On March 30, Senator Patrick Leahy gave five Vermonters a half hour of his time. We were: Martha Hennessy, a peace activist from Weathersfield, John Nirenberg, a Brattleboro man who walked from Boston to Washington D.C. in 2007 to call for impeachment, Charlotte Dennett from Cambridge, who ran for Attorney ...
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Vermont doesn't look like Bush country
It's only state he hasn't visited while in office By Ken Herman / Cox News Service BRATTLEBORO, VT. — It's not that President Bush is ignoring Vermont, which twice gave him the fewest votes of any state. Heck, on Friday he declared part of it a disaster. It's just that ...
New Hampshire Impeachment Efforts Get Final Boost Before Vote ...by Dan DeWalt
On April 14, close to 500 legislators and citizens packed the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord NH and sat through more than three hours of words and music making the case for the N.H. House to send an impeachment investigation resolution to the U.S. Congress. The vote will ...
200 flock to rally for impeachment
State representatives to vote on resolution By Lauren R. Dorgan / Concord Monitor Calling President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney "domestic enemies," Pentagon Papers icon Daniel Ellsberg headlined a rally in Concord last night calling for their impeachment. The rally, which drew more than 200 people to the Capitol ...
Gathering of Eagles, or Chicken Little's Lament? ...by Dan DeWalt
Linesville PA – On March 26, in a drab magistrate's courtroom overlooking the desolate streets of this once bustling town, an unlikely drama unfolded - drama that was at once a farce and at the same time a telling parable of the two Americas that have grown out of George ...
Why NH Must Resolve to Impeach Now ...by Dan DeWalt
New Hampshire legislator Betty Hall is bringing a Bush/Cheney impeachment resolution to a vote in the NH House on April 16. Over 100 citizens recently attended the committee hearing for the resolution and testified why action from New Hampshire is so important now. Please listen to Barbara HIlton, from SeaCoast ...
Vermont Vets Put Themselves on the Line for the Sake of the Truth ...by Dan DeWalt
"I can't go back in time and take back what I've done… At one point I was a monster, and I created hate and destruction amongst many people. I am sorry for doing so and I will never turn back into the monster I once was." These were the closing ...
Even Vermont's Senators Just Don't Get It ...by Dan DeWalt
Yesterday was a red-letter day in my email in-box. I heard from both of my U.S. senators, Pat Leahy and Bernie Sanders. Leahy was lamenting the cost of the Iraq occupation, and wishing that we weren’t spending so much. He was pleased to have entered a recent article by Joseph ...
Citizens Pushback Against Moribund Government ...by Dan DeWalt
As the U.S. Congress continues to waste its time focusing on erased football tapes instead of erased torture tapes, and fighting to maintain the sanctity of a steroid free home run record, rather than the sanctity of the Constitution, citizen uprisings are now emerging across New England. Betty Hall's H24 ...
Indictment proposal gets hearing
By Susan Smallheer / Rutland Herald BRATTLEBORO, VT – Vermonters have long taken stands on the big issues of the day at town meeting. Back in 1854, the issue was slavery. Several towns passed resolutions condemning the pending federal Kansas-Nebraska legislation that would have allowed the new states to sanction ...
Maverick Republican Drops the 'War Crimes' Bomb on Bush/Cheney ...by Dan DeWalt
In a packed hearing room on Feb 19th, under a carved wooden sign reading “Live Free or Die”, the New Hampshire House committee of State-Federal Relations and Veterans’ Affairs heard testimony on Representative Betty Hall’s HR 24, which calls on the U.S. Congress to begin impeachment hearings for George W. ...
Will the Yellow Rose Peace Bus Ride Again? ...by Dan DeWalt
Jim Goodnow has dedicated that last few years to working full time for peace. His Silver Eagle Greyhound-style "The Yellow Rose Peace Bus" has been his home as he has traveled the country lending a hand to many notable peace and justice efforts. The Yellow Rose ferried Cindy Sheehan, Iraq ...
Who is Congressman Welch Representing, Anyway? ...by Dan DeWalt
When Congress reconvened for the New Year, Rep. Henry Wexler made an impassioned speech on the floor of the House, saying we could no longer ignore the unconstitutional actions of Vice President Cheney. He also has asked fellow members to sign on to a letter that he is sending to ...
Impeachment Marcher Reaches Washington – “Hello Madame Speaker” ...by Dan DeWalt
John Nirenberg, who has spent the last forty days and nights walking south on Route 1 from Boston to Washington D.C., has reached the outskirts of his goal, Nancy Pelosi’s office. And rather than the last stumbling steps of exhaustion, or steps glad to be finishing up and moving on, ...
