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World
Can’t Wait started in the summer of 2005, issuing its Call and
mobilizing for major protests all across the country November 2nd, 2005
(the anniversary of Bush’s re-election). Its next major mobilization
was protests across the country coinciding with Bush’s State of the
Union address January 31st, 2006, followed immediately by taking the
demand “Bush Step Down” to the White House at a rally and march
February 4th.
World Can’t Wait has also organized
numerous forums, teach-ins, protests, appeared on national media, and
printed two full-page ads in the New York Times, and distributed hundreds of thousands of copies of its Call around the country.
A 15 minute audio feature on World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime is now available in the following formats:
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Below
you can find extensive reports, including pictures, audio, and video,
from the major mobilizations World Can’t Wait has organized.
November 2nd, 2005:
November 2 marked a real and significant first step toward forcing
Bush to step down and changing the whole direction of society. In
addition to the thousands who rallied in New York, Chicago, Los
Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle, protests took place in over 60
other cities, hundreds of high schools, and at least 40 college
campuses. Many places that we didn’t even know that people were
organizing held November 2 nd marches and rallies that were organized
at the last minute. Over 200 schools nationwide participated in
walk-outs. Many college and high school students joined in often
defying threats and outrageous attempts to stop them. In Minnesota,
high schools in the area got calls from the governor’s office informing
them about World Can’t Wait and asking them to stop their students from
participating. In the face of all of this, these students felt they had
to take the future into their hands–as one high school student in
Chicago said, “We’re being part of history and when future generations
look into the open history books and say, hey, what did you do on that
day, I can say, I was there.”
The outpourings of people all over the country had many faces. From
local office holders who came out and spoke at in New York and San
Francisco rallies, mothers of soldiers who died in Iraq and prominent
public intellectuals to Hollywood celebrities gave their support to
this effort to actually Drive out the Bush Regime. In San Francisco,
Latino day laborers joined with thousands at the Civic Center as Cindy
Sheehan, California State Senator Carol Midgden, and others spoke from
the stage. Statements of support came from artists, and figures such as
Jane Fonda, Harold Pinter and Gore Vidal signed on to the Call to Drive
Out the Bush Regime.
[click here for full reports as well as pictures, audio, and video]
State
of the Union Protests: Drowning Out Bush’s Lies January 31st and Taking
Our Demand, “Bush Step Down”, to the White House February 4
Leadingup to, during, and after Bush’s State of the Union address, the growing
movement to drive out the Bush regime took new steps in its
determination and breadth. In an intense political situation,
with Bush’s spying and lying more exposed and much talk of impeachment,
the demand “BUSH STEP DOWN and take your program with you” resonated
throughout society. Acting on its Call,
The World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime dove into this
situation in which the future is in the balance, mobilize people
outside of the killing confines of “politics as usual” to stop Bush’s
fascist remaking of society.
A full-page ad in the NY Times with signatories
including politicians, movie stars, artists, activists and voices of
conscience broadcast this demand to the world. Echoing and
elaborating on this demand were statements from prominent voices such
as Daniel Ellsberg, Michael, Ratner, Mark Ruffalo, and Gore Vidal, as
well as calls to action from students at Hampton University and
Georgetown Law Students who turned their back on Attorney General
Gonzales. And Jan. 31st saw thousands of people in over 68 cities taking to the streets to drown out Bush’s lies during his State of the Union address.
held its final session, and released preliminary findings of the Bush
regime’s guilt of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Inthe wake of all this, Feb. 4th’s rally of several thousand in
Washington DC and march around the White House took the demand that
BUSH STEP DOWN right to the regime itself. It was marked by its
determination and breadth of participants, all united around this
single demand. And it garnered media coverage in the Washington Post, evening and morning TV news, and more.