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[Ricky Baldwin]

“Out of Iraq” Events TODAY Nationwide

Local organizations have planned over 70 “Out of Iraq”
events around the country on or about January 7th.
(See list at http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/event.)
Most 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 Coalition” Co-Founder John Bonifaz.

All of these events will focus on ending the war. 
Many will also address new Congressional resolutions
to censure President Bush and Vice President Cheney
and to create a select committee to investigate and
make recommendations on impeachment.

Call Your Member of Congress!

Join us in phoning Members of Congress in their
district offices on January 9.  
We are urging them to cosponsor three bills: 

(1) H.Res.635 to create a select committee to
investigate and to make recommendations on grounds for
impeachment,

(2) H.Res.636 to censure Bush, and 

(3) H.Res.637 to censure Cheney.

For more about these bills, see:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/5768
For Congress Members' phone numbers:
http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/dbq/officials/?lvl=C

International Commission Taking "Indictments" to White
House

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). 
For details see www.bushcommission.org.

To get involved locally, contact:  The Anti-War
Anti-Racism Effort (AWARE)
AWARE meets every Sunday from 5pm to 6:30pm at the
IMC, 202 S. Broadway, Urbana (the Post Office Building
- IMC entrance is on the north side off Elm St.). 
Newcomers welcome!

For more on AWARE, see http://www.anti-war.net
Or call 328-3037



		
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