Sign the Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime
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 â 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 â or be forced â 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.
Acting in this way, we join with and give support and heart to people all over the globe who so urgently need and want this regime to be stopped.
This will not be easy. If we speak the truth, they will try to silence us. If we act, they will 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.
The World Can't Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime!
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Endorsers Include:
Mumia Abu-Jamal, political prisoner, journalist
Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
After Downing Street Coalition
Aimee Allison, army conscientious objector (Gulf War
90)/counter-Recruiter
Tom Ammiano, San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Edward Asner
Ed Begley Jr.
Harry Belafonte
Gabriel Byrne, Actor
Tim Carpenter, Director, Progressive Democrats of America
Ward Churchill
Code Pink: Women for Peace
John Conyers, US Representative
Barry Crimmins, writer/correspondent, Air America Radio
Chris Daly, San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Julie Delpy, Actress
Democrats.com
Carl Dix, Revolutionary Communist Party
Tom Duane, NY State Senator
Michael Eric Dyson, author, "Is Bill Cosby Right?"
Jodie Evans, Code Pink
Jane Fonda
Prof. Barbara Forrest, Southeastern Louisana University (testifed in Dover against intelligent design)
Paul Haggis, Director/Writer of Crash, screenwriter of Million Dollar Baby
Islamic Association of America
Jesse Jackson
Casey Kasem
Jessica Lange
Lucinda Marshall, Founder Feminist Peace Network*
Carol Migden, CA State Senator
Tom Morello, Audioslave
Cristina Page, author of "How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America"
Sean Penn
Queers for Economic Justice
Joshua Rosenblum, Composer/ Director of Bush is Bad
Mark Ruffalo, actor
Susan Sarandon
Rev. Al Sharpton
Cindy Sheehan
Martin Sheen
Gloria Steinem
Studs Terkel
Gore Vidal, writer
Kurt Vonnegut
Alice Walker
Maxine Waters, US Representative
Howard Zinn, historian, "A Peoples' History of the United States"
http://www.worldcantwait.net/
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 â 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 â or be forced â 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.
Acting in this way, we join with and give support and heart to people all over the globe who so urgently need and want this regime to be stopped.
This will not be easy. If we speak the truth, they will try to silence us. If we act, they will 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.
The World Can't Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime!
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Endorsers Include:
Mumia Abu-Jamal, political prisoner, journalist
Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
After Downing Street Coalition
Aimee Allison, army conscientious objector (Gulf War
90)/counter-Recruiter
Tom Ammiano, San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Edward Asner
Ed Begley Jr.
Harry Belafonte
Gabriel Byrne, Actor
Tim Carpenter, Director, Progressive Democrats of America
Ward Churchill
Code Pink: Women for Peace
John Conyers, US Representative
Barry Crimmins, writer/correspondent, Air America Radio
Chris Daly, San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Julie Delpy, Actress
Democrats.com
Carl Dix, Revolutionary Communist Party
Tom Duane, NY State Senator
Michael Eric Dyson, author, "Is Bill Cosby Right?"
Jodie Evans, Code Pink
Jane Fonda
Prof. Barbara Forrest, Southeastern Louisana University (testifed in Dover against intelligent design)
Paul Haggis, Director/Writer of Crash, screenwriter of Million Dollar Baby
Islamic Association of America
Jesse Jackson
Casey Kasem
Jessica Lange
Lucinda Marshall, Founder Feminist Peace Network*
Carol Migden, CA State Senator
Tom Morello, Audioslave
Cristina Page, author of "How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America"
Sean Penn
Queers for Economic Justice
Joshua Rosenblum, Composer/ Director of Bush is Bad
Mark Ruffalo, actor
Susan Sarandon
Rev. Al Sharpton
Cindy Sheehan
Martin Sheen
Gloria Steinem
Studs Terkel
Gore Vidal, writer
Kurt Vonnegut
Alice Walker
Maxine Waters, US Representative
Howard Zinn, historian, "A Peoples' History of the United States"
http://www.worldcantwait.net/
