For
Immediate Release
September
3, 2006
World
Can’t Wait–Drive Out the Bush Regime
www.worldcantwait.org
Contact:
Connie Julian, 718-825-9119, press@worldcantwait.org
NATIONWIDE MEETINGS
AND FULL-PAGE AD IN NEW YORK TIMES CALLS
FOR OCTOBER 5 PROTESTS TO DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME
Nationwide
Organizing Meetings September 7
On
the evening of Thursday, September 7, there will be simultaneous meetings in
cities and towns across the country to organize for massive protests on OCTOBER
5.
The
national organization calling for the October 5 actions, World Can’t Wait –
Drive Out the Bush Regime, published a full-page ad in the New York Times on
August 30. The ad read: ‘ENDLESS WARS. TORTURE. KATRINA. THEOCRACY. BRING THIS
TO A HALT.”
The
ad calls for nationwide 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 appeared during the week in the LA
Weekly, Chicago Reader, San Francisco Bay
Guardian, and the Washington City
Paper. And on Air America radio,
national 30-second spots began September 1 with 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””
Speakers at Sept. 7 meetings will include: Father Luis
Barrios, William Blum,
Larry Brinkin,
Elaine Brower,
Kathleen Chalfant, Chris Daly,
Daniel Ellsberg, Esther Kaplan, Mark Crispin Miller, Chris Owens, Jean Rohe,
Jed Stone, Jonathan Tasini, Rev. Charles
Tigard, Bob Watada,
Rev. Lennox
Yearwood, and Kevin Zeese.
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.
Check
www.worldcantwait.org for Sep 7 meetings and locations for October 5 actions.
Interviews
available with selected signers.
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