Coleen Rowley and John Conyers to speak at Dept of Peace Conf. 9/10-12

[paineinthearse]

From THE PEACE ALLIANCE

Newly announced speakers for the
Department of Peace Conference!
Sept 10-12 2005
Washington D.C.

~ TIME Magazine "Person of the Year"
Coleen Rowley

~ Congressman John Conyers

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Coleen Rowley

In January of 1981, Coleen Rowley was appointed a Special Agent with the FBI and initially served in the Omaha, Nebraska and Jackson,
Mississippi Divisions. In 1984, she was assigned to the New York Office where, for more than 6 years, she worked on Italian organized crime and Sicilian heroin drug investigations. She also served three separate temporary duty assignments in the Paris, France Embassy and the Montreal Consulate.

In 1990, Coleen was transferred to Minneapolis where she assumed the
duties of Principal Legal Advisor (which later became "Chief Division
Counsel").

When Coleen Rowley was an FBI agent in Minneapolis, her office got a
lead just three weeks before 9-11: A known Islamic extremist named
Zacarias Moussaoui had paid $8000 in cash for lessons to fly a Boeing
747. Rowley's team arrested him and wanted a warrant to search his
laptop computer but Rowley's superiors at FBI headquarters said "no."

After 9/11, when it became clear that more could have been done, Rowley wrote FBI Director Robert Mueller a letter pointing out that "no one will ever know" the impact the computer search would have had calling his defense of the agency a "rush to judgment to protect the FBI at all costs." She testified in a Senate hearing a few weeks later. She was chosen by TIME magazine as one of their Persons of the Year in 2002.

Coleen retired from the FBI in December 2004 and is now running for
congress.

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Congressman John Conyers

Congressman Conyers is a co-sponsor of the Dept. of Peace legislation.

Having entered the House of Representatives in 1964, Mr. Conyers is the second most senior member in the House of Representatives and was
elected by his congressional colleagues to lead the Democratic side of the pivotal House Committee on the Judiciary. In addition to its
oversight of the Department of Justice (including the FBI) and the
Federal Courts, the Judiciary Committee has jurisdiction over
copyright, constitutional, consumer protection, and civil rights
issues. Congressman Conyers was also a member of the Judiciary
Committee in its 1974 hearings on the Watergate impeachment scandal and played a prominent role in the recent impeachment process, giving him the distinction as the only Judiciary Committee Member to have served on both panels.

Congressman Conyers is also one of the 13 founding members of the
Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) and is considered the Dean of that
group. Formed in 1969, the CBC was founded to strengthen
African-American law makers ability to address the legislative concerns of Black and minority citizens.

In Mr. Conyers' 35 years in Congress, some of his major accomplishments include: the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, the Motor Voter Bill of 1993, the Martin Luther King Holiday Act of 1983, the Alcohol Warning Label Act of 1988, the Jazz Preservation Act of 1987, and was the driving force behind the Help America Vote Act of 2002. Congressman Conyers also played a pivotal role in the push to draw attention to the Downing Street memos this year.

Learn more and register now!
http://www.thepeacealliance.org/events/sept_conf_05.htm

[gademocrat7]

1. Congressman John Conyers is a beacon of hope

He has worked tirelessly for our causes. I wish more Dems had his determination and stamina. AKA backbone!

[goodhue]

2. This should be a great event.

If I wasn't stuck here in the upper midwest I would be there!

[Tari]

5. Conyers is also scheduled to speak at Fighting Bob Fest

in Baraboo, WI the weekend of Sept. 10th.

I read the directions on how to post a link, but don't know if I'm doing it correctly. Here goes: http://www.fightingbobfest.com/link. If that didn't work, Google Fighting Bob.

Also scheduled for Fighting Bob Fest are Amy Goodman, Jim Hightower & Mike Nichols, to name a few.

If you're not familiar with Wisconsin, Baraboo is about 2 hours east on I-90 from LaCrosse, about an hour north of Madison & minutes south of Wisconsin Dells.

Should be a great time.

[Tari]

6. Link didn't work, will try again

http://www.fightingbobfest.com/

[paineinthearse]

10. This should be a stand-alone post in the...

GDP,Wisconsin, and all neighboring states' forums.

http://www.fightingbobfest.com/speakers.htm

"Those questions and more will be addressed by a fantastic group of speakers beginning with the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers. Conyers, the leading voice in trying to get answers about the Downing Street Memo, held an investigation and hearings in Ohio following the Kerry-Bush campaign...."

Tari....welcome to DU :hi:

[goodhue]

7. That is great news!

I guess a road trip to Baraboo is in my future. :toast:

[Independent_Liberal]

3. Kick!

[goodhue]

4. This should be recommended for greatest page!

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[paineinthearse]

8. Will there be CSPAN coverage?

Please contact CSPAN and recommend they give this coverage.

www.cspan.org

[autorank]

9. Rowley rocks! She's a patriot. I'll send her good wishes and $$$'s

for her campaign. What a Member of Congress she would make!!!

[Dynasty_At_Passes]

11. Sibel Edmonds should run for congress too!

And we'll toss out the lying machines and put in paper ballots, time for a real human congress and a virtual clean out!

[autorank]

12. Edmonds would be great. Put them both on House Judiciary w/Conyers Chair.

[paineinthearse]

13. Draft Edmonds!

Sibel's home page.

Anyone know in what CD she lives?

[Nothing Without Hope]

14. Gtetting good threads like this to the Greatest is so difficult now.

Here's recommendation #3, two more still to go.

Another problem is that so much time is taken to get to Greatest where they can be seen, the 24 hours expires much too quickly for people to recommend the best threads so that they stand out. I think we should ask for extra time AFTER the post reaches the Greatest Page.

Edited to say: I just tried to recommend this post - I've just seen it for the first time - but the 24 hours is already past and it will remain stuck at 2 votes and functionally INVISIBLE except by checking at the valuable Conyers Group. (Thank you, Paine, for posting there so regularly. I think a lot of people are like me, in that they go there to get the latest headsup on Conyers' many excellent doings. Thanks to you, they can.)

This rule change is going to turn a lot of people off bothering to post, cause a lot of fragmented dupes, and make a lot of important threads invisible. We need to write to the admins about it. This is important for DU.