Giving a bold focal point to the summer, the World Can’t
Wait Drive out the Bush Regime Bus Tour will take off starting on July 4th from
New Orleans, LA.
This Bus Tour aims to galvanize sentiment against Bush into massive
opposition. Bringing forward thousands
of organizers from the heartland of America who hate the direction that
the Bush regime has been taking the country.
The Bus tour will be a major catalyst in changing the whole terms of
debate and dynamic in this country towards driving out the Bush Regime.
This is a freedom ride ( not unlike the one that changed the
course of history in 1961.
This time, there is even more at stake.
Appropriately, the bus tour will begin in New Orleans, a city of rich African- American
history that has been left to rot, and plans of privatization are a means for
ethnic cleansing and provide a glimpse of the horrific future represented in
the Bush Program. The Bush Administration’s criminal response during, and after
Katrina has left families from New Orleans
scattered across the country. The
horror has not ended. Prisoners who were
trapped in neck deep water for days are still being held because there are no
public defenders. People have been kept
from returning to their homes and bodies continue to surface in the 9th ward. Meanwhile
the city officials like the representative from Baton Rouge,
Republican Richard Baker claims that ‘God cleaned up’ the public housing for
them in New Orleans.
Katrina stands now as a 21st century
symbol of racism – back with a vengeance. The Bus Tour will start from there
and join the team of student volunteers who have been participating in the
rebuilding efforts in New Orleans
while spreading the Drive out the Bush Regime message.
Louisiana is following the
footsteps of South Dakota
where abortion was criminalized in March.
In Rapid City, South Dakota Planned Parenthood is the only
state clinic doing abortions until the ban takes effect. In South
Dakota, the Oglala Sioux Nation Chief Cecelia Fire
Thunder has pledged to do abortions on Indian land. We will join with these
resisters, bring to them the call and challenge them to join in this
movement. The tour will travel from South Dakota and on to Mississippi
where Operation Rescue/Save America has called for a national mobilization to
close the last clinic in Mississippi
in July. The Bus tour will be there to
defend the clinic and women who are demanding safe and legal reproductive
health care. The next stop will be Colorado,
home of Focus on the Family and other major theocratic institutions that are
supported by the Bush Regime.
These are the contested areas we are going into, sharp
battlegrounds over what society will be like in the future if the agenda of the
Bush Regime goes unchallenged. As we
speak, whole states are being transformed into theocratic base areas for the
extreme right. This is the “reshaping of society in a fascist
direction” that is spoken to in the Call.
We will bring with us the analysis that theocracy, unending wars around
the world, the repression of science, attacks on women, immigrants and gay
people, all of this is part and parcel of the Bush Agenda that is a harbinger
of fascism. Abortion is the crown jewel
of issues that fuel and feed the forces that openly dictate directions to the
Bush regime. People throughout the
country need to understand this and take a side. There are millions in these states that
oppose this and they need to know they are not alone. Musicians and actors who
come to Pensacola
need to join the tour. The bus will go to Kansas where the battle over Evolution needs
to be joined with a real explanation of where this is all headed. Scientists will teach evolution from the bus!
Drive Out the Bush Regime Bus Tour will go to the gates of
military bases calling on the people inside to join up and speak out against a
regime that is guilty of committing war crimes and crimes against
humanity. We invite the government
whistle blowers, members of the press who are under investigation for printing
the truth; leakers of atrocities, and soldiers who refuse to obey orders based
on lies to get on the bus.
Drive Out the Bush Regime Bus Tour will go to the
border-states where programs are aimed at terrorizing immigrants. And now the unofficial vigilantes will be
backed by the military ( called out for permanent domestic duty.
Stopping to protest symbols of the Bush Regime’s base and
supporters, holding speak-outs and film showings, teach-ins and community
meetings, the tour will be a lightning rod for the discontent in the
country. Artists, Actors, Musicians,
Poets, Professors, Journalists, Scientists, Military Families, Pro-Choice
Women, Black leaders, Immigrants and Gay Rights Activists ( Youth and Students
( will be getting on the bus. The tour will meet people at libraries, theaters,
bookstores, coffee shops, gay bars, abortion clinics, youth hangouts, mosques,
churches, temples, military installations, and connect with those under attack
(abortion providers, the LGBTQ community, librarians, and professors).
A traveling media/film crew will feed a special news blog on
our website. People around the country can watch the progress of the tour on
the Internet ( and join it along the way.
Advance crews can let communities know that the bus will arrive ( and
set up gatherings, rallies, and people can come out and tell their stories to
national media.
A full time staff in New York will be organizing high
profile appearances at important stops, recruit new riders, coordinate feeder
car caravans and welcoming committees, organize national and regional news
coverage, raise money to support the tour and supply it with truckloads of
materials. We must also be prepared for
legal support and defense.
All along the way, people will connect with this movement to
drive out the Bush regime ( will form new centers of organization in its wake,
and spread the word about national demonstrations in cities large and small on
October 5th.
To be part of this bus tour, host one of its stops, or help out in any other way, email: getonthebus@worldcantwait.org