For
Immediate Release
Press
Contact: Connie Julian 917-449-9064
www.worldcantwait.org
THOUSANDS DEMONSTRATE, DEMAND ‘BUSH STEP DOWN’
Thousands
of people turned out Wednesday to state their determination to ‘drive out the
Bush Regime,’ and stated plans that on the occasion of Bush’s state of the
union address this January, people will raise the demand that ‘Bush step down.’
In
New York, Chicago, San
Francisco,
Los Angeles and Seattle each, several thousand demonstrators marched through the
streets. The majority of the marchers
were high school and college students, many of whom walked out of school in the
face of threats. They were backed up by
people of all ages who turned out to march, as well as statements of support
from prominent public intellectuals and artists like Nobel Laureate Harold
Pinter, Gore Vidal, Eve Ensler, Howard Zinn, Michael Eric Dyson, Studs Terkel,
Alice Walker, Jane Fonda, and many others.
In addition, Cindy Sheehan spoke to over 3,000 at the San Francisco rally. Demonstrations
and other forms of protest took place in over 60 other cities, hundreds of high
schools, and at least 40 college campuses.
The demonstrations were called by Worldcantwait.net. The group’s Call states that ‘The Bush regime
is setting out to radically remake society very quickly, in a fascist way, and
for generations to come. We must act
now: the future is in the balance. . . We must, and can, aim to create a
political situation where the Bush regime’s program is repudiated, where Bush
himself is driven from office, and where the whole direction he has been taking
society is reversed.’
National
coordinator Debra Sweet stated that the demonstrations marked ‘the beginning of
the end of the Bush regime,’ and vowed in a statement at the rally to turn out
tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands to ‘politically drown out the
State of the Union address.’