Debra Sweet
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 Debra Sweet is the Director of World Can’t Wait, initiated in 2005 to “drive out the Bush regime” by repudiating its program, forcing it from office through a mass, independent movement and reversing the direction it had launched. Based in New York City, she leads World Can’t Wait in its continuing efforts to stop the crimes of our government, including the unjust occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan and the torture and detention codes, as well as reversing the fascist direction of U.S. society, from the surveillance state to the criminalization of abortion and immigrants. She has worked with abortion providers for twenty-five years, organizing community support and helping them withstand anti-abortion violence. Since the age of 19, when she confronted Richard Nixon during a face-to-face meeting and told him to stop the war in Vietnam, she has been a leader in the opposition to U.S. wars and invasions. Debra says, “Stop thinking like an American, and start thinking about humanity!”
She can be reached at debrasweet (at) worldcantwait.org. You can read her writings at debra.worldcantwait.net.
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Wednesday, 21 July 2010 02:21 |
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 By Debra Sweet
I saw the film Restrepo over the weekend, having read of the film makers' intention to "capture the experience of combat, boredom and fear through the eyes of the soldiers" without making a "political statement." "This is war, full stop. The conclusions are up to you."
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Thursday, 15 July 2010 15:23 |
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.jpg) By Debra Sweet
YOU are needed! This summer (starting this weekend) Operation Save America led by the notorious Flip Benham will be swarming Charlotte, NC.
Benham has pledged to shut down Family Reproductive Health, a long time provider of women's health care, including abortion services.
Starting Saturday July 17, Operation Save America (creators of the "INTOLERANT" t-shirt) a rabidly fundamentalist sect of anti-abortion fanatics, is calling on anti-abortion forces to "storm the gates of hell" in Charlotte, NC. Operation Save America has a long and vicious history of opposing women's right to choose, fighting against gay rights, and spreading vicious anti-Muslim hatred. They must be opposed.
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Wednesday, 07 July 2010 16:28 |
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By Debra Sweet
Join a World Can't Wait conference call moderated by War Criminals Watch advisory board member Ray McGovern, featuring Josh Herlands, on the International Justice Network's team, which is doing crucial work exposing the on-going use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" at Bagram prison --while the Obama administration fights against the right for all Bagram prisoners to habeas corpus.
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to join the conversation.
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Tuesday, 29 June 2010 06:45 |
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By Debra Sweet
Join me in protesting Tuesday morning as General David Petreaus is rubber-stamped by the Senate to replace General Stanley McChrystal as US commander of the occupation of Afghanistan.
Senate Armed Services Committee 9:30 am Dirksen G-50
Download a new poster or bring your own. 866-973-4463 for latest info. All of you who are not in the DC area, please support us by displaying the poster elsewhere, and donating to the Rolling Stone ad.
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Friday, 11 June 2010 15:08 |
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By Debra Sweet 
The Crimes Are Crimes statement has been published in The New York Review of Books, The Nation, and now, will next be placed in The Humanist. You can help spread this message and challenge the conscience of people by signing, donating and printing it out for your community (ask store owners if they will display this poster!).
The more I've shown the 17 minute version of Collateral Murder -- even to seasoned anti-war activists -- the more I see how important it is that people SEE this video.
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Sunday, 06 June 2010 15:13 |
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The Crimes are Crimes - No Matter Who Does Them message appears in The Nation’s June 14 issue. The statement, written two months ago, focuses on the global "war on terror" still being fought in our name by a new president.
It expresses the need to separate ourselves in disapproval, condemnation and outrage against what are crimes against humanity. We plan further national publication of this statement.
So sign it, circulate it to others, and donate so that we get beyond hundreds of thousands of readers of The New York Review of Books and The Nation.
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Friday, 28 May 2010 19:26 |
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Monday, 24 May 2010 19:47 |
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By Debra Sweet
About 100 people joined the march to protest the wars at the gates of West Point Saturday, while President Obama was giving the commencement address to officers about to lead the "war on terror" in Afghanistan, Iraq, and by the time, they're in the field, who knows where else?
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Wednesday, 12 May 2010 20:09 |
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 By Debra Sweet
"In the past few weeks, it has become common knowledge that Barack Obama has openly ordered the assassination of an American citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, because he is suspected of participating in plots by Al Qaeda.
Al-Awlaki denies these charges. No matter. Without trial or other judicial proceeding, the administration has simply put him on the to-be-killed list."
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Sunday, 09 May 2010 21:43 |
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.jpg) By Debra Sweet
Our statement has been published in the New York Review of Books, and email and calls are coming in. Thanks to Anthony: "i don't know if i say this enough but ... World Can't Wait ROCKS!!!!!!!" and to Gene: "The ad arrived in my mailbox. It looks awesome and reads awesome... It's a great piece of work. Let's do some more!"
The statement, Crimes Are Crimes - No Matter Who Does Them, for which you donated almost $12,000, began appearing in mailboxes in The New York Review of Books on May 5. We are posting comments from people whose names appear in the ad:
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