Impeachment rallies held coast to coast

Ron
Brynaert

Raw
Story

Monday, December 11, 2006 - groups hold rallies across the U.
S. calling for President Bush and Vice President Cheney to be impeached.

This Sunday's Human Rights Day has been renamed "Human Rights
and Impeachment Day," as groups hold rallies across the United
States calling for President Bush and Vice President Cheney to be impeached.
This Sunday marks the 58th anniversary of the United Nations' Universal
Declaration of Human Rights.

"The purpose of the events is to organize people to lobby their
Congress Members for investigations and impeachment and to lobby their
local and state governments for resolutions in support of impeachment,"
Democrats.com co-founder Bob Fertik writes.

The rallies were "kicked off" yesterday at a New York City
forum which featured former Rep. Elizabeth Holtzman, who served on the
Judiciary Committee during Nixon's impeachment hearings, and anti-war
"peace mom" Cindy Sheehan, whose son, Casey, was killed while
serving in Iraq over two-and-a-half years ago.

Fertik told RAW STORY that the two speakers were a "genuine inspiration
to the enthusiastic crowd of progressive activists who believe we have
more than enough evidence to begin the impeachment process."

A participant in the NYC event named Aaron offered the following rave
review: "Excellent organizing, speakers great, good time had by
all, the bush is quaking in his cowboy boots!"

"Sheehan reminded us that each day's statistics are real families'
tragedies," Fertik added. "Holtzman reminded us that impeachment
works -- and strengthens our great nation -- when it's done the right
way, as it was in Watergate."

As her final legislative act on Friday, outgoing Georgia Rep. Cynthia
McKinney introduced an impeachment bill, although it was just a "symbolic
parting shot" by the controversial Democrat and has no chance of
passing. Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had promised before the
midterm elections that impeachment would be "off the table,"
and after the Democrats regained control of Congress, Rep. John Conyers,
the soon-to-be chairman for the Judiciary Committee agreed.

According to After Downing Street, one of the activist groups helping
to organize this weekend's events, there "will now also be rallies
to honor and thank Cynthia McKinney."

Events scheduled for today include rallies and parades held in such
cities as Seattle, Madison, Chicago, Detroit and Tallahassee.

At a beach in San Francisco, plans were made to use a mass of human
bodies to spell out the word "Impeach!" However, a blogger
from the Beach Impeach Project announced late Saturday night that "dangerous
surf conditions have forced postponement" until the first weekend
in January.

Also in San Francisco, "under the spot where the UN signed its
charter 60 years ago," activists will sing "carols" while
clad in orange jump suits, similiar to the ones that detainees at Guantanamo
Bay are forced to wear.

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