Darrow, DeWalt won't run again in Newfane
By Nicole Orne / Brattleboro Reformer NEWFANE -- Selectboard members Ellen Darrow and Dan DeWalt have announced they will not be running for re-election when their terms expire this March. Darrow cited health issues as her reason for stepping down. "I really enjoyed the board, I think it's a good ...
Will Brattleboro Indict Bush? ...by Dan DeWalt
Brattleboro Vermont resident Kurt Daims has drafted a ballot question petition calling for the town to indict George W. Bush and Dick Cheney for crimes against the Constitution, and making it the law that if either man comes to town, he would be liable to arrest. Some will say that ...
'Upping the Vigil Ante' ...by Dan DeWalt
John Nirenberg, (www.marchinmyname.org) is walking from Boston to Nancy Pelosi’s Washington D.C. office, gathering support from Americans along the way to tell her to put impeachment back on the table. I had the pleasure of joining him on December 15, in Westport and Norwalk Connecticut where, along with covering a ...
'Stand With John' ...by Dan DeWalt
Once again, a solitary citizen has acted on his conscience and taken an action that should inspire us all to step up and pitch in. John Nirenberg, a 60 year old retired academic, a man who had never considered himself an activist, realized that he could no longer abide the ...
'Whose Honor?' ...by Dan DeWalt
Preparatory to General Petraeus’ testimony today, some Congress members, incensed by a Move-On.org full page ad in the NY Times referring to him as General Betray us, lashed out at that organization and the “Left” in general for daring to utter a doubting word about the General. Then they extolled ...
'Vermonter Takes it to Bush Down Under' ...by Dan DeWalt
"President" Bush may not be willing to visit Vermont, but one of Vermont's finest, ex-marine Matt Howard, was in Australia today delivering the message to Bush and the world that we have seen through his lies, calling him and his sycophants out for their criminal Iraq adventure. The three mile ...
President travels widely, but skips Green Mountains
Associated Press MONTPELIER, Vt. - It’s a land of liberal politics, tie-dyed entrepreneurs and rugged Yankee individualism, the state that gave us President Calvin Coolidge, screaming Howard Dean and socialist U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders. These days, Vermont has another noteworthy distinction: It’s the only state President Bush hasn’t visited as ...
History Doesn't Impeach, but it Will Judge ...by Dan DeWalt
One of the more ridiculous utterances coming from the mouths of Democrats who refuse to defend the Constitution and hold the Bush administration accountable is that “History will impeach George Bush” so they won’t have to. Vermont’s Peter Welch has trotted out this phrase, but if he would take a ...
Why We Are Running Candidates Against Democrats ...by Dan DeWalt
When people hear that we are running a candidate to oppose Vermont Democratic Congressman Peter Welch in next year’s election, they are often quick to mention that next term will be too late to impeach Bush or Cheney. This is an indication that they either miss the point, or that ...
As his Iraq adventure disintegrates before his eyes, and as more and more Americans are unwilling to give him any benefit of the doubt, George W. Bush is once again pulling out the let's scare 'em with terrorism card. And while there is no doubt that this despicable ploy is ...
Impeachment advocates set sights on Welch
Associated Press BURLINGTON, Vt. -- Emboldened by peace activist Cindy Sheehan's plan to run against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Vermont impeachment advocates plan to put up a candidate against freshman U.S. Rep. Peter Welch next year because he has failed to push for the removal of President Bush. "There's plenty ...
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December 17th, 2011
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September 11th, 2010
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December 14th, 2010
Why I'm Posting Bail Money for Julian Assange
Yesterday, in the Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the lawyers for WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange presented to the judge a document from me stating that ...
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May 12th, 2011
Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
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November 22nd, 2011
Where Does Occupy Wall Street Go From Here?
This past weekend I participated in a four-hour meeting of Occupy Wall Street activists whose job it is to come up with the vision and ...
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September 22nd, 2011
A STATEMENT FROM MICHAEL MOORE ON THE EXECUTION OF TROY DAVIS
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December 16th, 2010
Dear Swedish Government: Hi there -- or as you all say, Hallå! You know, all of us here in the U.S. love your country. Your ...
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November 2nd, 2010
This letter contains (almost) no criticisms of how the Democrats have brought this day of reckoning upon themselves. That -- and where to go from ...
