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View article without comments Nov. 2 "Drive Out the Bush Regime" Gets Major Endorsementsby Drive Out the Bush Regime Sunday, Oct. 30, 2005 at 9:13 PMinfo@worldcantwait.org Howard Zinn, Code Pink, Mumia Abu-Jamal are among those endorsing day of walk outs and mobilizations Nov 2, anniversary of Bush's "re"-election, to drive his regime out of office. Local actions are along Wilshire Bl - noon to 8 pm. Walk outs at noon from work and schools, demonstrations, direct actions.
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!" November 2 must be a massive and public proclamation that WE REFUSE TO BE RULED IN THIS WAY. November 2 must call out to the tens of millions more who are now agonizing and disgusted. November 2 will be the beginning — a giant first step in forcing Bush to step down, and a powerful announcement that we will not stop until he does so — and it will 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 to try to stop us. But we speak for the majority, here and around the world, and as we get this going we are going to reach out to the people who have been so badly fooled by Bush and we are NOT going to stop. The point is this: 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 unwritten. WHICH ONE WE GET IS UP TO US. These next days are crucial. The call you are reading has to get out to millions right away — on the internet, passed out as flyers in communities, published as ads in newspapers. DO NOT WAIT!! GET ORGANIZED!! If you agree with this statement, add your name to it!!! And do more than that: send it to friends, get them to sign it, organize a meeting, take it to your church, your school, your union, your health club, your barber shop, to concerts and libraries and family gatherings, everywhere you go. Raise money, lots of money. Get people together, make plans to be there on November 2, and to build for it. The world can't wait! Drive out the Bush Regime! Mobilize for November 2! Click here to sign the call. Endorsers include: –After Downing Street Coalition –Tom Ammiano, San Francisco Board of Supervisors –Aris Anagnos, Los Angeles –ANSWER, NYC Chapter –Anti-Flag –Asad AbuKhalil, Department of Politics, California State University –Ed Asner, actor –Axis of Justice –Mumia Abu-Jamal –Russell Banks, writer –Luis Barrios –David Berenson, Green Party of Ohio –Blair Bobier, Esq. –Campus Anti-War Network(CAN) –Tim Carpenter, Director, Progressive Democrats of America –David Cobb, Green Party Presidential Candidate, 2004 –Code Pink: Women for Peace –Barry Crimmins, Writer/Correspondent, Air America Radio –Chris Daly, San Francisco Board of Supervisors –DC Anti-War Network –Democrats.com –Noel Don Juan, MECCA SF, Music Director –Tom Duane, New York State Senator –Michael Eric Dyson –Edwin Ellis, President of Veterans for Peace, LA –Jody Evans, Code Pink –Ralph Fertig, President, Humanitarian Law Project –Francis Fox Piven –Jennifer Friederbach, Coalition on Homelessness, S.F. –Deborah Glick, NY State Assembly –Frances Goldin –Haitian Coalition for Justice –Suheir Hammad, Poet –Sam Hamill, Poets Against War –Kathleen Hanna, Musician –David Harris, Author, Founder of "Resistance" –Rev. Robert M. Hollum, Pastor of Luther Place, Washington, DC –Humboldt County, CA Green Party –Bill T. Jones, Dancer –Rickie Lee Jones, Musician –Esther Kaplan, Author of "With God On Their Side" –Casey Kasem –Frances Kissling, President of Catholics for Free Choice –Yuri Kochiyama, Oakland –Rev. Earl Kooperkamp, St. Mary's Episcopal Church –Ron Kovic, author, Vietnam veteran –Jonathon Kozol –Beth Lamont –Mark Leno, California Assemblyman –Margaret Lindgren, FOR/LA (Fellowship of Reconciliation) Los Angeles, California –Lucinda Marshall, Founder, Feminist Peace Network –Keith McHenry, Founder, Food Not Bombs –Men of All Colors Together –Allen Michaan, Owner, Grand Lake Theater, Oakland CA –Tom Morello, Audioslave –Not in Our Name –Outernational –Ozomatli –Jose Padilla*, Executive Director, California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA) –Peter Phillips Ph.D. Project Censored Sociology Department Sonoma State University –Harold Pinter, Nobel Prize winning playwright –Jeremy Pikser, screenwriter, Bulworth –Port