Seattle Kick-Off Event 8/6: The World Can't Wait, Drive Out the Bush Regime!
rcy...@brightfuture.com
Saturday, August 6 in Seattle
Doors at 6pm, Presentation at 6:30pm
Writer and international activist Larry Everest on the new national
campaign to drive out the Bush regime
The World Can't Wait! Let's Get Organized! Mobilize for Novemember 2,
2005!
Gather to hear Larry Everest speak on how we in our millions can drive
out the Bush regime. Larry just returned from testifying at the World
Tribunal on Iraq in Instanbul, Turkey. He is a contributing writer to
Revolution newspaper (voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party) and
author of Oil, Power and Empire: Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda. Join
us to kick off plans and launch this historic movement in Seattle.
Community Center at 1609 19th Ave (corner of 19th and East Pine in
Capitol Hill, one block south of Madison. Metro Bus #11, 12, 84)
Sponsored by Not In Our Name-Seattle and Revolution Books
Info: sea...@worldcantwait.org, in...@worldcantwait.org, c/o NION at
206-322-3813
Visit the World Can't Wait website to find out more and get involved!
www.worldcantwait.org
Below is the clarion call for this movement:
The World Can't Wait!
Drive Out the Bush Regime!
Mobilize for November 2, 2005
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.
To that end, on November 2, the first anniversary of Bush's
"re-election", we will take the first major step in this by
organizing a truly massive day of resistance all over this country.
People everywhere will walk out of school, they will take off work,
they will come to the downtowns and town squares and set out from
there, going through the streets and calling on many more to JOIN US.
They will repudiate this criminal regime, making a powerful statement:
"NO! THIS REGIME DOES NOT REPRESENT US! AND WE WILL DRIVE IT OUT!"
November 2 must be a massive and public proclamation that WE REFUSE TO
BE RULED IN THIS WAY. November 2 must call out to the tens of millions
more who are now agonizing and disgusted. November 2 will be the
beginning - a giant first step in forcing Bush to step down, and a
powerful announcement that we will not stop until he does so - and it
will 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.
These next two months are crucial. The call you are reading has to get
out to millions right away - on the internet, passed out as flyers in
communities, published as ads in newspapers.
DO NOT WAIT!! GET ORGANIZED!!
If you agree with this statement, add your name to it!!! And do more
than that: send it to friends, get them to sign it, organize a meeting,
take it to your church, your school, your union, your health club, your
barber shop, to concerts and libraries and family gatherings,
everywhere you go. Raise money, lots of money.
Get people together, make plans to be there on November 2, and to build
for it.
Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade (Seattle)
http://rcybsea.blogspot.com
"Revolution" newspaper
http://revcom.us