The World Can’t Wait–Drive Out the Bush Regime www.worldcantwait.org
12, 2005
For Immediate Release
Contact: Stan Rogouski at 866-973-4463,
ext 4, press@worldcantwait.org
World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime Calls on
President Bush to Step Down
in full-page New York
Times ad
Today,
The World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime organization placed a
full-page ad in The New York Times
calling for George W. Bush to step down from office, and take his program with
him (page A17). Similar calls for the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld, Karl
Rove, or Dick Cheney have appeared, but this is the first time an organization
has run an ad in a national media outlet calling for the removal of the entire
Bush regime and their program.
The
World Can’t Wait– Drive Out the Bush Regime’s Call states that ‘your
government’ has not only waged a “murderous and utterly illegitimate war
in Iraq,’ but is “moving
closer each day to a theocracy.’ It spells out the reasons why they should step
down before the 2008 election. The Call’s list of signers includes Gore Vidal,
Harold Pinter, Cindy Sheehan, Kurt Vonnegut, Jonathan Kozol, Jane Fonda, and
Cornell West.
The
Call ends with the point that ‘history is full of examples where people who had
right on their side fought against tremendous odds and were victorious’ but it
is also ‘full of examples of people passively hoping to wait it out, only to
get swallowed up by a horror beyond which they never imagined.’ The ad calls
for a nationwide action intended to ‘drown out’ Bush’s State of the Union
address in January. This will consist of local actions as well as a national
demonstration in Washington D.C. on the Saturday following the State
of the Union Address.
Selected signers
of the ad are available for interviews.
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