Fasters 'Break Bread' in Congressman Conyers' Office Today

Bay Area mom goes 25 days without a meal- Conyers Refuses to put Impeachment on the Table

Where: 2426 Rayburn Building
When: 2pm, Friday February 29

Leslie Angeline will break bread in Congressman Conyers office after fasting for 25 days and pass the baton to CODEPINKer Ellen Taylor. Angeline was advised by her doctor to end her fast for now as her health is suffering so Taylor will continue the Hungry for Justice? Impeach him FAST! as a rolling fast, which will end when impeachment hearings for Vice President Cheney begin. Over 500 people from across the country have joined the fast in solidarity by signing up throught the CODEPINK Women for Peace website.

Betty Hall, a 14-term legislature from New Hampshire who submitted House Resolution 24 calling for impeachment proceedings against Bush and Cheney, will also be meeting with Conyers' staff. Leslie, Betty and Marcia from "We the People's" National Coalition for Impeachment met with Congressman Wexler on Thursday to ask what they could do to support his efforts for impeachment hearings.

Angeline met with Cong. Conyers on Friday, February 15. While he was deeply moved by her sacrifice and said he has been getting pressure from people every day, he is still unwilling to commit to impeachment hearings. So Angeline has continued the fast for 25 days and has encouraged others to join. As of today, over 500 people from Vancouver, Washington to Kennebunkport, Maine have joined the fast, with more signing on every day. Angeline has been in Cong. Conyers DC office every day this week, and also pressured other members of the Judiciary Committee, including Rep. Bobby Scott, Melvin Watt and Zoe Lofgren.

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Let Me Keep It Simple...

FASTING FOR CHANGE IS PATENTLY STUPID!!!

With the lack of concern for our fellow men/women in this day and sad age, all this becomes is an exercise in guaranteed futility.
Hell, threaten to immerse yourself in gasoline and threaten to set yourself on fire until a certain change is made and the people "in charge" will fight over who gets to hand you a match!!!

Let Me Keep It Simple...

FASTING FOR CHANGE IS PATENTLY STUPID!!!

With the lack of concern for our fellow men/women in this day and sad age, all this becomes is an exercise in guaranteed futility.
Hell, threaten to immerse yourself in gasoline and threaten to set yourself on fire until a certain change is made and the people "in charge" will fight over who gets to hand you a match!!!

Thank you for your words of support.

At this crucial time in our nation's history, your concern for our health is truly heart warming.

No impeachment

Those whores stopped working for us a long time ago. They aren't going to impeach in direct violation of the constitution and will of the American people. Power once achieved is seldom given back gracefully: They all need new jobs.

The remaining candidates have been approved by the corporate powers that be. I am voting for Obama because we couldn't get Dennis Kucinich, or John Edwards. I hear none of the candidates discussing restoration of civil rights, habeas corpus, or privacy. The remaining candidades said no to impeachment, they want the power for themselves. The next president will use his power to grab more. "Yeah" was Bush's reply when asked if American people just have to "suck it up" and lose their privacy.

I hear empty promises of economic relief, health insurance that will never materalize....benovolent dictatorship, no freedom. They promise to "protect us". We don't need their protection, our constitution does. I hear "liberty, equality, and commitment to our nation." The symbol for facism is a bunch of small sticks tied together to form a large club. That is where we are. Germany or Italy after WWI.

As for the economy and falling dollar, we ain't seen nothin' yet. Like Germany of the 1920's & 1930's, this government is printing more money every hour becoming less and less valuable. They don't disclose the amount any longer, we are kept in the dark. We have HUGE economic disaster staring us in the face. The media incessently covers this "election" of pre-approved candidates, and idiots like Britney Speers.

If we had the right to choose, Edwards or Kucinich would be the candidates, not Clinton and Obama. I am voting for Obama, it is the lesser of two evils.

We have more houses in foreclosure since the Great Depression. US citizens are mired in debt; savings rates are at the lowest since the Great Depression. Housing values are dropping, people are losing their homes, ghost towns are springing up as they did during the Great Depression. Credit has dried up because the banks are afraid of losing money. Without the FRB pouring more borrowed money into the system, there would be bank failures everywhere, just like the Great Depression. Until the bust, they were selling debt as bonds to Wall Street; homes, credit card debt, car loans, you name it. Plus, bonds can be margined for 90% of their face value(just like 1929), so a lot more ghost dollars were invested. Banks have stopped doing what they used to do, they sell debt, not carry it. Wall Steet has stopped buying, and the entire global economy is crashing around our ears. But, Drew Peterson may get arrested for killing two of his four wives.

Congress has time to chase steroid use, but no time to stand up for the American people or constitution. If it were not for the Internet, and websites like this one, McCain and Clinton would be our choices, and that is even worse. Obama was able to tap into young people, he has charisma, I hope he uses it wisely.

Marilyn Gjerdrum

Dear Marilyn Gjerdrum,

Gravel is still running.

Candidate Gravel

Gravel has been blacked out of the public consciousness as effectively as if he never existed. Just like Dennis Kucinich, the corporate media got their orders and carried them out.
Gravel will not be the democratic candidate, backing him would be as foolish as voting for that horrible Ralph Nader who took his 2004 campaign money from the republicans, and made it possible for Bush to get back into office. Now the SOB is trying it again, probably AGAIN with republican money!
I agree with you, it is a mess, but unless people really wake up, and embrace the New Media on the Internet, our chances are slim to none. If the public moves away from MSM, we have a chance in 2012.
Thanks,
Marilyn

Marilyn Gjerdrum

Oh, Please Obama isn't any better.

Why do people even support that man, when he voted for the patriot act and fund this immortal war in iraq?

Just proves that both parties do not represent the interest of the american people.

Obama maybe lesser of the two evil, but he is still just as evil as the rest.

Thank God I'm a libertarian populist.

Ron Paul 2008, He's our only Hope

oh please , indeed

Libertarian and populist in the same phrase is an oxymoron.

My New Widget

Thanks to Leslie for her effort, and thanks to Ellen for picking up Leslie's empty rice bowl. You are now getting three of my best, although for now you will have to share two of them with Leslie. You see, I tried out my new juicer yesterday, and I have discovered the dark secret of juice fasting - this stuff really tastes good.

Next on the menu - Lydia's Potassium Broth. As long as I'm going to suffer for World Peace, I might as well have some fun.

Do share!

I'm living la V8 loca. The spicy variety tastes good warm, but some variety would be nice.

the answers simple, STRIKE!

If congress wont pull the purse strings, then we WILL! You'll be out of a job soon enough anyway, either voluntarily or involuntarily. Calling for a global strike against Fascism. (The terrorists were fighting give the nazi salute, spitfirelist.com bet you didn't know that.) We may have won WW2 militarily, but we lost economically and politically. Here's some dirt on Mccain Madcowprod.com about the post 9/11 flights of Saudi's, on a christian TV (PAX)plane. I wonder if that $20 Million to Georgetown's Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding leads back. investigativeproject.org/article/614
-MyCross

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