The Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime!

Posted on July 26, 2006
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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.

Sign the Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime:

This call is not a petition, but a commitment to change the course of history.

Sign now!

Email the Call to ten of your friends

Download PDF flier

Online Teach-In

View Signers

Why I Signed the Call: 

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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.

Endorsers of the Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime Include:

Imam Talib Abdur-Rashid, Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood

James Abourezk

Mumia Abu-Jamal

ACT UP, NYC

Pam Africa
Vincente Alba, Laborers Union Local 108, New York

Allison Aimee
Aris Anagnos
Anti-Flag
Arab American Community Coalition
Carlos Arango, Director, Casa Aztlan*

Edward Asner
Axis of Justice
Rosa Ayala, Justice for Janitors*

Russell Banks
Father Luis Barrios, Iglesia San Romero de Las Americas, NYC

Rev. Willie Barrow, Women Connecting*

Ed Begley Jr.
Harry Belafonte
Medea Benjamin
Dave Berenson, Cleveland US Green Party

Michael Berg, anti-war activist

Jessica Blank, writer & actor

William Blum
Joan Bokaer, founder, Theocracy Watch

Blase Bokaer, author

Bob Bossie, SCJ, 8th Day Center for Justice*

Father Roy Bourgeois

St. Clair Bourne, filmmaker

Elombe Brath, Patrice Lumumba Coalition, NYC

Catharina Breinhold, musician with Nina Hagen

Carol Brightman, author of Total Insecurity

Dennis Brutus, Center for the Study of Human Rights

Gabriel Byrne
Campus Anti-War Network (CAN)

Rosemary Candelario, pro-choice activist

Tim Carpenter, dir., Progressive Democrats of America

Chicago ADAPT
CHOICE USA
Ward Churchill
Margaret Cho
Ward Churchill
Citizens For Legitimate Government
Kate Clinton
David Cobb, 2004 Green Party Pres. Candidate

Code Pink: Women for Peace
Gerry Cohen, Hollywood Director

US Rep. John Conyers Jr.
Harry T. Cook II, Recor, St. Andrews Episcopal Church

Irwin Corey, comedian

Carlos Cornier, percussionist, Funadesi, Old Town School of Folk

Barry Crimmins, Air America contributor & correspondent

Chris Crutcher, children’s book author

Culture Clash
Charles W. Dahm, Pastor, St. Pius V, Chicago

Chris Daly, SF Board of Supervisors

DC Anti-War Network
Rev. Greg Dell, Broadway United Methodist Church

Democrats.com
John Densmore
Jesse Díaz Jr.
Diane DiPrima, beat poet

Carl Dix, Revolutionary Communist Party

Leonard Dominguez, Candidate for Cook County Commissioner, IL

Dominican Women’s Development Center
Ariel Dorfman, writer

Tom Duane, NY State Senator

Michael Eric Dyson
Steve Earle
Niles Eldredge, curator of Natural History Museum

Edwin Ellis, President of Veterans for Peace, LA*

Daniel Ellsberg, author of The Pentagon Papers

Eve Ensler
Martin Espada, poet

Michelle Esrick, actress, filmmaker

Donelle Estey, Artists Against the War

Christian Ettinger, ex. producer of The Weather Underground
Jodie Evans, Code Pink

Samina Faheem Fundas, American Muslim Voice*

Nina Felshin, curator, writer

Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Ralph Fertig, president of Humanitarian Law Project

Rev. John Fife
Jane Fonda
Barbara Forrest, prof. Southeastern Louisiana Univ. (testified in Dover against
intelligent design)

Francis Fox Piven
Michael Franti, musician

Aaron Freeman, comedian

reg e. gaines, poet & playwright

Martin Garbus, attorney

Deborah Glick, NY State Assemblywoman

Global Justice and Peace Ministries, Riverside Church
Frances Goldin, literary agent

Bill Goodman, Center for Constitutional Rights

Sam Greenlee, filmmaker & poet

André Gregory, theater director

Andy Griggs, Exec. Board of United Teachers of LA

Jose Guerrero, artist & muralist, Chicago

Lawrence Guyot, former SNCC member and former Chairman of the Mississippi
Freedom Democratic Party

Nina Hagen, singer, “mother of punk”

Paul Haggis, film director, “Crash”

