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[Editor’s Note: It’s really a major step forward, and thanks to the hard work of thousands of us, that this long, seven years overdue hearing will commence. The cynical crew at the Democratic Leadership Council believes that by “throwing this bone” to us, they can quiet the will of most all Americans that wants Bush and Cheney held to account for their proven criminal acts of treason against the United States.

Now we need to put even more pressure on the House Judiciary Committee members to demand that the hearings progress to the logical conclusion, and that is to proceed to the removal of Bush and Cheney from office now.

Call all members of the House Judiciary Committee now — the Republican members too — here are toll-free phone numbers you can use to call all congressional offices in DC via the Capitol Hill Switchboard: Toll-Free 800.828.0498 — 866.340.9281 — 866.338.1015 — 877.851.6437 and get more toll-free numbers at CallCongress.org. Don’t wait for tomorrow, call right now, this second — jam the capitol switchboard with our demand to restore justice and reclaim democracy. Impeach the Bush gang! — Contact the House Judiciary Committee! The full members’ listing is here. For tips on how to make your phone calls really count, CLICK Making the ALL-IMPORTANT Calls.

C-SPAN, MSNBC and CNN are NOT ENOUGH. We want the hearings televised on all over-the-air tv networks, same as during the Nixon impeachment hearings way back in 1973. We want all Republicans to join with the Democrats to remove Bush and Cheney before they attack Iran, and that means before our election. We want all members of congress to obey their oaths of office to preserve, protect and defend the constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic.]

Associated Press — 15 July 2008 — by Laurie Kellman — Pelosi didn’t stop Kucinich from introducing 35 articles of impeachment, spending four hours in June reading them on the House floor and demanding hearings. — WASHINGTON — REP. DENNIS KUCINICH’S SINGLE IMPEACHMENT ARTICLE WILL GET A COMMITTEE HEARING — but not on removing President Bush from office.

The House on Tuesday voted 238-180 to send his article of impeachment — for Bush’s reasoning for taking the country to war in Iraq — to the Judiciary Committee, which buried Kucinich’s previous effort.

This time, the panel will open hearings. But House Democratic leaders emphatically said the proceedings will not be about Bush's impeachment, a first step in the Constitution’s process of a removing a president from office.

Instead, the panel will conduct an election-year review — possibly televised — of anything Democrats consider to be Bush’s abuse of power. Kucinich, D-Ohio, is likely to testify. But so will several scholars and administration critics, Democrats said.

The hearing is a modest gesture by House Democratic leaders to members like Kucinich who insist that Bush’s reasons for going to war meet the standard for impeachment. Kucinich said that if his impeachment article is tabled he would just propose another one. — Click the pics to read the rest! —

Kucinich is expected to offer a “privileged resolution” this afternoon calling on the House to look at whether President Bush should be removed from office for lying to Congress and the American public when he sought congressional approval back in 2002 for taking military action to invade Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein.

Pelosi has said previously that impeachment “was off the table,” so her comments this morning were surprising, and clearly signaled a new willingness to entertain the idea of ousting Bush, although no one in the Democratic leadership believes that is likely since the president has only six months left in this term.

“This is a Judiciary Committee matter, and I believe we will see some attention being paid to it by the Judiciary Committee,” Pelosi told reporters. “Not necessarily taking up the articles of impeachment because that would have to be approved on the floor, but to have some hearings on the subject.”

Pelosi added: “My expectation is that there will be some review of that in the committee.”

The House Judiciary Committee chairman, Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), said he had just gotten Kucinich’s new impeachment resolution, and he was not sure of when hearings would occur, or what kind of hearings be held. Democratic aides said they would examine “abuses of power” by the Bush administration, although it is unclear why or how that is different from what has taken place already throughout the 110th Congress.
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• IMPEACH! •• CONVICTUpdated June 30th — To sign the Official Petition to Impeach CLICK http://impeachment.kucinich.us/petition

