February 2, 2006
For Immediate
Release:
THE WORLD CAN’T
WAIT(DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME
Press contact: Connie Julian, 866.973.4463, ext 4, press@worldcantwait.org
Thousands
to Rally at White House
Saturday, Feb. 4
11
AM Rally at 17th and Constitution, Washington DC.
2
PM – March to circle
White House begins
On Saturday, February
4, tens of thousands will travel from across the country to the national seat
of government with a single demand: Bush
Step Down And Take Your Program with You.
The crowd will rally beginning at 11am, then encircle the White House at 2pm.
Debra
Sweet, national coordinator of World Can’t Wait(Drive Out the Bush Regime: ‘Torture,
war, the rule of law and separation of church state eviscerated, an extreme
rightwing Supreme Court nominee goes essentially unopposed) The hour is late. This whole regime is
illegitimate and criminal, and politics as usual have failed to stop it. Bush will not be indicted, impeached, or
driven from office without massive, determined, unrelenting protest with the
concrete demand that BUSH STEP DOWN. This is what we set out to do.’
World Can’t Wait is
quickly attracting a surprising and broad range of well-known people in public
life including US Congressional
Representatives JOHN CONYERS, CYNTHIA MCKINNEY, MAXINE WATERS, BOBBIE RUSH, and MAJOR OWENS, along
with HARRY BELAFONTE, LEWIS LAPHAM, MARK
RUFFALO, SEAN PENN, SUSAN
SARANDON, GLORIA STEINEM, SERJ TANKIAN,
CORNEL WEST, HAROLD PINTER, and PAUL HAGGIS. Two full-page
ads have appeared in the New York Times and spots are running nationally on Air America radio.
On
the night of the State of the Union address, at exactly 9PM as Bush stepped to the podium, there were World
Can’t Wait rallies to ‘drown-out Bush’s lies’ in over 60 US cities, including
Greensboro, NC where 7 protesters were arrested, and in Iraq where several U.S.
soldiers shot rounds of artillery into the air at 9PM EST to drown out Bush.
Speakers at the
Saturday Washington DC rally include REV. AL SHARPTON, actress
KATHLEEN CHALFANT, DORIS ‘GRANNY D’
HADDOCK, walked across the country for campaign finance reform, ANN WRIGHT, former US
diplomat and military officer quit in protest of the Iraq war, more TBA.
Interviews available.
For text of the World
Can’t Wait-Drive Out the Bush Regime Call and more info, go to: www.worldcantwait.org
‘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.’
— from
World Can’t Wait(Drive Out the Bush Regime