Friday, February 03, 2006

World Can't Wait-Drive Out the Bush Regime

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FEBRUARY 3, 2006
12:17 PM

CONTACT: World Can't Wait-Drive Out the Bush Regime
Travis Morales at 713-240-3192
Ariel Vegosen 516-732-0579 or arielvegosen@yahoo.com

 
Tomorrow Feb. 4: Massive March to the White House; A New Movement With a Single Demand: Bush Step Down
 

WASHINGTON - February 3 -

Tomorrow Feb. 4: Massive March to the White House; A New Movement With a Single Demand: Bush Step Down

WHO:

-- Kathleen Chalfant, Broadway and TV actress

-- Ann Wright, former U.S. diplomat and military officer quit in protest of war

-- Martin Garbus, trial lawyer and author

-- Doris "Granny D" Haddock, walked across the country for campaign finance reform

-- Michael Ratner, Center for Constitutional Rights

-- Boots Riley, The Coup (Hip-Hop artist)

-- Rev. Al Sharpton, long time activist

-- Thousands of People: taking to the streets and circling the White House

WHAT:

11 a.m. rally, 2 p.m. march to White House: 30 foot statue of Bush will be toppled.

WHEN:

Saturday Feb. 4: 11 a.m. rally, 2 p.m. march

WHERE:

17th and Constitution, then march to the White House

DETAILS:

On Saturday, Feb. 4, tens of thousands will travel from across the country to the national seat of government with a single demand: Bush Step Down And Take Your Program with You. The crowd will rally beginning at 11am, then encircle the White House at 2 p.m.

World Can't Wait is quickly attracting a surprising and broad range of well-known people in public life including U.S. Congressional Representatives JOHN CONYERS, CYNTHIA MCKINNEY, MAXINE WATERS, BOBBIE RUSH, and MAJOR OWENS, along with HARRY BELAFONTE, LEWIS LAPHAM, MARK RUFFALO, SEAN PENN, SUSAN SARANDON, GLORIA STEINEM, SERJ TANKIAN, CORNEL WEST, HAROLD PINTER, and PAUL HAGGIS. Two full-page ads have appeared in the New York Times and spots are running nationally on Air America radio.

Debra Sweet, national coordinator of World Can't Wait-Drive Out the Bush Regime, states, "Torture, war, the rule of law and separation of church state eviscerated, an extreme rightwing Supreme Court nominee goes essentially unopposed... The hour is late. This whole regime is illegitimate and criminal, and politics as usual have failed to stop it. Bush will not be indicted, impeached, or driven from office without massive, determined, unrelenting protest with the concrete demand that BUSH STEP DOWN. This is what we set out to do."

On the night of the State of the Union address, at exactly 9 p.m. as Bush stepped to the podium, there were World Can't Wait rallies to "drown-out Bush's lies" in over 60 U.S. cities, including Greensboro, N.C., where 7 protesters were arrested, and in Iraq where several U.S. soldiers shot rounds of artillery into the air at 9 p.m. EST to drown out Bush.

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