For the College students who have been actively organizing on their
Campus or are outraged by the Bush Regime’s relentless drive to
transform society in a fascist way- come to New York City during your
Winter Break. We face a future of horrors under this regime and
you should be one of the dozens of students who volutneers out of the
National Office to make history so when Bush stands in front of the
world to deliever his State Of the Union Address he will be drowned out
with an undeniable voice heard around the world of: STEP DOWN, STEP DOWN,
BUSH MUST GO
DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME!
Take
a look around you. Whole villages are being barb-wired shut, made into literal
prisons in Iraq,
and far more horrors like this have been promised for other countries. Torture
is being committed, justified and legalized by the U.S.
government(and, just as ominously, this is more and more being ACCEPTED by
millions. A major city was literally destroyed by a natural disaster, and the
Bush regime responded (and didn’t) in a way that left thousands needlessly
dead, hundreds of thousands needlessly and forcibly displaced, and made crystal
clear the regime’s priorities and plans for Black people. Experts have said
that sea level globally could rise at least 15 feet because of global warming.
A close advisor to President Bush was declared unfit to serve a lifelong term
on the supreme court by a rabidly conservative Christian fundamentalist
movement that wants to change the whole way this country is run, and will not
take ‘no’ for an answer.
The
America we’ve
grown up with is never coming back. We’re either going forward into Bush’s
future–or into one we fight for, and forge ourselves. Think about it. Driving
this Regime Out: Is there anything else that can meet the enormity of the
challenge we face, and wouldn’t this make an impact on the whole world that
would be cheered and welcomed by BILLIONS of people?
This
winter break, we’re asking college students to do something that’s really going
to matter with the time they’ll have away from their studies. We’re asking them
to come to New York City to work in
the World Can’t Wait National Office, helping to lead and coordinate the
movement to force out what one Nobel Laureate Playwright has referred to as
‘the most dangerous force in history’.
In
the lead-up to November 2nd, I answered a call to come to NYC
because I knew that the role played by the National Office in sparking and
leading this movement in all parts of this country was crucial to its ability
to gain the kind of breadth and scale that would be needed(from tiny towns to
sprawling cities(if we’re actually going to have a fighting chance of forcing
out this regime and the program it concentrates. Essentially, I said, ‘fuck it.
I can deal with sleeping 5 hours a night on an air mattress in someone’s living
room for a few weeks if it will mean I can make a serious contribution to how
the future of humanity plays out.’
Young
people should do some thinking in these times about what their place is in the
larger world and how that relates to changing it. There is something to be
learned from the experience of college kids dropping out in their thousands in
the 1960s out of disgust at the way this country and the world were being run,
shifting their priorities to make changing the world be the main thing in their
lives. There is both a defiance and a freedom that students our age tend to
have, and this needs to be uncorked and allowed to contribute to truly
beautiful and urgently needed things. It’s time for young people to step up to
the plate and throw in on making the demand ‘BUSH: STEP DOWN and Take Your
Whole Program with you!’ something that can’t be ignored in this country. Spend
part of your winter in NYC and help make it happen.
The
Future is at hand. What are you gonna do?
-Jack
Orleans, National Student/ Youth Organizer
*Volunteer
in the National Office and talk to Students and Youth around the country who
are emailing and calling into the office. Dozens of youth from around the
country contact us each day about how to start chapters in their area.
'I live in LI New York. I would like to contribute to this resistance movement
and organize something in my area. I was hoping for some suggestions to get
started in this process. I have strong political views but I have never done
anything like this before; I am 22 years old and I live in a community where
social issues are pressed greatly and I have never done much in any such efforts.
Please assist me in my aspirations to contribute to further social realization and
well-needed reform. Thank you for stepping forward in this matter and know
that so many people have been waiting for someone to begin this kind of
movement.'
( excerpt of a letter sent into the National Office)
Work with teams mobilizing for the State of the Union Protests demanding:
'Bush: Step Down and Take Your Whole Program With You!'
*We need students who can volunteer to work with Media
teams, writing and sending out press releases, setting up Radio
Interviews, breaking this movement into the popular culture and beaming out
this Demand to millions around country.
* ‘We are talking about something on a scale that can really
make a huge change in this country and in the world. We need more than
fighting Bush’s outrages one at a time constantly losing ground to the whole
onslaught.’ Tens of thousands, from all walks of life, took part in history on
Nov.2nd and we need take a leap in bringing forward a TREMENDOUS
critical mass gathering for the State of the Union Address. Be part
of a team writing and meeting with Unions, Religious Leaders, Community
Organizers, H.IV/AIDS activists, Women’s Rights Groups and voices of conscience
that need to be part of a movement to derail the ENTIRE program of the Bush
regime.
*Live and work with youth organizers from around the country
who will be taking the lead in realizing the plans that are made at the
upcoming National Organizers’ Conference in NYC.