Protests and other action steps, guerrilla media events like BeachImpeach, sit-ins, blogging, freeway blogging, Impeachment yard signs, bumper stickers & pins, letters to the editor, calls, e-mails and letters to your Congresspersons, calling out for impeachment on YouTube and MySpace, etc. are all very important ways of producing pressure on the House of Representatives to impeach Bush, Cheney, Rice and Gonzalez, et al.
Here are four resources that we of www.ImpeachforPeace.org feel can really make an even bigger and more effective difference:
1). The individual DIY Impeachment Memorial which applies pressure on the House of Representatives directly by each citizen:
http://impeachforpeace.org/ImpeachNow.html
2). Get Impeachment Resolutions passed by your City Council, your State House, your State Senate, local Democratic Party organization, Labor Union, School Board, Student Council, etc:
http://impeachpac.org/resolutions
3). Sign up for a “Pledge to Impeach” promising to make sacrifices & DEMAND impeachment or else you will boycott, walk out, stand down, stop spending or whatever it takes until impeachment is accomplished:
http://pledgetoimpeach.org/
4). The least publicized yet potentially most powerful angle is Operation Support and Defend being implemented by Veterans for Peace. Nobody can effectively criticize those that have served and are still committed to honor the oath they swore. We should all be asking Veterans for Peace what we can do to help them with this effort to hold these domestic enemies to the Constitution that have infested our White House and the halls of Congress:
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/defend_and_support_constitution.vp.html
I strongly encourage you to continue discussing the “Why?” impeach in every public forum you can and to do everything else you are doing to put Justice back on “the table”, but these four activities are the most powerful “How?” tools at our disposal that we know of to make sure we are soon talking about the “When?” in the past tense.
Keep up your work, recruit, cajol and encourage others to do the same! Pressure must be applied from all angles.
Mikael Rudolph
(612) 302-9252
www.ImpeachforPeace.org
www.ImpeachforPeace.org/blog
I’d like to hear about responses received by those who have sent petitions (memorial format) to Ron Paul, as requested by Impeachfopeace.org. Today’s mail contained a letter from his office stating:
“Thank you for contacting Congressman Paul’s office regarding the problems you have been experiencing.
“However, protocol requires that your information be referred to your Representative in Congress to allow him to serve you. I have taken the liberty of forwarding your nformation to Representative Rick Renzi’s Casa Grande, AZ district office. I have also enclosed a copy of the letter sent to the district office. I am confident as much as possible will be done to assist you.”
The letter from Ron Paul’s office to Renzi states, “As you will see, Congressman Paul has no jurisdiction in this matter.” I had BTW sent his DC office a copy of the notarized petition sent to Ron Paul.
I wonder if I and others are wasting time and money (travel expenses, notary fees and postage) with this effort. What indication is there from Ron Paul that he will do anything with or regarding these petitions?
**Kitty Antonik Wakfer
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Comment by Kitty Antonik Wakfer — February 5, 2007 @ 4:56 pm
(bloggers note: Jodin Morey is a co-founder of http://www.ImpeachforPeace.org and the author of the DIY Impeachment Memorial that you are inquiring about, Kitty)
The letter you received is unfortunate, and is the first time I’ve heard any response since we just started sending them to him.
Impeachment is a national issue, though. He DOES have jurisdiction. The process has been researched, and any representative in the House can represent ANY citizen of the U.S. in THIS matter. His response is inappropriate. He’ll still get the message, however, once hundreds of thousands or millions show up at his office. Thanks for sending him that message.
Comment by Jodin — February 6, 2007 @ 2:31 am