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Digital Journal — 20 June 2008 — by Mary Ellen Marino, Rosemary Parish, Joanne O’Neill, Cheryl Biren-Wright, Stuart Hutchison of New Jersey Impeach Groups — ImpeachThem.com — We must demand that our Congress act and that the Constitution is upheld. We have 2½ months to hold hearings before Labor Day. If we fail, we are doomed to have these actions repeated by future Presidents. — NEW JERSEY — CALMLY BUT IN GREAT DETAIL, REPRESENTATIVE DENNIS J. KUCINICH STOOD ALONE ON THE HOUSE FLOOR FOR ALMOST FIVE HOURS, Monday June 9th, reading on C-Span a precisely documented indictment for the impeachment of George W. Bush in 35 separate articles. Yet none of our newspapers or TV stations even acknowledged this happened with the single exception of Keith Olbermann’s Countdown on MSNBC. A House clerk read it all again into the night on C-Span with no publicity in order to allow a quiet burial into the Judiciary Committee as occurred with Kucinich’s resolution to impeach Cheney in November of 2007.

The reasons the Democrats, like Republicans, who have sworn to support and defend the Constitution, are ignoring all of the lies, crimes and brazen illegal acts committed is almost exclusively pure politics.

The media does not want to disturb its endless repetition of the election horse race through which they can claim immunity to partisanship. But burying the evils of the Bush administration from the people is not just convenience or politics. It is complicity in these crimes.

Members of the House and Senate knew or have known of the acts committed in their name: the torture, surveillance, thousands of deaths, unbridled no bid cost plus contracts, mercenaries under no legal controls. Saying there was no time three years in a row no longer cuts it as an excuse as more and more proof is revealed, in published memoirs or whistleblower accounts.

Representative Robert Wexler, Florida Democrat, who publicly called for impeachment hearings this spring, immediately co-sponsored Kucinich’s resolution June 10th. Representatives Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), and Sam Farr (D-CA) also signed on to the resolution. More co-sponsors are expected. — Click the pics to read the rest! —

Impeach NOW• CALL NOW New Jersey Impeach Groups — 10 June 2008 — by Keith Armonaitis — Remember you do this for something far greater than yourself — you do this because you love America and want to see it back to its former glory. — Today I printed out the [CLICK] House Judiciary Committee Members — so I could begin my calling campaign. We have toll-free phone numbers posted on our site here, numbers that connect you to the Capitol switch board, where an operator will connect you with every congress member’s office. There are more toll-free numbers available at CallCongress.org. As I was doing this I realized that it is a difficult process, even for myself who is used to public speaking. I know that there are a lot of people who would be willing to make calls as well, but do not feel comfortable talking on the phone with someone they don’t know or are too tongue tied when talking about something they feel so passionately about. This can be especially true when talking to members on the other side of the aisle who will want nothing at all to do with impeachment. Here are some of the things I do before I make my calls:

REMEMBER THE MAIN REASONS FOR YOUR CALL
— When the capitol switchboard operator puts you through to the congress member’s office and the receptionist answers, you explain that you want to leave messages for the Chief of Staff and the Legislative Director for the representative. Ask their names and email addresses (the form is joan.smith@mail.house.gov) and ask if they’re available to talk to you. 99% of the time they won’t be. That’s okay; ask to be put through to the staff person’s voice mail, and you can leave your message, your name, address and email address. It never hurts to say “I would appreciate receiving an acknowledgment from you about my concerns.”

1 — I write down what I want to say — This helps me to not get flustered when I make my calls and allows me to stay focused even when my blood starts to heat up. Also — try rehearsing what you want to say a few times — you may think it might make you sound stilted — but after 40 calls you will sound that way anyway. Plus it will help you smooth out words that are difficult to say (like “House Judiciary Committee” — I dare anyone to say that three times fast!)

2 — I try to remain calm and respectful — I know that I am only talking to a staffer, but they are closer to the ear of the person I want my message to get to and even if they treat me like I am an idiot (this has only happened once) I refer back to my notes and stay focused. Even if I start to get upset I still stay respectful — and on message. It’s very good to tell the office receptionist you want to leave your message with him or her, and that “I want to leave my message with the representative’s Chief of Staff” voicemail — this means you get your words to the most important person in the congress member’s office. — Click the pics to read the rest! —

