know there is a Force in this Country Determined to Drive Out the Bush Regime
The
mission of World Can’t Wait:
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.
The plan: Thursday, OCTOBER 5, 2006:
All day
and into the night, across the country, we must decidedly break the paralysis
that still grips too much of American political life.
work, taking off school, shutting down campuses and coming together in mass
gatherings, we must let the country and the world know that:
— millions
of us reject this illegitimate regime that is as criminal as it is dangerous to
humanity & the existence of this planet.
— we refuse to grow accustomed to a political climate that is becoming
everyday more frightening & reactionary.
—
we will not stop until the regime has been driven out. [read more]
The
outpouring on October 5 will give hope to the people of this country and the
world that there is a movement in this country of sufficient size, strength,
scope and determination to not stop until the Bush administration is driven
from office, and its program decisively repudiated by massive protest across
the country.
In the
midst of the hot midterm election season, it will be decisive that the will of
the people – the demand to stop the whole course that Bush has set the country
on — be unequivocally expressed through mass independent political action in
the streets. Anything less will lead to hopes and energies squandered and
betrayed. If, in the
name of electing a new Congress, people are funneled into the fatal logic of
supporting whatever is deemed electable by the Democratic Party leadership
and powerful interests in society, compromising principle and just demands,
then the people’s interests and initiative will be consumed by slavish realisms
that are actually contributing to a sweeping remaking of legal, political and
moral norms that are sliding in a fascist direction.
To this
end, this summer, World Can’t Wait has a comprehensive plan to announce to all
of society the existence of this movement to drive out the regime and to draw
in the thousands who can make October 5th a resounding success. Through a national media campaign, which
includes a high-profile bus tour, fielding of prominent signers to do
interviews, and paid ads, we will reach millions and set new terms of debate
that do not compromise with torture, theocracy, or unjust wars. Through the training of organizers and
raising funds we will expand WCW’s capacity to reach and influence
millions. And through being on the
ground at hundreds of concerts, festivals and speaking events all summer we
will be reaching and harvesting organizers nation-wide. Through our improving website we will cohere
this movement, provide essential analysis and exposure of the crimes of this
regime, and organize millions.
Taken as a
whole, these efforts will reach those who are ready to act, and wake-up those
who are not yet, making the WCW Call come alive for millions, creating a
national buzz that we don’t have to accept this hated direction, that there is
a way out.
Beginning
this spring, running through the summer and reaching a crescendo in the early
Fall culminating on October 5, the sentiments of hundreds of thousands will be
cohered into an unmistakably powerful movement to which every social force in
society has to respond.
Synopsis:
The World
Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime will set out across the country to give
people a way to change all this. The core of our message is concentrated in the
combination of our Call and in the vision and organizing for October 5.
Millions of
copies of the Call must go hand to hand, spreading knowledge and
organization. Deeply engaging people
about how they’re seeing the situation, sharpening up and addressing the huge
political questions confronting people: war, torture, civil liberties, the
danger of theocracy, the suppression of science, women’s right to abortion and
birth control, and the culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance –
drawing a vibrant picture that this whole program points to a direction that is
even more ominous than the sum of its parts.
As the Call says: the Bush regime is out to radically remake society
very quickly, in a fascist way, and for generations to come. Organizers will
address why it is that the future of the world really does depend on us;
digging into and making clear through our actions, why and how it is that only
by taking independent action will we be able to actually bring about change.
Giving a
bold focal point to the summer, we are proposing an audacious Drive Out the
Bush Regime Bus Tour that heads to places that capture the disaster of the Bush
Regime’s program, vividly drawing a line of demarcation. Imagine the impact of a bus with one side
painted with the slogan: The World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime,
the other with October 5th traveling from still-devastated New Orleans to the
militarized border with Mexico, through Kansas where evolution is under attack,
and on to South Dakota where abortion has been banned, and then going back to
join Cindy Sheehan at Camp Casey during Bush’s vacation. Experts and celebrities will join the bus
tour at key stops, making news, spreading the word, leaving behind
organization.
Starting on
April 29th, a striking poster appeared with the earth in flames, sharply
opposing Bush’s planning for war on Iran, the first in a series of
artistically sophisticated graphics to appear in cities across the country
making the visual case why this regime must go.
