Impeachment Activists Get the Message in the New York Times

Yesterday's New York Times (Tues. April 25) carried a picture (above) on the first page of the National Section featuring one of the campaign's huge signs reading "Guilty of War Crimes: ImpeachBush.org," as part of an article about Bush becoming a liability for other candidates as he travels around the country. With a national circulation of more than one million people, it has the effect of letting more and more people know about the ImpeachBush.org movement.

The picture is from a demonstration against Bush in Indiana and we all send a big congratulations to the Impeachment campaign supporters who took the time to get the message out. Just last week there were local demonstrations when Bush appeared in San Jose and Sacramento, California where impeachment supporters quickly mounted a visible and vocal presence. Impeachment supporters are not only dogging Bush at his every stop, but are getting the message out there anyway they can.

This is a grassroots movement and everyone can play a part by holding impeachment banners and signs wherever Bush travels, by participating in Impeachment contingents at peace rallies, by putting up Impeach Bush lawn signs (you can get your own smaller lawn sign version that says "Guilty of War Crimes") wearing an Impeach Bush t-shirt, sweatshirt, sporting a bumper stickers, circulating the Impeach Bush petition, or making a contribution so that we can keep placing more ads in newspapers around the country.

There are a multitude of activities that we undertake as part of this campaign including meeting with Congressional representatives demanding the introduction of articles of Impeachment, sending tens of thousands of emails and letters to Congress, providing and widely disseminating draft articles of impeachment and the historical overview of impeachment, engaging in public forums and educational events on impeachment, circulating a major petition and referendum campaign.  

One of the most critical measures is for impeachment supporters to do everything we can to change the political climate. In tandem with all the other activities undertaken by the campaign, making impeachment a household concept, building public support for impeachment, getting the word out there on the airwaves, in the newspapers, on our street-corners, in our workplaces - this is the visibility that makes Impeachment possible. As each of Bush's crimes is revealed, more and more people join the Impeachment movement when they learn of it. This is what builds the critical mass necessary for change - and it is up to every campaign supporter to get the word out there every way we can.

We are happy to announce that the new and improved ImpeachBush Resource Center is up and running. This will allow thousands of people to order T-Shirts, hats, bumper stickers, lawn signs, petitions and other essential resources to spread the message of impeachment to every nook and cranny of this country. Click here to get your ImpeachBush stuff right now - a purchase of over $50 earns you a free "Bush Lied, Thousands Died" sweatshirt!

 We are working to place more ads in newspapers around the country calling for the Impeachment of George W Bush and Dick Cheney. We can do it with your help. The ads with New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe and other newspapers have reached millions of people. Please click here to donate to this campaign.

In the last months, tens of thousands of new people have been drawn into this movement after they read a newspaper ad, saw a banner, signed a petition or received a flyer.

The fact that the New York Times selected the ImpeachBush.org sign to place so prominently in today’s newspaper is one more example that the power of this grassroots movement is resonating throughout society. Impeachment contingents have been showing up throughout the country at all sorts of activities. And they really make a difference.

Today, the Chicago Sun Times reports:

"State Rep. Karen Yarbrough (D-Maywood) has sponsored a resolution calling on the General Assembly [Illinois state legislature] to submit charges to the U.S. House so its lawmakers could begin impeachment proceedings. …

"Yarbrough is hoping to get the U.S. House's attention through her grass-roots effort. She already has picked up two co-sponsors to her legislation, Democratic state Representatives Eddie Washington (Waukegan) and Sara Feigenholtz (Chicago).

"According to the resolution, Bush has 'willfully violated his oath of office' by manipulating intelligence to start the war in Iraq, leaking classified national secrets and authorizing illegal spying on American citizens.

"'This president has acted like an emperor,' Yarbrough said.

"If Yarbrough's resolution passes the General Assembly, it would go to the U.S. House, where it likely would be referred to the Judiciary Committee, said a spokesman for the Committee on U.S. House Administration. …'It's up to that committee to decide what action it will take, if any,' committee spokesman Jon Brandt said. '[The resolution] does not, in and of itself, start a process.'

"Nevertheless, a handful of cities and state Democratic committees have adopted impeachment resolutions similar to Yarbrough's. Vermont Democrats agreed earlier this month to urge lawmakers to approve it at the state level.

"These groups hope the measures generate dialogue that will eventually lead to impeachment.”

Let’s keep up the momentum in the days and weeks ahead. Bush’s approval rating is at an all-time low as the people become convinced that his policies and his conduct have led to one catastrophe after another. His policies and conduct are not only wrong, they are in violation of the law and that is why the Constitution requires that Congress do its duty by introducing Articles of Impeachment for High Crimes and Misdemeanors. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld are guilty of waging a a war of aggression, violating Federal wiretapping law by engaging in a massive secret spying operation without court order, permitting the creation of secret prisons and torture centers, eliminating the rights of the accused to due process, willfully neglecting the people of New Orleans and the other Gulf States in the aftermath of Katrina and Rita, to name some of their most egregious acts.

Show your support today for this nation-wide effort and to support the cross-country ad campaign by making a contribution today. Click here to donate on-line or to learn how you can send a check.

--All of us at VoteToImpeach/ImpeachBush.org