Impeachment By Spring: We're Off and Running!

Impeachment By Spring: We're Off and Running!

It's been just one week since we announced ImpeachForChange in Philadelphia and the response has been tremendous!

Over 23,000 activists signed our petition - even though our overloaded server turned many away. We upgraded our server so please try again:
http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/88
and help us reach our goal of 1 million by forwarding the petition to your friends!

Then print copies of our simplified impeachment petition
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/petition-4.pdf
and collect signatures from friends, co-workers, and neighbors.
Then keypunch the email addresses into our invitation letter to ask the signers to complete the full petition online. Full instructions here:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/petition

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31 Congressional District Impeachment Committees ... and Counting!

We also asked you to form Impeachment Committees in your Congressional District to persuade your Representative (who is supposed to represent you!) to support impeachment. And you responded in force! We now have committees forming in all of these districts:

CA30, CA38, CA52, DC00, FL10, FL18, FL19, HI01, HI02, IL03, IL11, MA08, MA10, MI10, MN04, MO08, NC04, NC06, NC11, NC13, NE03, NY07, NY08, NY15, OK05, PA18, RI01, RI02, SD00, TX18, VA08

If you live in one of these districts, you can find the announcement after you login to Democrats.com and click here:
http://democrats.com/local

If there is no committee in your Congressional District, please create one here:
http://www.democrats.com/cdic

Congressional District Impeachment Committees will:
1. Collect petitions on paper at busy locations (see above)
2. Write letters and op-eds to local papers
3. Meet directly with Representatives to persuade them to support impeachment
4. Organize Town Hall meetings (see below)

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Impeachment Events on December 10: Human Rights and Impeachment Day

We also asked you to schedule Town Hall Meetings on Impeachment on December 10, and you responded again!

MA: Cambridge
DC: Washington
NC: Charlotte
FL: Gainesville
CA: Santa Barbara
CA: San Francisco
WA: Seattle

You can view existing events and sign up to attend one here.

You can create a public listing of your event here. You will be able to communicate with the people who sign up for your event, and to edit the listing for your event, changing or filling in details later.

Here is a list of available speakers with their contact info.

Be sure also to invite your Congress Member or newly elected future Congress Member to speak.

Here are resources that will make your event easy and effective.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/december10

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Want to End the War? Ask Congress to Do Investigations

Public awareness of the lies that led to the war and the crimes committed during the war helps build public demand for the troops to come home. Not every committee in Congress can work fulltime on simply ending the war: a legislative process that must be pursued but which will be uphill and subject to veto or signing statement. Many committees in the House and Senate, without taking any energy away from ending the war, can finally conduct the investigations that have gone undone for 6 years, exposing evidence that could very well lead to criminal, civil, or political accountability, as well as pressure to end the war and precedent to help prevent the next war.

Here's a guide to asking your Representative and Senators to conduct investigations:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/investigations

Here's the same information on a flyer you can print and distribute:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/1pageinvestigations.pdf

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A Critical Public Service Announcement from Randi Rhodes

Click image to hear 30-second audio.
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/rhodes2.mp3

Ask your radio stations to air it.

Check out our other PSAs.
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/psa

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Audio and Video from Launch of ImpeachForChange in Philadelphia on Veterans Day

Our event was a great success, with outstanding speakers and bloggers.

Here is video:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/phillyvideo

Here is audio:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/phillyaudio

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We Now Have Shirts With Long Sleeves

http://www.wavelengthclothing.com/impeach_bush.html

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Invite the Bush Chain Gang to Your Town
Reduce fear and roadside trash: put them to work.

http://backbonecampaign.org/chaingang.cfm

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