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DOWNLOAD, PRINT FOR FRONT & BACK & DISTRIBUTE THE FLYER TO IMPEACH CHENEY NOW! Print hundreds of copies and hand 'em out! See Kucinich Forces Impeachment!, see • Latest News: KUCINICH postpones IMPEACH BUSH Bill, cites Hearings Strategy AND see the April 2008 New York Times/CBS Poll
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We’re fed up with the Bush Gang, the crimes, the lies, the wars, the corruption and the absolute contempt they have for our Bill of Rights, the United Nations, your right to control your destiny, your basic human dignity and our commonwealth. Here’s what we’re doing, why and how: for a fast overview click Frequently Asked Questions about Impeaching

• Download and print CLICK To read the July 10th Article of Impeachment

• Download and print 9 June 2008 — Rep. Dennis Kucinich Introduces 35 Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush http://www.impeachthem.com/files/35articles2impeach_bush9june08kucinich.pdf. This is a towering indictment of Bush's crimes and it offers systematically the reasons that compel and insist on impeachment, removal from office, and the full prosecution of Bush for his crimes against the United States, and against all people.

• Download and print our National Impeachment Network Time to Impeach FLYER. Distribute it wide as you can, hand it out to crowds, leave it at medical offices inside magazines, post on grocery and laundromat bulletin boards, get it out everywhere!

• Download and print our brochure, written by David Swanson. Then photocopy the brochure front and back, and you're ready to go. Carry the brochures with you to hand out to friends, at the supermarket, at meetings, everywhere you go!!! We also have a LARGE PRINT version of the brochure in traditional narrative form. For this excellent guide click How to Lobby for Impeachment.

• Statement of Purpose
— Why we formed our group, what we want, and how we will restore justice and reclaim democracy in our country.

• New Jersey Impeach Time — Updated with new information 22 August 2007

• House Judiciary Committee Members — Phone each member’s office to lobby impeachment
— READ Making Your Calls for tips to help you help us all to win!

• Status of Impeach Campaign Nationwide
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Numbers’re really up there now. MORE THAN A HALF-MILLION VOTES TO IMPEACH in this poll! Do you believe President Bush’s actions justify impeachment? CLICK TO VOTE Should Bush Be Impeached?

89% — 634,671 people — vote FOR IMPEACHMENT out of 713,114 votes cast as of 3:15 p.m. New Jersey time, 19 July 2008. Only 8.8% — just 62,754 people — say Bush should not be impeached, with the rest unsure. 95% of the American people do not trust Bush to end the Iraq war successfully. And a recent Gallup Poll shows Opposition to Iraq War is at a New High — 63% of Americans Say the United States Made a Mistake in Sending Troops to Iraq.

ALSO, here's a one-question yes/no poll that takes ten seconds of your time. Take the MoveOn impeachment poll, and then forward our post far and wide as you can NOW! Nationwide, by our conservative estimate, at least five million petitions to impeach are signed! See our story at http://www.impeachthem.com/?q=node/1696 — Wexler Wants Hearings Movement Climbing Fast
and our story at http://www.impeachthem.com/?q=node/1994 — The Impeach Bush organization

— To sign the Official Petition to Impeach CLICK http://impeachment.kucinich.us/petition —

As of now, the U.S. War On Iraq Costs over $538,000,000,000, give or take a billion here and there. OUR WAR COST IS NOW OVER ONE-HALF TRILLION DOLLARS, on the way to a total cost of OVER THREE TRILLION DOLLARS! See also National Priorities — Vote NOW — click on THE NATIONAL CHENEY IMPEACHMENT POLL! See a video and answer DENNIS KUCINICH STATEMENT
Now cast your vote: — DENNIS KUCINICH — E-Mail your thanks to him at Contact Dennis
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•NOW!•Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi asked Americans to speak our minds on impeachment. Here’s how to contact all members of Congress: Call now — here are toll-free phone numbers you can use to call all congressional offices in DC via the Capitol Hill Switchboard: Toll-Free 800.828.0498 — 866.340.9281 — 866.338.1015 — 877.851.6437 and get more toll-free numbers at CallCongress.org. Don’t wait for tomorrow, call right now, this second — jam the capitol switchboard with our demand to restore justice and reclaim democracy. Impeach the Bush gang! — Click the pics to get information and contact all people in Congress and Contact the House Judiciary Committee

Room and Phone Numbers for 110th Congress.

