Momentum Building for Cheney Impeachment

Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel

In the space of a few days, nearly 100,000 people have already signed onto a call by Congressman Robert Wexler to begin impeachment hearings for Dick Cheney. Please add your name and encourage everyone you know to add theirs. Please send this link to every list you can:
http://www.wexlerwantshearings.com

Hear Congressman Robert Wexler Live Online at 9 p.m. EST, Thursday, December 20th
Florida Progressive Radio, hosted by Kenneth Quinnell of the Florida Netroots Caucus and the Florida Progressive Coalition. Listen live at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/fpc and http://www.wexlerwantshearings.com

Rep. Wexler and other House Judiciary Committee members have opened up the possibility of impeachment hearings for Dick Cheney. There are now at least 8 members of the committee on board. Six of them are among the 24 co-sponsors of Congressman Dennis Kucinich's resolution to impeach Cheney. Learn more, and ask your representative to co-sponsor and call for hearings at http://www.impeachcheney.org

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/29426

 

National Day Of Action in Holland Fighting Anti-Squatting Legislation

The Dutch government has been discussing a ban squatting since 2003, but have failed at various times. Read previous article on squat.net

Now proposed for the 3rd time, squatters across the country are taking action today to avert the proposals. Many squats have opened their doors to the public and give guided tours for those curious neighbours.

Listen to: open radio stream

Dutch Updates and photos: see indymedia.nl

English Updates:

17.05 Rotterdam - Activists of the squatters campaign group 'Woonstrijd' have occupied a property on the `s Gravendijkwal (no 81A). Besides the occupation, various banners were dropped from (former) squats in the city and activities and guided tours are planned at the Poortgebouw and at the squat on the Zwaerdekroonstraat 62a.

16.23 Deventer - The occupied 'Vort Dracula' opened its doors today and had over 100 people coming through to take part in guided tours. 6 squats were open to the public across the city. Various folk from the national press were present in the morning. Also see previous timeline entry at 14.02.

15.17 Dordrecht - The activities in Dordrecht are now finished. The doors of the newly occupied house on the Vrieseweg 80 were opened up to the public and the local Food Not Bombs group handed out free food and leaflets in the city centre.

15:00 Den Bosch - A new infoshop has been opened in an occupied shop front. The police are still intending on evicting it, and the squatters have started court proceedings to avert this. The rest of the day of action has been hailed as a success, with well attended guided tours around the city and good responses from those doing their christmas shopping.

14.13 Hilversum - An empty and derelict petrol station has been occupied since early this morning. Owned by the council, it has been left abandoned for over 8 years. Due to financial mis-planning and resistance from people in the area the demolishion of the petrol station has been severely delayed. The location of the new squat is of historical importance as it is the exact spot of the old train station on the Amsterdam-Laren line. The police have come by to check out the situation. Everything is calm now and free soup, coffee, tea and leaflets are being handed out.

14.02 Deventer - An alternative 'Dickens day' has been organised in response to the 'Dickens day' taking place in the city. A group of dressed up children with horses have arrived at the squatted Q8 terrain. Guided tours are taking place and there is a small exhibition on the squatting history of the city is on display.

12.25 Haarlem - Last night various banners were dropped from squats in Haarlem. The guided tours have started and the press is persent also.

11.57 Zwolle - At 9.30 this morning a group of people have occupied the water tower on the 'Turfmarkt'. The police came to check out the situation, but everything is calm. A banner was dropped saying: "stop the squatting-ban".

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/12/387944.html

MSM Silent: Gunning for 100,000 Signatures: Servers Crash and Re-started: Impeach Cheney!

Dave Lindorff updates us on the amazing roots effort to get impeachment "on
the table".

Impeachment Advocates Crush Server, But Still No Reports in the Corporate
Media
Tue, 12/18/2007 - 16:10 - dlindorff

The push for hearings on Dennis Kucinich's Cheney impeachment bill (H Res.
799) continues, with the number of signers of Wexler's petition now topping
90,000. http://www.wexlerwantshearings.com/

The rush to sign on has been so heavy that on Monday it crashed the server.
Rep. Robert Wexler's people have since changed to a better server, but in
the process, there were some resets of the tally, which has led to a lot of
concern and even to anxious conspiracy theories among impeachment backers.
Wexler's office says there has been no problem with sabatoge, and that the
current number, just over 90,000 as of 10:45 am Tuesday, is accurate. The
list has been checked for duplicates and other signs of trouble, and looks
clean, they say.

So impeachment advocates should continue to push for support for this call
for action. Get people to the petition site and signed on.

But don't stop there.

