A World
Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime ALERT
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 21, 2008
www.worldcantwait.org
Adela Rios (347) 385 2195
National Anti-Bush Administration Group Protests at
Democratic Convention in Denver
The World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the
Bush Regime is in Denver
to unite with protests at the Democratic National
Convention. Their message is “The Whole
World is Waiting for You to Do What Your Government Will Not: Stop the Criminal
Bush Program.”
The national organization is uniting
with Denver-based groups who have been preparing protests since 2007, and has
the following six day schedule, which will be updated at worldcantwait.org:
Saturday August 23: Abortion Without Apology:
pro-choice expressions versus anti-abortion protests. The World Can’t Wait and Denver pro-choice activists will represent
majority sentiments in favor of birth control and abortion. 9am. Planned Parenthood Clinic 7155 E. 38th
Avenue, 12:00 noon Civic Center Park; 1:00 pm Pepsi Center; 6:00 pm Skyline
Park.
Sunday August 24: 9:00 West steps of Capitol: Mass
anti-war rally with anti-war leaders Cindy Sheehan & Ron Kovic, followed by
a march to the Pepsi
Center. Permits for the march, after a court battle,
stop 1/3 mile short of the Center. The
city of Denver
has erected a “designated protest zone” which protesters call a “cage”.
7:00 pm World Can’t Wait hosts an Evening of
Conscience: NO War on Iran! Ron Kovic, Cindy Sheehan, Jeremy Scahill,
Sunsara Taylor, Phil Aliff of Iraq Veterans Against the War, and Vietnam
veteran singer Tom Chelton. Cleo Parker
Robinson Dance Theater, 119 Park
Avenue West.
Monday August 25: [photo op] 9:00 am: A professionally
staged waterboarding demonstration presented by World Can’t Wait as part of the
protest for “Human Rights Day.” Aimed at the systematic denial of habeas corpus
to detainees under the seven year war on terror, other activists will form an “Orange jumpsuit contingent” in protest of the Bush
administration’s practice of torture & secret rendition.
3:00pm World Can’t Wait Board member Sunsara Taylor
will speak at the opening of a concert at Civic Center
Park.
7:00 pm “Barack Obama and Iran: Anti-War Candidate? Or
New Face, Same Empire?” Presentation and discussion at Phoenician Kabob
Restaurant, 5709 E. Colfax Avenue
Tuesday August 26: 7:00 pm Film: Iran is Not the
Problem. One hour documentary examining
the history of US threats to Iran.
Mercury Café, 2199 California
Street.
Wednesday August 27: 11:00 am Concert at Denver Coliseum with Rage Against the Machine.
Thursday August 28: 9:00 am Immigrants Rights March Rudy
Park, 2855 W. Howard Place. March to Lincoln Park (West 12th Avenue
& Mariposa Street.)
2:00 pm: March to INVESCO Mile High Stadium from Lincoln Park. Inside and outside of the stadium, the
message NO War on Iran will
be expressed by people wearing ORANGE.
Events subject to some change, depending on the level
of interference with basic expression of free speech displayed by the US Secret
Service, and the City of Denver
in policing the protests.
SPEAKER Biographies
Ron Kovic is an anti-war activist, veteran and
writer who was paralyzed in the Vietnam War.
He was a decorated U.S. Marine who served two tours of duty in the
Vietnam War, where he was awarded the Bronze Star with “V” device for valor and
the Purple Heart. He is best known as
the author of the memoir Born on the Fourth of July, which was made into
an Academy Award-winning movie directed by Oliver Stone, with Tom Cruise
playing Kovic. Kovic received the Golden
Globe Award for Best Screenplay on January 20, 1990, exactly 22 years to the
day that he was shot and paralyzed in the Vietnam War. “I strongly and enthusiastically support your
call to march at the Democratic National Convention in Denver this August and encourage everyone to
join in these important and historic actions,” Kovic states. “The time has come to put away our
differences and join in building the most powerful and united anti war movement
possible. War is not the answer. Violence is not the solution. A more peaceful
world is possible!”
