[Peace-discuss] New Year's Flyer? Re: [Peace] Out of Iraq events planned nationwide on January 7th

[Ricky Baldwin]

I'd volunteer to make this into a simple informational
flyer to give out on Saturday - basically just add our
local contact info, maybe edit for space here and
there - if there are no objections ...?

Ricky

--- "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:

> [Our first Main Event of the new year should pick up
> these
> themes and be part of "nation-wide Out-of-Iraq
> events" on the
> 7th. --CGE]
> 
>   Out of Iraq Events Planned Nationwide on January
> 7th
>   National Call-In Day on Accountability Planned for
> January 9
>   International Commission Taking "Indictments" to
> White House   
>   January 9th
> 
> Out of Iraq Events Planned in Over 70 Cities
> 
> Local organizations have planned over 70 Out of Iraq
> events
> around the country on or about January 7th. (See
> list at
> bottom.) Most of the events are town hall forums,
> and several
> will feature members of Congress, including Bobby
> Scott, Diane
> Watson, Jim McDermott, Adam Smith, Bob Filner,
> Martin Sabo,
> Jim Moran, and John Murtha. Several other events
> will feature
> congressional staff, congressional and senatorial
> candidates,
> local elected officials, and leaders of the peace
> movement,
> including Gold Star Families for Peace founder Cindy
> Sheehan,
> and After Downing Street Co-Founder John Bonifaz.
> 
> While all of these events will focus on ending the
> war, many
> of them will also address Congressman John Conyers'
> new
> resolutions to censure President Bush and Vice
> President
> Cheney and to create a select committee to
> investigate and
> make recommendations on impeachment.
> 
> Tim Carpenter, Director of Progressive Democrats of
> America
> and Co-Founder of After Downing Street, said:
> "Progressive
> Democrats of America is proud to be working with
> grassroots
> organizations across the country to mobilize and
> organize a
> broad-based coalition to call for an end to the
> Occupation of
> Iraq and demand action from Congress to investigate
> the lies
> of the Bush administration and their conduct
> regarding the
> Iraq War."
> 
> The events are listed at the bottom of this release,
> and can
> be found at
> http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/event
> 
> National Call-In Day on Accountability Planned for
> January 9th
> Tens of thousands of members of Progressive
> Democrats of
> America and other organizational members of the
> After Downing
> Street Coalition will phone Members of Congress in
> their
> district offices on January 9, urging them to
> cosponsor three
> bills: H.Res.635 to create a select committee to
> investigate
> and to make recommendations on grounds for
> impeachment,
> H.Res.636 to censure Bush, and H.Res.637 to censure
> Cheney.
> More about these bills:
> http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/5768
> Congress Members' phone numbers:
> http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/dbq/officials/?lvl=C
> 
> International Commission Taking "Indictments" to
> White House
> January 9th
> On January 9, the International Commission of
> Inquiry on
> Crimes Against Humanity By the Bush Administration
> will serve
> indictments on the White House for its wars in Iraq
> and
> Afghanistan, its actions and policies on torture and
> illegal
> detention, its promotion of abstinence-only in the
> midst of
> the HIV/AIDS pandemic, its fueling of global
> warming, and its
> response to Hurricane Katrina. This is in
> preparation for its
> January 20-22 hearings at Riverside Church and
> Columbia Law
> School in New York City (where the Administration
> will be
> invited to present a defense). See
> www.bushcommission.org for
> details.
> 
> Out of Iraq Events
> 
> Sponsored by: Backbone Campaign, Progressive
> Democrats of
> America, After Downing Street, Democracy Cell
> Project, Cities
> for Peace, MilitaryFreeZone.Org, Operation
> Ceasefire, United
> for Peace and Justice, U.S. Tour of Duty, Hip Hop
> Caucus,
> Democracy Rising, World Can't Wait, Gold Star
> Families for
> Peace, Peace Majority Report, Global Exchange, Bring
> Them Home
> Campaign, UP (United Progressives) for Democracy, 20
> 20
> Vision, Impeach Bush Coalition, and Peace Action.
> 
> Find updated list at:
> http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/event
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