By Kathlyn Stone

Daniel Fearn is hoping you’ll hear about the “Blackout of National Shame” and start turning your lights off at home every Wednesday from 9 to 9:30 p.m. What’s that about?

The light’s out protest is the latest of many ideas Minneapolis resident Fearn has presented, hoping one will be the tipping point that ignites people to actively support impeachment. Fearn is aiming his message at anyone dissatisfied with the hard right turn the country has made under President George W. Bush.

Fearn, a former Marine sergeant, is an impassioned proponent of impeaching Bush, and one of a growing number of dedicated impeachment activists taking their work to the national stage. The impeachment coordinator for Veterans For Peace Chapter #27 in the Twin Cities, Fern is also hoping the national VFP leadership will adopt his “Impeach for Peace and Justice” campaign on a national scale. In the meantime, the campaign and others like it are generating intense interest around the country.

Like many progressives, Fearn is fed up with the war, the Patriot Act and domestic spying, torture, tax breaks for the wealthy, lobbyists’ influence over legislators, conservatives’ stranglehold on all branches of government, and with Bush’s consolidation of power. But instead of fighting on numerous fronts, Fearn believes the country can only change course through impeachment.

He grew up in a household headed by an “Eisenhower Republican,” says Fearn. “Eisenhower coined the term Military Industrial Complex, and warned us to watch out. At that time it was assumed people had the power.”

Fearn believes that people can take their power back through impeachment. “We have to save ourselves,” he wrote on the IFPJ web site. “Stop deluding yourself that there is any other solution to our Bush and Cheney problems besides impeachment. Impeachment is the only way.”

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