{"id":2788,"date":"2007-07-23T21:56:47","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T03:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=2788"},"modified":"2017-05-21T02:38:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T08:38:36","slug":"office-arrest-the-shame-of-john-conyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/office-arrest-the-shame-of-john-conyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Office Arrest: The Shame of John Conyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/john-conyers.jpg\" > <img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/john-conyers.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"john-conyers.jpg\" align= \"left\"\/><\/a>AfterDowningStreet.org<br \/>\nBy Dave Lindorff<\/p>\n<p>If Rosa Parks had lived two years longer, what happened today in the halls of Congress might have killed her. It certainly would have broken her heart.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. John Conyers, venerable member of Congress, finally chair of the House Judiciary Committee, a man who worked with Parks in Alabama and then hired her on his staff after he won election to Congress in Detroit, today had several dozen impeachment activists, including Gold Star Families for Peace founder Cindy Sheehan, Iraq Veteran Against the War activist Lennox Yearwood and Intelligence Veterans for Sanity founder Ray McGovern arrested for conducting a sit-in in his office in the Rayburn House Office Building.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afterdowningstreet.org\/?q=node\/25015\">(Original Article)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AfterDowningStreet.org By Dave Lindorff If Rosa Parks had lived two years longer, what happened today in the halls of Congress might have killed her. It certainly would have broken her heart. Rep. 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