Though I'm not a commie, but rather a social democrat, my good friends at the RCP just launched this campaign. I'll be there. Why? Because I've had enough theocracy in my past, I don't want it in my future. Imagine a world-wide WTBTS! Ahhhhh! Hehe.
Thoughts? I'm curious what sort of impact that members of this board feel it will have. Productive? Counterproductive? Impotent?
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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!