Alice Walker, Mark Ruffalo, Craig Murray, Daniel Ellsberg, Boots Riley, Bill Goodman, Reno, and Elmaz Abinader”with a special message from Sean Penn
Get the Truth – Get Organized For Nation-Wide Protest on October 5
The World
Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime!
San Francisco Evening of Conscience
7pm, Grand Lake Theater, 3200 Grand Avenue in Oakland
Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize winning author of “The Color Purple”
Daniel Ellsberg: lecturer, writer and analyst who leaked the “Pentagon Papers”
Boots Riley: musician, producer of the hip hop group, The Coup
Elmaz Abinader: poet, author, and educator, with musician Kamal Ghammache-Mansour
Others TBA
A talk, urgent poetry, music and a challenge to act
This event will benefit World Can’t Wait-Drive Out the Bush Regime,
and build for massive demonstrations on October 5th. This event will
take place at the Grand Lake Theater at 3200 Grand Avenue in Oakland.
Through words and art, those with the power to move us raise diverse voices to say:
“There is no escaping it: the whole disastrous course of this Bush
regime must be STOPPED. And we must take the responsibility to do it.
And there is a way….If we speak the truth, they will try to silence
us. If we act, they will try to stop us. But we speak for the majority,
here and around the world, and as we get this going we are going to
reach out to the people who have been so badly fooled by Bush and we
are NOT going to stop. 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.”
Click here to view fullsize PDF of poster above.
www.worldcantwait.org
415-864-5153 for tickets and info
door donation $15-$50 benefit for World Can’t Wait
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New York City
7:30pm, Cooper Union, 7 E 7th Street at 3rd Avenue
Craig Murray
Former UK Ambassador
to Uzbekistan
who risked his life and forfeited his career to blow the whistle on US
sponsored TORTURE.
Mark Ruffalo
(delivering a special message from Sean Penn)
Actor, producer, and writer. Recent films include All the Kings Men, XX/XY
(2002), My Life Without Me (2003),
and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
(2004). He’s received critical acclaim for numerous stage productions,
including Awake & Sing! on
Broadway.
Olympia Dukakis
Film and TV actress. Films include
Steel Magnolias, Mr. Holland’s Opus, The Thing About My Folks, and
Moonstruck (for which she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress).
Bill Goodman
Legal director of the Center for Constitutional Rights will break down the “Military Commissions Act
of 2006” that legalizes torture and overturns habeas corpus, and much
more!
Reno
Comedienne extraordinaire, film, TV, & stage actress. On stage: “Reno: Rebel Without a Pause:
Unrestrained Reflections on September 11th.” On TV: “Citizen Reno.” On
HBO: “Rage and Rehab.”
For more info contact:
nyc@worldcantwait.org
212-969-0772