For Immediate Release
August 30, 2006
World Can’t Wait–Drive Out the Bush Regime
www.worldcantwait.org
Contact: Connie Julian, 718-825-9119, press@worldcantwait.org
ANOTHER FULL-PAGE AD IN NEW YORK
TIMES CALLS FOR OCTOBER 5 PROTESTS TO DRIVE OUT THE
BUSH REGIME
Nationwide Organizing Meetings
September 7
Today, for
the second time this month, World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime
published a full-page ad in the New York
Times calling for massive protests across the country on OCTOBER 5. The ad
reads: ‘ENDLESS WARS! TORTURE! KATRINA! THEOCRACY! BRING THIS TO A HALT! We must act now– The world’s future is in
our hands.”
The ad calls for nationwide unconventional protests:
“Walk out of school! Refuse to work! No shopping on Oct. 5! “March through
the streets calling on millions more to join us in repudiating this criminal
regime with the mobilization of massive political opposition!”
Similar ads are appearing today in the LA Weekly, Chicago
Reader, San Francisco Bay Guardian, and the DC City Paper. And on Air America radio, national 30-second
spots will begin this week featuring nationally known signers of the World
Can’t Wait Call. The message: ” Face it. The Bush regime is remaking the
world, very quickly, in a fascist way and for generations to come. Denial won’t
help. And the Democrats aren’t stopping them. But WE must. And we can. There
are millions of us””
On the
evening of Thursday, September 7, there will be simultaneous meetings in cities
and towns nationwide to organize for October 5.
World
Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime, a nationwide movement, brought together
tens of thousands in protests on November 2, 2005 and January 31, 2006 during
Bush’s State of the Union Address. HARRY
BELAFONTE, SEAN PENN, LEWIS LAPHAM, U.S. REP. JOHN CONYERS, SUSAN SARANDON,
NILES ELDREDGE, MARGARET CHO, CORNEL WEST, HOWARD ZINN, GORE VIDAL, JANE FONDA,
CINDY SHEEHAN, PAUL HAGGIS, ALICE WALKER, REV. JESSE JACKSON, and many others
have signed the Call for the World Can’t Wait.
In New York City, the
September 7 meeting (7-9:00 PM) will be at Metropolitan Community
Church, 446 W 36th St. Check www.worldcantwait.org for Sep 7
meetings in other cities, and the locations for October 5 actions.
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