CONVERGENCES ACROSS THE COUNTRY & LOCAL CONTACT INFO
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November 2, the first anniversary of Bush’s “re-election”, we will take the first major step in this by organizing a truly massive day of resistance all over this country. People everywhere will walk out of school, they will take off work, they will come to the downtowns and town squares and set out from there, going through the streets and calling on many more to JOIN US. They will repudiate this criminal regime, making a powerful statement: “NO! THIS REGIME DOES NOT REPRESENT US! AND WE WILL DRIVE IT OUT!”
November 2 must be a massive and public proclamation that WE REFUSE TO BE RULED IN THIS WAY. November 2 must call out to the tens of millions more who are now agonizing and disgusted. November 2 will be the beginning — a giant first step in forcing the Bush regime to step down, and a powerful announcement that we will not stop until he does so — and it will join with and give support and heart to people all over the globe who so urgently need and want this regime to be stopped.
Send your Nov 2nd plans to calendar@worldcantwait.org
RESIST OR DIE!
NO SCHOOL NOV 2!
Organize your campus. Get in touch:
youth_students@worldcantwait.org
CONVERGENCES ACROSS THE COUNTRY & LOCAL CONTACT INFO:
ALABAMA
HUNTSVILLE: dukem@email.uah.edu
11am in front of Roberts Hall at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. This is a gathering, a rally, and possibly a march
ARIZONA
PHOENIX: driveoutbush@yahoo.com
12 PM, Cesar Chavez Memorial Plaza Downtown Phoenix on Washington/Jefferson between 1st Ave and3rd Ave.
TUCSON: twcwtucson@hotmail.com
11 AM March at University of Arizona, Alumni Plaza
12 PM Rally at Intersection of Church and Congress (downtown, by the Convention Center)
4:30PM Actions at these intersections:
Speedway/Campbell- No to attacks on Choice and Women’s Rights
Swan/Golf Links-No to Endless War and Torture
Swan/Grant-No to Stolen Elections and Police State Measures
Ina/Oracle-No to Theocracy and Fundamentalist Morality
6th/22nd- No to Racist Policies and Demonizationof Oppressed Nationalities
CALIFORNIA
CHICO:310-625-2713 truthcansetusfree@yahoo.com
10:oo AM Rally in the Free Speech Area on the campus of California State University, Chico, followed by a march downtown to Congressman Walter Herger’s office.
EUREKA:
November 2nd
11 AM Walkout of work and school and JOIN US! at the Eureka Federal Court House
12PM Special Die In
Humbolt State University 8:00am to 10:00am- free speech forum on HSU quad. 10:00am to 10:30am- march from quad to arcata plaza. 10:30am to 11:00am- critical mass from arcata plaza to eureka federal building. 11:00am to 1:00pm- “die in” at federal building (downtown post office) in eureka. Guest speakers include David Cobb and Dave Meserve
November 4th 12PM, Special Demo “Drive Out the Bush Regime” in Garberville
LAGUNA BEACH
3PM Convergence at Main Beach on PCH and Forest.
LOS ANGELES:
worldcantwait_la@yahoo.com, (323) 462-4771 http://www.worldcantwait-la.com/
12PM actions on Wilshire Blvd
5:00 PM! Westwood and Wilshire: Rally and March through Westwood
12PM actions on Wilshire Blvd at these cross streets:
Figueroa/Downtown LA at NOON: Join Critical Mass, downtown workers,
students, and others at the intersection. People will gather here with
signs, banners and noisemakers for actions on this corner, and then make their way to Westwood and Wilshire at 5 p.m.
Alvarado/Park View- Alvarado and Wilshire at NOON: Join the Watts Drum corps, immigrants from Pico/Union and high school and college students from the surrounding area for live music (bands to be announced) followed by a march to Normandie and Wilshire at 1:30 p.m. sharp.
