On July 23, four hundred people showed up at the office of Detroit Congressman John Conyers. They demanded that as chairman of the powerful House Judiciary Committee he initiate impeachment proceedings against Bush, Cheney, Gonzalez and others. They delivered to his office a petition with one million signatures demanding impeachment.

After conferring briefly with a few of them, including former CIA agent Ray McGovern, congressional candidate Cindy Sheehan, and the Rev. Lennox Yearwood Jr., president of the of the National Hip Hop Caucus, Conyers announced that despite his prior public statements, impeachment would remain “off the table.”  

The demonstrators sang, prayed, and sat down in the congressional office, refusing to move. Forty-five of them were arrested.

As Yearwood said:

“The Hip Hop community and the Hip Hop Caucusare making a visible standfor impeachment. We invite Congressman Conyers to come back home, and to rejoin his constituents and long-time supporters on this vital issue.

“We urge everybody with access to a phone, an email account or a fax machine to call Chairman Conyers at (202) 225-5126. Tell him that thousands dead and hundreds of thousands displaced after Katrina were enough. It’s time to impeach. Email him at John.Conyers@mail.house.gov and tell him that illegal wars and war crimes are enough. It’s time to impeach. Bush-Cheney might even give us a new war in the months they have left. Fax Chairman Conyers at (202) 225-0072. Tell him this is why we sent him to Washington, this is why Democrats were elected to Congress. Tell John Conyers that his place in history is waiting, and so are those of George Bush, Dick Cheney and Alberto Gonzalez. It’s time to send them there.”

The HipHop Caucus and the HipHop Institute can be reached on the web at: http://www.hiphopcaucus.org

Source:
The People’s Voice