Townsend Peace Movement, Port Townsend WA –Kevin Powell, Writer –Progressive Democrats of America –Rosemary R. Ruether, Theologian, Professor, Claremont Graduate University Professor Emerita of Feminist Theology at Pacific School of Religion –Boots Riley, The Coup –Cindy Sheehan –David Swanson, creator of MeetWithCindy.org, co-founder of the AfterDowningStreet.org coalition –Sunsara Taylor, Revolution Newspaper –Studs Terkel –Topanga Peace Alliance –Marianne Torres Peace & Justice Action League of Spokane * Washington State –Gore Vidal, Author –Rev. Dave Weissbard, Senior Minister The Unitarian Universalist Church, Rockford, IL –Cornel West, Princeton University –Philip E. Wheaton, Episcopal priest, Community of Christ, Washington, DC –Johannes W. Williams, attorney, District of Columbia –Ann Wright, former US diplomat, resigned in protest of Iraq war –David Zeiger, Displaced Films (Sir, No Sir) –Howard Zinn, historian, author of A Peoples' History of the United States –Dave Zirin, author, "What's My Name, Fool?, Sports and Resistance in the United States."
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middle class listby Meyer London Thursday, Nov. 03, 2005 at 2:02 AM By no means am I against this walk-out. And these endorsers seem like fine people. But realistically speaking, we have to realize that most of these people (by no means all) are upper middle class; they are either self-employed authors, retirees, or people with the kind of jobs in which they don't have to worry about getting dressed down by some boss or having their pay docked. At least one is a prisoner who is not going to be walking out whether he wants to or not. Most people in this country are not in the position where they can simply walk off their jobs without the support of a powerful union - and I don't see much union endorsement there.
Until unions grow much larger, and until most of them have much more militant leadership than they have now, successful job walk-outs over political issues are simply not going to happen.
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Well hellby fresca Thursday, Nov. 03, 2005 at 3:18 AMIf Ricky Lee Jones and that human piece-of-shit, crackhead ,murderer mumia are endorsing it, count me in!
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Uh,...by fresca Thursday, Nov. 03, 2005 at 3:20 AM"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."
No they won't.
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"crackhead mumia"by Hex Thursday, Nov. 03, 2005 at 11:09 AMyour brain is showing again
crack didn't even exist when Mumia was arrested
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the clock is tickingby fry Mumia Thursday, Nov. 03, 2005 at 1:52 PM
 buh-bye_nessie.jpg, image/jpeg, 278x198 My time is short.
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Well nowby fresca Thursday, Nov. 03, 2005 at 3:44 PMFirst of all "crackhead" was used metaphorically.
To be factually correct, I should have called him a "cab-driving, Ripple swilling, Kool smoking cop murderer". Secondly, crack was absolutely around when he murdered Faulkner. Especially on the East Coast. Rock was around in the late 70's.
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crack in 79by Meyer London Thursday, Nov. 03, 2005 at 5:01 PMIt may have existed, but it was not readily availible. In any event, the issue is irrelevant; there is no evidence that Mumia used crack and even if he did, there is no death penalty for using crack or any other drug. He was on trial for first degree murder, remember? And even those who believe he fired the fatal shot have to ask themselves how shooting a man he found punching his brother constitutes premeditated murder.
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lost (destroyed ) evidenceby -read the report- Thursday, Nov. 03, 2005 at 5:23 PM Q Where are the bullets linking Mumia's gun to the crime?
Huh? A The same place the ceiling panels in the Ambassador hotel went after the Robert Kennedy hit.
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bzzzt wrong ! "metaphorically" of course...by Hex Thursday, Nov. 03, 2005 at 6:35 PMcrack first appeared, in the early to mid-1980s
see fresca you learn some new way to hate everyday..
