whitebeard

Don't curse the darkness, light a candle.

Thank you, Debra

Dear Urbano,

As the year ends, there's nothing more significant you could fund than a movement to stop the Bush program. World Can't Wait - Drive Out The Bush Regime continues to work to mobilize the massive and powerful resistance the world desperately needs, resistance liberated from the official political confines and capable of repudiating the Bush agenda in its entirety.   

We are raising our resistance and taking Michael Ratner's advice that, "We must be as radical as the reality we are facing."

With his hands still firmly on the reins of power, George Bush, in office 13 more months, threatens - against all evidence - to attack Iran, because it cannot be allowed to have the knowledge to make nuclear energy.

The destruction of the tapes of CIA interrogations using water-boarding and other torture methods exposes the Bush crew to criminal prosecution, and points to a systemic torture state.  This is a crime against humanity, with the apparent complicity of Democratic Party leaders, who got the torture memo as early as 2002, did nothing to stop the torture and have not cut funding for the war.

There are large numbers of people for whom it's more urgent than ever to reverse the direction the Bush regime has taken the country.  However, many of them are being told that voting is the only "realistic" action.

Without a mass movement from below rejecting the Bush program, the front runners from both parties will carry forward the same illegitimate occupation of Iraq, acting with the extraordinary "unitary executive" powers Bush has amassed, holding onto police-state measures and governing on the basis of "faith" tests that are the New Normal.  This will be a disaster.

World Can't Wait is working urgently for this mass movement to reach critical mass, now, when the question of the torture crimes could - if the cry from the people is loud enough - force Bush and others from office in disgrace.   

Leading up to January 11, six years since the U.S. opened Guantánamo detention camp, World Can't Wait is organizing people to publicly repudiate the torture state.  From high school students wearing in protest the same orange detainees wear and holding teach-ins on torture, to religious and cultural institutions hanging "NO TORTURE" banners on their buildings, to respected voices of conscience speaking out.  In late January, mass civil resistance against the whole Bush program is planned right before Super Tuesday, when the nominees will be finally selected.

To accomplish a firm repudiation of the Bush program your support is needed. Please give a generous end-of-year donation. It is you that the world has been waiting for.

Debra Sweet,
Director, The World Can't Wait, Drive Out the Bush Regime

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