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November 21,
2005
For Immediate Release
Contact: Connie Julian at
866-973-4463, ext 4, press@worldcantwait.org
World Can’t Wait –
Drive Out the Bush Regime Launches Nationwide
Campaign to ‘Politically Drown Out’ Bush’s State of
the Union Address in January
One day after PA Democrat John Murtha opened the first
debate in Congress calling for withdrawal from Iraq, and as Bush’s poll numbers
hit all-time lows, World Can’t Wait(Drive Out the Bush Regime announced
audacious plans for ‘politically drowning out Bush’s Lies’ during the State of
the Union Address in late January.
‘Hatred for
the Bush regime is skyrocketing, but this regime is
relentless, and with this State of the Union Bush will attempt a big comeback
for his program. This must be massively answered) As Bush begins to speak that night, we will literally BRING THE NOISE
in a cacophony of sound to drown out his speech. From drum circles to
violins, cat-calls to air horns, banging pots and pans to a full repertoire of
musical expression from hip hop to classical– we will orchestrate total
drown-outs from coast to coast to demand: BUSH, STEP DOWN,’ declared Debra
Sweet, national coordinator for World
Can’t Wait(Drive Out the Bush Regime at their national conference in New
York City, November 19.
Sweet continued:
‘Then, the very next Saturday, we will get everyone possible to Washington
DC by bus, car, train or plane to protest at the seat of government. There
will be prominent voices of conscience to help deliver the people’s verdict on
the State of the Union. And that verdict will ring through the streets of DC
and echo through the world.’
World
Can’t Wait(Drive Out the Bush is the first organized movement in US history with the goal
of driving out a sitting president before an election. The organizers vow they
won’t stop until he is out.
The World Can’t Wait(Drive Out the Bush
Regime was launched on
November 2 with demonstrations in nearly 70 cities. Many marchers were students, joined by citizens of all ages.
Statements of support came from Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter, authors Gore
Vidal, Howard Zinn, Michael Eric Dyson, Studs Terkel, Alice Walker, playwright
Eve Ensler, actress Jane Fonda, Leland Y. Yee (CA State Assembly Speaker pro
Tem), and anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan. The day was marked by nationwide
high school walk-outs at a level (200+ schools) not seen in years. Many
students are now facing suspensions and other disciplinary actions.
Sweet: ‘More and more
people are starting to actively reject this regime that is waging an
illegitimate and immoral war, making torture an official policy, suppressing
science, threatening to outlaw abortion and birth control, denying basic rights
to gay people, left thousands of Black people to die on rooftops in New
Orleans, and is moving each day closer to a theocracy.’
From the Call
for World Can’t Wait(Drive Out the
Bush Regime: ‘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.‘ (For full text of the Call and signatories,
see www.worldcantwait.org)
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