[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Drive Out the Bush Regime!

[Morton K. Brussel]

Something to which many might wish to join their name and actions.
--mkb

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> From: "Not In Our Name Statement of Conscience" <nion at cloud9.net>
> Date: July 27, 2005 6:28:05 PM CDT
> To: brussel at uiuc.edu
> Subject: Drive Out the Bush Regime!
> Reply-To: <bounce-live-964696038-31249799 at ezinedirector.net>
>
>
> Friends,
>
> As you know, we try to keep you informed of new activities that are  
> in the spirit of the Not In Our Name statement. A few months ago I  
> sent you a report on actions in Washington, in which I argued that  
> compromise over the filibuster was one more case of the Democrats  
> capitulating.  I concluded:
>
> "Without the kind of mass upsurge that we witnessed in the 1960s,  
> there is nothing that will prevent the current threatening dynamic  
> from continuing. The world can't wait any longer. We need to be  
> about the business of driving the Bush regime from power."
>
> Hundreds of you responded, many liking the idea but asking how we  
> could do this.  I believe the answer is contained in the manifesto  
> and movement for The World Can't Wait -- Drive Out the Bush Regime!  
> and its call for outpourings on the anniversary of Bush's "re- 
> election" this November 2nd and a movement that does not stop until  
> the regime has been driven from power and its direction reversed.
>
> Those of us who crafted this manifesto drew inspiration from the  
> words of the Not In Our Name Statement of Conscience, including these:
>
>
> "Millions of us worked, talked, marched, poll watched, contributed,  
> voted, and did everything we could to defeat the Bush regime in the  
> last election. This unprecedented effort brought forth new energy,  
> organization, and commitment to struggle for justice. It would be a  
> terrible mistake to let our failure to stop Bush in these ways lead  
> to despair and inaction. On the contrary, this broad mobilization  
> of people committed to a fairer, freer, more peaceful world must  
> move forward. We cannot, we will not, wait until 2008. The fight  
> against the second Bush regime has to start now."
>
>
> I urge each of you to read, sign, and spread the Call for this  
> movement today and visit their website regularly to participate in  
> this effort.  Truly, the world cannot wait.
>
> Sincerely,  C. Clark Kissinger
>
> Read and spread the Call for this movement:
>
> 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  
> todemobilize 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 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.  www.worldcantwait.org
>
>
>
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