http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/23901Rep. Maxine Waters Speaks Out for Impeachment
Submitted by davidswanson on Sat, 2007-06-23 17:23. Activism | Congress | Impeachment
Breaking News:
Rep. Maxine Waters, co-sponsor of H. Res. 333 (Articles of Impeachment
of Dick Cheney) and Debra Sweet of World Can't Wait, Drive Out the Bush Regime have
agreed to speak at the Tuesday, June 26, 2007 DC book event for "Impeach the President: the Case Against Bush and Cheney."They are joining authors Dennis Loo, Barbara Bowley, Larry Everest and Mark Crispin
Miller. Details follow:
A Book Event for "Impeach the President: the Case Against Bush and Cheney"
An excerpt from the book:
"The Bush-Cheney administration and the radical right-wing forces that it represents
constitute an extraordinary threat to the world. As events unfold, this becomes ever more
painfully evident: The appalling debacle of Katrina; the disastrous and immoral occupation
of Iraq with no end in sight; the murder of prisoners by American personnel in Iraq,
Afghanistan, and Guantanamo, and the covert rendition of prisoners to nations known for
torture; Bush's admission that he secretly and illegally authorized spying on all Americans and his brazen declaration upon being caught that he will continue to do so, and on and on. Their corruption, incompetence, criminal activity, and disregard for human rights and the law seem endless. The White House has become increasingly embattled as a result of these events, but it will take unprecedented popular action to end this regime.
Governments do not fall of their own weight; they must be driven out."
Place and Time:
Tuesday, June 26, 2007 at 7:00 p.m.
UDC David A. Clarke School of Law
Building 39, Room 201
4200 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20008
The Law School is at the corner of Van Ness and Connecticut Avenue and nearly atop the
Metro Red Line Van Ness/UDC Station. There is wheelchair access from both Connecticut
Avenue and from the parking garage, which is located 1/4 block west on Van Ness from
Connecticut.
Speakers: Dennis Loo, Associate Professor of Sociology at California State Polytechnic
University, Pomona. He graduated with honors in Government from Harvard and received
his MA and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California at Santa Cruz. His recent
article, "No Paper Trail Left Behind: The Theft of the 2004 Presidential Election" was
honored by Project Censored in 2006. He is a former journalist and his research
specialties include polling, public policy making, social movements, and criminology.
Barbara J. Bowley is Associate Professor of Social Studies and Information Literacy at
Woodbury University's School of Media, Culture, and Design in Burbank, California. She
received her MA in Anthropology and her MS in Library Service from Columbia University.
Mark Crispin Miller is Professor of Culture and Communication at New York University. His
books include The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder and Fooled
again: How the Right Stole the Election of 2004: The Real Case for Electoral Reform. His
off-Broadway Show, A Patriot Act, is available on DVD, at
markcrispinmiller.com.mcm7@MAIL.nyu.edu
Larry Everest is the author of Oil, Power & Empire: Iraq and the US Global Agenda from
Common Courage Press (2004). Everest has covered the Middle East and Central Asia for
over twenty-five years for Revolution newspaper (www.revcom.us) and other publications.
In 1986, Everest wrote Behind the Poison Cloud: Union Carbide's Bhopal Massacre. In
1991, he traveled to Iraq and shot the award winning video Iraq: War Against the People.
In 2005, he testified at the culminating session of the World Tribunal on Iraq in Istanbul,
Turkey and helped organize the 2005-2006 International Commission of Inquiry on
Crimes Against Humanity by the Bush Administration.
Hon. Representative Maxine Waters, co-sponsor of H. Res. 333, Articles of Impeachment
of Richard Cheney.