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To see what happened on Nov 2 around the country, here's a great little video: Beginning of the End

THE WORLD CAN'T WAIT-- DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME

Artists join others in signing Call for World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime- NY Times ad

This full-page ad appeared in the NY Times on Dec 13.

November 2, Launches a National Movement to Drive Out the Bush Regime.
No School, No Work

On the first anniversary of Bush's "re-election," a new movement is being born across the country with a single, practical objective: to drive out the Bush regime and its program of war, torture and theocracy. On November 2, people in 185 cites and campuses (at last count) will walk out of school and work and demonstration in city and town centers. As criminal indictments come down in DC, as the 2000th US soldier dies, as Bush demands legal permission to torture, the World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime launches a nationwide repudiation of the regime in the streets. Click to see poster [PDF file] -- A World Can't Wait encampment outside the White House is counting down to November 2; members were arrested with Cindy Sheehan demanding an immediate end to the war and occupation of Iraq. --Students wearing orange Guantanamo jumpsuits and bags over their heads demanding an end to torture are showing up on campuses nationwide; at UC Berkeley students disrupted the class of Prof John Yoo, author of the Bush Regime's torture policy. -- Radio ads are playing on Air America and other stations, created by Ozomatli, Boots Riley (The Coup), Culture Clash, Suheir Hammad, Michael Eric Dyson, and Howard Zinn. "Soon all the pent-up anger and outrage will come together -- Black people betrayed in the Katrina debacle, women who won't give up abortion, immigrants demonized and rounded up the majority of decent people who are deeply alarmed by a regime that is waging an unending war based on lies, suppressing dissent and science, and turning the US into a nation of torturers," said Sunsara Taylor, an initiator of World Can't Wait. Signers of The World Can't Wait -- Drive Out the Bush Regime Call include Cindy Sheehan, former US-career diplomat Ann Wright, musicians Tom Morello, Rickie Lee Jones, Anti-Flag, Steve Earle, actors Ed Begley Jr. and Edward Asner, historian Howard Zinn, authors Jonathan Kozol, Larry Everest, Gore Vidal, Cornel West, Michael Eric Dyson, and Studs Terkel, SF Board of Supervisor Tom Ammiano, NY State Sen. Tom Duane, the Hip Hop Caucus, Not In Our Name, Act Up NYC, Campus Anti-War Network, Code Pink, After Downing Street Coalition, Progressive Democrats of America, Democrats.com and many more organizations.

Musicians say: Stand Up on November 2nd In an unprecedented move, BOOTS RILEY has recorded an audacious radio advertisement which will be aired on NY's HOT 97 Radio on Monday and Tuesday, 10/31 & 11/1. Over music from a new track, Boots says: " . . . November 2nd. No Work. No School. We're going to march. ... ". . . Bush has made Torture into a sport and justifies it. You've seen Iraq destroyed by a war based on lies. We all watched Bush leave people to die in New Orleans and treat the people like criminals. This regime is what's criminal. ". . . We have to stop this now. If we don't, we will be forced to accept it. The future we get is up to us. . . ." The show at the Southpaw will feature: The Coup, The Nightwatchman (Tom Morello, of Audioslave, endorser of World Can't Wait), LifeSavas, and Outernational. Show @ 8:00 PM. These musicians are part of the growing movement to Drive Out the Bush Regime on Nov. 2. Musicians believe that if ever there was a time when our voices must be raised, when our horns sound the alarm and inspire great deeds, this is surely it. - The band, ANTI-FLAG, has contributed an exclusive track: Welcome to 1984, available only at: http://www.worldcantwait.org/antiFlag/. - Grammy award winners, OZOMATLI, have recorded their own special PSA advertisement for November 2nd http://www.worldcantwait.org/media/PSAs.php. - Endorsers include: AXIS OF JUSTICE, THE HIP HOP CAUCUS, SAUL WILLIAMS, STEVE EARLE, KATHLEEN HANNA and JD SAMPSON (LE TIGRE), RICKIE LEE JONES, CASEY KASEM, TOM MORELLO , OUTERNATIONAL, OZOMATLI, BOOTS RILEY and more.

Artists, this CALL finally presents a manifesto and plan that is well worth your attention. You can sign and spread, create art & events in connection... for more, go to www.worldcantwait.org .

-- Artists Network

THE CALL: 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 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.

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. GET IN TOUCH WITH US AT OUR WEBSITE, worldcantwait.org

The world can't wait! Drive out the Bush Regime! Mobilize for November 2!