Come to Denver when the Democrats meet: Protests August 23-28
| Unending War & Threats on Iran,Torture,Attacks on Women’s Right to Abortion & Birth Control, War Crimes,Gestapo-Like Raids on Immigrants, WHO WILL BRING THE FASCIST DIRECTION OF THIS COUNTRY to a HALT? |
Only
you – not your government – can bring any of this to a halt. The only realistic course is for
the people of the U.S.
to taking meaningful and independent political action to resist the machinery
of war and the fascist direction that has emerged. Come to Denver for a week of
protest that includes marching to stand with immigrants under assault and
counter-protests to the week of anti-abortion actions of the Christian right.
Join in contingents, film showings, street protests, strategy sessions, and
more.
Why Go to Denver? ” A Letter From Home: Why I’m Going to Denver” by Jamilah Hoffman
World
Can’t Wait CALENDAR:
- World Can’t Wait will be
tabling at the Festival of Democracy Aug 24-28 - Recreate 68 will be based in Civic Center Park
during those dates.
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Saturday August
23:
Rock the Bells CONCERT: World Can’t Wait Outreach
(details TBA)
CONFRONT THE
ANTI-Abortionists!
Two anti-abortion groups, the “Christian Defense Coalition” and
“Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust” demonstrate at the Democratic National
Convention. Their plans include a
protest at the new Planned Parenthood clinic in Denver.
YOUR GOVERNMENT is moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a narrow and hateful
brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule.
YOUR GOVERNMENT is moving to deny women here, and all over the world, the right to
birth control and abortion”.
The anti-abortion movement, with
support from the Bush regime, has succeeded in laying the legal basis, constructing
the ethical arguments and creating a cultural atmosphere where a woman’s access
to abortion and birth control is hanging by a thread.
Should we ignore them and they’ll go
away? Where has that passivity EVER gotten us?
You
might think the Bush Regime has done all the damage it possibly can to
reproductive rights. But they are not done yet. And let’s be honest: at a time
when birth control and abortion are in more danger than at any point since Roe
V. Wade, it is widely acknowledged that the Democrats have surrendered the
field and would prefer to change the subject.
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World Friday Saturday Noon: 1pm: Prayer at Pepsi Center, including the laying of roses 6pm: Antis World Can’t Wait will announce counter protest plans. |
Sunday August 24
9am to 6pm
World Can’t Wait is
calling for, and organizing, a massive anti-war outpouring in the street of Denver. (link to open letter to anti-war movement)
Join the World Can’t
Wait Contingent at the End All Occupations Home and Abroad March. (March will begin at the WEST
STEPS OF THE CAPITOL and end on Speer
Blvd in front of the Pepsi Center)
The Bush
Regime, on the basis of outrageous lies, has waged a murderous and utterly
illegitimate war on Iraq and
Afghanistan, with Iran now in
their sites. Seven years of the Bush Regime have radically altered the shape of
U.S.
society and locked in a global trajectory of wars for empire with no regard for
human cost or conscience. The world is shocked by the crimes and destruction
the American people have allowed to be carried out in our names.
And let’s
get real here: the Democratic leadership has colluded with these crimes. (link to July 2008 statement)
5:00 pm
CODE PINK: Freeze Against the War on Iran
7:00 pm World Can’t Wait sponsors
AN
EVENING OF CONSCIENCE: NO ATTACK ON IRAN! Art & inspiration against endless war for
empire
Cleo
Parker Robinson Dance Theater
109 Park
Ave West Denver
For Tickets and Info: (303) 295-1759
Monday August 25 – All Day:
Human
Rights/Free All Political Prisoners Day
Civic Center
Park and other areas will have feeder
marches. 9am
Join the WCW Orange Jumpsuit Contingent! One of the most egregious parts of the Bush Program -and
the Democrats’ collusion with it- is the legalization of torture. People of
conscience act when torture has been legalized and when war crimes are being
carried out in our names.
The DNC will elect the candidate for
commander in chief of an empire that has legalized torture and secretly rendered
prisoners to be tortured. What would it look like if they were confronted with
massive amounts of people in orange jumpsuits, bringing home the reality of
what the U.S.
represents to the world? The whole world will be watching as WCW confronts the
torture state with this contingent. (Sign up Here)
Tuesday
AUGUST 26: Immigrant Rights March has been changed to Thursday Aug.
28
Wednesday AUGUST 27: No Warming-Plans TBA
Thursday AUGUST 28: NO
BORDERS! IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
MARCH
March Step-off at 9am
2855 W. Howard PL. (Rude Park)
Rally to follow @ La Alma /Lincoln Park
(W. 10th Ave and Mariposa St)
No Ice Raids! No Militarization of the Border: No Detentions! No Human Being is Illegal!
World Can’t Wait will be marching to demand an immediate end to
the Gestapo-style ICE raids on immigrants and families that create a climate of
terror in immigrant communities and workplaces all over the
country. We demand an end to the terrorizing and the
criminalization of a whole people! No human being is illegal! As new detention facilities which can house
hundreds of thousands are constructed within U.S. borders; as walls go up
between the US and Mexico; as the border is patrolled by this government in
collaboration with armed vigilante groups who hunt migrants down with
viciousness, we stand and say no! No militarization of the border!
No detentions! No ICE raids! Bring this to a halt!
Join with the World Can’t Wait on Aug 28th to give
voice to these demands.
EVENING: Obama Nomination
Acceptance Speech
Invesco Center
(Mile High Stadium) 75,000+ to attend.