Impeachment

Starting at noon ET on September 1, 2006, and lasting 24 hours, websites and blogs all across the internet are being asked to replace their front pages with the single word “Impeach” in simple white text on a black background. Here’s an example: http://impeachnet.net

Visitors to those sites and blogs will be able to click and link to the sites’ usual front pages. But first they will see a word that, standing alone, is as powerful as any word right now: it is banned by our read more

The minority staff of the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, under the leadership of Congressman John Conyers (D., Mich.) has produced over the past many months a staggering report, just released, which documents the hard evidence of crimes and abuses committed by President Bush and his administration (breaking 26 specific laws). This report, “The Constitution in Crisis,” should provide the raw material for numerous news reports and point reporters toward fertile ground read more

Douglas Gillies asks David Swanson

“How can the American people impeach George W. Bush?”

By David Swanson

Can you name the one country on earth where the government can steal elections, strip away basic rights, spy on citizens, and launch wars based on lies, but where the people do not take over the nation’s capital in protest?

If you said the United States, you’ll be wrong on September fifth when Camp Democracy begins on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
http://www.campdemocracy.org

At long last, Americans are preparing to say “Enough is enough,” and to read more

Impeachment: Why and How
By David Swanson

WHY

Many previous presidents and vice presidents have committed one or two of the following crimes. Never before has any approached this total level of assault on the Constitution. If we do not impeach now, we never can again, and the legislative branch will not maintain power over the executive or judicial. We will be unable to end the war, stop global warming, fund education, challenge stolen elections, win elections, or accomplish any of our other read more

National Impeachment Teach-In

Friday
July 21, 2006
6 to 8 p.m.
Busboys and Poets Restaurant
2021 14th St. NW
Washington, D.C.
Corner of V Street
Near U Street Metro

Watch a screening of the 30-minute documentary HOW TO IMPEACH A PRESIDENT, produced by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR). Then join a discussion with David Swanson, Cofounder of AfterDowningStreet.org; Jamie Raskin, professor of constitutional law at American University; Steve Cobble, Cofounder of AfterDowningStreet.org, Andy read more

David Swanson of the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice drops by the studio to discuss the possibility of impeachment with Coy Barefoot on the July 18 edition of WINA’s Charlottesville–Right Now. LINK

By David Swanson

A radio show reported yesterday that Republican Texas Congressman Ron Paul said the following:

“I would have trouble arguing that he’s been a Constitutional President, and once you violate the Constitution and be proven to do that I think these people should be removed from office.”

And this: “Congress has generously ignored the Constitution while the President flaunts it, the courts have ignored it and they get in the business of legislating so there’s read more

By David Swanson

Last night was the 30th Anniversary of the pedestrian Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, Virginia. Thousands of people came out to celebrate, and the Bush Chain Gang joined them, to help pick up trash and clean walls.

 

Members of the Bush Chain Gang, supervised by the Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice, handed out these cards,

 

and these bumperstickers…

 

as they went along. We handed out stacks and stacks of them, plus flyers about this read more

David Swanson Interview on the Ed Schultz Show
June 30, 2006
Transcript by David Dixon, www.OperationImpeachment.org

Link to Audio

Jim Lampley: David Swanson is best known as the former press secretary for Dennis Kucinich in his 2004 bid for the presidency. He is a cofounder of AfterDowningStreet.com and if you follow the blogosphere you know, of course, what the Downing Street memo was and what it revealed about the Bush Administrtion’s advance determination to invade Iraq. He’s also behind read more