What People Are Saying in Support of Funding Debra Sweet:
An authentic voice of empowerment, courage, truth and hope, Debra has played a pivotal role in underscoring the need to repudiate the Bush program in its entirety. In a hellish political landscape, Debra is a gem! Cindy Sheehan
THE WORLD CAN’T WAIT campaign deserves support, as its director, Debra Sweet, has run out of funds to support her work. THE WORLD CAN’T WAIT has been out in front of everyone else, setting the pace, the mood, the anger, for the national indignation against the war, for impeachment, against all the Bush policies. Howard Zinn
At a time when most of the country was trying to decipher what was wrong with the direction to which America was heading, Debra Sweet and her organization had already figured out what was wrong and what to do about it. They believed in organizing like-minded people to build a resistance to the Bush onslaught of stolen elections, unnecessary wars, torture as a policy, corrupt cronies, and taxpayer handouts to the rich. It’s critical that Debra and her organization be able to continue their solid efforts, Debra and her group cannot be pushed aside. James Abourezk Former U.S. Senator South Dakota
At this critical juncture in history, when extraordinary means are required to dethrone a self-appointed king who has insidiously infiltrated all branches of the US government, Debra Sweet and her relentless resistance movement to drive out the Bush regime are a vital, refreshing vector change for our troubled nation and world. Ray McGovern
Rarely do you find a grassroots activist group willing to take
consistent principled positions based on listening to the concerns of a
wide segment of the population, with no hint of contamination by money,
power, or partisanship. Rarely do you find an organization able to
consistently mobilize significant numbers of people into action. Very
rarely do you find groups able to work well with other groups in
coalitions. Rarest of all is a campaign that unites all three of these
things and does so consistently and unrelentingly over a period of
years, bringing inspiration to people struggling against defeatism and
resignation. The best example of this on the national scene is the
World Can’t Wait, and the primary reason for that is Debra Sweet. David Swanson
When no one else seemed to be getting serious about challenging the
Bush-Cheney administration’s taste for torture, THE WORLD CAN’T WAIT
movement developed an orange campaign – appropriating the color of the
jump suits worn by detainees – to highlight popular opposition to
violations of the Geneva Conventions and the Eighth Amendment to the
Constitution. As the torture issue came front and center, DEBRA SWEET
and other World Can’t Wait activists – most of them veterans of the
pre-war Not In Our Name movement — were already there with a smart,
uncompromising challenge to untenable practices and an untenable status
quo. John Nichols