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Thursday October 5 – 72 Protests. If you don’t see your city here, organize it.



George Bush – War Criminal -- Protested

In an act of civil disobedience organized by the Bush Crimes Commission and the World Can't Wait - Drive Out the Bush Regime, 16 people were arrested outside the United Nations as George Bush spoke Tuesday. The action brought the verdict from the Bush Crimes Commission, released Sept. 13, that the Bush administration is guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity on five accounts. Father Luis Barrios, above, of the World Can’t Wait national Steering Committee, was charged with assault after the non-violent protest. Full story

The following text originally appeared on truthdig.com:

Daniel Ellsberg September 7, 2006, San Francisco

I keep looking at that date on the calendar – October 5. I think of 1969-- I was copying the Pentagon Papers with Tony Russo in that month, starting October 1. My intention, however, at that time was to bring them out in connection with something called the Moratorium on October 15, 1969… because on that day…across the country 2 million people marched. Not in any one place, they were counted up and added up because they all walked out, it was a weekday, out of school, out of businesses on that weekday. They met in rallies, heard many speakers-- in those days there was great tolerance (well, there still is to some extent) for a lot of speeches. But it was a weekday and they called it the Moratorium because people thought the word general strike was too provocative, but that’s what they had in mind.

It was a walkout, in other words it was no business as usual. The president was watching it in the White House, hour by hour, while pretending that he wasn’t. In fact he was in the situation room getting half-hour reports on how many people. They were being counted, in Washington and New York, from a U2 [plane] above.

I see in this crowd people who are not all a lot younger then I am. How many people were in the moratorium, look around (applause). Let’s see the hands. I want to ask – how old were you? Often if I ask that questions, some people will say 10 or 2. They were there with their mothers, in toddler strollers and backpacks on their parents’ backs, and they were doing the same job their parents were. Being counted from the air, from reconnaissance vehicles to add up to a number of 2 million.

What they didn’t know was that in fact they were stopping nuclear war… read more

What has been shoved into world news this week? U.S. torture camps, justified by the Bush regime, and about to be accepted by Congress. Do we want to be seen by the world as torturers? George Bush went to the United Nations on Tuesday, September 19 to announce "we're doing this all over again" – this time in Iran. What response will the world to see from us? There is the possibility of something different beginning to show itself in this country…

On September 20, the World Can't Wait published a full page ad in USA Today, the nation's largest circulation daily, saying "Bring the Bush Crimes to a Halt!" and joining with the protests of Bush at the United Nations, and with people acting around the country on "Bush Crimes Days". The ad contained the Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime, announced mass protests on Thursday, October 5 to millions of people, and spread the spirit of "history will judge us sharply if we fail to act to stop this." Millions more need to know about Oct. 5 through more ads in newspapers, radio, and on the internet.

No one is going to send this message to the world for us. WE must do it.

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