1/31: World Can't Wait State of Union Actions
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Reach Out at Area Events
Friday, Jan. 27th, 3-6PM
Camp Casey at Sepulveda/Santa Monica.
Saturday January 28th, 6:30 PM The END of OIL: Realities & Solutions of the Looming Petroleum ShortageVALLEY CITIES JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER 13164 Burbank Blvd., (between Fulton & Coldwater) Sherman Oaks $5 suggested donation 7:00 to 10:00 PM doors open 6:30 PM www.lapostcarbon.org
Sunday, Jan. 29th, 10-12noon
Join us at the Hollywood Farmers Market on Hollywood and Ivar to distribute flyers, stickers, and posters.
Sunday, January 29th, 2:00 PM Petrocollapse and Food Security at the South Central Community FarmSouth Central Community Farm 41st and Long Beach Ave. 0.3 miles north of the Blue Line Metro Vernon Station 2:00 to 5:00 PM la.indymedia.org Sunday, January 29th, 6:30 PM Petrocollapse and the Possibility for Culture ChangeThroop Memorial Unitarian Universalist Church 300 S Los Robles Pasadena, CA, 91004 0.5 miles East of the Goldline Metro Del Mar Station $5-10 suggested donation 7:00 to 10:00 PM Doors open 6:30 PM. World Cant' Wait will be presenting at this event!www.lapostcarbon.org
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Bush Step Down and Take Your Program with You!
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Sitting at home watching TV, or out in the streets demanding "BUSH STEP DOWN, and Take Your Program With You!"
The future is unwritten, the one we get is up to us. |
4 days until Bush's State of the Union address. 8 days before we protest at the White House.
Bring the Noise!
Drown Out Bush＊s Lies!
Drive Out the Bush Regime!
Tuesday, Jan 31, 5 PM
5 PM - Gather at intersection of Hollywood and Highland;
6 PM - March
7 PM - Rally in front of CNN news station at Sunset and Cahuenga
On Tuesday, January 31st, when Bush gives his State of the Union speech, 10's of thousands will gather in cities and towns across the country and drown out Bush's lies with protest. Then on Saturday February 4th, everyone will head to Washington DC to demand "Bush: Step Down, & take your program with you!" Read the Call to Action |
Take Action
Sunday, Jan. 29th, 1:00 PM LAST PLANNING MEETING for January 31st action - Peace Center, 8124 W. 3rd St. Parking in back.
Monday, Jan. 30th, Office open all day and into the night. Final push!!
Distribute Flyers and Posters (at office or download below) and attend outreach events (left column)
Tuesday, Jan 31, 5 PM - See you in the streets!
State of the Union Protest Stickers, Posters & Flyers Available
Pick Up at Office
Pick up World Can't Wait Jan. 31st State of the Union protest stickers, posters and flyers at the office at 5507 Santa Monica Blvd., #207, L.A. just west of Western Ave. The cost is $5 or more donation per 500 or $25 or more for a box of 2500. Help get these out and spread the word.
Download and Print
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Let's Decorate!
An atmosphere must be created where millions know about these protests and this movement, and see it not just once, but again and again so that each time they are further compelled that these are events they cannot sit out. They must have the feel of something happening on a scale that could really make a difference. Get big batches of flyers, posters & stickers from our office, and spread the word! You can download the flyer as well as e-mail it out broadly
Join Our Sunday Meeting
 Come to our weekly meetings (only 1 left before Jan. 31!) - Sundays, 1 pm, at the Peace Center, 8124 W. 3rd (near Crescent Heights). There will be no meeting on Feb. 5 because we'll be in DC, but everyone should come to the meeting on Sunday, Feb. 12 when we will report back from the protest and national conference in DC, sum up Jan. 31 and make plans for the next major step in driving out the Bush regime. Parking and entrance in the back, mid-block - look for the grey cement overhang with the address. Meet other World Can't Wait-ers, find out what everyone's been doing this week to build for the State of the Union protest, and help us prepare for this historic protest.
Get Ready to Drown Out Bush's Lies
What are you bringing for the cacophony of sound on Jan. 31? Drums, pots & pans, musical instruments, kazoos, voices and more are needed! Call us at 323-462-4771 with your plans.
Donations Needed!
National plans are to raise 1/2 million dollars immediately to increase the reach of BUSH STEP DOWN advertisements in Washington Post, LA Times. radios, and Cable T.V. Log onto www.worldcantwait.org for information on how to donate. Set fund raising goals, and contact us to let us know your plans.
Or send a check to:
World Can't Wait
5507 Santa Monica Blvd., #207, LA, CA 90028
Now is the time to donate 每 You are one of millions of people who hate this regime and what it is doing. Your financial support can make a huge difference in the chances of driving this regime out. We urgently need money to pay for more ads to break into the media and reach the homes and hearts of millions across the country who are looking for a way to act, to support our volunteers working full-time in our National Office and in DC, to supply millions of pieces of materials and much more. We need you to dig deep, but more than that to reach out to many others (friends, family, colleagues) who also dream of a very different world, and ask them also to give as if the future depends on it...because it does.