READ THE REST OF DAVE LINDORFF'S REPORT:
http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/?q=node/84

[ Source: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/12/18/18467685.php ]

Laura Archera Huxley 1911 - 2007

The World Has Lost One of Its Greats -- Laura Archera Huxley 1911-2007
Updated
http://www.bruceeisner.com/new_culture/2007/12/the-world-has-l.html

'Energy Companies' Gallons of Greenwash'

Source: The Guardian (UK), December 11, 2007

"Shell, the oil company that recently trumpeted its commitment to a low carbon future ... has quietly sold off most of its solar business," reports Terry Macalister. "The move, taken with BP's decision last week to invest in the world's dirtiest oil production in Canada's tar sands, indicates that Big Oil might be giving up its flirtation with renewables." A Shell spokesperson said the company's solar operations were "not bringing in any profit." Shell still invests in some wind farms and biofuels operations. Pratap Chatterjee questions the environmental impact of "the world's largest bio-diesel facility," which Finland's Neste Oil plans to build in Singapore. "The scheme could exacerbate global warming," he reports for CorpWatch. The "$800 million plant will use palm oil," boosting "demand for new palm oil plantations that displace environmentally sensitive forests." Chatterjee is also skeptical of General Electric's "clean coal" claims. "'Clean coal' technologies are only marginally more efficient [at reducing emissions] and far more expensive. Others ... are still on the drawing board and may never work."

http://www.prwatch.org/node/6798

Rep. Wexler Thanks You For Your Support

Posted on Crooks and Liars:

 

By: Nicole Belle on Monday, December 17th, 2007 at 7:30 PM - PST

 

The tremendous response to my call for impeachment hearings for Vice President Cheney confirms that the Bush Administration and Vice President Cheney must be held accountable. I have been overwhelmed by the netroots support for my call for impeachment hearings and for my website - WexlerWantsHearings.com. As of Monday afternoon - after only four days - over 80,000 people have signed up to show their support for impeachment hearings.

It is the constitutional duty of Congress to investigate the serious charges that have been leveled against Vice President Cheney, and I am using my position as a member of the House Judiciary Committee to see that hearings are held. Unfortunately, Congress and the national media ignore this serious issue. The outpouring of support documented at WexlerWantsHearings.com has been driven and supported entirely through the power of blogs, the Internet, and word of mouth. Websites like Crooks and Liars have taken on this important cause and have stepped up to fill the void left by the main stream media who still somehow believe that impeachment is a fringe idea and not worth coverage. In this case, the American people are way ahead of Congress and the media.

I was shocked when no newspaper would publish the op-ed I wrote with Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) and Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI). It is not every day that three members of the House Judiciary Committee set out a substantive case for impeachment hearings against the sitting Vice President. Yet, the national media yawned. No matter. The people have responded. Americans from all fifty states have signed up to support my call for hearings.

Originally, my goal was to gain 50,000 online signatures on behalf of impeachment hearings. Today, our goal is 250,000 supporters.

The charges against Vice President Cheney are too serious dismiss without hearings. If we band together, we can make focus the nation’s attention on this critical issue. Let’s continue to make our voices heard.

Congressman Robert Wexler

I’ve been in communication with Rep. Wexler’s office and they are genuinely stunned by both the volume and the quality of the response they’ve received from the blogosphere.  Look at these past posts on Wexler’s petition (h/t FOIA)  I think we’re starting to pierce through the Beltway bubble and really showing the power of the netroots to come together and support those who are supporting our values.

If you haven’t done so already, please forward WexlerWantsHearings.com to your email list. Let’s show Rep. Wexler that he can get 250,000 signatures as easily as we got him 50,000.

~ Link ~

Andy McKee - Shanghai

http://guitarvideo-angello90.blogspot.com

Wexler Hits 50,000 Impeach Sigs in One Day, Going for Half-Million

by ralphlopez
17 Dec 2007

It's not being reported in the corporate media, which also refused to
publish an opinion piece penned by six-term Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL), Rep.
Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), and Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI). But a whopping 50,000
people responded in just one day to Rep. Wexler's call for people to sign
his on-line petition supporting an immediate start to hearings on Rep.
Dennis Kucinich's Cheney Impeachment bill (H Res 799). Among the corporate
media refusing to publish the piece by three U.S. congressmen are the NY
Times, the L.A. Times, and the Washington Post.

As of Sunday morning, 54,000 people had signed the petition at
WexlerWantsHearings.com calling for action now. Names are being added at a
rate of one every one or two seconds.

Wexler has said he wanted at least 50,000 signatures. But why stop there? If
people get behind this, and if the impeachment movement spreads the word, he
could easily get closer to 500,000 signatures over the next few days.

And if each of us were to send out a call to sign to ten of our friends,
then we'd have half a million signatures, which would be hard for Conyers
and the Democratic leadership, Speaker Nancy Pelosi included, to ignore. Go
to WexlerWantsHearings.com and sign the petition!

Kucinich's impeachment bill was filed on April 24 and has been ignored now
for almost eight shameful months. On Nov. 7, a bipartisan majority of 218
members of the House voted to send it from the floor of the House back to
the Judiciary Committee for action. Now it's sat there for over four weeks.

We need to tell Congress, and particularly the Democrats who are stalling on
this important defense of the Constitution and of democracy itself that
time's up. We the American People want action. We want impeachment hearings!

Email small-town newspapers to please cover this (forget the major media,
they do not care about their country.) Hit the street corners and shopping
malls with flyers. Once you get out there you'll realize that a tiny
fraction of the population gets it news from the progressive Internet. Most
people do not have a clue about what's going on with impeachment, BUT WILL
IMMEDIATELY AND ENTHUSIASTICALLY RESPOND! This happens fast. Remember that
in 1776 there was suddenly electricity in the air as a subjugated and
repressed people took to the streets and won their freedom!

(This diary based on a report by David Lindorff, Democrats.com)

http://www.mydd.com/story/2007/12/17/152811/65