RESCUE, NOT REPRESSION!
THE WORLD CAN’T WAIT! DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME!
World Can’t Wait Demands:
1) All the people still in New Orleans
and the other devastated areas must be immediately and safely rescued and
evacuated before any more needless deaths occur due to government criminal
negligence. The massive resources of government–the ships, helicopters,
and transport planes–must be immediately put at the disposal of the rescue
effort.
2) The people should be housed in decent places and their needs
must be immediately met.
3) People who are attempting to meet their basic needs must
NOT be shot down or arrested! Bush’s Azero tolerance orders must be
withdrawn immediately. Government should meet all expenses involved in
getting food, water, medicine, and other basic needs to people immediately.
4) The censorship of people in New
Orleans and other devastated areas must immediately
cease, and people must be allowed to tell what is actually going on.
5) The full truth of what happened and how this came to be,
including the deep responsibility of the Bush administration, must be
immediately made known, and those responsible up to the very highest levels
must be held accountable.
6) Volunteer rescuers should be assisted and supported, and
not repressed by government agencies, police, and national guard.
People are dying on the streets of New
Orleans. This is criminal! The natural
disaster of Hurricane Katrina was magnified by the culpability of the Bush
administration and Congress for cutting $71 million from the budget for levees
and for other environmental policies that contributed to the devastating floods
that were predicted and could have been prevented. Scientists agree that global
warning has had a direct impact on the severity of this hurricane. The
Bush Regime has refused repeatedly to sign the Kyoto Protocols to stop global
warming.
Bush’s callous refusal to end his vacation even as the
hurricane was killing people and the terrible devastation was happening is
outrageous. What is going on in New Orleans is in no small part a
concentrated example of how this administration views and treats Black people,
thousands of whom were left without the resources to evacuate, and were not
immediately rescued.
Billions of dollars and huge resources, including massive
transport and medical capabilities, are being devoted to slaughtering people in
Iraq, while
people are dying in New Orleans for
lack of these same resources.