From the ImpeachBush.org listserv.

The Bush/Cheney Presidential Inaugural Committee is spending $50 million to lavish the President and his “donor base” with gala parties in the next few days. The coronation was supposed to proceed on January 20th with Pennsylvania Avenue scrubbed clean of embarrassing signs calling for the impeachment of George W. Bush. It has all been organized like a Hollywood set piece to shower “legitimacy” on a criminal administration.

Thanks to the incredible support of everyone in this movement, however, Bush (and the world media tracking his every inaugural movement on January 20) will be unable to miss the thousands of people at antiwar bleachers and along the parade route.

Because of the help provided by members of the impeachment movement, the beautiful (and large) black and yellow banners and signs reading “Guilty of War Crimes — ImpeachBush.org” will be all over Pennsylvania Avenue.

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President Bush said on Monday he would not rule out military action against Iran if that country was not more forthcoming about its suspected nuclear weapons

We’ve been here and done that, and the Bushite justification for war in Iraq was lies, and they knew they were lying. Iran is no different. They want oil and power, and will destroy the earth to get it. They must be stopped.

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The National Park Service has agreed to give thousands of anti-war demonstrators a prime spot along President Bush’s inaugural parade route that will allow them to protest during the procession.

Hmm, first the government played hardball, now they’re being co-operative. Here in L.A,. ANSWER has permits for a march and rally at the Westwood Federal Building at 6 pm Thursday. The rally starts at 6 pm with live music, hip hop artists, spoken words, and speakers like Ron Kovic. The march steps off at 8 pm. I’ll be driving the lead truck during the march, should be fun.

The anti-war group A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition is planning to erect its own bleachers in the space, an open plaza on Pennsylvania Ave., just a few blocks from the Capitol building, said Brian Becker, national coordinator for the group. The bleachers could seat up to 1,000 people and the park service estimates up to 10,000 could fill the space standing shoulder to shoulder.

“I don’t think it’s ever happened in history that the anti-war movement has ever been able to have this kind of setup,” Becker said.

ANSWER lawyers often seem to do the impossible, and they did it again this time too.

Becker said he considers the agreement a “partial victory” but still inadequate because the general public, including many who are opposed to the war in Iraq, will not be able to move into other areas along the parade route as they have in the past.

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In Sri Lanka, a country with a socialized medical system where even the poorest residents receive some regular health care, the feared outbreaks of malaria and cholera have not materialized (after the tsunami).

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