The World Can’t Wait is launching a speaking tour to campuses and
military bases across the country. We are leaving immediately. This is
an emergency. We are counting on everyone who knows that the arrogant
escalation of the Bush war is a turning point– and how we respond will
impact the whole world, one way or another, for years to come.
Speakers on the tour: – LIAM MADDEN, a 22-year-old Marine Corps Sgt and co-founder of the Appeal for Redress – SUNSARA TAYLOR, writer and member of the Advisory Board of World Can’t Wait– Drive Out the Bush Regime. On the opening day of – ELAINE BROWER Elaine’s story and interviews have appeared in the NY Daily News, NY
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When Nixon said he”d end the war by escalating it to Cambodia in May
1970, campuses across the nation were shut down in the largest student
strike in the history of this country. This is something the purveyors
of war for empire fear…
In the wake of Bush’s recent
speech, the campuses are appallingly quiet. But it is an intense calm.
This tour aims to lift the lid by bringing the truth, including an
eyewitness report on the debacle in Iraq from recently returned Marine,
Liam Madden.
” Mission of a Generation” will also take its
daring message to military bases around the country. It’s an open
secret that there are countless soldiers who want to connect with GI’s
who are refusing to be mercenaries for empire and are saying no “
The ” Mission of a Generation: Stop the War Now! Drive Out the Bush
Regime!” speaking tour will put out the challenge directly to youth and
students:
Will we be remembered as the generation who sat back
and allowed illegal wars to spread throughout the Middle East, torture
legalized, the rights of women and gays eviscerated, and a fascistic
police-state constructed? Or will we refuse to go along with this? Will
we lead millions to erupt in political protest and defiant
truth-telling? Will we make it our mission to bring the crimes of the
Bush regime to a halt!?
The Tour begins this week
at New York University and other New York City campuses as part of
building for the January 27th anti-war protests in D.C. From there it
will travel to Chicago, the Bay Area, the Los Angeles area, Washington
State, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Boston, Atlanta, Wisconsin,
Texas, Virginia and North Carolina.
If you are in one of
these areas and would like to book or help promote an event OR if you
would like to bring this tour to another area, contact us immediately
at speakingtour@worldcantwait.org.
There is little else that
will have greater impact in bringing millions out into the streets to
stop the war and drive out the Bush Regime than rousing a determined
political movement among students and young people.
This
could be the tour that unlocks our moment, bridging the gap between
70+% who hate where things are going, but are not yet acting.
Transportation, promotion, materials and other costs of this tour will come to $65,000.