Donations over $100 are tax-deductible, and those checks must be made out to World Can't Wait/AGJ.
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February 4th, Washington, D.C.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 11:00 AM, Washington, DC: We will take our demand to the White House. This regime is immoral, dangerous, and criminally indictable. Bush Lied. Bush Spied. Bush Step Down. 2006. 2008. Too late. Turn your outrage into mass
A Message from Debra Sweet
I want to conclude by reminding us all about the responsibility that all of us have. It is not every day that people live through the types of events around which history pivots 每 events that are celebrated or grieved in the history books, legends and songs.
If ever there was a time for people to pour into the streets, if ever there was a moment that demanded the uncompromised resolve of many thousands soon swelling to millions, if ever there was a moment ripe for regime change 每 we are living through it.
We are planning the only response that measures up to the demands of this moment. We are aiming to lead many thousands to step right into the heart of this whole storm 每 and politically confront this regime head on. In the
Ukraine, in Argentina 每 and now here in the U.S., regime change means going to the capital. After nation-wide protests while the eyes of the world are on George Bush during his State of the Union, this is where we are bringing many thousands on February 4th. Right to the capital. Right to the seat of government. Right where we have to be to decide the way the future is going to unfold.
Once again, from our Call: ※The future is unwritten. WHICH ONE WE GET IS UP TO US.§ | |
Our Ad in Friday's NY Times was CNN's Showbiz Tonight's top story [watch]
Major New Endorsers to the Call
Gloria Steinem
Craig Murray, former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan
Dahr Jamail, independent reporter
Ted Glick, Climate Crisis Coalition
Daphne Wysham, Institute for Policy Studies
Barbara Olshansky, Center for Constitutional Rights
Cynthia McKinney, U.S. Representative, Georgia
Bobby Rush, US Representative, Chicago
Harry Belafonte
Harvey Pekar, American Splendor;
Jim Lafferty, Executive Director of the National Lawyer's Guild of Los Angeles
Mark Ruffalo, actor
St. Claire Bourne, film maker
New Statements
Lo nuevo en español
Haz clic aqu赤 Hoy: Un motivo m芍s por sacar corriendo al gobierno de Bush
Art赤culos del sitio web nacional worldcantwait.org que salieron en el peri車dico Revoluci車n, del PCR, EU
The Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime
The world can't wait!
Drive out the Bush Regime!
Download the latest version of the call here. Make copies, get it out far and wide. Download and sign the call and forward to our email address below.
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.
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.
This will not be easy. If we speak the truth, they will try to silence us. If we act, they will to 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.
On November 2, the anniversary of Bush＊s ※reelection,§ the first major step in driving out the Bush Regime was taken 每 a powerful movement was launched that repudiated this criminal regime and proclaimed ※NO! THIS REGIME DOES NOT REPRESENT US! AND WE WILL DRIVE IT OUT!§
At rallies held in cities across the country, the World Can＊t Wait organization announced the next major step, a movement that will not stop until Bush is driven from office. When Bush gives the State of the Union speech in January, the people will once again take to the streets, raising this demand:
BUSH STEP DOWN,
AND TAKE YOUR WHOLE
PROGRAM WITH YOU!
Signers of the Call include |
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ACT UP, New York City
After Downing Street Coalition
Rafael C. Angulo, faculty at the USC School of Social Work
Tom Ammiano, San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Aris Anagnos, Los Angeles
Anti-Flag
Asad AbuKhalil, Department of Politics, California State University
Ed Asner
Axis of Justice
Rosa Ayala, Justice for Janitors*
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Russell Banks, writer
Ed Begley, Jr.
Harry Belafonte
David Berenson, Green Party of Ohio
Blair Bobier, Esq.
Blase Bonpane, Los Angeles
St. Claire Bourne, film maker
Rev. Richard Meri Ka Ra Byrd, KRST Unity Center
Campus Anti-War Network (CAN)
Tim Carpenter, Director, Progressive Democrats of America
David Cobb, Green Party Presidential Candidate, 2004
Code Pink: Women for Peace
Barry Crimmins, Writer/Correspondent, Air America Radio
Culture Clash
Chris Daly, San Francisco Board of Supervisors
DC Anti-War Network
Democrats.com
Noel Don Juan, MECCA SF, Music Director
Tom Duane, New York State Senator
Michael Eric Dyson
Steve Earle, musician
Niles Eldredge, curator of the Darwin exhibition at the Museum of Natural History
Edwin Ellis, President of Veterans for Peace, LA*
Jody Evans, Code Pink
Ralph Fertig, President, Humanitarian Law Project
Rev. John Fife
Jane Fonda
Francis Fox Piven
Jennifer Friederbach, Coalition on Homelessness, S.F.
