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In reply to the discussion: "But we couldn't *possibly* have gotten single payer!" [View all]Zorra
(27,670 posts)As an activist, Swanson co-founded the website After Downing Street (now War Is A Crime .org), based around the U.S. congressional concern of the Downing Street Memo. Additionally, Swanson embarked on a campaign to impeach President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney[2] through the now defunct website ConvictBushCheney.Org[3] as well as contributing to the introduction of Dennis Kucinichs The 35 Articles of Impeachment and the Case for Prosecuting George W. Bush.[4][5] Swanson has also aided in the organization of campaigns such as Velvet Revolution's opposition of the United States Chamber of Commerce and Tom J. Donohue,[6] and October2011.Org's Occupy Washington movement.[7][8]
As an author, David Swanson has written several books; Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union[9] (2009), War Is a Lie (2010), When the World Outlawed War (2011) and War No More: The Case for Abolition (2013).
Swanson currently blogs through various political sites, including his own co-founded site, WarIsACrime.Org[3] and Democrats.com,[1] where he serves as the Washington Director.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Swanson
And I'm not exactly anti-Obama, but, or maybe you are referring to me? I've protested every war since Vietnam, protested at WTO protests in Seattle (where my partner and I beaten by cops with batons) and Cancun, was heavily involved with Occupy, where I marched with Jesse Jackson and in several cities, and protested against ALEC, etc... I've probably been an activist since before you were born, as were many other liberals here.
I'm not gonna take any trash from posters whose most significant political activity to date was most likely writing a love letter to Obama that got published on Tiger Beat, or watching us on TV while cops were attacking us when Occupying.