Impeachment Town Hall with Conyers 5/29 at 5 p.m. in Detroit

[SharonRB]

Dear Sharon,


A moderated panel and discussion on the impeachment of President Bush and Vice-President Cheney will be held with Congressman John Conyers, Jr. on May 29 at 5 p.m. at Central United Methodist Church, located at 23 E Adams Ave., Detroit, MI 48226. The event will include national and local speakers, members of the Detroit City Council, and a special performance by jazz great Spencer Barefield & friends.

This event dovetails the Detroit City Council¹s passage, in the Name of Full Council, of a resolution calling for impeachment of Bush and Cheney on May 16. Detroit is the largest of more than 60 cities to do so.


April 24, 2007, Rep. Kucinich (OH) submitted H Res 333, calling for the Impeachment of Vice-President
Cheney; Articles of Impeachment against George W. Bush have been drafted by several organizations,
including the Center for Constitutional Rights.

The moderated panel and discussion currently includes these confirmed speakers:
*Jack Lessenberry: Detroit Metro Times editorialist.
*Bill Goodman: Former legal director of Center for Constitutional Rights, local Detroit NLG attorney.
*JoAnn Watson: Detroit City Council Member.
*Maureen Taylor: State Chair of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization.
*Ann Wright: U.S. Army Colonel and diplomat who resigned in protest the day before the war began.
*Ray McGovern: During his career as a CIA analyst, he prepared and briefed the President's Daily Brief and chaired National Intelligence Estimates. He is a member of the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence
Professionals for Sanity (VIPS).
*Malik Rahim: Co-founder Common Ground, New Orleans, Green Party Candidate for NO City Council in
2002 and former Black Panther Party member.
*Debra Sweet: National Coordinator, World Can¹t Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime!

The Detroit City Council resolution, co-sponsored by President Pro Tempore Monica Conyers and Council
Member JoAnn Watson, demonstrates that significant political and grassroots momentum is building toward impeachment. The resolution highlights the need for Impeachment as recourse for the administration¹s illegal NSA domestic surveillance, willfully misleading America in to the war in Iraq, utilizing torture in violation of US and International Law, and illegally denying Americans their Constitutional right to due process at Presidential discretion. The resolution notes these offenses to be, ³ manifest injury of the people of the City of Detroit.²

Sponsors of the event include: National Lawyers Guild, Detroit & Michigan Chapter; MIImpeach.org; Veterans for Peace; Latinos Unidos of Michigan; Michigan Welfare Rights Organization; Democrats.com; AfterDowningStreet.org; Progressive Democrats of America; World Can¹t Wait?Detroit Chapter; A28; Green Party of Michigan.

News media are welcome.
For more information on the event, call National Lawyers Guild Staff
Organizer, Eleanore Eveleth at
[phone] or send an e-mail: [e-mail]

CODEPINK supporters, WE NEED YOU AT THIS EVENT!
We can help with car pools, feel free to set up a CODEPINK table and be included in our press releases! Feel free to call me with questions as well at [phone].

Bye for now and Peace for always!

Monique Pawlicki

[bfealk]

1. Conyers will be in attendance but isn't planning to speak

I spoke to Eleanore Michigan Lawyers Guild and she informed me that Conyers is planning to attend, but doesn't plan to speak, for whatever reason. I will be recording the entire event and will hopefully be able to air the forum on Community television and be able to put it on my blog, www.MichiganProgress.blogspot.com.

[SharonRB]

2. He probably doesn't want to put a damper on it

by saying impeachment isn't going to happen, but wants to hear what goes on.

[SharonRB]

3. I heard this morning on TV that Conyers is hosting another

town hall at the same time, so I wonder if he backed out of this one. He's hosting one regarding gas prices at Wayne State's MacGregor Hall at 6 p.m.