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In Minneapolis as part of the International A28 Impeachment Event<\/a>, ImpeachforPeace.org and WorldCantWait.org organized a unique variation on John and Yoko’s “sleep in” for peace. Utilizing over sixty bedsheets to spell out “IMPEACH” in letters nearly forty feet tall on the grass of a park across the Mississippi River from the University of Minnesota’s Weismann Art Museum.<\/p>\n


\n ~ Image Copyright Bert Schlauch, Minneapolis, MN<\/small>
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\n As dusk settled in and the light grew dimmer, impeachment activists lifted each letter in turn and underlit it with flashlights as seen in the composite photograph (above).<\/p>\n

Students and other passersby were amazed looking down from the Washington Avenue Bridge that travels between the West and East Banks of campus – many took flyers and thanked organizers as horns honked in agreement from passing cars on the West River Road below as the letters took form (below).
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\n ~ Image Copyright Bert Schlauch, Minneapolis, MN<\/small>
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Some other scenes from the A28 Impeachment event in Minneapolis, Minnesota:<\/p>\n

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\n ~ Image Copyright George Bloom, Minneapolis, MN<\/small>
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