MN, Minneapolis: Pressure Minneapolis City Council to Impeach

EVENTS

Submitted by Chip on October 26, 2007 - 1:44pm.

Impeachment Events

VENUE:
Minneapolis City Council

350 S 5th St
Rm 317
Minneapolis, MN 55415

starts: 11/02/2007 - 9:15am

Pressure Minneapolis City Council to Impeach
Friday, November 2, 2007@9:15am.

As a follow-up to our wildly successful impeachment Town Hall meeting with Minneapolis City Council Members Cam Gordon and Elizabeth Glidden and Council Member Remington coming out for impeachment, we're calling on citizens to do three things:
* Call your Council Member
* Attend the City Council Meetings
* Flyer neighborhoods to spread the word (on car windows, doors, etc). Here's the flyer (If you hand out the flyer in your neighborhood, circle the councilmember who represents your neighborhood so folks know who represents them.)

Attend the Minneapolis City Council Meetings with impeachment signs and shirts to show support. According to sources on the Minneapolis City Council, they will be taking up impeachment in the next few months. The idea is to be a visual advertisement of the call on them to impeach!

ImpeachForPeace.org is asking you to show up at the Minneapolis City Council (350 S 5th St, Rm 317) Friday November 2nd (11/16, 12/7, 12/21) at 9:15am. Parking can be difficult so you'll probably have to park a few blocks away (on 6th street there are meters around 5th Ave, bring quarters). We suggest you wear impeachment shirts, buttons, etc. Signs are also allowed, but we've been asked to sit along the back of the room out of respect for the proceedings.

Here is the contact info for city council members:
http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/council/

Reasons for impeachment:
http://impeachforpeace.org/evidence/

A copy of the impeachment resolution we're suggesting is here:
http://impeachforpeace.org/impeach_bush_blog/?p=2195

Is Bush/Cheney Impeachment a City Council�s Job?
- City Council members take an oath of office promising to "protect
and defend the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic. They
don't take an oath to fix potholes. If the Constitution is in danger
then their primary duty is to defend it.
- Cities and towns routinely send petitions to Congress for all kinds
of requests. This is allowed under Clause 3, Rule XII, Section 819, of
the Rules of the House of Representatives. This clause is routinely
used to accept petitions from cities, and memorials from states, all
across America.

Is Impeachment a Local Issue?
- If a federal action has a significant negative impact on this city,
then it is appropriate for this city to defend itself.
- Citizens from this city may be sent, or have been sent, to Iraq to
fight in an illegal and unjustified war.
- Tax funds from this city that could have been spent locally have
been spent in Iraq for war. Tax money from this city has been wasted
in no-bid contracts with companies like Halliburton with deep ties to
the Bush administration. Yet this city can barely afford the emergency
services, libraries, and schools that we need.
- The State National Guard should be available to protect this city
from floods or other disasters. But instead, President Bush has sent
them to Iraq.

For details, contact Jodin Morey of Impeach for Peace:
612-328-1451 or use our contact page:
http://impeachforpeace.org/comments.htm