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Ambassadorby Meyer London Thursday, Nov. 03, 2005 at 6:57 PM A little off topic, but here is something interesting about the Ambassador Hotel: at the time of RFK's murder, it was either owned or under the control of the Henry Crown family of Chicago, who owned the General Dynamics aerospace company and who had been linked with organized crime by Congressional investigators. The hotel had been either given to Crown as collateral for a loan to the family of David Schine (the former aid to Senator Joe McCarthy) or sold to him outright. The Schine family claimed that the former was true; the Crowns that the latter was true.
In any event, the apparantly mobbed-up Crowns had an interesting relationship with the Kennedy brothers. JFK had cancelled a government order for a very expensive fighter plane produced by General Dynamics on the grounds that it was a waste of money. Later, a General Dynamics security guard was arrested while burglarizing the home of Marilyn Monroe, apparantly looking for material that could ruin one or both of the Kennedy brothers politically by linking them sexually to the movie star. Lee Harvey Oswald's family had also been linked to the New Orleans mob, which was a sort of cadet branch of the Chicago mob and controlled by the latter. Another interesting coincidence - the Crown and Oswald families both involved with the Chicago mafia, which hated the Kennedys with a passion after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion and after Attorney General Robert Kennedy's attacks on the mob even after they had helped elect his brother by stealing ballots in Chicago. Finally, one last - and chilling - coincidence. The Crown and Schine families fought it out in a Federal Court in Los Angeles in the fall of 1994, in a dispute over the ownership of the Ambassador and tens of millions worth of other properties. The jury reached a verdict which was thrown out because of jury misbehavior, and the case was apparantly still unsettled in 1996. That year Schine and his wife were flown from easter LA County to Burbank by their son in his plane so they could all attend a Dole for President rally. When they returned to Burbank Airport and took off the plane almost immediately crashed because it had barely enough fuel in its tank to make it into the air. Kind of makes you wonder whether someone tampered with the plane during the rally. A man who had been on the jury informed the Burbank Police Dept. of his suspicions, but they referred him to the LAPD because the plane had crashed just a few feet over the boundary between Burbank and LA. The LA cops wouldn't touch it and referred him to the Burbank Airport Police, who told him that they handled only incidents that happened on the ground and told him to contact "Federal authorities." At this point he gave up.
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Typicalby fresca Friday, Nov. 04, 2005 at 12:15 AM"crack first appeared, in the early to mid-1980s
see fresca you learn some new way to hate everyday.. " Not that it matters AT ALL except to take yet another opportunity to tell you you're wrong, but I know from absolute personal experience that ready made rock cocaine (crack or "ready-rock" as it was called in Baltimore) was DEFINETLY available in the very late 70's. AND, wesley cook is definetley a murderer and should be tortured and SLOWLY killed.
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Two thingsby fresca Friday, Nov. 04, 2005 at 12:39 AM" Q Where are the bullets linking Mumia's gun to the crime?
Huh? " The bullets are still in evidence and have been presumably, since they were pulled from Officer Faulkners body and matched ballistically to the gun found IN COOK'S HANDS. I suspect that they're still filed away somewhere in Philadelphia. There's never been any claim, even from cook's silly supporters (well, at least not before this assinine assertion) that anything's ever happened to them. And another thing. Seems as though the world turned, laughed and went right on as scheduled in spite of the four or five idiots who "walked out". Pathetic.
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no they are notby Liar Admirer Friday, Nov. 04, 2005 at 12:55 AM short term memory
The fragments were "lost"
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Does Fresca need to be bitch-slapped again?by I guess so Friday, Nov. 04, 2005 at 12:58 AMsay it again jerk face so I can prove you an ass.
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"Liar Admirer"by mental cripple on autopilot Friday, Nov. 04, 2005 at 12:58 AMnessie@sfbg.com Aaaaah, my heart is warm. I have another groupie.
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Really?by fresca Friday, Nov. 04, 2005 at 1:18 AM" short term memory
The fragments were "lost"" Feel free to post any CREDIBLE proof of this. Furthermore, given that it's twenty plus years after this scumbag murdered Faulkner, please explain any relevance your point would have even if it was true. Clearly, the slugs existed during the ballistics tests and during the trial. And, there's no reason to believe they aren't accountable now.
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bitch slap time-thank youby twisting the blade Friday, Nov. 04, 2005 at 1:47 AMThe bullet:
1) The fatal bullet was originally reported to be a .44. 2) The .38 bullet now in evidence has a fragment missing (evidence "lost" by the police) and it is not possible to tell without the fragment if it was fired from Mumia's gun. http://www.sonomacountyfreepress.com/police/20-20.html Additionally a sizable bullet fragment was found in Faulkner’s head wound by the Medical examiner but was not turned over to ballistics for examination and is missing. http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:mge8V-jnq3QJ:wasadugu.
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Do you homework rookieby fresca Friday, Nov. 04, 2005 at 4:28 PM" 1) The fatal bullet was originally reported to be a .44. "
LOL! You are so out of your league on this one. The slug WAS originally reported to be a .44. A coroner, at the scene wrote this info down on a slip of paper by merely viewing the bullet holes in Officer Faulkner. Hardly a ballistics test. The same coroner was very quick o change this .44 hypothesis to a CONCLUSION of .38 once he had the actual slugs in hand. As for the missing fragments, again, please show some CREDIBLE eveidence other than yet another "free mumia" website which supports this myth. The link you gave was a joke. Face it, you're boy is a murderer and was caught red-handed.
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learn englishby not required to Friday, Nov. 04, 2005 at 5:20 PM"you're boy "
Learn the language of this country, U.S.A. before you try to come off as an authority about anything.
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your kidding right?by fresca Saturday, Nov. 05, 2005 at 6:15 AMThat's the best you have? You're copkilling boy is irrefutably guilty and your only response is to correct my spelling.
That's what I call a solid win. What do you want me to teach you next?
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taxes - liberal thieveryby liberals are thieves Saturday, Nov. 05, 2005 at 4:31 PMCHURNING OUT LEFTISTS If you are sending your child to a government school for their daily programming, chances are overwhelming that your bundle of joy is going to wind up becoming a liberal Democrat. Today, courtesy of The Los Angeles Unified School District, we're going to show you how it's done. There was a Bush-bashing rally being held in Los Angeles the other day. It was called "The World Can't Wait – Drive Out the Bush Regime." Eager for as many people to attend as possible, the school district allowed 800 high school students from 10 schools to walk right out of class to attend. No word if they were given extra credit for their participation.
On top of that, adult staff were supplied to accompany them, and buses were provided for their return. That's right...taxpayer money being spent for the whole thing. Now stop and ask yourself something for a minute...suppose an anti-Hillary Clinton rally were being held. Would the same courtesy be extended? Of course not. The students wouldn't even be given the time of day to attend.
But because
it was an event protesting the evil George Bush....the liberal,
leftist, bedwetting school administration jumped right on board. Those
who send their children off to be indoctrinated in government schools
should take note.
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thieves? the capitalists are thieves.by Meyer London Sunday, Nov. 06, 2005 at 12:59 AMI hope they were given extra credit for attending. ROTC should also be kicked off all high school and college campuses. Books in the public schools sympathetic to socialism would also be a great idea. And no military recruiters should ever be allowed in any school under any circumstances. There should be specific courses on the history of US imperialism.
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You must be kiddingby fresca Sunday, Nov. 06, 2005 at 4:28 AM"ROTC should also be kicked off all high school and college campuses. Books in the public schools sympathetic to socialism would also be a great idea."
This has got to be a joke. Even from you, Meyer, it's too assinine and silly to be believable. Courses in socialism? What's to be sympathetic too? LOL! I guess even the fools farthest to the left have a sense of humor.
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too sillyby Meyer London Wednesday, Nov. 09, 2005 at 12:47 AMNeedless to say, I was not stating that those things were likely to happen in the Los Angeles School District any time soon. It was a wish list of things I would like to see happen under ideal conditions - like wishing that you would post messeges here that are intelligent, well-thought out, filled with humanistic concern for others, and free from obvious prejudice and bigortry. We won't be seeing that any time soon, either.
