Fw: The World Can't Wait!. Drive out the Bush Regime

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Fri, 29 Jul 2005 16:11:08 -0700

Fw: Drive out the Bush Regime

 

 

 

 

http://www.worldcantwait.org

 

 

Sign and spread the Call for this movement:

 

 

 

The World Can't Wait!

Drive Out the Bush Regime!

 

 

Mobilize for November 2, 2005

 

Your government, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a

murderous and utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries

in their sights.

 

Your government is openly torturing people, and justifying it.

 

Your government puts people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing

them lawyers, and either holding them indefinitely or deporting them

in the dead of night.

 

Your government is moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a

narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule.

 

Your government suppresses the science that doesn't fit its

religious, political and economic agenda, forcing present and future

generations to pay a terrible price.

 

Your government is moving to deny women here, and all over the world,

the right to birth control and abortion.

 

Your government enforces a culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and

ignorance.

 

People look at all this and think of Hitler – and they are right to do

so. The Bush regime is setting out to radically remake society very

quickly, in a fascist way, and for generations to come. We must act

now; the future is in the balance.

 

Millions and millions are deeply disturbed and outraged by this. They

recognize the need for a vehicle to express this outrage, yet they

cannot find it; politics as usual cannot meet the enormity of the

challenge, and people sense this.

 

There is not going to be some magical " pendulum swing. " People who

steal elections and believe they're on a " mission from God will not go

without a fight.

 

There is not going to be some savior from the Democratic Party. This

whole idea of putting our hopes and energies into " leaders " who tell

us to seek common ground with fascists and religious fanatics is

proving every day to be a disaster, and actually serves to demobilize

people.

 

But silence and paralysis are NOT acceptable. That which you will not

resist and mobilize to stop, you will learn – or be forced – to

accept. There is no escaping it: the whole disastrous course of this

Bush regime must be STOPPED. And we must take the responsibility to

do it.

 

And there is a way. We are talking about something on a scale that

can really make a huge change in this country and in the world. We

need more than fighting Bush's outrages one at a time, constantly

losing ground to the whole onslaught. We must, and can, aim to create

a political situation where the Bush regime's program is repudiated,

where Bush himself is driven from office, and where the whole

direction he has been taking society is reversed. We, in our millions,

must and can take responsibility to change the course of history.

 

To that end, on November 2, the first anniversary of Bush's

" re-election " , we will take the first major step in this by organizing

a truly massive day of resistance all over this country. People

everywhere will walk out of school, they will take off work, they will

come to the downtowns and town squares and set out from there, going

through the streets and calling on many more to JOIN US. They will

repudiate this criminal regime, making a powerful statement: " NO!

THIS REGIME DOES NOT REPRESENT US! AND WE WILL DRIVE IT OUT! "

 

November 2 must be a massive and public proclamation that WE REFUSE TO

BE RULED IN THIS WAY. November 2 must call out to the tens of

millions more who are now agonizing and disgusted. November 2 will be

the beginning – a giant first step in forcing Bush to step down, and a

powerful announcement that we will not stop until he does so – and it

will join with and give support and heart to people all over the globe

who so urgently need and want this regime to be stopped.

 

This will not be easy. If we speak the truth, they will try to

silence us. If we act, they will try to stop us. But we speak for

the majority, here and around the world, and as we get this going we

are going to reach out to the people who have been so badly fooled by

Bush and we are NOT going to stop.

 

The point is this: history is full of examples where people who had

right on their side fought against tremendous odds and were

victorious. And it is also full of examples of people passively

hoping to wait it out, only to get swallowed up by a horror beyond

what they ever imagined. The future is unwritten. WHICH ONE WE GET IS

UP TO US.

These next two months are crucial. The call you are reading has to get

out to millions right away – on the internet, passed out as flyers in

communities, published as ads in newspapers.

 

DO NOT WAIT!! GET ORGANIZED!!

 

If you agree with this statement, add your name to it!!! And do more

than that: send it to friends, get them to sign it, organize a

meeting, take it to your church, your school, your union, your health

club, your barber shop, to concerts and libraries and family

gatherings, everywhere you go. Raise money, lots of money.

Get people together, make plans to be there on November 2, and to

build for it.

 

To sign this statement

http://www.worldcantwait.org/signcall/index.html

 

 

View full list of signers here.

http://www.worldcantwait.org/signcall/view.php

 

Email all your friends a note inviting them to join the World Can't

Wait email list

http://www.worldcantwait.org/Invitefriendstojoinelist.htm

 

 

Let's get organized! September 3/4 New York City

 

National Organizer's meeting! We'll gather to plan the fall

mobilization for Wednesday November 2 major outpourings to repudiate

the Bush Regime. Everyone needed and welcome. More info soon!

 

Read this important article by Rosemary Candelario, pro choice

activist " Truly the World Can't Wait

http://www.worldcantwait.org/Supreme_Court.htm

 

We have drawn our inspiration from the

 

[http://www.nion.us/index.htm]

 

Not In Our Name Statement of Conscience which we encourage you to

read, add your name to, and distribute broadly.

http://www.nion.us/NSOC/NION2wsigninfo.htm

 

Excerpts:

" No election, whether fair or fraudulent, can legitimize criminal wars

on foreign countries, torture, the wholesale violation of human

rights, and the end of science and reason. "

" It is our responsibility to stop the Bush regime from carrying out

this disastrous course. We believe history will judge us sharply

should we fail to act decisively. "

 

Initiating signers of the World Can't Wait Call include:

 

William Blum, author of Rogue State

Prof B. Robert Franza, MD, author of Control of Human Retrovirus Gene

_Expression

Nina Felshin, author of But Is It Art: The Spirit of Art as Activism

Margot Harry, author of Attention MOVE! This is America

 

Mumia Abu-Jamal, Radio commentator

C. Clark Kissinger, Revolution newspaper and initiator of Not In Our

Name statement

 

Rev. Earl Kooperkamp

Travis Morales, Revolutionary Communist Party, SF Bay Area

Jeremy Pikser, screenwriter [bulworth]

Frances Fox Piven, author of Regulating the Poor

Ralph Poynter, community activist

Michael Steven Smith, National Lawyers Guild-NY

Lynne Stewart, criminal defense attorney

Sunsara Taylor, Revolution newspaper

 

To sign this statement

http://www.worldcantwait.org/signcall/index.html

 

View full list of signers here.

 

" First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I

wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up

because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I

didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for

the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then

they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up. "

 

- Martin Niemoeller