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THE WORLD CAN’T WAIT DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME! 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. B WE DEMAND YOUR GOVERNMENT puts people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing them lawyers, STATE OF and either holding them indefinitely or deporting them in the dead of night. THE UNION YOUR GOVERNMENT is moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a narrow and hateful RGENCY! brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule. EME 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. On the night U YOUR GOVERNMENT is moving to deny women here, and all over the world, the right to 1 of President birth control and abortion. Bush’s State of YOUR GOVERNMENT enforces a culture of greed, bigotry, intolerance and ignorance. the Union Address: People look at all this and think of Hitler—and they are right to do so. The Bush regime is Bring the Noise… setting out to radically remake society very quickly, in a fascist way, and for generations Drown Out Bush’s Lies to come. We must act now; the future is in the balance. S In large cities and small towns all Millions and millions are deeply disturbed and outraged by this. They recognize the need across the country, join in rallies for a vehicle to express this outrage, yet they cannot find it; politics as usual cannot meet one hour before Bush’s address the enormity of the challenge, and people sense this. to make our determination to There is not going to be some magical "pendulum swing." People who steal elections “Drive out the Bush Regime” and believe they're on a "mission from God" will not go without a fight. There is not going the political message of the day. H to be some savior from the Democratic Party. This whole idea of putting our hopes and At 9:00 PM EST, just as Bush starts energies into "leaders" who tell us to seek common ground with fascists and religious to speak, everywhere we will BRING fanatics is proving every day to be a disaster, and actually serves to demobilize people. THE NOISE. In a cacophony of But silence and paralysis are NOT acceptable. That which you will not resist and mobilize to sound we will drown out his address stop, you will learn—or be forced—to accept. There is no escaping it: the whole disastrous S with music: from drums to violins, course of this Bush regime must be STOPPED. And we must take the responsibility to do it. from hip hop to classical; and with noise: banging pots and ringing And there is a way. We are talking about something on a scale that can really make church bells, sounding car horns a huge change in this country and in the world. We need more than fighting Bush's and lifting our voices. outrages one at a time, constantly losing ground to the whole onslaught. We must, and The agenda for 2006 must not be can, aim to create a political situation where the Bush regime's program is repudiated, set by Bush, but by the people, in 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 our millions, determined to stop this TE whole disastrous course. change the course of history. Acting in this way, we join with and give support and heart to people all over the globe DEMONSTRATE who so urgently need and want this regime to be stopped. 2 This will not be easy. If we speak the truth, they will try to silence us. If we act, they will on SATURDAY try to stop us. But we speak for the majority, here and around the world, and as we get (following the this going we are going to reach out to the people who have been so badly fooled by State of the Union) Bush and we are NOT going to stop. WASHINGTON D.C. 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 On the Saturday after the State hoping to wait it out, only to get swallowed up by a horror beyond what they ever imagined. of the Union address, massive numbers of us will protest at the THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN. WHICH ONE WE GET IS UP TO US. White House. Prominent voices P of conscience will help deliver Some of the thousands of people and organizations who have signed the Call (above): ACT UP, New York City Sam Hamill, Poets Against War* Outernational the people’s verdict on Bush’s Imam Talib Abdur-Rashid, Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood Kathleen Hanna, Le Tigre Ozomatli Pam Africa David Harris, writer, founder of The Resistance* Jose Padilla, exec. dir., CA Rural Legal Assistance* criminal regime with our demand: After Downing Street Coalition Jon Hendricks, jazz singer/lyricist Grace Paley, writer BUSH STEP DOWN AND TAKE Alberto Lovera Bolivian Circle, NYC Jon Hendricks, artist Patrick Henry Democratic Club D Aimee Allison, army conscientious objector (Gulf War ‘90) Hermandad Mexicana Rosalind Petchesky, prof., Hunter College & Grad Center, CUNY Tom Ammiano, SF Board of Supervisors Warren M. Hern, MD, MPH, PhD, dir., Boulder Abortion Clinic The Network in Solidarity with the People of the Philippines YOUR PROGRAM WITH YOU! Aris Anagnos, Los Angeles Hip Hop Caucus Peter Phillips, Project Censored, Soc. Dept Sonoma State Univ. AND Anti-Flag Marie Howe, poet, writer Jeremy Pikser, screenwriter, Bulworth Carlos Arango, director, Casa Aztlan* Impeach Bush Coalition Harold Pinter, playwright, 2005 Nobel Prize winner Edward Asner Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA Relief USA) Frances Fox Piven Axis of Justice Islamic Association of America Sterling Plumpp, poet SIGN THIS CALL & CONTRIBUTE Rosa Ayala, Justice for Janitors* Abdeen Jabara, past pres., American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Kevin Powell, writer William Ayers, professor and author Committee* Progressive Democrats of America ALL YOU CAN to print this ad in TAKE Russell Banks, writer Ron Jacobs, writer Queers for Economic Justice Father Luis Barrios, Iglesia San Romero de Las Americas, NYC Mumia Abu-Jamal, political prisoner, journalist Jerry Quickley, poet and playwright Rev. Willie Barrow, Women Connecting* Alan Jones, dean of faculty, Pitzer College* Malik Rahim, New Orleans Community Organizer other publications, and to build Ed Begley, Jr. Bill T. Jones, choreographer Michael Ratner, Center for Constitutional Rights* Dave Berenson, US Green Party, Cleveland Sarah Jones, poet, actor Reach Hip Hop Coalition a movement with the capacity Michael Berg, anti-war activist Rickie Lee Jones, musiciann Raghava Reddy, stem cell biologist, filmmaker Jessica Blank, writer, actor Esther Kaplan, author, With God On Their Side Eric Resnick, reporter, Gay People's Chronicle* YOUR Blaze Bonpane, author Casey Kasem Allan Rich, screenwriter/actor to actually drive out the Bush O Bob Bossie, SCJ, 8th Day Center for Justice* Robin D.G. Kelley, Columbia University Boots Riley, The Coup Elombe Brath, Patrice Lumumba Coalition, NYC M. Ali Khan, American Muslim Council Walter Riley, lawyer regime. 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