[Sosfbay-discuss] Los Gatos Observer Article About Saturday's Demonstration (miniwalk)

Tue Mar 13 00:15:04 PDT 2007

Hi All,

Check out the article from the Los Gatos Observer about our Silicon Valley 
Impeachment Coalition's Impeach demonstration and miniwalk in Los Gatos on 
Saturday.

Lucille from Santa Cruz sent out the article to the SBM list.

Merriam

P.S. this is the link for the article that worked for me, the link Lucille 
sent didn't open. 
http://losgatosobserver.com/los-gatos/FrontPage.php 

Hi Lucille,

Thank you for sending this article.

http://losgatosobserver.com/los-gatos/FrontPage.php 

The group that initiated this action in Los Gatos on Saturday was the Silicon 
Valley Impeachment Coalition of which I am a member of.  We are a coalition 
of the Green Party of Santa Clara County, South Bay Impeachment Committee, 
members of Mountain View Voices For Peace, 911 Truth Alliance and individual 
activists.   There were 11 people in Los Gatos from 5:00pm - 6:00pm.  Two of our 
members who could not make it until after 7:30pm did the "2nd shift."  Our 
coalition began this miniwalk action in Mt. View were we have had great response 
from the passerbys and the drivers.  Since we have seen success from our Mt. 
View action (we've been doing the miniwalks for about 2 months) we have decided 
to take our miniwalks "on the road", that is to do them in Los Gatos, Saratoga 
and San Jose.  We call them miniwalks because that is what we do, we walk up 
and down the street carrying our IMPEACH signs.  We find this is an excellent 
way to interact with people.  They come up to us and start talking about 
impeachment pro and con.

On Saturday in Los Gatos there were 13 of us including the "2nd shirft."  The 
response was very positive.  People told us they were happy to see us doing 
this action. (that is what we are told in Mt. View also.)

Merriam

whatsnextlm at yahoo.com wrote:

I received this article in my Google Alert "Impeach Bush"...  You can post 
your comments about impeachment on the website of the Los Gatos Observer.  Go to 
the article at:  http://losgatosobserver.com/los-gatos/Article.php 

And THANK YOU to the folks who took Los Gatos' "impeachment temperature"!

Lucille

Impeach Bush, Los Gatans Told

Petition drive in Town Plaza

By Alastair Dallas 03/10/07 5:53 pm
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At least 7 protesters gathered near the post office Sat. night to express 
themselves with signs reading "Impeach Bush/Cheney" and "Don't be Fuelish." The 
individuals seemed determined but calm and willing to listen to other points of 
view.
"Senator [J. William] Fulbright, back in the 60s, said that if you don't like 
what your government is doing," one protester explained, "then you have a 
constitutional duty to make your views heard."
 Several protesters gathered across from the post office. Others arrived, and 
the group headed up N. Santa Cruz Ave.
The protesters have been picketing in Mountain View and decided to try a 
different locale.
"We thought we'd take the temperature here in Los Gatos," one said. Within a 
few minutes, they had gathered a couple of signatures on their impeachment 
petition, along with a harangue by someone they described as being a Rush 
Limbaugh fan.
The protest seemed loosely organized; it's not clear when the group will 
return. The important thing, beyond gathering signatures, seems to be just getting 
the word out. Free speech is alive in Los Gatos.

What do you think?

  lamoyer0 03/11/07 11:21 am [] []
It's about time. The law is the law. Bush/Cheney and their band of the worst 
'mafia' in the history of this country, probably the world have committed so 
many impeachable offenses, from lying to Americans, congress, the UN, the 
world, to an illegal war-for-profit, to TORTURE, to illegal wire tapping.... WHICH 
BUSH ADMITS TO AND ARROGANTLY INFORMS US HE WILL CONTINUE TO DO... TO OUTING A 
COVERT CIA AGENT AND ITS OPERATION (tracking WMD's, for God's sake), which is 
ON ITS FACE... TREASON. The Republicans, who "conserve" NOTHING, including 
our precious Constitution, have LOOTED America to support this murderous Bush 
Mafia. Bush, Cheney, Gonzalez/Ashcroft, Rice, Rove, Rumsfeld.. ALL... have way 
beyond exceeded the "standards for impeachment" set by the Republicans, 
themselves, that their ignoring these presidential crimes is complicity and treason, 
as well. IMPEACHMENT IS A CONSTITUTIONAL PROCESS, of investigation and 
indictment, that discovers the truth (hopefully) and writes their crimes into 
history. IF IT ISN'T WRITTEN, IT DIDN'T HAPPEN. 
IMPEACHMENT SAYS, "WE'RE SORRY!" Something the world needs, and which may be 
the only thing that convinces the world that the American People do not 
condone the crimes of this indifferent, murderous administration. It may be, in 
fact, the one and only thing that will save the lives of countless Americans and 
our economy...way into the future. The search for the truth through impeachment 
will undoubtedly expose the corporate greed that war feeds, as well as its 
poisoning of human beings for profit and the fact that the U.S. military has 
become a fascist corporate tool to capture and hold the resources and lives 
struggling nations, and human beings around the world. 
What kind of a country have we become when the American People are convinced 
(like "good Germnans") that it's ok to let these rich bastards murder 650,000 
Iraqi human beings, including infants and children... TO FEED THEIR ADDICTION 
TO PROFIT AND POWER? 

Arthur 03/11/07 10:11 am
A better sign would read. "Uphold the Constitution and enforce Federal law." 
The Federal War Crimes Act of 1996 should be invoked NOW! Indict, try, 
convict, and EXECUTE Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Gonzales and all the other war 
criminals, mass murderers, war mongerers, CIA death squads, war profiteers and 
conspirators in our government. Hang them high from the top of the Washington 
Monument as a signal to the rest of the world that Americans will NOT tolerate 
war criminals and murderers at the head of our government. DO IT AND DO IT NOW!

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