WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - The grassroots movement to impeach Pres. George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and other high officials is gaining momentum nationally.

On Capitol Hill Apr. 26, members of several anti-war groups even staged a noisy disruption in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building, unfurling banners from the seventh floor, which draped to nearly the fifth floor. One banner read "Your silence, your legacy," while the other was simply the article of the U.S. constitution providing for impeachment of the president, and Vice President, according to D.C. Indymedia.org. As the banners unfurled, the crowd on the atrium floor yelled "Impeach!"

The protestors also conducted a mock military funeral, before 14 were arrested.

Meanwhile, in Vermont, several Town Hall Assemblies, as well as the State Senate have voted to instruct the state's Congressional delegation to support impeachment. Other cities have passed similar resolutions.

In the House, Rep. Dennis Kucinich has introduced a measure to impeach Vice President Dick Cheney. "Because I believe the vice president's conduct in office has been destructive to the founding purposes of our nation, today I have introduced House Resolution 333: Articles of Impeachment of Richard B. Cheney," Rep. Kucinich said on Capitol Hill Apr. 24.

Mr. Kucinich says the Vice President should be held accountable for manipulating the intelligence process and deceiving the public to build support for the invasion of Iraq.

But that measure does not go far enough, according to a more than 100 prominent activists who gathered at the Capitol Apr. 25. The coalition included Washington State Senator Eric Oemig; Mayors Rocky Anderson of Salt Lake City and John Shields of Nyack, N.Y.; Vietnam-era government official Daniel Ellsberg; "Peace Mom" Cindy Sheehan, whose son was killed in Iraq; and retired Army Colonel and diplomat Ann Wright, who resigned the day the Iraq war began.

"Oh that's just the first step," Ms. Sheehan told The Final Call. "What we have to do now as grassroots, is to pressure our congressional members to co-sponsor that resolution with Dennis Kucinich. If we could get 100 to 120 co-sponsors, it actually would come out of the committee, and may come up for a vote.

"The most important thing we can do as grassroots America is show Congress that we are on board, and we will support any Congress member who does introduce articles of impeachment. Now, we only need articles of impeachment introduced against George Bush. I support HR-333," Ms. Sheehan continued.

"The winds of impeachment are sweeping the country," former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark said in a statement Apr. 24. Mr. Clark accuses Pres. Bush and V.P. Cheney of "actively deceiving the country with false propaganda aimed at justifying an unprovoked war of aggression." Mr. Clark has mobilized nearly 900,000 signatures on an on-line petition at www.VoteToImpeach.org.

"There comes a time when voices of conscience must sound the alarm and recommend the remedy," Debra Sweet, director of the World Can't Wait—Drive Out The Bush Regime, and another impeachment coalition member said in a statement.

"To fail to identify actions of President Bush and Vice President Cheney as impeachable offenses, high crimes and misdemeanors, is for Congress to be in full complicity with the assault on the Constitution and the rule of law," said Mr. Ellsberg, who released the classified Pentagon Papers in 1971, which revealed that Pentagon officials knew all along that the Vietnam War could not be won.

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