Car Caravan / Funeral Procession for Bush Regime will form along Wilshire from Alvarado to Parkview and at 1:30 sharp proceed down Wilshire to Westwood, gathering forces as it goes. Drivers Wanted!
Vermont and Wilshire at NOON: Join congregants from First Unitarian Church to drive out the Bush Regime.
Normandie and Wilshire at Noon: to be announced
Crenshaw and Wilshire at NOON: Join people from Leimert Park and South
Central, and high school students from surrounding area for spirited rally indicting the Bush regime for their crimes, including against the people of New Orleans, then traveling to Westwood.
Fairfax and Wilshire at NOON: Join Axis of Justice, Out Against the War
and high school students from the area for actions, including
mural-making, before making their way to Westwood.
Westwood and Wilshire NOON: Join UCLA World Can’t Wait!, Code Pink,
Veterans for Peace, and college students from Cerritos and from all over the area for actions, speakers and music, leading up to the 5:00 p.m. Rally and March!
3rd Street Promenade and Wilshire/Santa Monica at NOON to be announced
Or pick your own corner on Wilshire!
5:00 PM! Westwood and Wilshire: Rally and March through Westwood
Speakers and participants include: Axis of Justice; Rev. Richard Meri Ka Ra Byrd, KRST Unity Center; Code Pink; Bianca Jagger; Leon Mobley;Critical Mass; Culture Clash; Rickie Lee Jones; Ed Ellis, President of Veterans for Peace, L.A.; Esthetics Crew; Alan Jones, Dean of Faculty, Pitzer College; Simon Levy, director “What I Heard About Iraq” at Fountain St. Theater; Bill Mitchell, co-founder of Gold Star Families for Peace; Topanga Peace Alliance; UCLA World Can’t Wait!
ORANGE COUNTY: info@patrickhenrythinktank.org
2:00 PM Protest against the wars and occupation. Corner of Bristol & Anton, Costa Mesa, CA, Across from the So. Coast Plaza (park with descretion and not in usual lot.)
3:00 PM We will carpool/caravan to the Westwood Federal Bldg for The
World Can’t Wait rally and short march. (see below)
Anaheim
General Strike march in Anaheim meeting at the Disneyland Harbor Blvd
entrance
Old Town Orange
Orange County Code Pink evening protest The World Can’t Wait
antiwar/AntiBush protest-
Sponsored by Code Pink Orange County
Circle at Old Towne Orange (off the 22 & 55 Fwys at Chapman and
Glassell)
SAN DIEGO: sandiego@worldcantwait.org, (619) 846-8590
1st Convergence 11:30 am, 2nd Covergence at 4pm 324 Horton Plaza, 4th Ave and Broadway, Downtown San Diego.
Organizing Meetings: Korova Coffee Bar,4490 Park Blvd., San Diego, CA, Mondays, 6:30-8p.m.
SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA: sf@worldcantwait.org, 510-868-0819
Main: 12 PM, Civic Center Plaza, San Francisco,
Rally until 1 PM. March at 1PM.
End Rally: 4:30 PM Civic CenterPlaza.
Join with the “Dia de Los Muertos” procession at 24th and
Bryant St at 7PM
Speakers:
Cindy Sheehan
Medea Benjamin, Code Pink
Jeff Adachi, San Francisco Public Defender
Chris Daly, San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Paul Flores, Youth Speaks
Paul George, Peninsula Peace and Justice Center
Mark Leno (statement)
Rev. Taigen Dan Leighton, Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Aimee Allison, Army Conscientious Objector (Gulf War
’90)/Counter-Recruiter
Not In Our Name
Tim Paulson, Executive Director, San Francisco Labor
Council
Steve Pearcy, attorney and artist
Wilson Riles, Jr., Oakland C.A.N.
