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Olympia, Hotbed Of Liberal Communism

goodman_amy.jpgAmy Goodman, host of independent news program Democracy Now!, spoke at a benefit for KAOS and Thurston Community Television last night in Olympia. Seattlest got stuck on the I-5 but got there five minutes before the scheduled event time; Goodman, coming from SeaTac, was not so lucky, and arrived about half an hour late.

In the meantime, the sold-out crowd heard Chaplain James Yee describe conditions & treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. Yee was arrested for espionage and other serious crimes...charges that were dropped after he spent 76 days in jail.

Goodman has been touring the country promoting her book Static for months. She looked tired but had enough energy to deliver a fire-breathing excoriation of mainstream media outlets and the current administration, drawing a standing ovation from the crowd.

The crowd also gave a standing ovation to the parents and sister of Rachel Corrie, who appeared on Democracy Now! last week to discuss the opening of the play 'My Name is Rachel Corrie' in New York and happened to be in attendance.

By the end of the night we were ready to join the ACLU and the Green Party. A circulated petition to impeach Bush might have our name and address on it. Our customary cynicism/pessimism didn't return until we had driven almost all the way back to Seattle.

Good times!

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By Beth Quittman in on October 30, 2006 1:50 PM

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  • I used to listen to the DemocracyNow podcast while playing Xbox 360 but it gets a bit depressing listening to war and attrocities in Iraq when you are playing Call of Duty 2.

  • Jodin

    Why settle for a petition?

    Do-It-Yourself Impeachment, no joke.

    The Citizens' movement.

    The day the nation demands impeachment is almost upon us. On Jan 3rd, sacks and sacks of mail will be sent to congress demanding impeachment via the House of Representative's own rules. This legal document is as binding as if a State or if the House itself passed the impeachment resolution (H.R. 635).

    There's a little known and rarely used clause of the "Jefferson Manual" in the rules for the House of Representatives which sets forth the various ways in which a president can be impeached. Only the House Judiciary Committee puts together the Articles of Impeachment, but before that happens, someone has to initiate the process.

    That's where we come in. In addition to the State-by-State method, one of the ways to get impeachment going is for individual citizens like you and me to submit a memorial. ImpeachforPeace.org, part of the movement to impeach the president, has created a new memorial based on one which was successful in impeaching a federal official in the past. You can find it on their website as a PDF.

    STOP WAITING FOR YOUR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO ACT FOR YOU.

    You can initiate the impeachment process yourself by downloading the memorial, filling in the relevant information in the blanks (your name, state, etc.), and sending it in. Be a part of history.

    http://ImpeachForPeace.org/ImpeachNow.html

  • It just so happens that I am also available for that position.

  • Seth

    We can't wait until Amy Goodman is in charge of the world and there's no more injustice anywhere.

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