Throughout
the summer youth will travel with music festivals and tours getting out the
word and materials to hundreds of thousands.
Forums will
be held, large and small. There are
plans underway for a major Town Hall Forum titled: “Could it Happen Here?” to
open a society wide serious discussion of the fascist trajectory of the Bush
Regime. DVD’s and materials will be produced for do it yourself programs and
a World Can’t Wait Speakers Bureau is now available to send speakers far and
wide.
This
process will be launched by a movement of house parties in the month of May to
begin raising the millions of dollars that it will take to mobilize a nation to
demand regime change.
At the end
of Spring Semester, a training session will be held for student organizers in
NYC to lead various fronts of struggle throughout the summer and into the
fall. By the end of the summer, a larger
training session will be held to train the hundreds of new organizers needed
for October 5th.
September
will be a high-voltage build up to October 5, with forums, concerts, activities
in the High Schools and Colleges.
Then, on
Thursday, October 5, hundreds of thousands of people will transform the
political landscape.
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These
are essential elements that must under-gird all that World Can’t Wait does
leading up to October 5:
1)
Conducting “active investigation” and
engagement with people across the country, learning how they understand the
dangers and nature of this regime’s program and drawing on their ideas as to
how to grow this movement. WCW will be
educating and learning, struggling with people to deeply understand the deep
changes and long lasting impact of the Bush program, and why only mass political
action that steps outside the box can stop them. This is a big part of how WCW will create
more favorable terms for driving out the regime.
2) Get
out the Call in the millions. This Call
is central to cohering the whole movement, crystallizing the challenge we face
and the way forward. Making the WCW Call
a reference point for all who want to stop Bush will change the terms of
discussion and how people measure their actions throughout society.
3)
Raising money for this movement is perhaps the most decisive thing
to be done. There will be no removing a regime without raising funds
commensurate to that challenge. The Bush
regime and politics as usual have the full force of the media behind them. We cannot let it be said that people failed
to stop this slide into theocracy and permanent war for want of money, in this,
the wealthiest country in the world.
Donating
and raising money matters. It
concentrates a commitment. Huge funds
will make it possible to reach, inspire, and organize the millions across the
country who are aching for a way to oppose this regime. Fund raising for WCW
will be approached both as a mass movement of small donations and through
significant fund raising by those with significant resources.
4) Youth
and students always set the pace and influence the rest of
society to move. World Can’t Wait has
core organizers on the campuses – but must devote the necessary attention,
resources, and expertise of our movement overall to aiding these cores to grow,
spread to other campuses, and transform the mood and level of activity on the
campuses – turning them into strongholds in the struggle to drive out the
regime – energetically infused with the spirit of seeking the truth and then
mobilizing to act on it. A
World Can’t Wait Student and Youth Training Project will take place in NYC June 2nd-11th.
5) The
institutions and social organizations to which
people belong must be challenged to join in driving out the Bush Regime,
helping millions of people to act: religious leaders and congregations; unions
& professional organizations (librarians, etc); veterans &
military families; political & social movements of women, oppressed
nationalities, gay people, as well as immigrants. All must be invited and enlisted in this
historic battle.
6)
Worldcantwait.org, the movement’s web site, must lead
millions in why the Bush Regime must be driven out, organizing them to do so
with expanded reach, online teach-ins, the capability of organizing meet-ups
and more interaction. It must be the
go-to site for everyone opposed to the Bush program to learn what to do and
why.
7) The infrastructure
and capacity of the World Can’t Wait itself must rapidly expand to involve
many new people in ways that well utilize volunteers and paid staff. National
teams for: Public relations; Fund-raising; Press; Youth & Students; Major
signers; organizational outreach; Website; National office & chapter
development.
8)
Prominent voices of conscience (those who have signed the Call,
and those who haven’t yet signed) need to be mobilized to write, speak for,
make appearances for, and more fully represent for the movement to drive out
the regime. People are hungry for real
truth-telling, and to be connected with something bigger than themselves. What well known people say and represent for
is an entry point for many people to get involved.
9) The
national media must increasingly be covering World
Can’t Wait, in their news coverage and in through paid advertising. People need to SEE this movement, contending
in prime time, to inspire and shift the terms.