[NYTr] Impeach! Rose Parade Photos

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If you were watching the Rose Parade on KTLA yesterday, you probably saw
the Impeach signs in front of the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena.
Prior to the start of the parade, the Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld
bobble-head puppets entertained the crowds on Colorado Blvd.  Later,
anti-war and Impeachment activists picked up the tail end of the
parade, with dozens of us (Linda Jaffe leads the way below) holding a
giant fabric replica of the Preamble to the US Constitution.  "Save the
Constitution.  Impeach, indict, imprison," was the refrain all the way
to Pasadena City Hall, where anti-war leader and Pelosi-challenger
Cindy Sheehan spoke to the crowd and the cameras about the need to
restore our constitutional rights.  See the photos of our parade
activity below, then click on the flickr link (courtesy of Kevin Lynn)
to see more photos of today's action -- organized by Peter Thottam (LA
National Impeachment Center), with help from Tighe Barry (Code Pink).
Scroll to read blogger Linda Milazzo's report leading up to the
parade.  Happy New Year!   

Marcy Winograd, Pres., 
Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles


For a sampling of photos of the event please click on Kevin Lynn's
link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cfpuporg/  Then read Linda Milazzo's
report and watch the news coverage to answer her question ...

Will Media Broadcast "THE PEOPLE'S PARADE" At The Rose Parade New Years
Day??

Submitted by Linda Milazzo on Tue, 2008-01-01 03:54. Activism | Cindy
Sheehan | Congress | Elections | General Discussion | Impeachment | Media |
Organizing Locally

Here's a little puzzle to ponder. Consider these two American
institutions... then guess which institutions they are??

One institution is over 200 years old and the product of passion,
commitment, creativity and pain-staking labor. It is present every New Years
Day in Pasadena, California, but it is NEVER seen.

The second institution is a spectacular floral extravaganza, over 100 years
of age. It is also the product of passion, commitment, creativity and
pain-staking labor. It, too, is present every New Years Day in Pasadena, but
it is ALWAYS seen. The vision of the second displays its majesty. The
majesty of the first displays its vision.

The first, much older UNSEEN institution allows the second institution to be
seen. Without the presence of the first and older institution, the younger
institution might not be.

Can you guess which institutions these are? Allow me fill you in.

The first institution, the UNSEEN one, is the Constitution of the United
States. The second institution is the annual Pasadena Rose Parade. The
Constitution, the underpinning of our Democracy, gave forth the freedoms of
expression and assembly which allow the Rose Parade to take place. The Rose
Parade owes its existence to the Constitution.

This year, as a gift to the nation and as a reminder of how revered the
Constitution should be, a consortium of patriots will join together in
Pasadena to VISUALLY unite both institutions.

On New Years Day, thanks to the 2008 White Rose Coalition (WRC), a GIANT
rendering of the Preamble to the Constitution (was) carried at the end of
the Rose Parade by American patriots in the PEOPLE'S PARADE FOR DEMOCRACY.
Accompanying the Preamble (was) the famed chain-gang bobble-heads of
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleeza Rice, adorned in
prison garb with chains and teeny balls. See youtube video of Bobble Heads
in action: http://youtube.com/watch?v=gK6TX3kzkbk

The 2008 White Rose Coalition is a convergence of patriots from
pro-peace/pro-impeachment organizations across the nation, including the Los
Angeles National Impeachment Center (LANIC), CODEPINK, Troops Out Now, World
Can't Wait, ANSWER, Progressive Democrats of America, the Green Party,
Veterans For Peace, United For Peace and Justice, The Backbone Campaign,
Office Of The Americas, Brave New Films, and more. They have assembled under
the banner of the White Rose Coalition in tribute to the resistance movement
in Munich in 1942. Coalition members will use a wide variety of visuals
during the Rose Parade broadcast to push the urgency to END THE WAR &
IMPEACH GEORGE BUSH AND DICK CHENEY!

The 2008 WRC is the brainchild of Los Angeles attorney, Peter Thottam.
Thottam, a former Green Party candidate for California Assembly and Director
of LANIC, has assembled a stellar array of progressive leaders to march in
The PEOPLE'S PARADE. They include Camp Casey Peace Institute founder and San
Francisco Congressional Candidate, Cindy Sheehan, CODEPINK Co-founder, Jodie
Evans, CODEPINK human rights activist, Tighe Barry, who was recently
arrested in Pakistan for challenging Musharraf's martial law, and Marcy
Winograd, President of Progressive Democrats of Los Angeles and 2006
Congressional candidate for California's 36th District.

THE PEOPLE'S PARADE will begin at approximately 10:30AM (Pacific Time) and
wind down Colorado Boulevard, ending at the steps of Pasadena City Hall.
There, Cindy Sheehan and others will hold a press conference on impeachment
and the war on Iraq.

Since Speaker of the House, Pelosi, and her Congress, have failed to honor
their Constitutional duty to initiate impeachment proceedings against Bush
and Cheney, and the U.S. Legislature continues to fund the war on Iraq, the
pro-America White Rose Coalition believes it is time for Americans to take
the most visible and proactive roles possible to return the nation to its
democratic principles.

With the bipartisan passage of H.R. 1955, the Violent Radicalization and
Homegrown Terrorism Act of 2007, and its Senate clone, S. 1959 pending
passage in February, it is abundantly clear that Democrats and Republicans
in Washington are colluding to suppress dissent. The effort to undermine the
First Amendment is underway as this suppressive legislation proves.

As consequence, the White Rose Coalition intends to usher in election year
'08 with overwhelming visibility to advance THE PEOPLE'S cause: END THE WAR
& IMPEACH GEORGE BUSH AND DICK CHENEY!!

Across all fifty states of this Union, Americans want an end to war, and
Bush and Cheney held accountable for their crimes. If elected officials
won't uphold the Constitution, it's up to THE PEOPLE to RISE!!

2008 must be the year for the American people to work in consort to return
their beloved nation to its Constitutional roots. No torture. No
manufactured consent for war. No corporate profiteering at the expense of
the masses to enrich the few. No arrogant self-exile from cooperative
efforts to safeguard the planet.

Alternatively, Americans must demand the establishment of an America that is
respected and emulated by the community of nations - not for its military
prowess, but for its contributions to humanity.

Every New Years Day, the domestic and international press broadcast the Rose
Parade to a worldwide audience of millions. The questions this year are:

Will mainstream media broadcast the Preamble to the Constitution and the
PEOPLE'S PARADE that will follow right after??

Will mainstream media grant the same center stage visibility to a facsimile
of the Constitution that it grants to floral facsimiles of lesser
importance?

The answers, my fellow Americans, depend on the patriotism of the "free"
press, which like the Rose Parade and all forms of artistic and political
expression, our Constitution provides for and protects.

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