Martin Garbus, famed First Amendment attorney
Deborah Glick, New York State Assemblywoman
Ted Glick, Climate Crisis Coalition
Frances Goldin
Andy Griggs, US Labor Against the War, Executive Board of United Teachers of Los Angeles
Haitian Coalition for Justice
Suheir Hammad, poet
Sam Hamill, Poets Against War
Kathleen Hanna, musician
David Harris, Author, Founder of "Resistance"
Paul Haggis, Director/Writer of CRASH, screenwriter of MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Hermandad Mexicana
Hip Hop Caucus
Rev. Robert M. Hollum, Pastor of Luther Place, Washington, DC
Humboldt County, CA Green Party
Bianca Jagger
Dahr Jamail, independent reporter
Alan Jones, Dean of Faculty, Pitzer College
Bill T. Jones, dancer
Rickie Lee Jones, musician
Esther Kaplan, author of "With God On Their Side"
Casey Kasem
Frances Kissling, President of Catholics for Free Choice
Yuri Kochiyama, Oakland
Rev. Earl Kooperkamp, St. Mary's Episcopal Church
Ron Kovic, author, Vietnam veteran
Jonathan Kozol, author, "The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America"
Jim Lafferty, Executive Director of the National Lawyer's Guild of Los Angeles
Jessica Lange
Beth Lamont
Mark Leno, California Assemblyman
Lewis Lapham, former editor, Harper's Magazine
Simon Levy, director, "What I heard About Iraq" at Fountain St. Theater
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Margaret Lindgren, FOR/LA (Fellowship of Reconciliation) Los Angeles, California
Peter McLaren, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, author of Capitalists and Conquerors: Critical Pedagogy Against Empire and Che Guevara, Paulo Freire and the Pedagogy of Revolution
Lucinda Marshall, Founder, Feminist Peace Network
Keith McHenry, Founder, Food Not Bombs
Cynthia McKinney, U.S. Representative, Georgia
Men of All Colors Together
Allen Michaan, Owner, Grand Lake Theater, Oakland CA
Carly Miller, Clothing of the American Mind
Rhonda Mills, Clean Power Campaign
Bill Mitchell, co-founder, Gold Star Families for Peace*
Leon Mobley, musician
Tom Morello, Audioslave
Andrew Muñana, Images Sal車n, East Los Angeles
Cecil Murray, Retired Minister
Craig Murray, former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan
Armando Navarro, Chair and professor of Ethnic Studies, U.C. Riverside
Not in Our Name
Tom芍s Olmos
Barbara Olshansky, Center for Constitutional Rights
Outernational
Major Owens, U.S. Representative, 11th District, D-NY
Ozomatli
Jose Padilla, Executive Director, California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA)*
Harvey Pekar, American Splendor
Sean Penn
Peter Phillips Ph.D. Project Censored Sociology Department Sonoma State University
Jeremy Pikser, screenwriter, Bulworth
Harold Pinter, Nobel Prize winning playwright
Port Townsend Peace Movement, Port Townsend WA
Kevin Powell, writer
Progressive Democrats of America
Dr. Juan Gomez Quiñones, historian and writer, UCLA
Raghava Reddy, stem cell biologist, biomedical scientist, film maker
Rosemary R. Ruetherv, Theologian, Professor, Claremont Graduate University Professor Emerita of Feminist Theology at Pacific School of Religion
Boots Riley, The Coup
Mark Ruffalo, actor
Bobby Rush, US Representative, Chicago
Rev Henry Sanders, Fountain of Life Missionary Baptist Church, Watts
Rev. Fernando Santillana, California-Pacific Annual Conference, The United Methodist Church Director of Latino Ministries
Susan Sarandon
Rev. Paul Sawyer, Unitarian Universalist Minister
Rev. Al Sharpton
Cindy Sheehan
Martin Sheen
Stanley Sheinbaum, economist
Gloria Steinem
Still We Rise Coalition
David Swanson, creator of MeetWithCindy.org, co-founder of the AfterDowningStreet.org coalition
Sunsara Taylor, Revolution Newspaper
Studs Terkel
Topanga Peace Alliance
Marianne Torres, Peace & Justice Action League of Spokane,* Washington State
Roselva Unger, Social Concerns Committee, First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles
Gore Vidal, author
Kurt Vonnegut, author
Alice Walker, author
US Rep. Maxine WatersUS Representative, California
Rev. Dave Weissbard, Senior Minister The Unitarian Universalist Church, Rockford, IL
Cornel West, Princeton University
Philip E. Wheaton, Episcopal priest, Community of Christ, Washington, DC
Johannes W. Williams, attorney, District of Columbia
Saul Williams
Ann Wright, former US diplomat, resigned in protest of Iraq war
Daphne Wysham, Institute for Policy Studies
Leland Y. Yee, Speaker pro Tem, California State Assembly
David Zeiger, Displaced Films (Sir, No Sir)
Howard Zinn, historian, author of A Peoples' History of the United States
Dave Zirin, author, "What's My Name, Fool?, Sports and Resistance in the United States."
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