Downing Street Minutes Hearings and Rally June 16th in DC

[WilliamPitt]

The pressure is on, and we need your support <https://www.pdamerica.org/donate.php>.
Your support <https://www.pdamerica.org/donate.php> can help PDA and its allies put
heat on the Bush Administration based on the Downing Street Minutes and this immoral
and illegal war.

The scandal surrounding the release of the Downing Street Minutes
<http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/> is reaching a crescendo, a tipping point, and
Progressive Democrats of America <http://www.pdamerica.org/> needs your help
<https://www.pdamerica.org/donate.php> right now to place this all-important issue
at the forefront of discussion regarding the occupation of Iraq. PDA is working with
our allies to organize a hearing and rally in Washington, DC on June 16th to focus
attention on the Minutes, and we need your contributions
<https://www.pdamerica.org/donate.php> to make it happen.

With grassroots support, PDA was a co-founder of a coalition of more than 50 groups
to create www.AfterDowningStreet.org, a site dedicated to demand that Congress pass
a formal Resolution of Inquiry and investigate the manner in which we were brought
to war in Iraq. As part of this effort, Rep. John Conyers has collected nearly
200,000 signatures on his letter demanding that Bush be accountable for the damning
information contained in the Minutes. The combined efforts of activists all across
the country, along with the work of Rep. Conyers and his House allies, is moving the
pile.

You can help us push this issue over the top, and we need your help now
<https://www.pdamerica.org/donate.php>. PDA is working with our allies to organize a
hearing in Washington DC, as well as a rally in Lafayette Park, on June 16th,
regarding the Minutes. We need your support <https://www.pdamerica.org/donate.php>
immediately to help fund the rally, to mobilize our activists effectively, to help
continue the collection of signatures for Rep. Conyers' letter, and to keep the heat
on both the Bush administration and the news media.

The Minutes <http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/> , as many of you already know, is
an internal secret document from July of 2002 leaked by a British official at the
beginning of May. The Minutes clearly state that the premise for invasion was
illegal, but that Bush had already decided to make war and so "intelligence and
facts were being fixed around the policy." This document exposes the reality behind
this invasion, the deliberate lies and misdirection undertaken by the Bush
administration to make the invasion happen, and has after the inexplicable passage
of weeks without mention in the press, begun to burn hot and bright across the news
and political spectrums.

The time is now, and we need your help. Please donate to the activism on this issue
here <https://www.pdamerica.org/donate.php>. Go to AfterDowningStreet.org for the
most recent information on our activities on this issue, or visit PDA’s site at
www.pdamerica.org. Also, read PDA Political Advisor Steve Cobble's report on the
Minutes in The Nation here
<http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050620&s=cobble>.

This is the moment. Please join us and help make the Downing Street Minutes the
'Pentagon Papers' of our time. It can happen, and it will happen, with your help.

[shraby]

1. Will, go to MoveOn

they have a running tally on the signatures. It's over 280,000 now.

<http://www.moveonpac.org/tellthetruth/>

[dooner]

22. 330,957 signature now!

[Triana]

2. Same day as Conyer's Hearing - great timing!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1842562

[tex-wyo-dem]

3. Wow!! Thanks for posting, Will!!

Do you feel something in the air?

[sundancekid]

4. signatures up to "We've achieved 56 % of our 500,000 goal (284,000)!"

keep it up DU and help PDA, of course too!!!

http://www.moveonpac.org/tellthetruth/

[RBHam]

5. God, I hope it's not too late!

Shwarzenegger wants California National Guardsmen returned home...

For what?

Flooding?

Earthquake?

Fires?

Dirty bomb containmnet?

[blm]

6. And please STICK to just ONE ISSUE - Downing Street Minutes

Every other story sucks the energy out of DSM. Don't let the media bastards get away with their manufactured distractions.

[Kolesar]

12. Not even one A.N.S.W.E.R. speaker talking about Palestine? ... eom

[WilliamPitt]

14. Free Mumia! Free Peltier! Up with live food!

*ducking, fleeing, giggling*

:)

[VelmaD]

16. You loony

:crazy:

Just the giggle I needed on a long Thursday afternoon at work. :loveya:

[wicket]

7. kicked and nominated

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[bejammin075]

8. We will never back down

it's time to take a stand, and we're taking a stand.