And A Special Message from Mumia Abu-Jamal
PRE-ASSEMBLY AREAS FOR San Francisco rally
Fremont, CA
10:00 AM at Fremont BART,
Union City
11:00 AM- meet at BART station
North Bay Chapter (Marin/Sonoma) Carpool-Caravan Locations:
Santa Rosa — Piner and Industrial, GGT Park & Ride —
Assemble 8:00, Depart 9:00
Petaluma — No. Petaluma Blvd at Hwy 101, GGT Park & Ride —
Assemble 8:30, Depart 9:30
Mill Valley — Seminary Drive at Hwy 101, GGT Park & Ride (
– Assemble 9:00, Depart 10:00
* (707) 774-1960 * (415) 791-1094
In San Francisco:
Mission Area, SF
10:30 AM 24th and Mission, march to 16th and Mission
11:30 AM Take Bart from 16th and Mission to Civic Center
Tenderloin, SF
Coalition on Homelessness
11:15 AM 468 Turk St.
For info: 346-3740
Hayes Valley/Lower Haight/Alamo Square:
10:00 AM Hayes Valley Green
10 AM San Francisco City College, 10 AM San Francisco State University
Malcolm X Plaza for those who live outside of the city who want to car
pool or arrive at the main rally with others.
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY: Berkeley@worldcantwait.org
9:00 A.M Walk Out at Sproul Plaza, Attend a short Rally and Parade of
Resistance.
11:00 A.M Meet up atBerkeley BART station go to the Civic Center at NOON.
Palo Alto
10:30 AM carpooling from Peninsula Peace and Justice
Center, 457 Kingsley Avenue, Palo Alto
For info: 650-326-8837
www.peaceandjustice.org
SACRAMENTO
March at 3:45 from the parking lot of Oscar’s Very Mexican Food restaurant (3061 Freeport Blvd) to William Land Park (3930 W Land Park Dr) for speeches.
“Take A Stand”
Students who want to participate and have the consent of their teachers will stand through their second period class as a form of silent protest against the war in Iraq.
Santa Cruz
9AM am meet at Bay St. and High St. for carpooling
cars and drivers needed!
7-11 parking lot at HIGH and CARDIFF PLACE a block from the main entrance of campus at
9 am, and leaving at 9:30 on NOV 2nd. We need drivers, and anyone
interested should email varodrig@ucsc.edu thanks!
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY: Berkeley@worldcantwait.org
9:00 A.M Walk Out at Sproul Plaza, Attend a short Rally and Parade of
Resistance.
11:00 A.M Meet up atBerkeley BART station go to the Civic Center at NOON.
San Jose Carpool
10:00 AM, Meet at San Jose Cahill St. Diridon Station
Sonoma State University at Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial Grove
12:00 noon.
Speakers, Music, and More!
Organized by Sonoma Campus Greens
VACAVILLE: Walk out of school and work! Meet at the Jack in the Box at Monte Vista Ave at 11:30 am.
COLORADO
BOULDER: boulder@worldcantwait.org
12 Noon Line the Streets, Bandshell Park, Canyon & Broadway
PAONIA: 12PM, Poulos Park.
CONNECTICUT
NEW HAVEN: 203-498-8185; newhaven@worldcantwait.org
8:30 AM Banner drop over the freeways of CT. Meet at the New Haven I-95 Overpass at Howard St. In other parts of CT bring out banners and signs on the overpasses of highways and at main intersections of cities and towns. 4PM Converge from all parts of the state to the New Haven Green. Gather at the Federal Courthouse (across from the Green) and encircle the Green with alternating signs that say, “The World Can’t Wait” and “Drive Out The Bush Regime.”
STONINGTON HIGH SCHOOL:
3PM, Westerly, RI Post Office for people in both Conneticut and RI. Distributing information, picketing, and street theatre.
FLORIDA
Due to Hurricane Wilma, there have been severe disruptions of water, electricity, phones, email, and electricity. We have talked to WCW organizers in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale and they are determined to have their events November 2nd. We will post any new info. we receive.
