Excerpt of a letter from a Fordham University Student on October 5th.
This madness has to stop. Below is The Call, their call to all citizens to realize the criminality of this Bush regime. October 5, 2006 they plan to have a nation-wide DAY OF RESISTANCE. A shutdown to demonstrate a change must be made in our administration! Read The Call, read October 5- A DAY OF RESISTANCE….holla at me. Let’s do our part!
So the story goes that while attending the Millions More Movement in D.C. Oct. 15 2005, I met this group called “The World Can’t Wait: Drive Out the Bush Regime!” I talked to them, figured they was just another radical group without a true cause, & kept it moving. Then a couple months lata they followed up with me, & peeked my interest. Then when I saw Alice Walker and Howard Zinn (among many others) co-signed their declaration of purpose (The Call) and I started paying attention to what they do. Then I saw they have a concrete organization & MOBLIZATION plan they had me. Then I thought very hard about the Bush Administration since 2000. This is what I came up with:
1. The robbbery of 2000 election; the Florida mess
2. The Patriot Act attacking our civil liberities
3. The “War on Terror”
4. A war in Afganistan to find Al-Queda & Osama because they’re the problem
5. Then a war in Iraq because now Saddam & Weapons of Mass Destruction are the real problem
6. Haliburton- Cheney (nuff said)
7. Libby scandal-Cheney & Karl Rove (nuff said)
8. Valerie Plane- appearantly Cheney (probably Rove; nuff said)
9. Hurricane Katrina- The FEMA mess= government mess= executive branch mess
10. House of Representatives vote to cut social programs
11. Trillions spent on “War on Terror”
12. Medicare/Medicaid co-payment mess (leaving thousand severely ill without their medication)
13. Tom Delay- R Speaker of the House stealing money (nuff said)
14. Gay marriage in 2004 election being a real issue????? (nuff said)
15. 2006- So what happen to those WMD?????
16. 2006- So why are we still in Iraq??????
17. Wiretapping
18. Violating international human rights laws with torture in Guantanamo Bay
19. Immigration law- how da fuck immigrants from 3rd World or povery come here to suffer low-wages & no health care just because they want to feed their family become felons????? how da fuck is that against the law???? wut about the fucking companies that hire them? whose the bigger fuckin felon?????
20. Now reports from Newsweek say the government collected over 10,000 phone calls from major phone companies SBC and AT&T. So now these muthafuckas are tracking your calls without warrants. THATS FUCKING ILLEGAL!!!!!.
21. WHAT’S OUR SOLUTION TO THE GLOBAL WARMING PROBLEM????
22. WHAT’S EVER HAPPENED TO FIXING SOCIAL SECURITY????
So……. I decided there’s a problem. Then I said, “what I am I doing to solve this problem.” If I care about people (not just Black, not just Latino, but PEOPLE; HUMAN LIFE) don’t I have to take a stand. It is not enuff just to talk about it, I need to DO something about it! So i’m now becoming more active in the World Can’t Wait movement. This madness has to stop. Below is The Call, their call to all citizens to realize the criminality of this Bush regime. October 5, 2006 they plan to have a nation-wide DAY OF RESISTANCE. A shutdown to demonstrate a change must be made in our administration! Read The Call, read October 5- A DAY OF RESISTANCE. And if you down click the link, or holla at me. Let’s do our part!
Peace, Knowledge, & Righteousness
The Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime
Your government, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a murderous and utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries in their sights.
Your government is openly torturing people, and justifying it.
Your government puts people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing them lawyers, and either holding them indefinitely or deporting them in the dead of night.
Your government is moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule.
Your government suppresses the science that doesn’t fit its religious, political and economic agenda, forcing present and future generations to pay a terrible price.
Your government is moving to deny women here, and all over the world, the right to birth control and abortion.
Your government enforces a culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance.
People look at all this and think of Hitler ( and they are right to do so. 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.
Millions and millions are deeply disturbed and outraged by this. They recognize the need for a vehicle to express this outrage, yet they cannot find it; politics as usual cannot meet the enormity of the challenge, and people sense this.
There is not going to be some magical “pendulum swing.” People who steal elections and believe they’re on a “mission from God” will not go without a fight.
There is not going to be some savior from the Democratic Party. This whole idea of putting our hopes and energies into “leaders” who tell us to seek common ground with fascists and religious fanatics is proving every day to be a disaster, and actually serves to demobilize people.
But silence and paralysis are NOT acceptable. That which you will not resist and mobilize to stop, you will learn ( or be forced ( to accept. There is no escaping it: the whole disastrous course of this Bush regime must be STOPPED. And we must take the responsibility to do it.
And there is a way. 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. 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. We, in our millions, must and can take responsibility to change the course of history.
Acting in this way, we join with and give support and heart to people all over the globe who so urgently need and want this regime to be stopped.
This will not be easy. If we speak the truth, they will try to silence us. If we act, they will try to stop us. But we speak for the majority, here and around the world, and as we get this going we are going to reach out to the people who have been so badly fooled by Bush and we are NOT going to stop.
The point is this: history is full of examples where people who had right on their side fought against tremendous odds and were victorious. And it is also full of examples of people passively hoping to wait it out, only to get swallowed up by a horror beyond what they ever imagined. The future is unwritten. WHICH ONE WE GET IS UP TO US.
The World Can’t Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime!