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Posted on June 19, 2007
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 Sean Penn

“In the human family, this President is indeed pushing his
wheelchair-bound grandmother down the stairs with a smile on face.”

Click
here to read a message
from Sean Penn to October 2, 2006 to an emergency
organizing meeting held for the Oct. 5 protests to drive out the Bush regime in
NYC’s Cooper Union.

Read Penn’s speech Dec. 18, 2006 upon receiving the 2006 Christopher Reeve First Amendment Award

 

 Chris Hedges

Hedges is an award-winning journalist, including serving for
several years as the Middle East Bureau Chief for The New York Times, and
recently published “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on
America”.

Click
here to read his statement read outside the Capitol Steps at a press conference
of prominent voices of conscience demanding the Bush administration be
impeached.

“Bush’s
Nuclear Apocalypse”: Hedges on the moves towards war on Iran
.

 

 Sunsara Taylor,
writer for Revolution newspaper and
member of World Can’t Wait’s advisory board

Click
here to read her article “This Is Not A Story About Cindy Sheehan”

Click
here to watch Sunsara Taylor
on FOX’s “The O’Reilly Factor” on
4th Anniversary of the Iraq War.

Click
here to listen to a clip of her speech
to the founding conference of World
Can’t Wait calling on us to stop being spectators as the Bush regime takes the
world to new horrors. 

 

 Daniel Ellsberg

“Bush has to go not because he’s stupid”but because he is
dangerous.”

Click
here to watch video
of the leaker of the Pentagon Papers speaking at “Voices for
Impeachment”, an event organized by The World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the
Bush Regime Jan. 4, 2007, the opening day of Congress, at the National Press
Club in Washington, DC.

 

 Michael Ratner

“”we must be as radical as the reality we are facing.”

Click
here to read Michael Ratner’s speech, “Tomorrow is Today: the Time for
Resistance is Now”,
given to the International Commission of Inquiry On
Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration
, Riverside Church, New York, January 20,
2006.

 


Harold Pinter
, Nobel Laureate playwright

“The Bush Administration is the most dangerous force that has ever
existed. It is more dangerous than Nazi Germany because of the range
and depth of its activities and intentions worldwide. I give my full
support to the Call to Drive out the Bush Regime.”

 


Paul Haggis
, screenwriter, director, and producer

Click
here to read a message from Paul Haggis to the protests held nationwide October 5, 2006 by World Can’t Wait.

 

 Cynthia McKinney 

Click here to read former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney’s speech to the October 5, 2006 protest rally in NYC held by World Can’t Wait.

 

 

Camilo Mejia, conscientious objector

Read Mejia’s statement upon signing the Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime.

 

 Esther Kaplan,
author of With God On Their Side,

Click
here to watch video
of Kaplan speaking at the September 7th organizing
meeting for the Oct. 5th protests in New
York City.

  

 

 

 Anastasia Gomes

“Your
Generation’s Call to Conscience”: Read this powerful speech given by
Anastasia Gomes on the Mission of a Generation: Drive Out the Bush Regime
Campus Speaking Tour.
 

 

NY State Senator Tom
Duane

Statement
and reading of a poem by Eve Ensler at 11/2/05 protest rally in NYC.

 

 Craig Murray

“I would personally rather die than have anyone tortured to
save my life.”

Click
here to listen
to the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan speaking October 2, 2006
in NYC’s Cooper Union at an emergency organizing meeting held for the Oct. 5
protests to drive out the Bush regime.

 

 Cristina Page,
author of “How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America”

Click
here to read the text of her speech
given at a teach-in held by World Can’t
Wait in NYC on Oct. 30, 2006, titled “It’s Worse Than You Think: Where the
Bush regime is taking the world and why it must be stopped”.

 

 Jamilah Hoffman 

World
Can’t Wait organizer Jamilah Hoffman writes on the sobering effects of wearing
the orange jumpsuit Guantanamo detainees have to wear everyday.

 

 

 Tom Morello of
Rage Against The Machine

Click
here to read
why Rage decided to reunite for concerts this summer.

Click
here
for Morello’s interview by Tavis Smiley.

 

 

 

 Ariel Dorfman

Read Dorfman’s editorial condemning the passage of the Military Commissions Act, titled “Are We Really So Fearful?”, published in the Washington Post 9/24/06

 

 

 

 

 

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