FT. LAUDERDALE: 954-857-6738 http://www.southfloridacantwait.com/
11AM March on downtown Ft. Lauderdale. Meet at the Bubier Park and march to the Federal Courthouse
ORLANDO: Orlando@worldcantwait.org
12 PM March through downtown after rally ’til dusk at Orlando City Hall, Orange Ave & South Street.
6PM Second Convergence After Rally at Lake Eola Park corner of Rosalind Ave and Washington St.
Organizing Meetings: Saturdays at 6PM at Stardust Video and Coffee,
1842 E Winter Park Rd, Orlando FL
(call 407-623-3393 for directions).
GEORGIA
ATLANTA: worldcantwaitatl@yahoo.com, 866-370-5404
CITY WIDE RALLY – 1 pm Woodruff Park
World Can’t Wait Rally – Drive Out The Bush Regime!
Music, spoken word, and voices of resisters.
Woodruff Park, Downtown Atlanta, 1 block north of Five
Points MARTA on Peachtree.
After Rally:
Massively go through downtown Atlanta calling on the
rush hour crowds to JOIN US!
We encourage people to bring noisemakers and
instruments!
Downtown Atlanta has never looked like it will on
November 2nd!
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High and Middle School Students:
Walk-outs, skip school! Middle Schools and High
Schools, and Universities will be walking out at 11 AM
and going to the downtown rally, Woodruff Park, by 1
pm.
Atlanta University Center Students:
11 AM Student Walkouts at Spelman, Morehouse, and
Clark University.
Converge outside the AUC Library.
March to downtown to the Atlanta city-wide Rally.
Georgia State University Students:
11 AM Student Walkouts
Converge at GSU Plaza between the Library and Sparks
Hall.
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After Party:
Lenny’s @ 9 pm
featuring – Drop Bombz
307 Memorial (near Boulevard)
Call them: 404- 577-7721
HAWAII
HONOLULU:
worldcantwaithawaii@yahoo.com, 808-534-2255
7 am to 5 pm: Action Center at Old Stadium Park (Isenberg & King). (to join actions, pick up materials) Banner drops, car caravans, and sounds trucks will be organized from the Action Center.
8:30 AM: Rally at Waimea Bay followed by a bike ride to Haleiwa Beach Park on the North Shore of O`ahu
9:30 am Rally and March begins at McCarthy Mall at Univ of Hawai`i-Manoa
11:30 am Downtown Convergence at King and Bishop
12PM-1:00PM: Die-in and street theatre in front of the Post Office/Federal Building on Hilo, Island of Hawai`i
1:30PM Protest at Recruitment Centers (Kapi`olani and Pi`i
4:00PM: Bike ride from Old Stadium Park through downtown Honolulu
6:00-midnight Celebration at Sustainability Courtyard at the University of Hawai`i-Manoa. Live music, slam poetry, open mic.
ILLINOIS
CHICAGO:
chicago@worldcantwait.org, 773-412-831
12 PM – The rally begins at Federal Plaza, Dearborn and Adams, with a greeting from Studs Terkel. Columbia College students march in from their 11:00 AM rally at Grant Park, right across the college on Michigan Ave, bringing students from other schools with them. Groups will be meeting up at Metra and El stops in neighborhoods and suburbs around the Chicagoland area, all heading to the Loop and Federal Plaza. Send in your meet-up to chicago@worldcantwait.org
Speakers and participants include: Juan Torres, Gold Star father; Standish E.
Willis, National Conference of Black Lawyers; Sterling Plumpp, poet; Karen Fiore,
pro-choice activist; Samantha Hamlin, Columbia College World Can’t Wait; scenes from “Words of Choice,” a play on emergency tour of the Red states; Mars, that
revolutionary sister, poet; and more. Rumor has it that Billionaires for Bush will
be raising their objections to our movement.
