Downing Street Minutes Hearings and Rally June 16th in DC

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Thu Jun-09-05 03:04 PM
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Downing Street Minutes Hearings and Rally June 16th in DC

The pressure is on, and we need your support <https://www.pdamerica.org/donate.php>.
Your support <https://www.pdamerica.org/donate.php> can help PDA and its allies put
heat on the Bush Administration based on the Downing Street Minutes and this immoral
and illegal war.

The scandal surrounding the release of the Downing Street Minutes
<http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/> is reaching a crescendo, a tipping point, and
Progressive Democrats of America <http://www.pdamerica.org/> needs your help
<https://www.pdamerica.org/donate.php> right now to place this all-important issue
at the forefront of discussion regarding the occupation of Iraq. PDA is working with
our allies to organize a hearing and rally in Washington, DC on June 16th to focus
attention on the Minutes, and we need your contributions
<https://www.pdamerica.org/donate.php> to make it happen.

With grassroots support, PDA was a co-founder of a coalition of more than 50 groups
to create www.AfterDowningStreet.org, a site dedicated to demand that Congress pass
a formal Resolution of Inquiry and investigate the manner in which we were brought
to war in Iraq. As part of this effort, Rep. John Conyers has collected nearly
200,000 signatures on his letter demanding that Bush be accountable for the damning
information contained in the Minutes. The combined efforts of activists all across
the country, along with the work of Rep. Conyers and his House allies, is moving the
pile.

You can help us push this issue over the top, and we need your help now
<https://www.pdamerica.org/donate.php>. PDA is working with our allies to organize a
hearing in Washington DC, as well as a rally in Lafayette Park, on June 16th,
regarding the Minutes. We need your support <https://www.pdamerica.org/donate.php>
immediately to help fund the rally, to mobilize our activists effectively, to help
continue the collection of signatures for Rep. Conyers' letter, and to keep the heat
on both the Bush administration and the news media.

The Minutes <http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/> , as many of you already know, is
an internal secret document from July of 2002 leaked by a British official at the
beginning of May. The Minutes clearly state that the premise for invasion was
illegal, but that Bush had already decided to make war and so "intelligence and
facts were being fixed around the policy." This document exposes the reality behind
this invasion, the deliberate lies and misdirection undertaken by the Bush
administration to make the invasion happen, and has after the inexplicable passage
of weeks without mention in the press, begun to burn hot and bright across the news
and political spectrums.

The time is now, and we need your help. Please donate to the activism on this issue
here <https://www.pdamerica.org/donate.php>. Go to AfterDowningStreet.org for the
most recent information on our activities on this issue, or visit PDA’s site at
www.pdamerica.org. Also, read PDA Political Advisor Steve Cobble's report on the
Minutes in The Nation here
<http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050620&s=cobble>.

This is the moment. Please join us and help make the Downing Street Minutes the
'Pentagon Papers' of our time. It can happen, and it will happen, with your help.