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Message from activist @ democrats.com: On April 28, Spell I-M-P-E-A-C-H for Congress

I got the message below from activist @ democrats.com today - and I for one think it’s a terrific idea to put the word IMPEACH! everywhere on April 28. The sooner the better. I’ll start with this IMPEACH! Banner for the saidia.org blog - you can get the html snippet for your own blog here.

George Bush and Dick Cheney lied the nation into a war of aggression, are spying in open violation of the law, and have sanctioned the use of torture. These are high crimes and misdemeanors that demand accountability through the Constitutional mechanism of impeachment. Since Congress doesn’t seem to get it, we’re calling on all Americans who stand for truth, freedom, and justice to join us on April 28 and spell it out for them: IMPEACH!

Let’s put the word IMPEACH! everywhere on April 28. If you’re in Miami you’ll be able to voice your opinion directly to George Bush himself. If you’re in San Francisco, you can join 2,000 people who will use their bodies to spell impeachment on the beach in San Francisco and then march to Speaker Pelosi’s house. If you’re in San Diego, you can join activists at the California Democratic Party Convention who will tell Nancy Pelosi to put impeachment back on the table. And if you’re in Cleveland you can give your support to Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who is considering starting the impeachment process.

In New York’s Central Park, a crowd will spell out the word IMPEACH on the grass. Another thousand people will do the same at Coney Island, and then spell it out with pizza pies on the boardwalk. Both events are being organized by military mothers with sons who have served in Iraq. A pilot will fly a banner saying “IMPEACH!” around NYC and take aerial photographs of the human murals.

There’s an impeachment rally in front of Faneuil Hall in Boston. In Minneapolis, citizens will spell out “IMPEACH!” with canoes on a lake. That evening they’ll form the letters with bed sheets lit from below so that people will be able to read it from planes passing overhead. In Washington DC, 1,000 people will form a human mural to spell out IMPEACH! at the base of the Washington monument.

Events are planned for April 28th all over the country and outside of it, and you can find one or create one here:
http://www.a28.org

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I would like to think that I *would* share my socks!

I received the email below from Ami Dar of Idealist.org this afternoon - and wanted to share the message far and wide. I am full of admiration for Ami and the work he and his colleagues do at Idealist.org, and look forward to being a part of this movement to create positive change in the world.

Idealist.org Meeting in Northern Uganda, February 10, 2007

Ami’s story from his days as an Israeli soldier watching Syrians watching him watch them reminds me of the 1914 Christmas Truce story (check out this snopes.com story), where German and British soldiers spontaneously stopped fighting and instead came out of their trenches to celebrate Christmas together.

Dear Tobias,

Would you share your socks? Let me explain.

Last month, at http://www.idealist.org/imagine, we invited everyone on Idealist to imagine a better world and to help build it together.

The response was overwhelming. People in 70 countries organized 300 start-up meetings in less than three weeks, and more meetings are planned for the weeks of March 12-18 and April 23-29, at
http://www.idealist.org/meetings

After seeing some photos from these meetings - at http://www.flickr.com/photos/idealist - I thought this might be a good moment to tell you about an experience I had when I was 19. This led me to start Idealist.org, and it’s still the best way I’ve found for expressing this whole idea.

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Don’t let Bush get us into a war with Iran!

I just signed a petition to ask Congress to demand President Bush seek congressional authorization before considering military action in Iran. He seems out of control, and we have to stop the war in Iraq from escalating into a regional crisis. Congress can do this, but they need to hear from us.

Can you sign?

http://pol.moveon.org/noescalationiniran/

Thanks!




 

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