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"The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison" by Andy Worthington.

"Nonviolent Struggle: 50 Crucial Points" by Centre for Applied NonViolent Action and Strategies.

"George W. Bush, War Criminal?: The Bush Administration's Liability for 269 War Crimes"by Michael Haas.

"Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea," by Mark Kurlansky.

"A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict," by Peter Ackerman and Jack Duvall (also available as a video).

"Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice and 21st Century Potential" by Gene Sharp.

"A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr."

"The 35 Articles of Impeachment and the Case for Prosecuting George W. Bush," is available for the cost of $12; and a free downloadable PDF is available on the same site.

"The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld," is an indictment of the entire torture team, including Bush and Cheney, a guide to prosecution for torture.

"The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder," by Vincent Bugliosi, argues that state and local prosecutors have jurisdiction to prosecute Bush for the murder of US soldiers from their states and counties who died in Iraq.

"Cowboy Republic: Six Ways the Bush Gang Has Defied the Law," by Marjorie Cohn, documents the laws and the violations, and reminds us why Jefferson warned against elected despotism.

"United States v. George W. Bush et al.," by Elizabeth de la Vega, an indictment, a presentation to a grand jury charging Bush and gang with fraud -- very well argued and documented, even entertaining.

"The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders' Cure for Royalism," by John Nichols, a masterpiece that should be required reading in every high school and college in the United States, a history and portrait of the practice of impeachment.

"Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush," by the Center for Constitutional Rights, a short book that lists and explains four (multi-part) articles of impeachment.

"The Impeachment of George W. Bush: A Practical Guide for Concerned Citizens," by Elizabeth Holtzman (former Congresswoman and member of the Nixon impeachment panel) and Cynthia L. Cooper, an excellent and readable book laying out five major grounds for impeachment of Bush, plus an extra section on Dick Cheney.

"The Case for Impeachment," by Dave Lindorff and Barbara Olshansky, an amazingly popular and extremely readable book that explains the context while also setting forth six articles of impeachment against Bush, plus an extra section on Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, and Alberto Gonzales.

"Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney," edited by Dennis Loo and Peter Phillips, with an introduction by Howard Zinn, a wonderfully well written collection of essays organized around a list of 12 grounds for impeachment of Bush and Cheney.

"George W. Bush versus the U.S. Constitution: The Downing Street Memos and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Cover-ups in the Iraq War and Illegal Domestic Spying," by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee Democratic Staff, a book that not only collects the evidence but also tells us what Congressman John Conyers, the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, is thinking (the full text, minus a new introduction by Joseph Wilson, is available here.)

"Verdict and Findings of Fact," by the International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration of the United States, a report that looks at five major international crimes and overlaps significantly with most lists of impeachable offenses (the full text is available at the link and can also be purchased for $10);

"Impeach Bush: A Funny Li'l Graphical Novel About the Worstest Pres'dent in the History of Forevar," a comic book account of Bush's impeachable offenses – the crimes really are self-evident, but pictures don't hurt.

"Pretensions to Empire: Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration," by Lewis Lapham, a collection of essays from Harper's magazine, concluding with one called "The Case for Impeachment," which focuses on Rep. Conyers' report.

"The Twilight of Democracy: The Bush Plan for America," by Jennifer Van Bergen. Find out what the Bush Plan is and how it diverges from what the law and Constitution say.

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For Economy's Sake, Pelosi Needs to Push for Impeachment Now

Submitted by Chip on Tue, 2008-11-25 16:05.

Impeachment

For economy's sake, Pelosi needs to push for impeachment now
BY Rochelle Riley | Freep.com

Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s ineffectiveness became clear the day she became Speaker of the House and immediately announced that there would be no impeachment proceedings against President George W. Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney.

Guided by politics, she said leading investigations into just how much the Bush administration did – and did wrong – would be divisive. What she didn’t express was her worry that too many Democrats faced elimination from the House if they took on the difficult task of proving who knew what, when.

But Congress is running out of time to finally make the Bush administration own up to its actions for eight years. If Congress isn’t careful, the president who already has issued 171 pardons could also pardon every appointee and employee he has ever had – and their dogs. And then Americans will never find out what happened to our country over the past eight years.

Pelosi wouldn’t have to start from scratch: Rep. Dennis Kucinich, the bravest member of Congress, introduced legislation 11 months ago to impeach the president and vice president. Last January, the House gave a first reading of one of those articles of impeachment. Our own Rep. John Conyers, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, joined 38 other representatives to sponsor HR 635, which would form a committee to look into whether there are grounds for impeachment. Revive that effort!

