9/20: This week thousands of people who are deeply distressed over the
direction in which the Bush regime is dragging the country – and the world – poured
their hearts and money into an unprecedented
response to the plan to get World Can’t Wait’s call into USA Today.
Thousands and thousands of people responded in an effort that came snowballing
in the last 3 days to meet the challenge of an expensive national ad that had
to be paid in full before it could run.
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We have succeeded and the
ad is in the national edition today because of all of your efforts.
Congratulations to all of you. You have
made it possible to have our response running opposite coverage of Bush’s speech
to the UN and people in cities across the country will know there is
an alternative.
Silence when your country
is committing war crimes is not acceptable.
The USA
today ad is a very loud message that “Bush does not Represent Us and we
will Drive Him Out.” October 5 is the day when people across the country
are being called into the streets demanding that endless war, torture and
changing all the rules of due process and international conventions must be
brought to a HALT.
On September 7 1300 people
crowded into halls and churches to plan our next steps to make October 5 a day
that can begin something new in this country. There are still huge leaps to be
made if we to accomplish what we have set out to do – but the outpouring of
response to the USA
today ad is one more confirmation of the basis to do it.
Now we have to go all out
to organize tens of thousands of people to be there on October 5. We are aiming for 100,000 people nation-wide.
All of you who donated represent people who make up a very large part of the
population of this country, and whose basic sentiments are shared by the
majority of people throughout the world. Imagine if out of this reservoir of
people a great wave were unleashed on October 5 making it known through their
decency and their firm stand that there is a force in society that rejects the
idea that anything is justified in the name of keeping Americans safe, and that
we care about the whole world and the delicate future the planet.
What is being silenced in
the halls of power must be massively heard in the streets. Tens of thousands in the streets on October 5 can
be enough to kick open the door that draws in hundreds of thousands of people
looking for the vehicle they need to act.
If we succeed, the possibility of turning things around and onto a much
more favorable direction can take on a whole new dimension of reality.
Here is What You Need to Do on October 5
Demonstrate – take off
work, don’t go to school or leave early, and congregate at rallies being
planned in cities across the country. The rallies will be informative events
where people can learn more about the analysis of World Can’t Wait that there
is a coherent program represented by the Bush Regime that is a remaking society
and changing all the rules in a fascist way and for generations to come. This
movement is not “protest as usual” but a movement setting its sights
on driving a sitting president from office before 2008.
After the rallies we will
march through the streets calling on others to join us! Rallies are being held
at central civic places, federal buildings, city halls, and rural post offices.
If there is not an organized rally in your town go to the city hall at 12:00 pm
with signs and meet people who feel like you do. Together, you can organize the next
demonstration.
Here is What You Can Do to Make October 5 a Success
It depends on you. Make the commitment and get involved in the
movement to change the course of history.
A basic plan for the next 15 days: funds, get the word out,
volunteer
1) Raise funds to keep our Call and what to do on October 5 in
the public eye and in the mainstream of the mass media, fueling the necessary
discussion and debate and challenging people to act on what they know to be
right. We plan to immediately follow up
the USA Today ad with ads on Air America Radio, on MySpace.com and FaceBook.com
(internet sites very popular with high school and college students), Spanish
radio and newspapers. Keep up with worldcantwait.org for details.
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2) Get the word out! There needs to be a visible wave of mass
publicity through flyers, signs in store windows and bulletin boards, and
spreading lawn signs. Send out announcements to your e-mail lists and have the
organizations and associations (political, social, athletic, religious,
professional) get involved in getting out the word to be there on OCTOBER 5.
[PDF flyer to distribute] [More organizing materials]
3) Volunteer! Call the national office or the World Can’t Wait committee in your town (or form one if it does not exist) to join the many
committees working at an urgent pace to take up all the different elements that
go into making this movement what it needs to be to drive out the regime. Many
people doing this have never been active politically before, so don’t hesitate
to get involved. All you need is the
passion of caring about the future and the political will to make a difference.
As the Call The World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the
Bush Regime concludes:
“The point is this: history is full of examples where people who had right
on their side fought against tremendous odds and were victorious. And it is also full of examples of people
passively hoping to wait it out, only to get swallowed up by a horror beyond
what they ever imagined. The future is unwritten. WHICH ONE WE GET IS UP TO US.”