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IMPEACH! More Photos from Berkeley
Here are more photos from Brad Newsham's 4th Beach Impeach Action. Brad was a taxicab driver who was tired of hearing people complain about the direction our country took since the Bush administration was installed in Washington, D.C.
He decided to do something personal-- and thousands of people have since joined him in his demand for change. Here are photos from today's action at the Cesar Chavez Park near the Berkeley, California Marina located on the beautiful San Francisco Bay.
He decided to do something personal-- and thousands of people have since joined him in his demand for change. Here are photos from today's action at the Cesar Chavez Park near the Berkeley, California Marina located on the beautiful San Francisco Bay.
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Berkeley, California
October 7, 2007
Somewhat more remote than earlier locations-- the morning began at the Beach Impeach #4 site with a sparse arrival of attendees. Bart does not run directly between San Francisco and Berkeley on Sundays, and bus service does not serve the park adequately. Thousands were elsewhere attending the popular Columbus Day parade in San Francisco's North Beach district-- and countless others were doubtless participating in the popular San Francisco Fleet Week activities (with its requisite "patriotic" fly-over by the U.S. Navy's Blue Angel team). As early as yesterday Brad Newsham worried that not enough people were signing up to participate.
Just the same-- hundreds of people still managed to arrive-- people who have thought seriously about what patriotism means at a time when their government leaders have put their families and friends in the service of illegal wars, torture, and multiple breaches against the U.S. Constitution.
There were enough people (probably the anticipated 1,000 or more) to write IMPEACH! with their prone bodies such that their feelings could be communicated to photographers who flew in by plane and helicopter.
And to make this impeach action especially exciting and memorable-- special guests participated: notably CINDY SHEEHAN (who is running for Congress against Nancy Pelosi, the San Francisco representative and House Speaker who has refused to honor the U.S. Constitution by impeaching the most criminal George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney)...
...and CYNTHIA MCKINNEY who, with much prodding from devoted fans, is expressing an interest to run for President of the United States as a Green Party candidate. Cynthia is best known for her consistent courage in confronting the most corrupt faces of power in Washington.
At the close of her congressional term in 2006, she was first to introduce articles of impeachment against Bush.
Following are some of the first snapshots I took of today's Beach Impeach action. (More will follow.)
These photos are contributed for the sake of the people who participated-- and also for the many millions of other people who might have wished that they could have participated.
Make no mistake:
MILLIONS of PATRIOTIC Americans today, irrespective of what Representative Nancy Pelosi has said, want to see Impeachment "put on the table".
They want Bush and Cheney, and all those who recklessly helped them TO ANSWER FOR THEIR ACTIONS:
ACTIONS THAT HAVE RESULTED IN MILLIONS OF HORRIBLE AND NEEDLESS DEATHS FOR MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN AT HOME AND AROUND THE WORLD; ACTIONS THAT HAVE BLED THE U.S. TREASURY DIVERTING HUMANITARIAN TAX-PAID MONIES TO THE MOST GREEDY AND UNCONSCIONABLE CORPORATE ENTITIES AND INDIVIDUALS; ACTIONS THAT HAVE DESECRATED THE U.S. REPUBLIC THROUGH A WILLFUL AND CALLOUS DISREGARD FOR THE U.S. CONSTITUTION ITSELF BY USURPERS OF POWER WHO FALSELY SWORE TO UPHOLD IT.
October 7, 2007
Somewhat more remote than earlier locations-- the morning began at the Beach Impeach #4 site with a sparse arrival of attendees. Bart does not run directly between San Francisco and Berkeley on Sundays, and bus service does not serve the park adequately. Thousands were elsewhere attending the popular Columbus Day parade in San Francisco's North Beach district-- and countless others were doubtless participating in the popular San Francisco Fleet Week activities (with its requisite "patriotic" fly-over by the U.S. Navy's Blue Angel team). As early as yesterday Brad Newsham worried that not enough people were signing up to participate.
