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Thursday, October 19, 2006

To the World Can’t Wait Community:

From the national team working on Emergency teach-ins:

Teach-Ins are planned in 7 cities and counting, including a major event in New York that will be broadcast on the internet. Organize your own. Think Big. Think Broadly. Is there an artist in your area who would show an exhibit to make your event come alive? A scientist or doctor that could speak about the Bush administration’s attacks on science? You can also organize a showing of the powerful new DVD of the Bush Crimes Commission Hearings or the webcast of the New York event as part of a teach-in, and follow it up with discussion of what makes the crimes of the regime a whole package, and how it can be driven out. Click here to post an event on our website, or email teachin@worldcantwait.org.

Through the active investigation of the past couple weeks, we are learning more deeply that throughout the country, the depth of understanding among many people of what the Bush Regime is doing and where it is heading, falls short of seeing the various aspects of the Bush program as a coherent whole which will lead to disaster for people all over the world if this course is not reversed by us.

People have said things like: "I knew the war is terrible, but I had no idea they had legalized torture!" There is a thirst to understand more about all this--and to learn what to do about it. At the same time, terms are being set going into the midterm elections that don’t start from how these crimes can be brought to a halt. This is the situation we will begin to transform through these Emergency Teach-ins.

I’m asking everyone to donate time & resources for these emergency teach-ins. Plan your own. Wherever you are, you can gather people together on Monday, October 30 at 7pm EST to view the live webcast from NYC.

Debra Sweet

National Coordinator, The World Can’t Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime

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New on Worldcantwait.org: The Courage of the Thousands Who Acted and the Challenge to Bring Forward Hundreds of Thousands More : Report from October 5 protests online

Full list of press coverage October 5

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World Can’t Wait just received this from Cindy Sheehan & Gold Star Families for Peace:

“We the people, over two-thirds of us who disapprove of BushCo and their destructive foreign and callous domestic policies, need to stand up to be counted. Such memorials to our children who have been killed in Iraq as Arlington West and Eyes Wide Open are excoriated by the reich as "political," but they serve the purpose of showing we the people what 2768 actually looks like. 65% of America is just an abstract number. Who's going to sit down with us to show our blood-thirsty administration and Congress what a majority of America looks like?