NO Attack on Iran!

October 6, 2002, a year from the day US bombers started in on Afghanistan, about 30,000 of us gathered in Central Park to say, of the impending attack on Iraq, “not in our name!” These were the days when some people still said you couldn’t have an antiwar movement. World Can’t Wait was inspired by the Not in Our Name Statement of Conscience, which I go back to again and again. You can hear the beloved Ozzie Davis reading it here and see the 2002 and 2005 statements ... "Let us not allow the watching world today to despair of our silence and our failure to act. Instead, let the world hear our pledge: we will resist the machinery of war and repression and rally others to do everything possible to stop it."

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Ehren Watada Court martial postponed by federal court to 10/26 stay tuned for more...

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Another rocker against the war:
John Fogerty on Letterman singing “Long Dark Night”

FRIDAY October 12 Orange Friday

Demand NO WAR on Iran

If you’re against George Bush attacking Iran, it doesn’t count unless you Declare It Now. Show it by wearing and displaying orange at work, school, at the mall or the movies. At 5pm, get into the streets, or in front of the biggest TV station or newspaper with signs and determination, saying, NO ATTACK on Iran, no way! More plans coming...

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It's Official – Bush, Gonzales, Authorize Torture: The People Must Drive Out This Regime of War and Torture

The October 4 issue of the New York Times broke a story exposing the legacy of torture, “outsourced torture” (i.e., “prisoner rendition”) and endless lies that the Bush Regime has institutionalized...

The question is – how are the people going to respond? Are we going to be like cowardly “good Germans” who pretended not to know of the deportations and executions carried out in their name? Or are we going to be a generation of heroes, who display the courage and determination needed to put an end to these atrocities that are always, always justified as being done for the “security” of the American people. These are the times, and these are the events, which will determine our legacy to humanity. more

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Activist Ted Glick on 32nd Day of “Climate Emergency Fast” to Protest Washington Inaction on Global Warming

Ted Glick spoke at the founding meeting of World Cant’ Wait, and spoke this morning on Democracy Now:

“I became involved with this action, and other people have participated in this action, because in many ways we are in a prison right now. We have a federal government that is ignoring the needs of the American people, conducting an illegal war, doing very little in terms of responding to the urgency on climate crisis, on one issue after the other. We are in many ways in a prison. So this fast is a way of saying, “Let's step it up. Let's move the agenda. Let's do more than we’ve done.” That’s what I’m trying to get across in the strongest way that I know how.”

Ted Glick asks: From October 21-23, 2007, join a global movement rising up against war and global warming.

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BRUCE!!! Springsteen on the TODAY Show 9/28/07: “This is a song called Livin’ In the Future. But it’s really about what’s happening now. Right now. It’s kind of about how the things we love about America, cheeseburgers, French fries, the Yankees battlin’ Boston... the Bill of Rights [holds up microphone, urging crowd to cheer] ... v-twin motorcycles ... Tim Russert’s haircut, trans-fats and the Jersey Shore ... we love those things the way womenfolk love Matt Lauer.

But over the past six years we’ve had to add to the American picture: rendition, illegal wiretapping, voter suppression, no habeas corpus, the neglect of our great city New Orleans and its people, an attack on the Constitution. And the loss of our young best men and women in a tragic war.

This is a song about things that shouldn’t happen here — happening here.”

Sincerely,
Debra Sweet,
Director, The World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime