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IndyOp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 05:46 PM
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WORLD CAN'T WAIT - Drive Out the * Regime! - STRIKE 11/2/05
Do you agree? Then HELP THIS HAPPEN in thousand different ways - spread the word - skip work, skip school, tell others way in advance, protest the war, protest the stolen election of 2004, meditate, meet with politicians, buy nothing.

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 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.

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!"
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katinmn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 05:48 PM
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1. K & N'd!
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nofurylike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 05:54 PM
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2. i do agree and will do. might add this is our last chance. Earth is being
destroyed and running out fast.
there is no more time to stop them AND reverse the destruction.

thank you for your efforts!


in solidarity
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knowbody0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 05:59 PM
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3. students here are walking out together at 12 noon
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IndyOp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 06:07 PM
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7. Where is here???
I was disappointed that students at my school didn't declare a strike on Monday the 26th (?) - I thought I read a thread around here that indicated that there would be student strike...

Let me know how you found out about it - is there a college group leading the charge - I will refer students at my school to them - so they can get organized this time!

:kick:
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knowbody0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 06:17 PM
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10. got a shitload of pamphlets at the seattle protest 9/24
my three teenagers copied and distributed at their schools. the school asks only they get parent permission slip. pretty kool.
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Nightjock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 06:01 PM
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4. Will do!
Nominated!
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donheld Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 06:04 PM
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5. I'm in
:bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce:
:bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce:
:bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce:
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 06:07 PM
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6. I just learned they are a front for the Revolutionary Communist Party
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IndyOp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 06:11 PM
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8. My thoughts on that...
I don't care what our government is called so long as it is of, by, and for THE PEOPLE.

A.N.S.W.E.R. as many people around here have indicated is a socialist group - which most US citizens think is the same thing as communism. I didn't like what they did in terms of lining up speakers for the march, but I like the fact that they got the date and events publicized so that 300,000 people showed up.

So, let's us - the peace movement and the election fraud agitators - HIJACK the event and paste our causes over top of whatever organization is leading the charge.

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JanMichael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 06:15 PM
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9. Good for them. Once again a Leftist group gets the ball rolling.
Edited on Fri Sep-30-05 06:25 PM by JanMichael
We actually met some RCP members in DC, and here in NC, and quite frankly they're a lot saner than some GDers.
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JanMichael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 06:18 PM
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11. I should add that "Chairman Bob" is nuts IMHO but the members cool.
At least the ones that I've met.

Bob however is getting old and hopefully ready to hang up his cleats.
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IndyOp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 06:20 PM
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12. 'They're a lot saner than some GDers' -
Now, that's probably a statement that is true about MOST groups --

:rofl:

Except of course Republicans, Fundies, and FREEPERs.

:kick:
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JanMichael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 06:28 PM
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14. Sure but it's something that DUers, which I'm refering to, would be...
...appalled by. Whata concept...Communists that looked and talked like mom. But were WAY to the Left of mommy.

Shocked I tell ya!
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 06:28 PM
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13. Oh yeah, I forgot to recommend this thread
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jarnocan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 06:29 PM
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15. WE habve lost our democracy so...
We need to do whatever we can to resore it. This is NOT going to happen unless we take drastic measures IMHO.
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niallmac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 06:45 PM
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16. I'm in. If 'respectable' groups
like MoveOn took the lead in civil disobedience then the groups some dislike would have to follow their lead. For now my hat is off to those who walk the talk.
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novak goes postal Donating Member (133 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 07:13 PM
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17. Include me in...
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OffWithTheirHeads Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 07:56 PM
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18. I'm in!
I think this is an idea whose time has come! Fuck Answer, It is time for the American people to take to the streets! I will do anything I can to further this idea!

Kick and nom
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titoresque Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-05 08:08 PM
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19. Count on me!
I'll get to work! Anyone here in Arizona that would like to
team up and organize please pm me.
Thanks for posting this......and the weather here in Oct is perfect for activism! :)
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JanMichael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-01-05 12:00 AM
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20. KICK! It's a great idea. No need to spend money to travel to DC.
Just make it clear why you're walking out of class or pissing on a Hummer.
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JanMichael Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-01-05 11:26 AM
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21. again
:kick:
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