Andy Worthington | August 8, 2023 On Wednesday (August 2), the latest monthly coordinated vigils for the closure of Guantánamo took place in seven locations worldwide — London, Washington, D.C., New York…
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In Memoriam: Sharon Pavlovich 1940-2015
World Can’t Wait | April 29, 2015 Our beloved friend Sharon Pavlovich died April 20, a stalwart of World Can’t Wait since the Bush regime years; a thinker, human rights proponent, teacher……and…
In Memoriam: Aubrey Brown
Memorial Statement from the National Office of World Can’t Wait | March 16, 2015 Some of us in World Can’t Wait have known Aubrey for many years and have run into him…
In Memoriam – Bea Johnson
Last week a long-time activist with World Can’t Wait in the San Francisco Bay Area passed away after a prolonged illness. Bertha “Bea” Johnson was a respected and loved part of the…
In Memoriam: Gore Vidal
Our friend Gore Vidal died last evening at his home in Los Angeles at the age of 86. He was a prolific writer, a fierce and sarcastic critic of what he saw…
What Do the Torture Memos Mean?
Take the World Can’t Wait survey: World Can’t Wait wants to know what you think about the Torture Memos released April 16, 2009, and the controversy over prosecution of those in the…
Afghanistan Was Never the “Good War”
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. BlackCommentator.com Executive Editor Sometimes I feel like I am reliving the era of President Lyndon B. Johnson. The era of ‘guns and butter,’ as they called…
Some Reasons People are Signing the Letter to the Anti-War Movement
Los Angeles, CA I am fed up with this war economy which has sunk this country into the depths of depression. Out of Iraq! Out of Afghanistan! Learn from the past and…
Where will you be on March 19th, anniversary of the invasion of Iraq?
Stop US Occupations and Torture for Empire; US Out of Iraq and Afghanistan! No Wars on Iran, Pakistan, Gaza! The World Can’t Wait! Come out to the first national protest of the…
Remembering Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter – “Is Our Conscience Dead?”
by Ann Wright On the news today of the death of Harold Pinter, the winner of the 2005 Nobel Prize for Literature, I remembered hearing his Nobel Laureate lecture/acceptance speech. I was…