Comes a Time - The Downing Street Rally and Hearing

[WilliamPitt]

"A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the sound of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance." - Jawaharial Nehru

This is the moment, and we need your help.

Progressive Democrats of America, along with Congressman John Conyers and a massive coalition of more than 120 activist organizations and news providers, will be holding a rally this Thursday, June 16th, in Lafayette Park at the gates of the White House. The rally will begin at 5:00pm EST. It will focus on the demand for answers after the revelation of the Downing Street Minutes, and subsequent documentation, which has exposed the Bush administration's willful manipulation of the American people and the world in their desire for war in Iraq at any cost.

Our last call for donations to help make the hearing and rally a reality garnered an enormous and generous response from you, and we are deeply grateful for your help.

We are making one last push for donations to make sure the rally on Thursday is as large, loud and well-publicized as it deserves to be. We are putting this together on very short notice, and a great deal of time and effort must be expended to pull together all the groups and all the information and all the people and all the press that will mark Thursday as a day when everything, finally, changed.

This is the moment. After more than two years, after all the lies and the manipulation, after the deaths of more than 1,700 American soldiers and untold thousands of Iraqi civilians, after all the wounded, after all the fear, after watching hundreds of billions of our tax dollars funneled into the pockets of profiteers with umbilical links to the Bush administration, after the discovery of exactly no weapons of mass destruction, no anthrax, no VX nerve agent, no uranium from Niger, after all this and all the rest, the time is now. We march on Washington DC this Thursday, and we shall nail the truth to the White House door.

Speakers at the rally include:

Rep. John Conyers
Ray McGovern
John Bonifaz
Cindy Sheehan
Medea Benjamin
Stephen Cleghorn
Reverend Lennox Yearwood
And more. (maybe me)

At the conclusion of the event, Rep. Conyers will take his letter demanding answers regarding the Downing Street Minutes - a letter which now holds the signatures of more than 540,000 Americans and over 100 Democratic Representatives - and personally deliver it to the White House.

Also on Thursday the 16th, Rep. Conyers will chair a hearing into the Downing Street Minutes. The hearing will take place at 1:00pm at DNC headquarters, in the Wasserman Room at 430 S Capitol St. SE.

We can and will make history on Thursday, we can and will expose the lies of the Bush administration that led us to war, we can and will change the course of history that has for too long now run a bloody and violent path over the innocent. We can and we will, with your help. Please give what you can, and please come to Washington. We will see you in the park.

Donations: https://www.pdamerica.org/donate.php

Thank you.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. I hope I can cattch it on the BBC, or C-SPAN

I doubt any of the stenography corp will carry it

[Jara sang]

2. I will be there.

Check your PM Will.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Too far away

There are days I wish we had moved to the DC area, but we moved where we moved so I coudl see my nephews grow

[Duer 157099]

9. a DUer is going to film it and make DVDs

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3854182

[LightningFlash]

3. Make sure to get Richard Dearlove on call....

They really have got to make sure they get his testimony, and talking about the minutes himself.

[Democracy White]

5. I am hoping that C-SPAN

will cover this as I have been reading that the ass prick Republicans have denied the committee Democrats use of the rooms on the hills. ASS PRICKS! Our voices will still be heard.

If it isn't covered on C-SPAN at least will someone keep me and the others up to speed?

Dee

[Griffy]

6. dont just hope.. ACT!! call and Email C-span.. demand coverage

if you cant be there.. reach out and find people that can... friends closer to DC perhaps. Also call and email the Washington Post and other MSM outlets and urge them to cover this historic event! Just cause you cant be there doesnt mean you cant help and be part! you get the media there.. I'll march and shout!

I'll be there!

[Liberty Belle]

7. Call C-Span! They haven't decided to carry it yet.

Ask CSPAN to carry Conyers hearing Thursday on Downing St Minutes!!

C-SPAN TELEPHONE NUMBERS

Main Number: [phone]
Viewer Services: [phone] (for programming questions)

[Democracy White]

8. I will call them and hopefully get a positive response

[oregonjen]

10. I just called. The guy asked me, "Gosh, is this on some sort of website?

I've been getting hundreds of calls!" :bounce:

I told him, uh yes. Don't you think it's rather important to carry this?

He said that the decision will be made by Wed. evening after 5pm. It will be on their website, if they do.

[Hissyspit]

11. Good job. I can't go. I have classes. This is the WORST time of year for

me. Teaching summer classes everyday and some at night. In fact, I'm in painting class right now and shouldn't be typing this.:P Oh, well, they need a break from me hovering over them sometimes, so I'll come here and hover over the * Administration.

[stevedeshazer]

12. Will, just to be clear,

You list the start time as 5:00 pm EST, but I presume you meant EDT?