By 1:30 PM, we will step off to march through the Loop, calling on others to JOIN
US. Leave work, leave school, make history. The world can’t wait – Drive out the
Bush regime! We will return, bigger than ever, to the Federal Plaza for a concluding
rally where youth will take over the stage, with reports from students who walked
out to tell the world they want a different future and spoken word poets of the new
generation.
Meet ups
Hyde Park – Meet at 11:00 a.m. at 55th and Lake Park to take the #6 bus downtown.
Columbia College ( Chicago – 11:00 A.M in Grant Park, along Michigan Ave, directly
across from the Columbia College Library building.
University of Illinois at Chicago- 10:00 AM Walkout and Rally at the Quad behind Student Center East. March to Federal Plaza.
Roberto Clemente High School – 10:56 AM Walkout (after third period)assemble on the Northeast corner of Western and Division, march down Western to theBlue Line. Pilsen: 18th and Loomis, 10:30, then march downtown to the rally at theFederal Plaza.Evanston – Meet at Fountain Square at Davis and Sherman at 10:30am –
11:00 am to assemble for walking one block west to the Davis Street Purple Line
Station and getting on the train to make it downtown by NOON – WEDNESDAY, November 2nd for the massive World Can’t Wait Rally at Federal Plaza Oak Park -10:00AM meetacross from OPRF High School in Ridgeland Commons, Lake St. and Scoville Ave. to go down on the Green Line train to Federal Plaza to 12PM convergence.
Feeder marches from all over the city to Federal Plaza (Adams and Dearborn).
Columbia College- Chicago
11:00 A.M in Grant Park, along Michigan Ave, directly across from the Columbia College Library building.
University of Illinois at Chicago:
10:00 AM Walkout and Rally at the Quad behind Student Center East. March to Federal Plaza.
Roberto Clemente High School:
10:56 AM Walkout (after third period) assemble on the Northeast corner of Western and Divison, march down Western to the Blue Line.
Hyde Park: People going to the World Can’t Wait rally in the Loop from Hyde Park can
meet at 11:00 a.m. at 55th and Lake Park to take the #6 bus downtown. All should
bring their banners, posters, and friends and relatives with them.
Evanston: Many of us will be gathering at Fountain Square at Davis and Sherman at
10:30am – 11:00 am to assemble for walking one block west to the Davis Street Purple
Line Station and getting on the train to make it downtown by NOON – WEDNESDAY,
November 2nd for the massive World Can’t Wait Rally at Federal Plaza.
Batavia, IL: http://s14.invisionfree.com/Batavia_Resistance/
7:40 AM Walkout and March on Dennis Hastert’s offices downtown
OAK PARK: oakparkil@worldcantwait.org
10:00AM meet across from OPRF High School in Ridgeland Commons, Lake St. and Scoville Ave. to go down on the Green Line train to Federal Plaza to 12PM convergence.
5 PM, rally at Scoville Park ( Lake St. and Oak Park Ave. )
Weekly Meetings: Wednesday from 7-9PM at the Buzz Cafe (905 S. Lombard St., Oak Park, IL).
NAPERVILLE: Naperville North High School- Walk out at 11am-11:30AM and meet in the small cafe then keep walking down major streets and passed businesses. Contact: hardcastlechick@hotmail.com, (630) 689-3094
DEKALB: Northern Illinois University – Rally at 12:00 noon in the Martin Luther King Commons.
Speakers:
John Laesch, candidate for state congress; Paul Street, a Katrina survivor; Interfaith Network for Peace and Justice, College Democrats.
Contact: 224-623-1974, jennybrowe@yahoo.com
PEORIA: 4PM-6PM Rally, Intersection of University and War Memorial(park in lots just south of BP station). Bring your signs and bullhorns! We’ll also hand out flyers to cars at the lights! peoria@worldcantwait.org
ROCKFORD:Meeting at noon in parking lot on corner of East State Street and 3rd
Street.Marching from there down State to business areas on West State.
