HUNDREDS OF PRO-WAR BIKERS DESCENDING ON BERKELEY RECRUITING STATION

PRESS ADVISORY

THE WORLD CAN’T WAIT – DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME!

For Immediate Release Thursday June 19, 2008

Local Contact:  Linda Jacobs  415-240-5801 or 415-410-4484


National Contact:  Debra Sweet, National World Can’t Wait Director:
866-973-4463

Interviews Available; Photo Op on site


Where:     U.S. Marine Corps Recruitment Station              

                 64 Shattuck Square, Berkeley (near University Ave.)

When:      Saturday, June 21, 2008

                Time:  9:00 AM – 2:00 PM

What:       Mass Non-Violent Rally & Demonstration

Berkeley,
CA – June 18 – In response to the City of Berkeley’s massive outpouring
of resistance to the war and military recruiters this past spring,
hundreds of pro-war bikers will be coming to the Berkeley Marine
Recruiting Station for a “support the troops” rally. 

Anti-war groups and residents, responding to a call for action
from the organization “World Can’t Wait! Drive Out The Bush Regime!”
are planning a massive non-violent rally and demonstration of their
own. They will be at the recruiting center all day, intending to tap
into and strengthen Berkeley’s anti-war sentiment, showing determined
and public opposition to pro-war forces aiming to intimidate this
opposition, and sending an example of resistance to the rest of the
country. 

WCW organizer Giovanni Jackson states, “The reason there has been
such a right-wing backlash to the anti-recruitment activity in Berkeley
is because it’s posing a direct threat to the implementation of this
illegal and immoral war.  Without the ability to coerce children, as
young as 13 in some cases, to murder, rape and torture innocent
civilians, this war machine will be much harder to operate.”  



The actions in Berkeley have received international attention, and
have sparked similar anti-recruitment actions across the nation.
Despite the Berkeley City Council’s recanting on their original
resolution calling Marine recruiters “unwelcome intruders” in the city,
the recruitment station has remained a fault-line underlying the larger
question of war in the Middle East and the Bush program at large.


World Can’t Wait is calling forth the reservoir of anti-war sentiment
to step forward and shut down Marine recruiting stations nationwide in
the face of these pro-war forces who have in the past held signs such
as, “Waterboard the Liberals” and “Hang Traitors”.
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Steph,
This is the release…do I have the correct National
Office press email here? DON’T REPLY TO THIS EMAIL…I check the other
one primarily.

PRESS ADVISORY

THE WORLD CAN’T WAIT – DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME!
For Immediate Release Thursday June 19, 2008
Local Contact:  Linda Jacobs  415-240-5801 or 415-410-4484

National Contact:  Debra Sweet, National World Can’t Wait Director: 866-973-4463

Interviews Available; Photo Op on site


Where:     U.S. Marine Corps Recruitment Station
                
                 64 Shattuck Square, Berkeley (near University Ave.)

When:      Saturday, June 21, 2008
                Time:  9:00 AM – 2:00 PM



What:       Mass Non-Violent Rally & Demonstration

Berkeley,
CA – June 18 – In response to the City of Berkeley’s massive outpouring
of resistance to the war and military recruiters this past spring,
hundreds of pro-war bikers will be coming to the Berkeley Marine
Recruiting Station for a “support the troops” rally. 



Anti-war groups and residents, responding to a call for action
from the organization “World Can’t Wait! Drive Out The Bush Regime!”
are planning a massive non-violent rally and demonstration of their
own. They will be at the recruiting center all day, intending to tap
into and strengthen Berkeley’s anti-war sentiment, showing determined
and public opposition to pro-war forces aiming to intimidate this
opposition, and sending an example of resistance to the rest of the
country. 



WCW organizer Giovanni Jackson states, “The reason there has been
such a right-wing backlash to the anti-recruitment activity in Berkeley
is because it’s posing a direct threat to the implementation of this
illegal and immoral war.  Without the ability to coerce children, as
young as 13 in some cases, to murder, rape and torture innocent
civilians, this war machine will be much harder to operate.”  



The actions in Berkeley have received international attention, and
have sparked similar anti-recruitment actions across the nation.
Despite the Berkeley City Council’s recanting on their original
resolution calling Marine recruiters “unwelcome intruders” in the city,
the recruitment station has remained a fault-line underlying the larger
question of war in the Middle East and the Bush program at large.


World Can’t Wait is calling forth the reservoir of anti-war sentiment
to step forward and shut down Marine recruiting stations nationwide in
the face of these pro-war forces who have in the past held signs such
as, “Waterboard the Liberals” and “Hang Traitors”.