Monday, October 31, 2005
A Call for Everyone, and Especially People Dispersed from New Orleans, to Act on Nov 2nd to Drive Out the Bush Regime by Malik Rahim, Common Ground Collective, New Orleans
I urge everybody who sees the horrors that the Bush regime is inflicting on the country and the world, and the even greater horrors they have in store for the future, to join in making the mobilization on Nov 2nd–Drive Out The Bush Regime, The World Can’t Wait–as powerful as possible. Bush & co. showed their true colors with their actions and inactions in New Orleans before, during and after Hurricane Katrina. The Bush administration weakened the levees in the months leading up to the hurricane. They refused to evacuate people once it was clear the hurricane was going to hit New Orleans hard. After the Hurricane, they failed to rescue people whose lives were at risk or provide the food and water 1000’s of people, most of them Black, needed to survive. They blocked others from volunteering to provide these necessities. And when people in New Orleans organized themselves to go out and get the food, water and medicine they and others needed to survive, Bush called for zero tolerance for what he called looting. These criminal actions are completely in line with everything Bush & co. have done since they came into power. From waging war on Iraq based on lies, to torturing people and detaining people without trial around the world, and in this country. And they have even more horrible things in store for us and the world, if they’re not stopped. These are scary times, and I’m not somebody who scares easily. They are times when it is urgent that people act. A lot of people are disturbed by what the Bush regime is doing and need some way to express their feelings. But they cannot find it in the politics that are usually practiced in the US. People need to step out, take to the streets and resist. As the Call for Nov 2nd puts it: “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.” All this is why I am calling on people everywhere who hate injustice to get involved in mobilizing many more people to get involved in Nov 2nd. I especially urge those who have been displaced from New Orleans to all parts of the country. We must take our anger at what Bush and the rest of them did to our city. We must take the story of New Orleans into the actions on Nov 2nd to give them added
strength and determination. Do this for the people of Iraq, for the people of New Orleans, and for yourselves.
On Nov 2, 2005 — THE WORLD CAN’T WAIT – DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME!