Monday Night – 07.17.06 –A discussion with Shayana Kadidal about
impeachment and the NSA spying program

Contents:

1. About Monday Night
2. About Shayana Kadidal
3. About the Center for Constitutional Rights
4. About “Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush”
5. Useful Links
6. About "For More Years" Series

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1. About Monday Night

What: Screening /Discussion about "Articles of Impeachment" with Shayana Kadidal
Where: 16 Beaver Street, 4th floor (directions below)
When: Monday Night 07.17.2006 @ 7:30 PM
Who: Open and Free To All

On Monday night we will be having a discussion about the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) case for impeachment. Shayana Kadidal, a CCR attorney and co-author of the CCR book ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AGAINST GEORGE W. BUSH,” will be discussing the book, impeachment, and the NSA domestic spying program. A short film outlining the case, “How to Impeach a President,” will be screened.

Hope you can make it.

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2. About Shayana Kadidal

Shayana Kadidal is a staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights who works on the Center’s major case on the illegal NSA domestic spying program, CCR v. Bush, as well as the Center’s Patriot Act case, and testified before Congress this past spring on the material witness statute. He is also currently working on Turkmen v. Ashcroft, representing people swept up on immigration charges after 9/11 and unlawfully detained and abused. He graduated from Yale Law School, and clerked at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

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3. About the Center for Constitutional Rights

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) is a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

CCR uses litigation proactively to advance the law in a positive
direction, to empower poor communities and communities of color, to guarantee the rights of those with the fewest protections and least access to legal resources, to train the next generation of constitutional and human rights attorneys, and to strengthen the broader movement for constitutional and human rights.

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4. About ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AGAINST GEORGE W. BUSH

In ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AGAINST GEORGE W. BUSH, Michael Ratner, Bill Goodman and other experts set out the legal arguments for impeachment in a clear, concise, and objective discussion. In four separate articles of impeachment detailing four separate charges – warrantless surveillance, misleading Congress on the reasons for the Iraq war, violating laws against torture, and subverting the Constitution’s separation of powers – the CCR attorneys make a strong case using black letter law and abundant evidence.

ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AGAINST GEORGE W. BUSH details that evidence, the relevant laws and the legal precedents. It also explains what the
Constitution says about impeachment – an informative discussion further illuminated by supplemental material that includes a history of
impeachment, explanation of its procedures, and the previous articles of impeachment brought against Presidents Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton.

A brief excerpt is posted here:
http://www.alternet.org/story/32866/

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5. Links

Center for Constitutional Rights Believes Privileged Attorney-Client Communications Were Intercepted by NSA without Warrants:

http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/legal/govt_misconduct/govtArticle.asp?ObjID=RovrtPD8Bc&Content=694

The CCR’s case for impeachment:
http://www.mhpbooks.com/aoi.html

Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush: A National Teach-In http://www.articlesofimpeachment.net

The Center for Constitutional Rights:
http://www.ccr-ny.org

Shayana Kadidal’s Huffington Post blog:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shayana-kadidal/

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6. About "For More Years" Series

What is meant by the injunction, "Four More Years"? 4 more years of what? 4 years for whom? Why not 10 or 16 more years? And what of the 4 or 12 years which just passed? The series will address what we or our invited guests deem to be critical questions confronting cultural activists today. What if anything can be learned from the past 5 years? If we assumed that behind the "Defeat Bush" agenda rested a tremendous potential for
socio-political transformation, what can be made of this potential post "victory," today? Thus, the series will with modest steps examine the future of activism, media criticism, and critical cultural practice especially at a moment when "culture" is being explicitly recognized by the right and the left as the key terrain in the struggle for hegemony. It will consider plans and proposals as well as analyses of past
interventions (including of course all of the sweat and ink spilled over the past 4 years about art and defeating bush). It will also traverse philosophical questions pertaining to mourning, resistance (again), revolution (?), and the status of the image and representation in this war without end, in our current, open-ended, state of exception.