vermont Towns Vote to Indict Bush and Cheney

By David Swanson

Brattleboro, Vt., voted today in support of a measure calling on the town’s police force to arrest and indict Bush and Cheney. The vote was 2012-1795.

Marlboro, Vt., passed a similar measure at its town meeting today at which the vote to indict Bush and Cheney was 43-25-3. That’s 43 in favor and 3 abstaining. Thus Marlboro beat Brattleboro to it by a few hours. In Brattleboro, the indictment question was on the primary ballots for both parties.

Here’s a kit for read more

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The Top 10 Reasons Not To Impeach Dick Cheney

10. If we just wait one more year, only a couple of more hundred thousand Iraqis and some hundreds of US troops will die – nothing to get excited about.

9. In the next year we’ll probably only launch at most one more foreign war beyond the ones we’re running now.

8. Our actions might not provoke an attack in this country, and we can worry about that after it happens.

7. Even starting in 2009 we’ll still have several years left in which we can try to reverse global warming read more

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United for Peace and Justice Finally Says Filibuster

I was quite happy to receive the following Email from UFPJ’s new legislative action coordinator John Bruhns:

Here is a draft of proposed legislative asks for meetings:

WHAT WE WANT U.S. REPRESENTATIVES TO DO

1. Commit to publicly and privately urging House leadership not to bring up any more bills to fund the occupation of Iraq.
2. Commit publicly to voting No on any bill that funds the occupation of Iraq through a public statement or signing the bi-partisan letter initiated by Reps. read more

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Nixon, Cheney, and Le Deluge

By David Swanson

Congressman Dennis Kucinich’s resolution to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney now has more cosponsors signed onto it than any resolution to impeach President Richard Nixon ever had. But separate resolutions to impeach Nixon, some with a handful of cosponsors, many with no cosponsors at all, were filed by the dozens. Today, Kucinich’s resolution stands alone.

“Back in 1973,” Barbara Ellis wrote in a recent paper that has inspired a new strategy among advocates read more

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Will Police in Brattleboro VT Arrest Bush and Cheney?

By David Swanson

When citizens and voters go to the town meeting and primaries in Brattleboro, Vermont, on Tuesday, there will be a question on the back of all ballots, and a circle to mark Yes and one to mark No:

“Shall the Selectboard instruct the Town Attorney to draft indictments against President Bush and Vice President Cheney for crimes against our Constitution and publish said indictments for consideration by other authorities, and shall it be the law of the Town of Brattleboro that read more

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Building Our Own Media

By David Swanson

We will never succeed without media, and we will never succeed at media by criticism and legislation alone. We must build our own.

One small way in which I’m working on that is by hosting a weekly radio show online at http://www.thepeoplespeakradio.net

It’s every Wednesday evening from 8-9 p.m. ET, and people can and do phone in to ask questions of my guests from all over the world. You can mark the show on your calendar, go to the link above to listen, and phone in read more

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