October 5: Bring Your Spirit and Determination
Into the Struggle to Drive Out the Bush Regime
(sign this statement below)
Immigrants
are in the crosshairs of the Bush regime. All the bills in Congress and new
laws are unacceptable: the Bush guest worker program, the use of military
against immigrants inside the US
and at the border, “show me your papers” police state, massive
detention camps, mandatory detention, biometric identification cards, legalized
apartheid, driving people to their death at the border. THE MEGAMARCHES THIS
SPRING SHOWED THE SPIRIT AND DETERMINATION TO STOP THESE ATTACKS. THAT SAME
SPIRIT MUST INFUSE THE OUTPOURING ON OCTOBER 5 TO BRING THE CRIMES OF THE BUSH
REGIME TO A HALT!
Why?
Because we know that, while these measures start with immigrants, they are a
threat to everyone. Look at how all this fits into the Bush program:
The
Bush crime regime has increased its “war on terror” against everyone
in the US, stripping away rights under the Patriot Act and using the war
against immigrants as another tool to take away more…criminalizing
undocumented immigrants and anyone who offers them aid or assistance.
The
Bush crime regime violates international law and the Geneva Convention,
justifying torture used against detainees here, in Iraq, and Guantánamo in their
illegal and immoral wars.
The
Bush crime regime lied to people here and around the world to justify their
immoral war against Iraq and
is now planning to attack Iran,
even threatening to use nuclear weapons. And our children are preyed upon by
military recruiters to supply their troops…the world is not safer because of
Bush’s “war on terror”, it is has become more dangerous than ever
since he launched his war on Iraq.
Everyday
the Bush regime moves closer to denying women here and around the world the
right to birth control and abortion.
We
need more than fighting Bush’s outrages one at a time, constantly losing ground
to the whole onslaught. We do not have to stand alone; we must join together
against the regime that threatens us all.
There is a way, there is a day! Join us,
mobilize to bring family and friends out on October 5, a national day of
resistance–no buying, no selling, no work, walking out of school. On October
5, we must bring this to a halt! Drive Out the Bush Regime…Because the World
Can’t Wait!
Go
to worldcantwait.org
Appeal Drafted
by:
Fr. Luis Barrios,
Associate Professor, John
Jay College
of Criminal Justice, World Can’t Wait National Steering Committee, New York, NY
Jesse Díaz, Jr.,
March 25 Coalition, UC-Riverside, Los
Angeles, CA
Lee
Siu Hin, National Coordinator, National Immigrant Solidarity Network, Los Angeles, CA
Travis Morales,
World Can’t Wait, Washington,
DC
Carlos
Pérez, Founder, Mayan Calendar News, Co-Founder, March 10th Movement, Chicago, IL
Signatories:
Andrés
Thomas Conteris, Nonviolence International, Latin America & Caribbean Program
Dr. Salvador Arias, FMLN Deputy in the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador
Preacher Eliseo Ascencio, Apostles y Prophets, El Salvador
Andrés Thomas Conteris, Nonviolence International, Latin America
& Caribbean Program
Rev. Ricardo Cornejo, People’s Lutheran Church of El Salvador
Frente Continental – Los
Angeles, CA
Guadalupe Erazo, FMLN Deputy in the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador
Jean Grossholtz, Western Mass. Global Action Coalition (WMGAC),
Women for Life on Earth (WLOE), Holyoke,
MA
Rev. Antonio Martinez, Pentecostal
Church, El Salvador
Rev. Efrain Cerna Martínez, People’s Lutheran Church of El
Salvador
José Jacques Medina,
Federal Deputy, 60th Legislature, 2006-2009, Mexican Congress
Pastor Jose Santos Merche, People’s Lutheran Church of El Salvador
Ernesto Nevarez, Labor Organizer, Port of Los Angeles
Rev. Alex Orantes, Shalom Baptist Church of Atiquizaya, El
Salvador
Rev. Roberto Pineda, People’s Lutheran Church of El Salvador
Pittsburgh Friends of
Immigrants
Sign this statement:
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