Find your Congress Member's phone and fax numbers. — CLICK the pics to read the rest! —

Bush Lies, Thousands Die: On March 19th, 2003, BUSH INVADED IRAQ. As of 18 July 2008, according to the reliable Iraq Coalition Casualties web site: 4,121 U.S. military people DEAD, includes 73 from New Jersey with 448 casualties — We mourn the death of Lance Cpl. Jeffery S. Stevenson, 20, of Newton, N.J., killed July 13th in Al Anbar province, Iraq. See Highest troop levels EVER. And let's face it. With 160,000 U.S. military troops plus an additional 180,000 private troops in Iraq from Blackwater and other corporations, the real death toll of Americans is many more than reported. Private corporations don't have to report the deaths of their employees.

*132,199 WOUNDED and medical evacuated as of March 1st, 2008. Includes 145 who died from self-inflicted wounds as of March 1st. Check for yourself at Iraq War U.S. Death/Wounded Count. Now we confirm more tragic news: 18 Vets kill themselves every day. There are now over one million Iraqis dead due to our war. As of now, the U.S. War On Iraq Costs over $538,000,000,000, give or take a billion. OUR WAR COST IS OVER ONE-HALF TRILLION DOLLARS, on the way to a total cost of OVER THREE TRILLION DOLLARS! See also National Priorities.

— Now the latest tragic truth begins to come out: Read New York Times — Suicide Rate for Soldiers Rose in ’07 — 30 May 2008 — by Associated Press —The 115 confirmed suicides among active-duty soldiers and National Guard and Reserve troops who had been activated amounted to a rate of 18.8 per 100,000 troops — the highest since the Army began keeping records in 1980. — WASHINGTON DC — At least 115 soldiers killed themselves in 2007, up from 102 the previous year, the Army said Thursday. Nearly one-third of them died at the battlefront, 32 in Iraq and 4 in Afghanistan. But 26 percent had never been sent to either conflict.

Read WASHINGTON — 28 May 2008 — New York Times — Nearly 40,000 military personnel have been given diagnoses of post-tramatic stress disorder since 2003.

Read 126 War Vets Commit Suicide Every Week.
Read Suicide rate among soldiers in '06 was a record — Baltimore Sun.

And Veterans for Common Sense — CBS News — 13 November 2007 — by Laura Strickler, Sarah Fitzpatrick, Armen Keteyian and Katie Couric — Between 1995 and 2007, there were almost 2,200 suicides. That’s 188 last year alone. But these numbers included only “active duty” soldiers. One age group stood out. Veterans aged 20 through 24, those who have served during the war on terror. They had the highest suicide rate among all veterans, estimated between two and four times higher than civilians the same age. The suicide rate for non-veterans is 8.3 per 100,000, while the rate for veterans was found to be between 22.9 and 31.9 per 100,000. — Veterans for Common Sense was featured on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. On November 13, Armen Keteyian, the top CBS investigative reporter, reveals an enormous epidemic of suicides among our returning Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans.

CBS News has three excellent videos: The CBS Evening News Broadcast, An Interview with Common Sense Vet Paul Sullivan, and Interviews with Veterans' Families. The Veteran Suicide Epidemic NEW YORK — CBS News — THEY ARE THE CASUALTIES OF WAR YOU DON'T OFTEN HEAR ABOUT — SOLDIERS WHO DIE OF SELF-INFLICTED WOUNDS. Little is known about the true scope of suicides among those who have served in the military. A five-month CBS News investigation discovered data that shows a startling rate of suicide, what some call a hidden epidemic, Chief Investigative Reporter Armen Keteyian reports exclusively. “I just felt like this silent scream inside of me,” said Jessica Harrell, the sister of a soldier who took his own life. — Click the beach to see the people and read the rest!

YOUR CALL COUNTS!YOUR EMAIL COUNTS!• Don’t be fooled by what happened in Concord April 16th — We’re getting CLOSE! Keep calling! Keep writing! • NATIONAL PHONE/EMAIL CAMPAIGN • We need tens of thousands of people to tell Pelosi & Conyers to move on impeachment — he’s now showing signs he’s ready to proceed • MAKE THE CALLS, SEND THE EMAILS, GET EVERYBODY YOU CAN TO HELP • CLICK for How to phone Congress to Impeach • CLICK for THE WHOLE STORY plus Toll-Free Phone Numbers and Addresses YOU can use! And get more toll-free numbers at CallCongress.org. REALLY IMPORTANT: Send your email of support TODAY, CLICK I.Support.HR24@gmail.com — Tell the representatives in New Hampshire NOW — Say Betty Hall’s HR 24 “MUST PASS” — YES, THE COWARDS DELAYED OUR INEVITABLE VICTORY — APRIL 16th IN THE FULL NEW HAMPSHIRE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES — THE VOTE TO COMMENCE IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT BUSH AND VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY IN OUR U.S. CONGRESS. But the need for support remains the same. Betty Hall needs thousands of emails of support to make it happen. Be sure to state your town and state when you write. For more details click http://www.impeachthem.com/?q=node/1797 Save OUR country! See also Hall4Impeachment.com

