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Impeachment Debate Comes to Hastert Country

Batavia Panel Planned for May 22nd

Citizens to Discuss Bush/Cheney High Crimes and Misdemeanors

BATAVIA, IL - May 17 - Local residents will gather at the Batavia Library on Tuesday night, May 22 for a town hall meeting on the subject of impeachment.

Has George Bush committed impeachable offenses? If so, should Congress act now to impeach him? - Panelists at a Batavia gathering will address these questions. Speakers include:

Jason Snart, Associate Professor of English, College of DuPage

Nick Stein, member of the board of the Chicago Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild

Liz Lazdins, World Can't Wait - Chicago Steering Committee

The meeting will be held at the Batavia Library at 10 S. Batavia Ave. (on the southwest corner of Route 31 and Wilson Street) from 7 to 9 pm.

On April 24, Representative Dennis Kucinich introduced articles of impeachment in Congress against Vice President Cheney as HR. 333. Since then, three other Representatives have signed on as co-sponsors. Across the country, citizens are organizing meetings on impeachment. National organizations After Downing Street and World Can’t Wait act as resources for grassroots activists.

The Batavia meeting is sponsored by the Chicago area chapter of World Can’t Wait . Endorsers of the World Can’t Wait Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime include: Edward Asner, US Rep John Conyers Jr., Michael Eric Dyson, Steve Earle, Daniel Ellsberg, Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Brig. Gen. (Ret) Janis Karpinski, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Mark Crispin Miller, Viggo Mortensen, US Rep. Major Owens, Sean Penn, Harold Pinter, US Rep. Bobby Rush, Susan Sarandon, Rev. Al Sharpton, Martin Sheen, Gloria Steinem, Studs Turkel, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut, US Rep. Maxine Waters, Cornel West, and Howard Zinn.

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