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

Tue Mar 13 08:49:33 PDT 2007

Awesome!  We *actually got ink!* I don't think we even really planned
the paper coverage, did we??? This was just a case of a reporter
actually doing their job - imagine that!!!

Impeach for Peace!

Drew

--- MKmusic03 at aol.com wrote:

> 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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