As lawmakers set forth their agenda for the 110th session, anti-war activists want to make sure their concerns are not ignored. At a park just north of the Capitol today demonstrators demanded an investigation into what some are calling the Bush Administration’s “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Susan is with The Critical Voice art activism group based in New York City. The group launched the We Will Not be Silent Campaign.

Susan Clip: “It’s really important that we put pressure on them right now, not just to hold people in the past accountable but that they take a different way of running the government, that they listen to people who- There was some sort of mandate from the elections, but that they look at what’s going on in terms of the disasters happening domestically and internationally. And it’s not surprising that they’re doing what they’re doing, but I think people should really be outraged and up in arms about it. And we need to start today, like this is the first day the beginning of looking at what they’re doing, and so they know they right now they can count on us to put that pressure on them, and that we’re not going to back off, we’re not going to wait for the next election and see that we can do this through some sort of electoral process. It really needs to be people constantly coming out and pressuring them.”

Protesters are demanding that lawmakers stop funding the multi-billion dollar war in Iraq. They also want stronger prohibitions against torture, and an end to illegal detentions and deportations. And they want lawmakers to prioritize re-instituting civil liberties that were lost in the passage of the PATRIOT ACT. Prominent anti-war activists including Cindy Sheehan and Daniel Ellsberg will also be holding a “Voices of Impeachment” event tonight in DC to pressure Congress to put the Articles of Impeachment against President Bush back on the table. None of these issues are included in the first hundred hours of the Democrats’ agenda.