www.bushcommission.org

The commission aims to both frame and fuel a society-wide discussion of whether, or not, the administration of George W. Bush is guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and other high crimes. It will do this by bringing the truth to light, and by applying exacting standards, to determine if unpardonable crimes have been committed. With a deep sense of responsibility to the people of the world, we have to seize this moment -- a time to change how people see and think about the Bush administration and its actions.

THE FIRST SESSION WAS HELD
Friday Evening, OCTOBER 21, 6 PM &
Saturday Morning, OCTOBER 22, 10 AM

Welcome on behalf of the Not In Our Name statement of conscience
by Jeremy Pikser and C. Clark Kissinger (hear audio)

Keynote addresses: The Moral Challenge and Responsibility of our Time

	Howard Zinn, Historian, special videotaped message to the commission (hear audio)
	Marcus Raskin, Institute for Policy Studies and The Nation editorial board (hear audio)
	Ann Wright, former foreign service officer who resigned from the State to protest the war on Iraq (hear audio)
	Michael Ratner, president, Center for Constitutional Rights (hear audio)

Introduction of the Judges

Ajamu Sankofa, Dennis Brutus and Abdeen Jabara

and presentation of INDICTMENTS (hear audio)

1.Wars of Aggression -- by Cathy Breen
2.Torture and Indefinite Detention -- by Lynne Stewart
3. Destruction of the Global Environment -- by Ted Glick
4.Attacks on Global Public Health and Reproductive Rights -- by Dr. Tom Fasy

Jury of conscience: Dennis Brutus, South African exile poet; Abdeen Jabara, former president of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee; Ajamu Sankofa, executive director of Physicians for Social Responsibility-NY

Prosecutors and Witnesses: Amy Bartholomew, professor of law, Carleton University (hear audio); Stephen Bronner, professor of political science, Rutgers University; Larry Everest, author, Oil, Power & Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda; Thomas Fasy, MD, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine; Ted Glick, Climate Crisis Coalition; Denis Halliday, ex-UN Assistant Secretary-General, former head of UN Humanitarian Mission In Iraq; Eric Lerner, New Jersey Civil Rights Defense Committee; Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst; Camilo E. Mejia, member of Iraq Veterans Against the War; Barbara Olshansky, Center for Constitutional Rights and co-ordinator of Guantanamo detainee defense (hear audio); Sarah Sohn, Immigration Equality

The full prosecution of the indictments will take place in a second session to be held by January, 2006.

Saturday Afternoon, OCTOBER 22, 1PM
SPECIAL EVIDENTIARY HEARING: HURRICANE KATRINA

Did the Bush Administration commit crimes against humanity?

Featuring Witnesses from the Gulf Coast: Survivor, Kimberly S. “...if it hadn’t been for the young men they were calling thugs, I would have died;”

Rescuers and Expert testimony, included:

Annette A., New Orleans survivor (hear audio); Jay Arena, housing rights advocate from New Orleans (hear audio); Abigail B., school bus driver from Houston blocked by authorities from rescuing people from New Orleans (hear audio); Dr. Robert Bullard, author, Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights & the Politics of Pollution (hear audio); Eric Carter, Common Ground Collective, New Orleans (hear audio); John Clark, Professor of Environmental Studies, Loyola University, New Orleans (hear audio); Carl Dix, Revolutionary Communist Party; Dionne Franklin (hear audio); Deborah Hunter, survivor from Louisiana wetlands; Tanya Jones, filmmaker from New Orleans (hear audio); Mark Krasnoff & Monique Berdin, Cajun community activists and filmmakers; Malik Rahim, Common Ground Collective, New Orleans (hear audio); Jeremy Scahill, correspondent for Democracy Now! (hear audio); plus video testimony from Tony Zimbado.

THE SECOND SESSION

The second session will be held in January. It will be at least a three-day session to present all the witnesses, experts, and documentary evidence on each of the indictments, with the comprehensiveness and standards required to prosecute the case and to fulfill the mission of the Charter. The jury of conscience will then consider the evidence and deliver its opinion on each count of the indictments.

This Commission will itself be an audacious undertaking, one with the potential to make great societal impact. To realize this vision will require many people working in concert, on many levels.

Please contribute generously to make this session happen.