At any rate, I'm 3000 miles away, but I'll be there in spirit and will join up with anyone near me on the west coast. :)

[WilliamPitt]

13. Yes, Eastern time

[VelmaD]

14. If you get to speak...

I know what you should cover...how anyone with half a brain and the ability to read knew the justifications for the war were bullshit from the start. Some guy wrote this book... ;)

Seriously though, knock 'em dead if you get a chance. Wish I could be there in more than spirit. Sounds like it's gonna be fun.

[Pachamama]

15. That's it! Pachamama is going to Washington! Come join me!

Wanna join me?

I’m leaving California tomorrow morning to head your way with my Pachababy…

I plan on Thursday to attending the rally and marching to the White House & Lafayette Park with Rep. John Conyers, and over 100 Members of Congress and 1000’s of other Americans to demand that President Bush answer questions about the now publicly disclosed “Downing Street Memo(s)” that reveal that this President and his administration planned this war on Iraq long before it was an “last resort option” as they claimed and that they created and fabricated information to take us into war….Bush LIED to the American public, the Congress, the United Nations – the World effectively as to why we needed to invade Iraq. Our children, 1703 as of today have died for those LIES….10K plus maimed and injured in Walter Reed Hospital and Vet hospitals across this country for those LIES…100,000+ Iraqi citizens for those LIES….How many more have to die for these LIES?

As a mother, I can no longer stand by and watch this administration get away with their lies and this illegal war that is killing our children and the Iraqi children. No longer can I stand by and watch the 100’s of Billion’s of Dollars of TAXPAYER money that is needed here in our country be poured into this illegal war based on LIES as it lines the coffers of the Halliburton’s and “contractors” making money from this illegal war.

I write the weekly letters to editors of newspapers – I sign the petitions that get sent to me by email – I get sick as I see the daily numbers of dead soldiers on a war that has no end in sight. But for me, the final straw was reading the six memos released in the UK newspapers (and all across the news in Europe) that show the actual minutes in memo form from the highest level of British Secret Intelligence and Blair’s cabinet members acknowledging clearly that the United States President planned this war, knew that they didn’t have a case and LIED. The British gov’t under Blair’s direction conspired and aided and abetted this administration and helped them sell the lie to the UN and the Congress. The American people and our Congress which under the Constitution is the only body authorized to declare War, was lied to and convinced on the threat of terrorism and the threat to Americans by Iraq and Saddam that they needed to give this President the power and authority to invade Iraq. This in itself should have been unconstitutional, but this administration has shamelessly exploited Americans fear of terrorism since 9/11 and they did it to start a War based on LIES. They knew there were no Weapons of Mass Destruction….they sold the American Public a Mushroom Cloud that they knew would never happen.

And just as bad, is that what should be our 4th Estate, the Media, the checks and balances on our Gov’t, the so-called “liberal media” has completely been ignoring this story. It took them over 6 weeks before it was even mentioned in the Mainstream Media on Tim Russert’s “Meet the Press” and then when Tony Blair and Bush met last week. This is all over the European Newspapers, yet barely a peep here with the exception of a small piece in the NYT yesterday and on the internet blogs. The world sees what is going on and we have a media that instead of front page stories about the smoking gun memos directly proving the lies, is talking about Michael Jackson, Runaway Brides, missing girls in the Caribbean! Meanwhile our kids are dying for lies in Iraq! Our taxpayer money is being siphoned out of our country based on lies re. Iraq!

I’m going to Washington DC….I’m going to push my stroller with my baby and stand side by side with my Congresswoman and other Americans who love their country and our constitution and demand that this out of control administration be accountable. And if enough of us show up, let’s see the American Media continue to ignore the real story and keep talking about Michael Jackson or come up with another distraction. The world’s media will be there and the World is watching. I never want to look back on my country and say “what could I have done?” I want to know I did everything I could to save our democracy and our country. We have an administration that is far worse and corrupt than the Nixon Administration ever was. We have a war that is as big of a quagmire as Vietnam and well on its way to becoming worse and costly in all ways. I now understand why people in the 60’s spoke out and protested. They saw the deplorable situation re. Civil rights, regarding a corrupt administration and the Vietnam War.

Well, we are back there again…and if there has ever been a time to get out and be heard, it’s this Thursday, June 16th. Come join me if you can.

Namaste

Pachamama

[Horse with no Name]

16. You rock Pacha!

Safe journey.

[Pachamama]

19. Thanks! I just feel in my heart that as many of us that can go, we need

to be there....

And those of us who can't go, we'll be marching for you and representing you....

Meanwhile, you all contact the media and CSPAN to give coverage to what is coming....write the media, call the media!

Send the power and intent out to the Universe on this one....

:hug:

[mzteris]

17. done

dammit! :mad:

I think the meeting should be held on the steps of the Capitol Bldg!!!


I can't go, but got my daughter to promise to be there and bring her friends!!!!!

[in_cog_ni_to]

18. Donated. n/t