Organize and Speak Out Against Bush Administration War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity!
On September 19, 20 and 21, The International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration calls on all campuses and communities across the country to organize public events to expose and denounce the Bush administration’s war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The Bush Regime’s actions cry out for resounding calls of conscience by the many, many people across the country who do not want these acts carried out in our names. They call for hundreds of events, sending a loud “No, not in our name!” far and wide.
Events and protests will happen on campuses across the country. Click below for a full listing of protests for Bush Crimes Day and how you can organize an event at your school or community.
Bakersfield, California
Bakersfield College
4 P.M
Fireside Room
Screening of the Bush Crimes Commission DVD and a presentation by World Can’t Wait organizers on the October 5th Protests.
Cosponsor Bakersfield MEChA Chapter
Berkeley, California
UC Berkeley
8:00 A.M – Sept. 19th
Boalt Hall
Protests will gather outside of the building of Professor John Yoo’s class. John Yoo is one of the main legal architects of Bush’s torture policies.
* 8:00AM Yoo’s class at Boalt Hall
* 12:30PM Torture Teach-In & Vigil at Boalt Hall near the fountain.
* 2:00PM Speak-Out at Sproul Plaza
Atlanta, Georgia
Georgia State University
12:00pm – Sept. 19th
At the courtyard, near the fountain on campus. There will be a speak-out with students wearing orange jumpsuits to dramatize torture at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Georgia Perimeter College
12:30 P.M. – Sept. 19th
Behind student the Student Center on campus, Near the Campus Green, there will be a speak-out against Bush Crimes, and then a showing of the just-released Bush Crimes Commission DVD in the Student Center.
Chicago, Illinois
Columbia College
On Tuesday, September 19th, the Columbia
College Chapter of World Can’t Wait–Drive out the Bush Regime is calling on students and faculty to post signs saying “Bush: Guilty of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity” in dorm and office windows. They will make some of these signs available for students to pick up, at a table in front of the 623 S. Wabash building (Hokin Hall), from 11:00am until 1:00pm.
Then on Thursday, September 21st, at 2:30pm at 1104 S. Wabash, on the first floor, there will be a showing of the just-released Bush Crimes Commission DVD.
Lake Forest College
4pm, Meyer Auditorium (room subject to change)
Teach-In and Film Screening
Speaking will be Jed Stone, professor at Lake Forest College and past president of the Illinois Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. We will also be showing short clips from the Bush Crimes DVD. Followed by discussion.
New York City
Join us Tuesday at 8:30 A.M at 39th and 7th Ave to protest George W. Bush’s speech at the United Nations.
On September 20th, gather for a speak-out against Bush Crimes at 12:00pm on the steps in the middle of Columbia University’s Morningside Heights Campus (located between Broadway and Amsterdam, at 116th street).
Cleveland, Ohio
Tuesday, Sept 19, 11:00 A.M.
Cleveland State UniversityDVD showing, “Bush Crimes Commission”
African American Cultural Center
In the University Center, E. 21st & Euclid
Seattle, WA
12:00pm – Sept. 19th
Westlake Center, near the fountain.
Speak Out against Crimes committed by the Bush Regime. The event will include street theatre to dramatize the affects of torture and the denial of reproductive rights for women.
How Can You Organize an Event in Your Area
Think about what the Bush regime has already done: illegal, immoral and unjust wars; rapes and massacres by occupying US military forces; torture, rendition and illegal detention; and now threats against Iran. It has assaulted efforts to curb global warming. It insists upon potentially genocidal abstinence-only AIDS-prevention programs in Africa. It left poor Black people to drown in Hurricane Katrina, then blocked food and aid, and now leaves New Orleans in ruins.
Acts of this regime are unconscionable on the scales of history. We have a moral and political responsibility to bring these horrendous crimes to a halt, and ensure they never happen again.
As George W. Bush ratchets up his rhetoric of empire, brazenly labeling those in his cross-hairs as targets in a war for civilization, we have a response: George W. Bush the war criminal does not speak for us!
Suggested Actions:
Protests, Public Showings of new Bush Commission DVD, Teach-Ins, Photo Exhibits
1. Protest at the UN September 19 when Bush speaks, potentially laying the groundwork for war on Iran.
2. Organize a teach-in or forum on Bush’s War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, featuring local professors or activists and/or hold a public showing of the powerful new DVD featuring excerpts from 4 out of the 5 indictments investigated by the Commission. The DVD, along with the downloadable Verdict and Findings of Fact can be used to organize teach-ins, speak-outs, protests, vigils, and classroom presentations.
You don’t need to be an expert — these materials, the DVD and the Findings of Fact, contain the key facts and evidence — on Bush’s war crimes and crimes against humanity in the areas of war, torture, global warming, HIV/AIDS and Katrina — acts that by their scope or nature shock the conscience of humankind.
Watch this section of the new DVD for a for a jolting yet substantive sampling of what you’ll fund on the full DVD. This DVD contains stunning testimony from eye-witnesses and experts in three areas of indictment: torture, global warming and HIV/AIDS.
Additionally, we have a DVD of an extraordinary — and very inspiring – panel convened on the Berkeley Campus of the University of California featuring Brig. Gen Karpinski, the ex-commander of Abu Ghraib, Ambassador Craig Murray, the ex- British Ambassador to Uzbekistan who declared at the Commission, “I’d rather die than have someone tortured to save my life,” Daniel Ellsberg, of the Pentagon Papers, and Larry Everest, the author of Oil, Power and Empire.
3. Students at the University of California, Berkeley are organizing a protest against John Yoo (one of the main legal architects of Bush’s torture policies). Organize political protests and demonstrations on campus against similar high-level architects of Bush acts and policies that constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity. You could start by contacting all the Human Rights groups in your area or at your campus in advance, and ask them to spread word about it.
4. Gather a group of people together in a visible, busy location for a public denunciation of torture. This could involve people putting black cloth and hoods on to simulate the torture carried out by U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib, or could include people wearing orange jumpsuits with black hoods to dramatize the treatment of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, or even a sign: “George W. Bush and his administration – Guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity!”. Have extra materials on hand so that others can join in, and signs saying “Bush: Guilty of War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity” or use former UK ambassador Craig Murray’s statement: “I’d rather die than have someone tortured to save my life.”
Imagine a scenario when thousands of students and others on campuses and communities across the country are debating and discussing whether George W. Bush is guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Imagine them watching and listening to testimony from sources of authority that makes this case — coherently and conclusively.
Join in across the nation on September 19-21!
Contact The Bush Crimes Commission National Office
Email: commission@nion.us