Our Call to drive out the Bush regime lays out an indictment of the
crimes this regime is committing here and around the world, and shows
the fascist direction in which this society is headed. What
follows is an online teach-in based on the 7 “YOUR GOVERNMENT”
statements that begin our Call. This teach-in below is still
under construction, so check back later for more.
(Click on “your government”)
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.
(Read the rest of the Call to drive out the Bush regime)
Your government, on the basis of outrageous
lies, is waging a murderous and utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with
other countries in their sights.
Read the first chapter of Larry Everest’s book Oil, Power, & Empire.
Prevailing in Iraq– Slideshow on the realties of the Iraq War.
Your government is openly torturing people, and justifying it.
PBS’s Frontline- ‘The Torture Question’
A documentary on US torture of detainees held in American prison camps in
Entitled ‘The Torture Question,’ the report makes clear that Secretary
of Defense Donald Rumsfeld bears direct responsibility for the brutal
methods of interrogation used against US prisoners. In a climate where
the mass media functions primarily as a White House and Pentagon
propaganda tool, the PBS investigation is a positive and refreshing
exception.
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.
A segment from the ACLU’s ‘Beyond the Patriot Act’ Featuring Harry Shearer.
Also: audio from Democracy Now’s “NSA Whistleblower” program.
National Security Agency Whistleblower Warns Domestic Spying Program Is Sign the
is Decaying Into a ‘Police State’. Former NSA intelligence agent
Russell Tice condemns reports that the Agency has been engaged in
eavesdropping on
Your government is moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule.
Selected Articles Online:
Esther Kaplan: On the Trail of the Christian Right, an interview with Esther Kaplan, conducted by Sunsara Taylor for Revolution newspaper
Rabbi James Rudin: The ‘Christocrats’ Are Here – an interview on Buzzflash.com
How the GOP
Became God’s Own Party, by Kevin Phillips
A Way To Understand What’s Going On: The Two Pats, And Andrew Sullivan… And Cornel West by Bob Avakian, Chairman of the Revolutionary
Communist Party
Book Recommends:
Contempt: How the Right Is Wronging American Justice, by Catherine Crier
With God on Their Side: How Christian Fundamentalists
Trampled Science, Policy, and Democracy in George W. Bush’s White House, by Esther Kaplan
The Truth About Right-wing Conspiracy….And Why
Clinton and the Democrats are No Answer,
by Bob Avakian (available at revcom.us)
The Baptizing of America: The Religious Right’s
Plans for the Rest of Us, by James
Rudin
Jesus Land: A Memoir, by Julia Scheeres
American Theocracy : The Peril and Politics of Radical
Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century, by Kevin Phillips
The Coming Civil War
and Repolarization for Revolution in the Present Era, by Bob Avakian (available at revcom.us)
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.
Listen to audio
of testimonies by Ted Glick, Tom Goldtooth and Daphne Wysham from the
Bush Crimes Commission on Global Warming and the Destruction of the
Global Environment.
Your government is moving to deny women here, and all over the world, the right to birth control and abortion.
PBS’s Frontline- ‘The Last Abortion Clinic In Mississippi’
Audio of Dr. Alan Berkman, Columbia University on Attacks on Global Public Health and Reproductive Rights from the Bush Crimes Commission.
Book Recommend: How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America by Cristina Page
Your government enforces a culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance.
Materials coming soon.