Last week, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-New York, submitted a resolution demanding that Bush stop issuing “pre-emptive pardons of senior officials in his administration during the final 90 days of office.”

Nadler said in news reports that he was moved to action by the president’s “widespread abuses of power and potentially criminal transgressions against our Constitution” and that he wanted to prevent the “undeserved pardons of officials who may have been co-conspirators in the president’s unconstitutional policies, such as torture, illegal surveillance and curtailing of due process for defendants.”

Nadler is storming the beach; others should join him.

If Congress moves quickly and forces the president to focus on impeachment, then he won’t have so much time to push through last-minute regulatory changes that will continue to hurt our country and our ideals. He already has pushed deregulation that would allow employers to talk directly with employees’ doctors and allow power companies to build polluting facilities close to national parks.

Anyone worried that our congressional representatives can’t tie their shoes and chew gum at the same time, or cannot focus on the economic crisis and impeachment hearings at the same time, will find that many answers to our economic and global defense problems will come from those hearings.

The only question I have for Nancy Pelosi is this: What are we waiting for?

Be helpful if you keep this at top of website for a few days

Submitted by John H Kennedy ... on Tue, 2008-11-25 16:57.

Pro-impeachment activists are justifiably suffering fatigue. But we cannot give up.

Articles like this need to be kept near the top of all of our websites longer

, for a few days at least so we will all see that it is still possible, and that some media outlets are starting to give impeachment some credibility. Perhaps impeachments time has come.

We have a lame duck House session starting I am told on Dec. 8th.

We all need to start mass emailing our lists and getting people to call, write and fax all Democratic congressmen,
Conyers, Kucinich, Wexler,
and the rest of the Judiciary Committee

and ask for "start of impeachment hearings now".

We can do this, fatigue or not.

one more time into the breech people. Don't give up.

John H Kennedy, Denver CO,
43 yr Democratic voter and organizer of
Impeach Colorado Coalition http://ImpeachCO.com

PS: our website is down due to a server crash, back up soon.

All I can say is wow. You

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2008-11-25 23:15.

All I can say is wow. You folks really have no clue.

What do you mean by...

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 2008-11-26 22:31.

"have no clue?"

Pelosi is Bush protector

Submitted by 4Peace on Wed, 2008-11-26 01:56.

The people of San Francisco have brought shame upon their city and saddled us with the Wicked Witch of the West for another two years. Pelosi will not let Bush be impeached. We can call for accountability, but Nancy is one of them and she knows it.
4Peace

What! Me tired? Of course I'm tired!

Submitted by Robin Dicken on Wed, 2008-11-26 02:51.

But I'm in it to win it. I'm not going to rest until we all see justice for the crimes this Presidency has wrought. Count me in. I'll be back on the phones and Emailing everyone I know. I'll blog til they ban me and then just go back again. I will tire the media out before they do me! Tired? Yes, of course, but my country's worth to much to quit now.

Nadler is a neocon enabling fraud

Submitted by John Perry on Wed, 2008-11-26 12:11.

"Storming the beach"?

"moved to action by the president’s 'widespread abuses of power and potentially criminal transgressions against our Constitution'"?

Hardly.

Wednesday, June 18, 2008:
Nadler (D-NY), Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Rights, held a hearing dealing with the torture of detainees in U.S. custody. The hearing featured the testimony of Lawrence Wilkerson, former Chief of Staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell. Wilkerson not only confirmed that more than 100 detainees had died in U.S. custody, but also that at least 25 of these deaths have been classified as homicides by American investigators.

Despite learning that stunning information, Nadler has remained steadfast against an impeachment investigation. But we're supposed to take him seriously when he offers up a toothless resolution "demanding" no pre-emptive pardons?

Please. If there weren't so much blood already on that coward's hands, the prospect would be laughable.

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Pelosi needs to explain "divisive"

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2008-11-28 16:30.

No corporate media has, to my knowledge, asked Pelosi to explain what she means by "divisive". What evidence is she pointing to for her position? Seems to me, most Americans would not argue impeachment shouldn't go forward for shredding our Constitution, for spying on all Americans, for invasion/occupation of sovereign nations, for genocide, for murder, for torture. Who's willing to defend such actions? Especially the latest raping and pillaging of our economy on the pretense of saving our financial system. Why would anyone want to save a failed financial system, as opposed to switching to a financial system that serves all of us? Framing the argument should be addressed, and who better than Pelosi, by explaining just where she got her facts about what she means by "divisive"?