The first “Beach Impeach” event was organized by San Francisco cab driver Brad Newsham (www.bradnewsham.com). On January 6, 2007, one thousand people came to Ocean Beach in San Francisco and laid their bodies down inside 100-foot lettering that stretched for 400 feet across the sand and spelled out the message “IMPEACH!” This event took place in Nancy Pelosi’s home district, just two days after Pelosi became Speaker of the U.S. House of Reprentatives. In an internet heartbeat, photos and video taken from two hovering helicopters wound up in newspapers and websites all over the world.

A few weeks later, dozens of impeachment groups from around the U.S. (www.impeach07.org) held a February summit in New York City, and identified Saturday April 28, as a “Nationwide Day of Protest Demanding Impeachment.” On that day, spell-out-IMPEACH-with-your-bodies events were held at more than 100 sites around the USA (www.A28.org).

In San Francisco, 1,500 people returned to Ocean Beach for a second Beach Impeach event,  and this time spelled out “IMPEACH NOW!” in 100-foot letters that stretched 730 feet across the sand. Afterwards, CodePink and World Can't Wait led a caravan of 200 people from the beach to an ongoing, weeks-long "Pelosi Watch" in front of Speaker Pelosi's Pacific Heights home.

“Everyone keeps asking me, ‘What’s next?’” said Newsham, the cab driver/organizer. “Well,  that’s easy. Ever since the Downing Street memo, mainstream polls repeatedly show that a solid majority of Americans want an impeachment resolution passed by the House, and then a trial in the Senate. It’s time our leaders get the message.”

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