A Question of Impeachment

A Question of Impeachment is bringing together todays most important and knowledgeable political thinkers to explore and debate the case for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, engaging audiences in investigating crucial issues affecting all Americans, particularly as they prepare to elect a new leader, including expansion of executive powers, war, surveillance, torture and extraordinary rendition, and government response to disaster. These questions will be addressed through depositions, modeled on actual impeachment hearings, panel discussions, film, music, and comedy.

INDIVIDUAL EVENTS
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Sunday November 18 @ 12pm
Film screening: No End in Sight
Charles Ferguson’s celebrated documentary is the first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq’s descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality and anarchy, No End in Sight is a jaw-dropping, insider’s tale of wholesale incompetence, recklessness and venality. Based on over 200 hours of footage, the film provides a candid retelling of the events following the fall of Baghdad in 2003 by high ranking officials such as former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, Ambassador Barbara Bodine, Lawrence Wilkerson, and General Jay Garner, as well as Iraqi civilians, American soldiers, and prominent analysts.

Director Charles Ferguson will be on hand for a talk back following the film.

102 mins.

Sunday, November 18 @ 2:30pm:
LECTURE/SLAM: a radical new interpretation of the poetry slam, in which leading scholars compete to deliver the best lecture, and audiences determine a winner.

Sunday, November 18 @ 8pm:
OPENING DAY CONCERT
Opening Arguments, Music, & More

Monday November 19 @ 7pm:
Article I: Initiation and Continuation of Illegal War Participants include: John Bonifaz and Ann Wright

Monday November 26 @ 7pm:
Article II: Torture and Extraordinary Renditions Participants include: Michael Ratner, Jonathan Hafetz, Tara McKelvey
Sunday December 2 @ 12pm
Film screening: Right to Return (New Home Movies from the Lower 9th Ward)

Beginning in January 2006, Oscar-winning filmmaker Jonathan Demme filmed in and around New Orleans, chronicling the lives of dozens of people, each of whom has their own unique story about their experience of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The result is a documentary, still in development based on hours of footage, about the pioneering individuals and families who have chosen to exercise their self-granted “right to return” to their devastated homes and rebuild their lives following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

On December 2 we screen a special cut drawn from stories of residents of the Lower 9th Ward.

1 hr 48 mins.

Monday December 3 @ 7pm:
Article III: Criminal Negligence in Response to Hurricane Katrina Participants include: Chris Kromm

Sunday, December 9 at 7:30 p.m.
The Redgraves: Poems From Guantanamo
A very special evening featuring the legendary theatrical siblings reciting poems from Guantanamo: The Detainees Speak, a collection of poems written by detainees held in the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (Marc Falkoff, attorney and editor of Poems from Guantanamo, will be part of this event).

Monday December 10 @ 7pm:
Article IV: Warrantless Surveillance Participants include: Commander Glenn Sulmasy, Richard Valeriani

Sunday December 16 @ 2pm:
Article V: Executive Power: Signing Statements and Habeas Corpus Participants include: Marjorie Cohn

Sunday, December 16 @ 7pm:
A Question of Impeachment: a tool for democracy closing panel discussion & celebration