Subject: October 5th Protest Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 17:35:53 -0500 Message-ID: <BDD0A3EABE40F04A8C7200805EDE5A6A0488D665@PEPSI.uwec.edu> From: "Nowlan, Robert A." <RANOWLAN@uwec.edu>
NO WORK. NO SCHOOL. PROTEST IN THE STREETS.
Oct. 5th
ENDLESS WARS! TORTURE! KATRINA! THEOCRACY!
BRING THIS TO A HALT!
Thursday, October 5th meet at the clock tower at UWEC at 11:30AM.
We will walk to Phoenix Park.
Bring signs, loud voices, theatre, and costumes.
Millions of us are deeply distressed and angered. But, people are held
back by the fear they are alone and powerless.
Many hope that somehow the Democrats will do something to change this
when every day it becomes more clear they will not.
From out of this huge reservoir of people, we can unleash a great wave,
moving together on the same day - our numbers making a statement
that can not be ignored and that lets it be known that we are determined
to bring this whole disastrous direction to a halt.
On Thursday, October 5, join us in saying to the world: This regime does
not represent us and we will not stop until we drive it out!
Walk out of school! Refuse to work! No shopping on Oct 5! Come to mass
demonstrations across the country and march through the streets
calling on millions more to join us in repudiating this criminal regime
with the mobilization of massive political opposition!
WE MUST ACT NOW - THE WORLD'S FUTURE
IS IN OUR HANDS
SIGN THIS CALL TO DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME!
Join these endorsers and the thousands more who have already signed:
Edward Asner, Russell Banks, Harry Belafonte, Margaret Cho, US Rep. John
Conyers Jr., John Densmore, Jesse Díaz Jr., Tom Duane,
Michael Eric Dyson, Niles Eldredge, Daniel Ellsberg, Barbara Ehrenreich,
Eve Ensler, Jane Fonda, Martin Garbus, Paul Haggis,
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Rickie Lee Jones, Brig. Gen. (ret) Janis
Karpinski, Casey Kasem, Ron Kovic, Jonathan Kozol, Jessica Lange, Mark
Leno,
Rabbi Michael Lerner, US Rep. Cynthia McKinney, Mark Crispin Miller, Tom
Morello, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Penn, Harold Pinter,
Michael Ratner, Mark Ruffalo, James Schamus, Richard Serra, Rev. Al
Sharpton, Cindy Sheehan, Martin Sheen, Serj Tankian, Studs Terkel,
Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut, Alice Walker, Lt. Ehren Watada, US Rep.
Maxine Waters, Cornel West, Ann Wright, Howard Zinn.
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. 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.
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 will be no 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 to demobilize
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.
Acting in this way, we 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. We are
reaching out to the people who have been so badly fooled by
Bush and we are NOT going to stop.
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 un written . WHICH ONE
WE GET IS UP TO US.
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