EMAIL ADDRESS IS: rockfordil@worldcantwait.org
INDIANA
INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON: 4pm at Sample Gates, aoi@indiana.edu
KANSAS
EMPORIA STATE UNIVERSITY: emporiastate@worldcantwait.org
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: kansasstateu@worldcantwait.org
KENTUCKY
LOUISVILLE: 12:00 noon Rally at 5th and Liberty. http://worldcantwait.blackwednesday.org/
This event will also feature a reading of the names of our soldiers killed so far in this war. The list will be as complete as possible, and each name read will be accompanied by the chime of a bell. This moment will signify the sacrifice of trust that has cost the lives of these brave men and women. We have invited Louisville Educator and Activist Jan Arnow, former Kentucky Atty. Gen. Fred Cowan, and Rev. Nathan Schroeder to speak at this event.Additional details TBD. If you have any questions or comments, please go to http://blackwednesday.org/contact.html
LOUISIANA
NEW ORLEANS:Jackson Square, 6:30pm. Jackson Square is in the French Quarter, the location of Bush’s first nationally-televised speech on the ground after Katrina, ÔWe have secured the territory.
MAINE
PORTLAND: All day open house at Zero Station 222 Anderson St Portland Maine
for protesters. We will offer warmth, films, conversation for all involved.
Also check out CitizenSalon.org website for info.
MARYLAND
BALTIMORE: baltimore@worldcantwait.org
MASSACHUSETTS
BOSTON: Boston Common 12PM in conjunction with military recruitment protests look for World Can’t Wait signs and banners.
PIONEER VALLEY, 5 COLLEGES:
Mt. Holyoke
10:30 a.m Walk- Out converge at Skinner
Green snake march through buildings calling on people to Join Us 11:20 storm PVTA/carloads go to Amherst
Organizing Meeting: Thursday at 7pm at Mount Holyoke College Mead Living Room
5 College Convergence- Noon at Amherst Center rt 116 side
worldcantwaitmhc@yahoo.com, 215-880-9707
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY:
All Day Sit-In on Walkway in Front of Main Cafetria
Speakers and Events throughout the Day
MICHIGAN
ANN ARBOR: annarbor@worldcantwait.org rallying on the U of M Diag at noon
DETROIT: 12 PM, Warren and Woodward Detroit@worldcantwait.org
EAST LANSING: eastlansing@worldcantwait.org
KALAMAZOO: 12PM Bronson Park for rally and snake march through downtown. Bring signs! Parts of the Call will be read! Then we will recongregate in the Park for a brief wrapup
worldcantwaitkazoo@yahoo.com
ROCHESTER/AUBURN HILLS: Meet at the border of Rochester/Auburn Hills, Michigan from – 6PM – 9PM November 2nd on the southeastern corner of Walton and Squirrel near Oakland U.
MINNESOTA
MINNEAPOLIS: Student walk-outs at 10:00 am.
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus,Rally 12:00 noon at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus, at the plaza in front of the Coffman Memorial Student Union, 300 Washington Ave SE
March to military recruiting station and a teach-in. Walk Outs sponsored by Youth Against War and Racism, Anti-War Organizing League (AWOL) at U of M. The Star Tribune reported that Students and organizers were joined in a press conference by Minneapolis City Council Members Dean Zimmermann and Natalie Johnson Lee and write-in mayoral candidate Farheen Hakeem.
minneapolis@worldcantwait.org
MISSOURI
ST. LOUIS: Rally and March at the northwest corner of Delmar and Skinker at 12PM. Afterwards there will be a teach-in on “Dissecting the Bush Doctrine.”
SPRINGFIELD:
12 Noon Park Central Square
Springfield@worldcantwait.org
MONTANA
GREAT FALLS: greatfallsmt@worldcantwait.org
MISSOULA: University Of Montana- Walk Out of Class and Meet in the Oval at 12:00 P.M