We’ve been invited to exhibit at the Coachella Valley Music Festival in
the desert east of this weekend. This concert draws 150,000 people.
Rage Against the Machine, one of the best rock bands in history, has
reunited to play this concert. They said, ” “It occurred to all of us
that the times were right to see if we can knock the Bush
administration out in one fell swoop and we hope to do that job well.”
Because Rage is appearing, this concert will attract an even more
political section of youth.
At the festival , we will recruit more organizers to send across the
country this summer as part of other cultural events and create a team
of student interns ready to take this movement to another level. As the
Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime says,” We, in our millions, must and
can take responsibility to change the course of history.” We will
distribute 100,000 copies of the Call and thousands of bandanas with
the words “Drive Out the Bush Regime!”
Find out more info about this weekend’s exciting music festival at http://www.coachella.com/. And
if you’re planning on attending, join World Can’t Wait organizers to
help reach out to the crowd and make the message “Drive Out the Bush
Regime” a part of the weekend.
This report was phoned in from a youth on the spot in
Coachella:
My experience with World Can’t Wait at Coachella has been
one of the most exciting experiences of my entire life. The enthusiasm and
sheer will to take this up by the masses of people is unprecedented in anything
I”ve seen. As of Friday night WCW had already distributed 40,000 copies of the
Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime, well over our goal for that day, and a good
step towards our goal of 100,000.
People are very new, and have not been politicized, and are
still largely unaware of everything that’s going on, from the attacks on
abortion to the legalization of torture, but when they saw our material about
driving out the Bush Regime they are still enthusiastic and excited to take
this up. We”ve seen many people, when they learn what this is about, join us
right there on the spot take get out the WCW call stacks of leaflets and
immediately begin getting them out. People are coming up to our table, eager to
learn more. Youth are taking up the World Can’t Wait bandanas
On Sunday, April 29, hundreds and hundreds of people will
converge and spell out IMPEACH so it reverberates throughout Coachella. There
is still a lot of work to be done – to reach our goals in distributing Calls,
bandanas, and t-shirts, and to do a lot towards driving out this regime and
creating a new political situation in this country.
Help Fund these Young Organizers to Drive Out the Bush Regime – Summer 2007
First leg, Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
Indio CA April 27-29
Jamilah Hoffman
has lived in Houston her whole life in a Christian fundamentalist
environment. She first learned about World Can’t Wait through Air
America Radio a few weeks before the November 2, 2005 walk-outs, when
she was thinking about Hurricane Katrina and asking herself “how could
this government do this to Black people?” She was part of the World
Can’t Wait Bus Tour last summer, speaking to youth from New Orleans to
Arkansas. She aspires to study film and is a poet, dreamer, and writer.
The Sobering Effects of Wearing Orange
Leah Fishbein
is a visual arts student at Occidental College in Los Angeles, from
Atlanta. She lead high school and college student walkouts against the
Iraq war, and as the Bush regime and the Christian right turned up
their attacks on women’s reproductive rights in unprecedented ways,
Leah delved into fighting to increase resistance to these attacks, at
colleges and universities, through street theater and writing. She’s
been a full time volunteer in the WCW national office and writes for
worldcantwait.org.
Allen Lang
is a member of the World Can’t Wait Steering Committee and National
Student and Youth Coordinator. Allen got his start as a political
organizer at Temple University in the aftermath of September 11th,
where mobilizing protests against the invasion of Iraq increasingly
overshadowed his film studies and hours on the basketball court. Lang
organized the Bush Crimes Commission Tour (www.bushcommission.org),
which brought experts and eyewitness that exposed Bush’s crimes to a
dozen universities ranging from Harvard to Stanford, and has led
campaigns to defend students and professors who have come under attack
for speaking out against the Bush Administration. World Can’t Wait Goes on th
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Warped Tour
Anastasia Gomes
is a native New Yorker, born to Greek and Indian immigrants. She
studied journalism in hopes of bettering the world by shedding light onits
injustices, and utilizes her journalism skills informing others who
also feel isolated in their frustration over the war. She currently
teaches English to Latin American immigrants in the Bronx and also
works as a professional freelance photographer. Most recently Anastasia
has traveled the country speaking on college campuses as part of the
Mission of A Generation Speaking Tour. Mission of a Generation Speaking Tour – Report on the First Leg:
Contact: Samantha Goldman, Development Director, World Can’t Wait Samantha@worldcantwait.org 347-582-3677.
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