Veterans for Peace Bus Tour Promotes Impeachment
The Times-Standard (California) July 24, 2005

Veterans opposed to President Bush and the war in Iraq were set to leave Eureka Saturday on a tour that will take them around the country.

The Veterans for Peace bus owned by Patrick Tate, president of the Mendocino Chapter, was packed to head south to pick up others in Sonoma County, San Francisco, Santa Cruz and Santa Barbara on its way to Santa Monica and the Arlington West Memorial.

Tate said Republicans, Democrats, Independents and Greens will be on the bus.

"And every one of them ...   more »

AFL-CIO Convention delegates voted late Tuesday [July 26] afternoon in favor of a resolution calling for a "rapid" return of all U.S. troops from Iraq. Eighteen AFL-CIO state federations, central labor councils and unions had submitted resolutions calling for an immediate or rapid end to the occupation and return of the troops. The General Executive Council, meeting on the eve of the convention, submitted a resolution that borrowed heavily from elements of those eighteen but did not clearly call for a prompt end to the occupation.

When the resolution reached the floor, Fred Mason, President of the Maryland/District of Columbia ...   more »