The Call for Bush Crimes Day and how to organize an event at your school on Sept. 19th.
Bush Crimes Day September 19th
“What happened here was a criminal act”- Spike Lee on the government’s handling of Hurricane Katrina.
Don’t stop there Spike… you left out wars of aggression, torture, destruction of the global environment and attacks on global public health ( imposition of abstinence-only on AIDS prevention programs in the Third World) that do in fact rise to the level of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Bush Crimes Commission cuts through the fog of official obfuscation and disinformation to paint a clear picture of the full scope and nature of these acts and clearly establish the culpability of the Bush administration in these horrors.
Learn the Truth, Deliver the Verdict and Act on It!
September 19th is national Bush Crimes Day- a day where the question of: “whether George W. Bush and his administration have committed crimes against humanity?” frames and fuels a much needed discussion throughout society. World Can’t Wait has taken up this call and will be a nodal point in the run up to the October 5th walkouts and demonstrations. Imagine a day across the country, especially on campuses; where 100 students in Guantanamo suits converge in the center of campuses, teach-ins are organized, art exhibits displayed, and films that indict and expose the Bush Administration are screened on campus. Imagine all of this with the backing of the testimony and findings of the Bush Crimes Commission and these events forging a synergy with mobilizing students to act on October 5th to bring these crimes to a halt.
Make it happen! Email youth_students@worldcantwait.org if you want to bring Bush Crimes Day to your school or plan out the events with your friends or group and email us your event information.
The Bush Crimes Commission’s Call for Bush Crimes Day
Get Out the Verdict! Frame and Fuel the Discussion!
Bush Crimes Commission to Release Verdict on September 13
Call for a National “Bush Crimes Day” September 19
The Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration will release its final verdict on Wednesday, September 13, 2006.
The final verdict will address the five indictments dealing with the Bush administration’s wars of aggression, illegal detention and torture, destruction of the global environment through global warming, imposition of abstinence-only on AIDS prevention programs in the Third World, and the abandonment of New Orleans before, during and after Hurricane Katrina.
On September 13, the verdict will be formally served on the White House and the Department of Justice, read over the radio across the country, and released in printed form for national distribution.
Following the release of the verdict, the Commission is calling a national “Bush Crimes Day” on Tuesday, September 19. Inspired by the verdict of the Bush Crimes Commission, campuses and communities across the country will organize public events — demonstrations, student walk-outs, teach-ins, street-theatre, art exhibits — that draw attention attention to acts of the Bush administration that, by their scope and nature, shock the conscience of humankind — and bring to the fore our moral and political responsibility to bring these horrific crimes to a halt!
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The release of the verdict fulfils a primary responsibility of this tribunal to deliver findings of fact and a verdict on the central question before the commission: “whether George W. Bush and his administration have committed crimes against humanity.” The final verdict and the national Bush Crimes Day continue the Commission’s mission “to frame and fuel a discussion that is urgently needed in the United States: Is the administration of George W. Bush guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity?”
The Bush administration’s war crimes and crimes against humanity are now mounting on an even wider scale — with new, even more monstrous, crimes looming. Despite almost universal condemnation, the Bush regime promoted Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan continue to wreak havoc on these countries, shocking crimes by U.S. soldiers against civilians continue to come to light, and torture continues in both public and secret locations around the world. The administration is attempting to grant itself immunity — by rewriting US law — to commit flagrant violations of Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions. The administration is aggressively beating the drums of war on Iran, which would bring catastrophic consequences to the Middle East and humanity.
At this moment in history, society desperately needs to hear the testimony of Scott Ritter at the Commission on the complete lies of the Bush administration in making the case for war in Iraq, the testimony of Brigadier General Janis Karpinski establishing the chain of command from the torture chambers of Abu Ghraib to the highest offices of the land, and eye-witness testimony from journalists in the killing fields of Iraq to the survivors from the flooded Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans. This is what we aim to bring people in the next few weeks as we expand and intensify the discussion on Bush’s war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Society also desperately needs the moral clarity of Craig Murray, the former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan, who declared at the commission hearings, “I would personally rather die than have anyone tortured to save my life.”
The need for this tribunal arose from the real and horrendous crimes being committed, and the historical, moral and political responsibility of people of conscience to sit in judgment of this administration: to inquire and assess whether this administration has committed crimes that do in fact rise to the level of crimes against humanity, and to act in a meaningful and commensurate manner, on that knowledge of reality, to bring these crimes to a halt.
As the 2002 Not In Our Name Statement of Conscience (www.nion.us), the sponsoring organization of the Bush Commission, stated: “We believe that people of conscience must take responsibility for what their own governments do — we must first of all oppose the injustice that is done in our own name.”
Join us at the White House on September 13; join us across the nation on September 19!