Daybreak

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Wednesday November, 11th, 2009		Click to Play this edition of Rabble Rousing
In Conversation: David Swanson, author of "Daybreak: Undoing The Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union" This show was phone interview with David Swanson, who has been speaking around the country, alerting citizens to the dangers of the imperial presidency and how we can reclaim our government. He is author of the book "Daybreak: Undoing The Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union." In it, amongst other topics, he elucidates the rights we have lost or given up, and should reclaim, as well as rights we need and should amend our constitution to provide. His book is very thought provoking as well as this interview. David will appear in Grass Valley 20 nov at Unitarian Universalist church, on S.Church st. he will also speak in Sacramento the following night. For addresses and details see his web site afterdowningstreet.com.

David Swanson Book Event: "Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union"

New York City - December 1, 7:00 p.m.

With Mark Crispin Miller.
AND With John Nichols, author of the Foreword to "Daybreak".

At McNally Jackson books.
52 Prince St.
(b/t Lafayette & Mulberry)
New York, NY 10012
212-274-1160

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Author David Swanson Visits UMaine
Heather Seavey | WCSH6

Peace activisit and author, David Swanson visited the University of Maine in Orono Thursday.

He blames the Bush adminstration for expanding the powers of the presidency and deteriorating the constitution and bill of rights.

He is also critical of the Obama administration for continuing to take advantage of some of the increased presidential powers that he says president bush created.

David Swanson says "If presidents have the power to re-write laws to make new laws to imprison people without charge to spy on people without warrant to launch wars without a declaration from congress and so on and so forth that will make a difference and it is making a difference right now." Read more.

Author: CIA case evidence of abuse of power
By Jessica Bloch | Bangor Daily News

The news that an Italian court convicted on Wednesday a base chief for the CIA and 22 other Americans for the crime of rendition was evidence that the executive branch of the U.S. government has too much power, activist and author David Swanson told a small group of people Thursday afternoon at the University of Maine.

The crime for which the Americans were convicted surrounded the kidnapping of a Muslim cleric from the streets of Milan in 2003, according to a story Wednesday in The New York Times. The cleric was flown from an American air base in Italy to a base in Germany and then on to Egypt, where he asserts that he was tortured, the newspaper said.

“Kidnapping is still a crime in some places, but not [to U.S. government operatives]. Here it’s not a crime,” said Swanson, who spoke in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union as part of UMaine’s Socialist and Marxist Studies Series. Swanson is on tour supporting his new book, “Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union.”

The incident in Italy may be one example that the executive branch of the U.S. government has too much power over other branches of the government and at times has overstepped Congress, he said. Read more.

David Swanson is a U.S. author, blogger, and activist. He is the author of "Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union" and of the introduction to "The 35 Articles of Impeachment and the Case for Prosecuting George W. Bush," by Dennis Kucinich. He co-founded AfterDowningStreet.org and is the Washington Director of Democrats.com

http://www.davidswanson.org/

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/

http://www.democrats.com/

http://www.rationalradio.org/

Other Speakers at the Rational Radio Progress Forum:
Thom Hartmann
Cindy Sheehan
Jes Sprouse
Melissa Roddy
Nicole Torre
Steve Munson

and performances by

Code Red
Tunde Obazee
The Ackermans
David Rovics

Nov. 3 Philadelphia PA
Nov. 4 Newtown and Kutztown, PA
Nov. 5 Bangor, ME
Nov. 6 Portland, ME
Nov. 7 M's Vineyard, MA

8:30 a.m. PT and thereafter: HERE.

A New Day Rising:
An Interview with David Swanson

This event was pre-recorded in Miami, Fla.
Check schedule at http://www.booktv.org