Elizabeth, IL
I give you my support as well as to your great team work and collaborators who give of their energy and time to make these protests rejecting these acts of horror and death. I congratulate you for all that you are doing.
You’re doing a great job. Keep up the good work! Thanks for your consistency, updates, and activism. You and the movement you’ve built are inspirational!
Ashley Bradshaw
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
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
From the gulag state of texas — go for it this week. The world can’t wait to be rid of the torture state, the obamawars on top of the bush wars.
Mary Joe Dillon
We must end all war! Obama, you need to live up to your campaign promises.
Sandy Haire
Consider donating to support the heart of the anti-war movement. If you really oppose this war in Afghanistan, if you really want an end to permanent occupation in Iraq, send money to the people ensuring there are regular protests throughout this nation.
Kevin Gozstola
World Can’t Wait was right about the crimes of Bush and Cheney and it is right about Obama’s "military solution" for Afghanistan.
Ralph Nader
In a time when the mass anti-war movement has been effectively dismantled by the Obama phenomenon, and the wars are continuing, when some people counsel us to bide our time while civil liberties that Bush annihilated are being further destroyed by Obama, when the architects of torture are being shielded by the Democrats and torture actually continues under this new president, when Christian fascists bellow from the rooftops and are given legitimacy by corporate media, the GOP, and by Obama who counsels bipartisanship with such forces, World Can’t Wait declares that non-American lives are no less precious than Americans and calls for resistance to show the world that we aren’t passive in the face of the fascist remaking of the country, and the ongoing war crimes being committed in our names. Give to World Can’t Wait. Give till it hurts. Give and show where you stand.
Dennis Loo
I support World Can’t Wait because they’ve been dead on since day one about the dangers the world faces at the hands of our government, and our responsibility in stopping the crimes done in our names — and with our tacit approval when we fail to resist. They paid close attention to what candidate Obama said (and didn’t say) about what his presidency would bring, and have worked tirelessly to expose the same old empire in new clothes ever since the election, even as the anti-war movement virtually collapsed around them.
The difference between World Can’t Wait and a lot of other groups is that they base themselves on what is actually happening, not on political expediency, and not on what they think people are willing to hear. They gather the truth-tellers about them, give a forum for those who present the unvarnished reality of the effects of the post 9/11 US global rampage, and exhort and inspire people to act on the basis not of what’s easy, or palatable, but what needs to be done.
So much more opposition and resistance to these imperial policies is needed from us in the US, and we need World Can’t Wait as a source of news, analysis, and inspiration for action. I hope others will step up and donate to not just maintain, but expand World Can’t Wait’s activities.
Scott Trent, North Carolina
I support World Can’t Wait because they’ve been dead on since day one about the dangers the world faces at the hands of our government, and our responsibility in stopping the crimes done in our names and with our tacit approval when we fail to resist. They paid close attention to what candidate Obama said (and didn’t say) about what his presidency would bring, and have worked tirelessly to expose the same old empire in new clothes ever since the election, even as the anti-war movement virtually collapsed around them. The difference between World Can’t Wait and a lot of other groups is that they base themselves on what is actually happening, and not on what they think people are willing to hear. They gather the truth-tellers about them, give a forum for those who present the unvarnished reality of the effects of the US global rampage, and exhort and inspire people to act on the basis not of what’s easy, or palatable, but what needs to be done.
So much more opposition and resistance to these imperial policies is needed from us in the US, and we need World Can’t Wait as a source of news, analysis, and inspiration for action. I hope others will step up and donate to not just maintain, but expand World Can’t Wait’s activities.
Almost four years ago I was searching for away to express my outrage at the direction the Bush Regime was taking the world. I wondered why those Congress seemed to be nothing to stop Bush and Cheney,why was no one pointing out the reality of the situation, and where were the millions in this country who surely felt as I did. Then I found World Can’t Wait-an organization that was willing to speak to the reality of the situation and mobilize millions to resist this horrific direction-which is still the reality today even under Obama. I became an activist/organizer of WCW and still am because I still believe that it is we in our millions who can change the direction of things. I still connect with the line from WCW call “The future is unwritten-which one we get is up to us.”