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Question:by Bob Wednesday, Nov. 09, 2005 at 1:16 AMDoes anyone take the predictable and retarded Bush Admirer seriously?
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Debate skills?by Are you kidding Wednesday, Nov. 09, 2005 at 2:00 AMWhat the hell do you know about debate?
You never debate you just blather on with your personal idiotic opinions.
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Oh yesby Bob Wednesday, Nov. 09, 2005 at 2:10 AMI rest my case.
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Event Horizonsby Bob Wednesday, Nov. 09, 2005 at 2:27 AMWhy would anyone waste their time with a bung hole admirer?
Your opinions are like the flowing stream. A constant babble. If you ever produced any supporting evidence of your idiotic opinions it would be a historic occasion. All anyone has to do is view your posts.
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Taking BA seriouslyby Meyer London Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005 at 11:18 PMThe only sense in which I take him seriously is as a symptom of social pathology - the kind of screwed-up personality and warped mentality that capitalist society produces in abundance. The type that has historically filled the ranks of the Nazi brownshirts, the KKK, the religious right, the Lebanese Phalange, and the death squads of Latin America.
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As usual, BA shows his ignoranceby Meyer London Thursday, Nov. 10, 2005 at 11:55 PMOf course, anyone with historical knowledge rather than bombast would know that Henry Ford and other US capitalists supported Hitler financially and in other ways. And his admiration for the so-called accomplishments of Pinochet in Chile shows that Bush Admirer is, indeed, an outright fascist.
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crapby Meyer London Saturday, Nov. 12, 2005 at 8:52 PMTell that to the slum dwellers in Santiago, the Indians living in miserable poverty in rural areas of Chile, or the families of the thousands of people murdered by the pro-capitalist governent of Pinochet. In Cuba everyone gets medical care and the necessities of life; in Chile if you are poor you sleep in the street and eventually die there - sort of like in Los Angeles.
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by the way,by Meyer London Saturday, Nov. 12, 2005 at 8:56 PMWhat do you clowns think about the IBM company making huge profits by selling sophisticated, though pre-computer, calculating machines to Hitler's Third Reich, even though they knew the machines would be used to keep track of Jews and help the Nazis organize efficient transportation of masses of people to the death camps? That certainly sounds like capitalism in action to me.
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My opinionby Sheepdog Sunday, Nov. 13, 2005 at 12:28 AMA measure of a society is the way it cares for the weakest among its citizens.
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BA's racist comments on Watts residentsby Meyer London Sunday, Nov. 13, 2005 at 7:18 PM Without these people, or their equivalents in whatever city you live in, life would be a lot more difficult for you. They clean your streets, collect your garbage, wash the dishes you use in restaraunts, cook many of the meals there, unload the trucks that bring the necessities of life to grocery stores, department stores, and other retail establishments, and make civilization possible, while receiving little pay and no respect for it. You, Paris Hilton and George Bush may not know any of them but you couldn't live without them.
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Republicansby Meyer London Monday, Nov. 14, 2005 at 12:59 AMRepublicans should be put to work pulling wagons - furniture wagons, bottled water wagons, cat food wagons, bookmobiles, wagons hauling equipment for sports teams, and so forth. This will reduce pollution from engine exhaust and remove the need to put horses back to work doing something that Republicans should rightfully be doing. For some of them it will be the first honest work they have ever done - most of them, actually. Especially Bush and his like. Laura Ingraham, Ann Coulter and the rest of that crowd can pull wagons delivering blonde hair dye or medical supplies to be loaded onto ships to treat Iraqi victims of US bombing and victims of US torture camps around the world.
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does anyone entertain the ideaby [0o89] Monday, Nov. 14, 2005 at 5:52 AMIt would be funny if Clinton were in office, bombing and staving the people of Iraq; we'd have this guy calling himself Clinton Admirer and defending his actions by saying the exact opposite of what was really going on.
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