By Debra Sweet It’s inescapable to much of the world. Barack Obama is expanding troops going into the 8 years of US occupation of Afghanistan, and expanding a largely secret, ongoing CIA war…
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Debra Sweet is the Director of World Can’t Wait, initiated in 2005 to “drive out the Bush regime” by repudiating its program, forcing it from office through a mass, independent movement and reversing the direction it had launched. Based in New York City, she leads World Can’t Wait in its continuing efforts to stop the crimes of our government, including the unjust occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan and the torture and detention codes, as well as reversing the fascist direction of U.S. society, from the surveillance state to the criminalization of abortion and immigrants. She has worked with abortion providers for twenty-five years, organizing community support and helping them withstand anti-abortion violence. Since the age of 19, when she confronted Richard Nixon during a face-to-face meeting and told him to stop the war in Vietnam, she has been a leader in the opposition to U.S. wars and invasions. Debra says, “Stop thinking like an American, and start thinking about humanity!”
She can be reached at debrasweet (at) worldcantwait.org. You can read her writings at debra.worldcantwait.net.
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A Week of Intense Activity: A Challenge to Carry it Further
By Debra Sweet Tuesday I was on Anti-war Radio with Scott Horton and Angela Keaton. As an announcement for the show read, “Debra Sweet, Director of World Can’t Wait, discusses the post-Obama…
Afghanistan: A Free Country – For Invaders and Rapists
By Debra Sweet How can the US military save Afghan women, when 1 in 3 of its own female members are raped by their fellow soldiers and Marines? I was in…
October 7: Protesting of 8 years of War, Occupation of Afghanistan
By Debra Sweet Rush hour commuters mixed with more than 100 people protesting 8 years of US occupation of Afghanistan at Grand Central Terminal Wednesday evening. World Can’t Wait staged two wedding…
In the Nobel Peace Prize for War Makers Department
By Debra Sweet Barack Obama just joined the esteemed company of other US winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, notorious peace-niks Henry Kissinger and Theodore Roosevelt. What do you think about…
News From the Protest Front
By Debra Sweet Viewing all the news coverage today on yesterday’s 500-strong protest at the White House, I’m struck by how effective it was. Reporters on the way to the daily briefing…
Washington D.C.: 500 Protest Unjust War, Dozens Arrested
By Debra Sweet Today, October 5, World Can’t Wait joined with Cindy Sheehan and others from National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance, Witness Against Torture, Activist Response Team, Vets for Peace, Code Pink…
What Kind of Surge Do You Want?
Bombs and troops? Or righteous resistance? By Debra Sweet Saturday night I was out on the Ellipse with the Eyes Wide Open exhibit, originally put together by the American Friends Service…
Two Protests, Six Weeks Apart
by Debra Sweet August, 2009, in Portsmouth New Hampshire, an armed protester threatens to "water the tree of liberty" with the blood of tyrants and patriots. September, 2009, in Pittsburgh,…
Fuel A Surge of Resistance
By Debra Sweet On Oct 5 & 6 World Can’t Wait invites you to respond to Obamas’ surge of troops to Afghanistan by fueling a surge of resistance that will reignite and…