Haitian Coalition for Justice
Sam Hamill, Poets Against War*

Suheir Hammad, poet

Kathleen Hanna, Le Tigre

David Harris, writer, founder of The Resistance*

Stephen Hays, Board of Woodstock Film Festival

John Heard, actor

Jon Hendricks, artist

Jon Hendrix, jazz singer/lyricist

Hermandad Mexicana
Warren Hern, MD, MPH, PhD, dir. Boulder Abortion Clinic

Eric Hilton, musician, Theivery Corporation

Hip Hop Caucus
Merle Hoffman
Rev. Robert M. Hollum, pastor, Lutheran Place

Dorothy Hoobler, author

Marie Howe, poet & writer

Impeach Bush Coalition
Mesha Monge Irizarry, Idriss Stelley Foundation

Abdeen Jabara, past pres., American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Com.*

Rev. Jesse L. Jackson
Ron Jacobs, writer

Bianca Jagger, actress & activist

Dahr Jamail, independent journalist

Pramila Jayapal, Exec. Dir., Hate Free Zone Washington

Alan Jones, Dean of Faculty, Pitzer College*

Bill T. Jones, choreographer

Rickie Lee Jones
Sarah Jones, poet & actor

Esther Kaplan, author of With God On Their Side

Brig. Gen. (ret) Janis Karpinski
Casey Kasem
Jeff Key, Iraq war veteran and writer, “The Eyes of Babylon”

Ali Khan, America Muslim Council

Margot Kidder, actress

C. Clark Kissinger
Frances Kissling, president, Catholics for a Free Choice*

Yuri Kochiyama
Rev. Earl Kooperkamp, St. Mary’s Episcopal Church

Ron Kovic, author & Vietnam Veteran

Joyce Kozloff, artist

Jonathan Kozol
Reona Kumagai, Pres. of Princeton Students for Sensible Drug Policy

Jim Lafferty, Exec. Director of the NLG of LA

Ray Laforest, organizer DC 1707 AFSCME, member Pacifica National Board

Beth Lamont
Jessica Lange, actress

Lewis Lapham, former editor of Harpers

Mark Leno, CA State Assemblyman
Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor, Tikkun magazine

James Levin, co-director, Cleveland Festival of Arts & Technology
(Ingenuity)

Philip Levine, poet, Pulitzer Prize winner

Simon Levy, dir., What I Heard About Iraq

Toby Devan Lewis
Bruce Lincoln, prof., History of Religion, Univ. of Chicago

Margarita Lopez, NY City Council Member
Alberto Lovera, Bolivian Circle New York

George Lois
Haki R. Madhubuti, publisher, Third World Press

Devorah Major, poet & novelist

Make the Road by Walking
Mike Malloy, syndicated radio talk show host

Lucinda Marshall, founder, Feminist Peace Network*

Bill Martin, philosopher

Bill Martinez, attorney, producer (Audioslave concert in Cuba)

Luis Matos, union organizer, 1199

Father Matthius, Pastor, St. Pius V, Chicago

Malachy McCourt, actor & author

US Rep. Cynthia McKinney
Peter McLaren, UCLA Prof.

Ellen McLaughlin, actress & playwright

Camilo Majia, conscientious objector

Rosie Mendez, New York City Council

Dave Meserve, Arcata, CA City Council member

Allen Michaan, owner, Grand Lake Theater, Oakland, CA

Carol Migden, CA State Senator

Carly Miller, Clothing of the American Mind

Mark Crispin Miller
Millions More Movement, Pittsburg/Antioch CA org.

Ross Markarimi
Bill Mitchell, co-founder of Gold Star Families for Peace*

Leon Mobley, musician

Alderman Joe Moore, Chicago’s City Council

Tom Morello, Audioslave

Tracie Morris, poet

Viggo Mortensen
Andrew Mu-ana, Images Sal-n, East LA

Roger Mumford, Forefront Homes LLC

Andrew Munana, Images Salon

Steve Murphy, editor of Tales of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Cecil Murray, retired Minister First AME Church, LA

Craig Murray, former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan

National Lawyers Guild, National Office

Amando Navarro, Chair of Ethnic Studies, UC Riverside

Network in Solidarity with the People of the Philippines
Bill Nevins
Northwestern College Feminists
Not In Our Name
Mike and Julie Nussbaum
Susan Nussbaum
Efia Nwangaza, national co-chair, Jericho Movement

Brian O’Leary, PhD, author, former astronaut

Bertell Ollman, prof., Dept. of Politics, NYU

R. Tomas Olmos, Pres., Mexican-American BA Found., LA County

Barbara Olshansky, Center for Constitutional Rights

E. Rendel Osburn, Southern Christian Leadership Foundation

Outernational
Chris Owens, Congressional candidate

US Rep. Major Owens
Ozomatli
Jose Padilla, exec. Dir., CA Rural Legal Assistance*

Christina Page, author of How The Pro-Choice Movement Saved America

Grace Paley, writer

Patrick Henry Democratic Club
Harvey Pekar, American Splendor cartoonist

Sean Penn
Bill Perkins, New York City Council

Rosalind Petchesky, author, Abortion and a Woman’s Choice

Peter Phillips, Project Censored, Soc. Dept. Sonoma State Univ.

