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STOP THE WAR NOW!
IMPEACH BUSH FOR WAR CRIMES!
Join
World Can’t Wait in Washington DC and on the west coast on Saturday January
27 th. Join us in raising a concrete and realizable goal for 2007:
Impeach Bush for War Crimes!
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George Bush has a dramatic and risky plan to escalate and expand the
war, not all of which he’s revealed. As he was speaking last Wednesday,
US forces went into Kurdish territory, broke into an Iranian diplomatic
building, and seized files and people, in violation of the sovereignty
of both Iran and the Kurdish region – a clear provocation. Now, 3
aircraft carriers are in the Persian Gulf. As someone said at the World
Cant” Wait national meeting this past weekend, “this is the start of another
war, not just the expansion of this one.”
There is no
way a president who has committed war crimes and crimes against
humanity should be in office. Now he’s pledged to commit more and worse
– he is moving towards war with Iran. A president who has no popularity
and little legitimacy should have none.
Sign up below – 500 people in Washington DC are needed.
Will people march and then go home, thinking that Congress has the
power to act, and now we”ve done our job to pressure them to do theirs? Or, will many thousands leave with the startling recognition that our
only hope is to take history into our own hands? Will they leave
knowing what to do to organize a movement to impeach Bush and
Cheney on the basis of the war crimes they have already committed? And
that this is the only way to end this war?
1) Find hundreds of new organizers and enlist them for
immediate political action across the country, including teach-ins and a campus
speaking tour February/March. Help distribute 100,000 copies of the our Call
to Drive Out the Bush Regime and 5,000 signs and stickers saying “IMPEACH
BUSH for WAR CRIMES!” and “DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME”
2) Join us to form a contingent wearing orange jumpsuits to
represent the detainees at Guantanamo
Bay, who can now be
legally tortured and denied habeas corpus under the Military Commissions Act.
“Can’t the United States see that when we allow someone
to be tortured by our agents, it is not only the victim and the perpetrator who
are corrupted, not only the ‘intelligence’ that is contaminated, but also
everyone who looked away and said they did not know, everyone who consented
tacitly to that outrage so they could sleep a little safer at night, all the
citizens who did not march in the streets by the millions to demand the
resignation of whoever suggested, even whispered, that torture is inevitable in
our day and age, that we must embrace its darkness?”
— Ariel Dorfman, “Are We Really So Fearful?”
The Bush Regime is openly torturing people, and justifying
it. The Bush Regime has codified torture
and stands as the most powerful purveyor of torture in the world today. For the last five years this regime has been
holding over a thousand people at Guantanamo
Bay U.S.
military prison without charges. They
have dramatically expanded the scope of who they can detain to include people
anywhere in the world, including within the U.S. People can now be declared an “unlawful
enemy combatant” simply for providing what the president decides is
“material,” including financial or indirect support for hostilities
against the U.S. Torture practices at Abu Ghraib and the secret
renditions have now been written into law.
The basic and fundamental right of due process has been officially
shredded.
On January 27th, thousands of people will be in DC to demand
End to the Iraq
war. Systematic and widespread practice
of torture by the U.S.
is a crime against humanity. When people
say no to war we must make visible that people living in this country say NO to
Torture perpetrated by their government.
The message that “Torture
+ Silence = Complicity”
needs to be part of the outpouring on Jan. 27. Sign up below to take part.
Find World Can’t Wait in Washington, DC:
Hook up beginning at 9am Saturday, Jan. 27, at 4th Street and Madison Drive, at the edge of the Mall, across from
the National Gallery of Art east building (click
here for a map). This is a 5-block walk down the hill from Union Station
(Red Line Metro Stop) and about the same distance from the Smithsonian Metro
stop (Orange
and Blue Line). Call 347-693-3319 to find World Can’t Wait.
The Jan. 27 protest is being organized by the United For Peace & Justice Coalition, of which World Can’t Wait is a participant. Find information on buses to Washington, DC on UnitedForPeace.org.
Sign up to join with World Can’t Wait in distributing 100,000 copies of the Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime and forming a contingent of 500 people wearing orange jumpsuits:
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If you’re coming from NYC, reserve your ticket on the World Can’t Wait buses now:
Buses will leave at 5:30am from Union Square East & 16th St.
Buses are nearly sold out. To see if tickets are still available, visit http://www.nyc.worldcantwait.org or call 212-969-0772.
Hook up with World Can’t Wait at west coast protest locations Jan. 27:
San Francisco: Meetup with the World Can’t Wait contingent at 11:30AM at Powell & Market street in San Francisco. (Powell St. BART subway). Contact 415-864-5153 or sf@worldcantwait.org to start volunteering this week.
Los Angeles: 11 a.m. – just south of 9th & Figueroa on the westside of the block. Look for our World Can’t Wait banner, picket signs and orange jumpsuits. Contact 323-462-4771 or la@worldcantwait.org to volunteer this week.
Seattle: Gather at 12:30pm at 23rd & Union in Seattle. We will march to the Military Recruiting Center along with Military Resisters and Veterans For Peace! Contact seattle@worldcantwait.org or 206-322-3813 to volunteer this week.
Austin, Texas: Rally at 3pm at City Hall (downtown Austin at Cesar Chavez & Lavaca); march to the Capitol begins at 3:30
Posters & Flyers to use for the protest:
Download PDF flyer to distribute this week and get people to Washington DC
PDF Flyer to pass out at protests [side 1] [side 2]
Placards to print: [side 1] [side 2] (note: use orange pms 1495 on side 1 to print)
Banners:
Impeach Bush For War Crimes! [eps file]
Sticker [4×3 inches] (note: use orange pms 1495)