Just the same-- hundreds of people still managed to arrive-- people who have thought seriously about what patriotism means at a time when their government leaders have put their families and friends in the service of illegal wars, torture, and multiple breaches against the U.S. Constitution.
There were enough people (probably the anticipated 1,000 or more) to write IMPEACH! with their prone bodies such that their feelings could be communicated to photographers who flew in by plane and helicopter.
And to make this impeach action especially exciting and memorable-- special guests participated: notably CINDY SHEEHAN (who is running for Congress against Nancy Pelosi, the San Francisco representative and House Speaker who has refused to honor the U.S. Constitution by impeaching the most criminal George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney)...
...and CYNTHIA MCKINNEY who, with much prodding from devoted fans, is expressing an interest to run for President of the United States as a Green Party candidate. Cynthia is best known for her consistent courage in confronting the most corrupt faces of power in Washington.
At the close of her congressional term in 2006, she was first to introduce articles of impeachment against Bush.
Following are some of the first snapshots I took of today's Beach Impeach action. (More will follow.)
These photos are contributed for the sake of the people who participated-- and also for the many millions of other people who might have wished that they could have participated.
Make no mistake:
MILLIONS of PATRIOTIC Americans today, irrespective of what Representative Nancy Pelosi has said, want to see Impeachment "put on the table".
They want Bush and Cheney, and all those who recklessly helped them TO ANSWER FOR THEIR ACTIONS:
ACTIONS THAT HAVE RESULTED IN MILLIONS OF HORRIBLE AND NEEDLESS DEATHS FOR MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN AT HOME AND AROUND THE WORLD; ACTIONS THAT HAVE BLED THE U.S. TREASURY DIVERTING HUMANITARIAN TAX-PAID MONIES TO THE MOST GREEDY AND UNCONSCIONABLE CORPORATE ENTITIES AND INDIVIDUALS; ACTIONS THAT HAVE DESECRATED THE U.S. REPUBLIC THROUGH A WILLFUL AND CALLOUS DISREGARD FOR THE U.S. CONSTITUTION ITSELF BY USURPERS OF POWER WHO FALSELY SWORE TO UPHOLD IT.
For more information:
http://www.beachimpeach.org/
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Isn't anyone else sick of all that pink?
Doesn't anyone notice that Code Pink has trivialized the anti-war and impeachment issue by focusing attention on themselves and their hackneyed outfits?
Why does Code Pink get access to hearings and get media coverage? is it because they wear pink and are easily marginalized and the media can use them to make the 'peace movement' seem silly?
When a Code Pink member wearing a fairy crown at a press conference, talking in a little kindergarten voice, is put forward as a spokesperson, it does nothing to win people over to the anti-war side. It has done nothing to stop the war funding or pressure Congress to impeach Bush Cheney.
Why don't legitimate activists get the access that Code Pink seems to get? Who funds Code Pink? Are they tools of the state?
Let's retire the overdone Code Pink theme and build a movement not based on costumes.
Doesn't anyone notice that Code Pink has trivialized the anti-war and impeachment issue by focusing attention on themselves and their hackneyed outfits?
Why does Code Pink get access to hearings and get media coverage? is it because they wear pink and are easily marginalized and the media can use them to make the 'peace movement' seem silly?
When a Code Pink member wearing a fairy crown at a press conference, talking in a little kindergarten voice, is put forward as a spokesperson, it does nothing to win people over to the anti-war side. It has done nothing to stop the war funding or pressure Congress to impeach Bush Cheney.
Why don't legitimate activists get the access that Code Pink seems to get? Who funds Code Pink? Are they tools of the state?
Let's retire the overdone Code Pink theme and build a movement not based on costumes.
They're not perfect, but I have grown to admire these troopers who fight for good causes in so many places and at so many levels. We who want to demand more and compromise less still have a lot to learn from them.
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