Bush to Host Putin, Americans to Protest Bush

Bush to Host Putin, Americans to Protest Bush
Thousands expected to protest while Russian leader is in Maine
By Karen Dandurant, Portsmouth Herald
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine — A protest march next month, planned to coincide with President George W. Bush's meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin, is expected to draw a crowd of thousands.
The protest march and citizens summit will be held at 1 p.m., Sunday, July 1, at the Village Green on Ocean Avenue in Kennebunkport. The rally will be held rain or shine, and is being organized by The Kennebunks' Peace Department and the Maine Campaign to Impeach. Event coordinators are Kittery businesswoman Jamilla El-Shafei of the Peace Department and Deborah Gordon of the Maine Campaign to Impeach.
Rally participants will call for the impeachment of Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, and for the immediate withdrawal of American troops from Iraq.
"When Bush is coming in my backyard, I feel I have to hold him accountable," said El-Shafei. "He and Cheney need to be impeached. This is a perfect opportunity to let national and local media know we do not stand with this president. We do not support his foreign and domestic policies. He has caused death and destruction from Iraq to (Hurricane) Katrina. His actions are unconscionable. In my opinion, he makes the Nixon administration look like the Hardy Boys. It the most scurrilous bunch of crooks in the history of the American presidency."
El Shafei said the timing is extremely important.

"We want to point out that Chechnya is their (Russia's) Iraq," she said. "Because of these two presidents who think they are czars, innocent people are dying and countries are being destroyed. It's important to point out the link between those two. Both imperialistic empires have invaded and destroyed oil-rich countries, and that should not go unnoticed."

Immediately before the march begins, David Swanson, co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org, and John Kaminski, chairman of Maine Lawyers for Democracy, will address the crowd.

AfterDowningStreet.org is a nonpartisan coalition of more than 200 veterans, peace, and political-activist groups that works to pressure both Congress and the media to investigate whether President Bush has committed impeachable offenses in connection with the Iraq war.
Kaminski's organization of more than 80 lawyers brought to the Maine Legislature a detailed position paper calling for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney. In this paper, the MLD cites deceptions used to justify the commencement of the Iraq war, the illegality of the war under the terms of international treaties to which the United States is a signatory, and the illegal wiretapping of U.S. citizens. Further grounds for impeachment, according to the MLD, include the administration's use of torture, detention without trials and the suspension of habeas corpus.
"Unless this administration is held accountable through impeachment, their unchecked abuses of power will set precedent for future U.S. presidents," said Kaminski.

Music will start at 11 a.m. and include Pat Scanlon and Band of Andover, Mass.; Matt Loosigian, a folksinger from Brunswick, Maine; and the Raging Grannies of Maine and Massachusetts.
GETTING AROUNDPARKING: Due to the large crowd of protesters expected, organizers are asking that people park at Kennebunk High School on Fletcher Street (Route 35). People traveling on Interstate 95 should take Exit 25 and immediately get on Route 35 South. Kennebunk High is roughly one mile from I-95.
SHUTTLE: Beginning at 9 a.m., shuttle buses will transport people to the march in Kennebunkport.
INFORMATION: Send e-mail to http://us.f354.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=jamillaelshafei@yahoo.com or call 969-7574 in New Hampshire, or http://us.f354.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=greenpointdesign@hotmail.com or (207) 671-4701 in Maine.********************************************************
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Follow the Generals

No time today for now but this is a worthwhile cause from move on. Read their actions carefully before you jump on the bandwagon. A fact which I have found to be true of them AND working assets, both of whom I promote from time to time.


It hasn't hit the news wires yet, but retired Generals Robert Gard and John Johns are going public today with something big. They're calling on Congress to ban the use of torture, restore the right to trial and shut down the disastrous prison camp at Guantanamo Bay.
You can be sure the blowback from the right wing will be serious. But there's a growing chorus of judges, scholars, military experts, and regular folks who believe that President Bush's abuse of our Constitution is making us less secure. The generals join it just in time: There are new reports that even some Bush administration insiders are pushing to shut down Guantanamo.1
This could be a tipping point in the fight to restore our liberties. Can you join Generals Gard and Johns TODAY—and call on Congress to stop torture, close Guantanamo, and bring back the right to trial? Clicking below will add your name to the petition. (You can read the full petition text in the box to the right.)
http://pol.moveon.org/endtorture/one_click_sign.pl?id=10573-6787274-mYInwi&t=4
We'll deliver your comments directly to your senators and representative TOMORROW—along with thousands of other voices from the ACLU, True Majority and others as part of the biggest national day of action to restore law and justice in years.
Why now? Today, under the guise of the "war on terror," the White House is systematically dismantling the very core principles that have made America great. But even military leaders are speaking out against these policies because they're putting our troops at risk. As Jon Soltz, an Iraq veteran and chairman of VoteVets.org says:
"Ending torture and shutting down Guantanamo are critical to protecting our troops in the field and winning the hearts and minds of the people we need most. If our government condones torture and detainment without trial, then our enemies will take that as license to torture our troops. These acts tarnish our image as a fair and just nation around the world."
We were hopeful that the new Congress would act quickly to right the wrongs of the last six years. But they haven't done it yet.
A lot of Democrats in Congress don't understand that there are millions of us who take our Constitution very seriously. They think that only elites worry about the Constitution and they're worried about being attacked for being "weak on security."
But preserving these core principles is essential to our security—we can't lead on freedom abroad when we condone torture in our own backyard.
And this is far from a partisan issue. Conservatives have a stake in preserving the integrity of our democracy too. In fact, head of the American Conservative Union, David Keene and former Republican congressman Bob Barr have signed on to a pledge very similar to this.2
It's time to restate the simple, nonnegotiable truth about what it means to be an American. What it means be a democracy. The president operates under the law. We do not torture. We, like the founders of our country, believe that liberty is the foundation of our security, not a threat to our security.
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