JANUARY 19/20 JOIN us in Washington


Are you thinking that no one will speak up for the interests of the people in stopping the wars & torture, and that we must be quiet about Obama's invitation to Rick Warren, a leading homophobe being elevated to the status of a Billy Graham?

Are you thinking that if we protest against Obama's escalation of the war in Afghanistan, no one will see us, or we will be challenged?  That the only choice is to "go along?"  World Can't Wait will be there next week.  JOIN US!  If you can't come along, send some funds our way for materials and transportation.  You'll get a full report on January 23!

World Can't Wait organizers will be protesting in Washington on January 19 and 20.  Bush may issue pardons on Jan 19 or 20, including possible blanket pardons covering torture.  We will be in the news, and around the White House, to demand prosecutions.  We want to be among the crowds with the message, "Stop the US war OF terror and torture...the world can't wait!"

January 19 (Monday - MLK holiday) 

11am  SHOE BUSH rally/march.  David Swanson, Debra Sweet, Adam Kokesh speaking at DuPont Circle.  March to White House to demand Prosecute the War Criminals!   http://shoebush.org/. 

3pm  Union Station DIE-in/theater protest.  "End the occupations of Iraq & Afghanistan Now!"

January 20 (Tuesday - inaugural parade) 

Ken Theisen, "Obama gives Number 2 job at Pentagon to Raytheon lobbyist!"

Barack Obama, who during his campaign promised to lessen the influence of lobbyists in Washington, chose William J. Lynn III as his deputy secretary of defense at the Pentagon. Lynn just happens to be a senior vice president in charge of lobbying with Raytheon. Raytheon in turn just happens to have billions of dollars in Pentagon contracts and is the maker of the Army's Patriot Missile system and the Navy Tomahawk missile. Raytheon is also developing a global positioning satellite communication system for the Air Force. Lynn's new post would involve him in the process of budgeting and acquisitions.

Here are posters you can use this weekend.  Print black on orange paper:

 1)  GAZA_SHOE_poster can be printed by large format commercial copiers (36" paper) and pasted onto existing 24x36" posters.  Or you can reproduce them in smaller sizes.

2)  Guantanamo poster has the slogan "From Guantanamo to Gaza, Stop the US war OF terror and torture.  The world can't wait!" 

3)  Gaza signs.  Are several signs in English against the US role in backing this war crime.

In Atlanta:

by Scott

 ...or, How a click can help ignite a social movement

So check this out...I know all of my friends have been frustrated at some time or another at how poorly the media cover important issues, especially when it comes to grassroots action on issues of major importance, like the war(s), torture, illegal wiretapping and other things we've gotten too damn used to over the past eight years. And that's just the thing...if the media don't report that there is grassroots resistance against these things, people feel like nothing's being done, and get this false sense of powerlessness.

So here's one thing you can do to help break through all that: DIG (that is, "digg" World Can't Wait).

Stop The Israeli Massacre in Gaza. We Condemn the U.S. Role in this War Crime.

UPDATE - Photo gallery of protest photos now available here.

On the eve of Barack Obama’s inauguration, protestors marched through the streets of D.C. behind a banner demanding “Arrest Bush.” Protestors demanded that Bush and others in his Regime be held accountable for the crimes against humanity they have perpetrated, and ended their protest by throwing a barrage of shoes in the direction of the White House, in what Raw Story website called “a symbolic gesture of solidarity with Muntadar al-Zeidi, an Iraqi correspondent for Al-Baghdadia television, who threw his shoes at President Bush as he gave a press briefing in Baghdad in Baghdad.”

The following video features a speech at the rally given by World Can’t Wait national director Debra Sweet.

UPDATE - Two new videos of the Boot Bush protest now available:

By Elaine Brower

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in a rowdy, unpermitted march in Washington, D.C., on Bush’s last full day in office, January 19, 2009. Carrying shoes in solidarity with Muntadar al-Zeidi, the Iraqi journalist who in a furious outrage removed his shoes at a press conference in Iraq and flung them at Bush, screaming, “You dog, this is for the widows and orphans.”   

So today we marched through the streets calling for the arrest and prosecution of the war criminals, Bush and Cheney, brandishing all of our shoes above our heads. We chanted our demands and drew crowds of inaugural revelers. Some even joined in the march, towards the White House. 

Instead when such promises of continued wars of terror are being made it is a time to continue the resistance that is needed in the face of this. And a group of activists who recognized this moment gathered at D.C.’s Union Station and brought into sharp focus the disconnect between what the people of this country and the world hope for and what Obama has promised. For a solid hour a dramatic action was led by World Can’t Wait and joined by members from Arrest Bush, and Code Pink. They all risked arrest to reach over 10,000 people passing through Union Station the day before Obama’s Inauguration. 

U.S. Out of Iraq & Afghanistan!

No Wars on Iran, Pakistan, Gaza!

On Saturday, March 14th, approximately 1,000 people gathered in the predominately Mexican immigrant neighborhoods of Pilsen and Little Village in Chicago to protest the continuation of the war in Iraq, the escalation of the war in Afghanistan, the bombing of Pakistan and the massacre in Gaza. The demonstration also demanded an end to the government's war on immigrants. Called to mark the 6th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, many who came also planned to attend next Saturday's march on the Pentagon in Washington, DC.

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