• OUR • Country!OUR WORLD!• 7:30 — 10pm Monday August 11th • REGULAR IMPEACH GROUPS MEETING • CLICK August 11th Impeach Meet FLYER, print, copy and distribute WIDE EVERYWHERE! • WE GOT WAR LOOMING OVER IRAN, WE GOT THE WORSENING ECONOMIC CRASH & OIL’S OUT OF SIGHT — WE GOT TO IMPEACH! • FREE EVENT • We have a lot to prepare for. We need to be prepared for a number of events that may take place in the near future. We know with the Bush gang “all options are on the table.” That includes attacking Iran, stealing the November Presidential election, and even contriving a “9-11: The Sequel” in order to declare a state of siege, martial law, and suspension of both the election and what’s left of the constitution. For more details CLICK Bush Gang Endgame. WE MUST WORK TO ORGANIZE a fast, systematic response when any one of these things comes to pass. We need to approach all progressives groups in New Jersey and around the country to join in this preparation, because when the thuggery hits the fan, time will really be crucial in determining whether justice can prevail over the forces of repression and fascism. It’s another reason we continue our campaign to get the state legislature to pass a resolution to impeach Bush-Cheney too — AND keep the pressure on our congressmen to move to reality — with renewed vigor! We need to pile on more pressure to get the spineless legislators to do the right thing! Bring some friends — the more people we have with us, the faster we get our job done. We’re easy to find, just click DIRECTIONS TO Lakeland Unitarian Fellowship.

• • NOW! • • • 4:00-6:00 MONDAYS • THE WEEKLY IMPEACH DEMONSTRATION • BUTLER & KINNELON • Demonstrate to IMPEACH • Support your country! • CLICK DIRECTIONS to Butler/Kinnelon Banner Drop demonstration site — It’s easy. When you get to the stoplight at the intersection driving northbound on Hwy. 23 at Cascade Way on the southbound side of the highway — you'll see a fish & chips joint on your right — be in the right most lane and go through the light, then pull immediately into the small public parking lot — a used car dealer has cars in there but it is a public space — and park your car. Bring SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, IMPEACH BUSH — CHENEY signs and IMPEACH FOR PEACE and Text IMPEACH to 30644 signs! Questions? Contact our organizer Bob! or call Hutch at 862.226.6939. BRING A SUN HAT & LOTS OF WATER! When it’s raining heavy we don’t show so check ahead!


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• Unitarian Universalist• Progressive Spiritualism • The Unitarian Fellowship of Wayne NJ • 11 a.m. Sundays
• TEEN NIGHTS • WAYNE • 7pm on 1st & 3rd FRIDAYS every month • Lakeland Unitarian Universalist Fellowship — Shake it out at LUUF!
• Wednesday MUSIC NIGHTS • WAYNE • 7pm with Terri Klegg • Lakeland Unitarian Universalist Fellowship — Bring your voice, bring your instruments, sing songs new & known, cosmic rhythms and cosmic drumming!
• U2 Peace Café • WAYNE • 7pm Third FRIDAY every month • Lakeland Unitarian Universalist Fellowship • The Fellowship is an officially designated Peace Site, and the LUUF Peace Site’s mission is to support New Jersey Peace Action and other progressive organizations. Good company, food, movies and exceptionally cool work too! It all happens at 231 Parish Drive, Wayne 07470-6010. For directions click: GOOGLE MAPS & just enter your address and our Fellowship address in Wayne. QUESTIONS? Email Clint the Bard! or phone 908.910.0064 — Click our IMPEACH NOW sign at the top of this post above to see more listings of events —