Cindy Sheehan (http://www.cindyforcongress.org/)
is the internationally renowned “Peace Mom,” who emerged as an antiwar leader
following the April 4, 2004 death of her eldest child, Casey Austin, who was
serving in the Army in Iraq. She founded Gold Star Families for Peace in
January 2005, and her August 2005 encampment outside President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas
galvanized antiwar sentiment nationally and drew global attention. Since then Cindy has spoken in countries
around the world, met with foreign leaders, written three books, and been
nominated (in 2005) for the Nobel Peace Prize.
She is currently running as an independent for the Congressional seat
now held by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Debra Sweet is the Director of World Can’t
Wait, with a long history of challenging US presidents over wars of
aggression. Debra leads a movement which
has helped make the Bush regime synonymous with the terms “war crimes” and
“crimes against humanity” while organizing national street protests, ads in The
New York Times and USA Today, and whose work against US sponsored torture
was called the “most valuable crusade” by The Nation magazine in
2007. Her latest article on the Denver protests is “Gitmo on the Platte”(http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4861&Itemid=265)
Sunsara Taylor is a member of the World Can’t Wait
Advisory Board and a writer for Revolution Newspaper (www.revcom.us). Her recent polemic against The Nation
magazine’s support for Obama (“On The Nation’s Open Letter to Obama: Wishful
Thinking and Deadly Self-Deception” http://revcom.us/a/139/Nation-en.html)
was widely posted on the web. She co-hosts WBAI’s “atheist” radio show, “Equal Time
for Free Thought,” and has appeared on CNN’s Showbiz Tonight, Air America
radio, and many other programs.
Following one of her appearances on The O”Reilly Factor, NewsHounds.us remarked “Taylor, as always, was tough and confident
telling [O”Reilly] all the truths that drive him crazy.” Sunsara helped organize the protests at the
2004 RNC in New York City, which was she was
featured in the The New York Times (“The Republicans: the Convention in New York – Night Life; At Midnight,
Protesters Turn Poets and Dreamers,” Julie Salamon, August 31, 2004).
Elaine Brower is the outspoken mother of a US
Marine who served in Afghanistan
and Iraq.
She is a leader of The World Can’t Wait-Drive Out the Bush Regime and of
several groups of military families and veterans/active duty military. She has appeared on “Good Morning America,” “Fox
& Friends,” Ashaki TV, NOVA TV, BBC’s “Morning Show,” and “The Montel
Williams Show,” advocating for the removal of the Bush Regime and an immediate
end to the occupation of Iraq & Aghanistan. She has been featured in
numerous New York
area newspapers, as well as national radio talk shows, and writes at Op-Ed
News. Her son is shipping back to Iraq for another tour within weeks.
Larry Everest (www.larryeverest.com) is the author
of Oil, Power & Empire: Iraq
and the U.S. Global Agenda (Common
Courage 2004), which Dan Ellsberg calls “remarkable, horrifying, brilliantly
illuminating,” and of Behind the Poison Cloud: Union Carbide’s Bhopal Massacre. He has covered the Middle East and Central
Asia for over 25 years for Revolution newspaper and other publications,
reporting from Iran, Iraq, Palestine
and India. He was an organizer of the 2005-2006
Commission of Inquiry Into Crimes Against Humanity by the Bush Administration
and is a contributor to Impeach the President – the Case Against Bush and
Cheney from 7 Stories Press. He has
appeared on NPR, Democracy Now, Book TV, and many other radio, TV, and print
outlets across the country. His recent
KPFA radio debate with author Norman Solomon on Obama can be heard at: http://www.kpfa.org/archives/index.php?arch=27718. Larry’s recent articles can be found at www.revcom.us including his extensive coverage of
the danger of war on Iran,
which he”ll be speaking on at a forum in Denver
on Monday, August 25 at 7pm at the Phoenician Kabob Restaurant (on Colfax and Ivy).
Dr. Dennis Loo (dennisloo.blogspot.com) is
co-editor of Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush & Cheney from
Seven Stories Press. A professor of
sociology at Cal State University Pomona, Loo is on the national Steering
Committee of The World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime.
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