Bush will be held accountable for his crimes against humanity.

[Jack Rabbit]

9. There will be an impressive number of signatures

Too bad the MSM won't cover it.

I'm sure CNN will spend the day discussing the implication of the Jackson verdict, assuming it comes in before then, or speculating on what it might be, assuming it hasn't.

[MuseRider]

10. Thanks Will.

I finally donated, finally. Nominated and kicked.

[AuntiBush]

11. Kicked, Donated & Will be there to Walk w/Conyers proudly!

Thanks Will...

DU'ers: Checkout the "video" section of http://wwww.truthout.org/ for a clip of Will talking about some interesting plans.

Also, head for http://www.randirhodes.com/ She's talked about this very event on http://www.airamericaradio.com/ just moments ago after interviewing Congressman Conyers. You can learn a lot thanks to Randi.

Stay informed.

[Griffy]

24. ME too .. I'll see you downtown! this will be good...

I hope it will cools down here in DC!

[AuntiBush]

26. Get one of those Battery-Operated Plastic Fans.

It's been too hot, too soon. The weather in D.C. changes all of the time. If we we can sweat-out this administration, we can handle anything.

[Generic Other]

13. 200,000 signatures? That's amazing!

Proud signer!

[montanacowboy]

15. Donated!

Thanks Will. Sure wish I still lived in DC, I would love to go.

Go Mr. Conyers!!!!!! Love ya.

[redwitch]

17. id love to be at that rally!

my last final exam is on the 15. maybe i will go down with some people via train!!

[KoKo]

18. Thanks...good news....! n/t

[ThomWV]

19. Do You Know How Few People Know or Care About It?

I just came back from a week on the North Carolina coast. I asked every person I came into conversation with if they had ever heard of it as either a "Memo" or as "Minutes". Not one person had heard of it. This was as late as this past Tuesday evening.

Now tell me again how the nation is on fire about this one.

[goclark]

20. Our enthusiasm and positive spirit

count a lot!

Those of us that want to make it catch on are inspired by this action!

Those of us who are bullied by the rethugs will think it's a waste of time.

Watergate turned slowly, this may too butw e are in it for the long run.

[Triana]

21. NC is a red state...

...they get their news from fox. also - it's not that ppl don't care - they can't care about what they're not aware of. this action by conyers and the media coverage will hopefully get the information out to more people so they are better informed.

[Hissyspit]

30. Can't start a fire without a spark...

I'm in NC and it's tough, but it it's changing, gradually. Like Watergate.

[WilliamPitt]

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[DancingBear]

25. Damn!

We are moving, and the 16th is the day the truck(s) are unloading at the new house.

Please let me know if I can do anything else in the interim.

[WillyT]

27. Kick !!!

:kick:

[Saboburns]

28. June 16th??

Fuck it. I'll be there.

[berni_mccoy]

29. Kick! and Recommended!

:kick:

[Mnemosyne]

31. .

:kick:

[burrowowl]

32. Kick

for all who can be in DC.
NM is a might far away if you don't have enough change.

[Triana]

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[WilliamPitt]

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[KoKo]

35. kick................

[WilliamPitt]

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[WilliamPitt]

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[Cash]

38. I'm tired of getting my hopes up...

...just to have them dashed again. I don't know how many times it's happened here because I'm relatively new, but on another progressive board on which I participated for almost 2 years before joining here it seemed every week or two it was "Oh, this is the big one that's going to take down Bush. Drip, drip, drip." In reality, there is no drip, drip, drip. Never has been.

Sincere best to those who want to continue to pursue these things, but I'd rather direct my energies towards working with my local and state organizations to see what can be done in '06. I make this post in case there's others out there like me, just to let you know you're not alone.

[WilliamPitt]

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[LightningFlash]

40. Hearings June 15th. Let's hope Sensenbrenner doesn't have a fit.