Jeremy Pikser, screenwriter, Bulworth

Harold Pinter
Sterling Plumpp, poet

Port Townsend Peace Movement
Kevin Powell, writer

Progressive Democrats of America
Francine Prose, novelist

Puerto Rican Nationalist Party – New York Branch
Queers for Economic Justice
Jerry Quickley, poet & playwright

Malik Rahim, New Orleans Community Organizer

Victor Toro Ramirez, activista en el Sur del Bronx

Michael Ratner, Center for Constitutional Rights*

Reach Hip Hop Coalition
Raghava Reddy, stem cell biologist, filmmaker

Maggie Renzi, filmmaker, producer

Eric Resnick, Gay Peopl’s Chronicle* reporter

Allan Rich, screenwriter & actor

Walter Riley, lawyer

Boots Riley, The Coup

Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector

Dennis Rivera
Rhadames Rivera, 1199 SEIU Vice President

Stephen F. Rhode, Attorney

Joshua Rosenblum, Composer, Dir. of Bush is Bad

Mark Ruffalo, actor

US Rep. Bobby Rush
Douglas Rushkoff, author

Stafan Sagmeister, graphic designer

Kalamu Salaam, Listen to the People

Angelica Salas, exec. dir. CHIRLA

JD Samson, Le Tigre
San Francisco Bay View Newspaper
Sonia Sanchez, poet

Rev. Henry Sanders, Fountain of Life Missionary Baptist Church
Sapphire, poet & writer

Susan Sarandon
John Sayles, filmmaker

James Schamus
Sheley Secrest, attorney, Pres. of NAACP Seattle-King County
Rinku Sen, Colorlines*

Rafael Sencion, Sec. Gen., Congreso Nacional Dominicano

Richard Serra, sculptor
Stephen Shapiro, professor

Rev. Al Sharpton
Lou Shaw, writer, creator of Quincy MD

Cindy Sheehan, Gold Star Families for Peace

Martin Sheen
Stanley Sheinbaum, economist

Michael Steven Smith, writer, lawyer, & radio host

Gary Soto, children’s book author

Nancy Spero, artist

Dona Spring, Berkeley City Council member

Gloria Steinem
Lynne Stewart, attorney

Jed Stone, attorney
Fernando Suarez del Solar, Guerrera Azteca Project, father
of US marine killed in Iraq war

Malcolm Suber, People’s Hurricane Relief Fund

David Swanson, After Downing Street

Serj Tankian
Jonathan Tasini
Mark Lewis Taylor, Princeton Theological Seminary

Sunsara Taylor, Revolution newspaper

Studs Terkel
Juan Torres
Marrianne Torres, Peace & Justice Action League, Spokane*

Dwight Trible, jazz vocalist

Mark Trumeo
George Tuttle & Ben Cushman, grapegrowers

Gore Vidal
Kurt Vonnegut
Mike Vorndran, pres. of Stonewall Young Democrats

Alice Walker
Naomi Wallace
Lt. Ehren Watada
US Rep. Maxine Waters
Wavy Gravy
Leonard Weinglass, attorney
Rev. Dave Weissbard, Unitarian Universalist Church,
Rockford, IL

Timberlake Werternbaker, playwright
Cornel West

Rev. Phil Wheaton, Co-pastor, Community of Christ, Wash. DC

Susan Wicklund, abortion provider
Joan Wile, Dir. of Grandmothers Against War

Saul Williams, poet

Standish E. Willis, Nat. Conf. of Black Lawyers
S. Brian Wilson, Veterans for Peace

Krzysztof Wodiczko, artist

Ann Wright, former US
diplomat

Daphne Wysham, Institute for Policy Studies

Peter Yarrow
Leeland Y. Yee, Speaker pro Tem, CA State Assembly
Juanita Young, October 22nd Coalition*
David Zeiger, filmmaker, Sir, No Sir!

Zephyr, graffiti artist & writer

Robert Zevin, Robert Brooke Zevin Associates, Inc.

Howard Zinn
Dave Zirin, What’s My Name, Fool? Sports & Resistance in
the US
*Affiliation for idenitification purposes only 

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