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Friday, April 27, 2007

The other America

Help Fund these Young Organizers to Drive Out the Bush Regime – Summer 2007

First leg, Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
Indio CA April 27-29

Jamilah Hoffman has lived in Houston her whole life in a Christian fundamentalist environment. She first learned about World Can't Wait through Air America Radio a few weeks before the November 2, 2005 walk-outs, when she was thinking about Hurricane Katrina and asking herself “how could this government do this to Black people?” She was part of the World Can't Wait Bus Tour last summer, speaking to youth from New Orleans to Arkansas. She aspires to study film and is a poet, dreamer, and writer. The Sobering Effects of Wearing Orange

Leah Fishbein is a visual arts student at Occidental College in Los Angeles, from Atlanta. She lead high school and college student walkouts against the Iraq war, and as the Bush regime and the Christian right turned up their attacks on women's reproductive rights in unprecedented ways, Leah delved into fighting to increase resistance to these attacks, at colleges and universities, through street theater and writing. She’s been a full time volunteer in the WCW national office and writes for worldcantwait.org.

Women Under Seige! Cause for Alarm from the new and improved Bush-stacked Supreme Court (not available for a limited time only):

Allen Lang is a member of the World Can't Wait Steering Committee and National Student and Youth Coordinator. Allen got his start as a political organizer at Temple University in the aftermath of September 11th, where mobilizing protests against the invasion of Iraq increasingly overshadowed his film studies and hours on the basketball court. Lang organized the Bush Crimes Commission Tour (www.bushcommission.org), which brought experts and eyewitness that exposed Bush's crimes to a dozen universities ranging from Harvard to Stanford, and has led campaigns to defend students and professors who have come under attack for speaking out against the Bush Administration. World Can't Wait Goes on th e Warped Tour

Anastasia Gomes is a native New Yorker, born to Greek and Indian immigrants. She studied journalism in hopes of bettering the world by shedding light onits injustices, and utilizes her journalism skills informing others who also feel isolated in their frustration over the war. She currently teaches English to Latin American immigrants in the Bronx and also works as a professional freelance photographer. Most recently Anastasia has traveled the country speaking on college campuses as part of the Mission of A Generation Speaking Tour. Mission of a Generation Speaking Tour - Report on the First Leg: